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Chill out, listen to some rain
- agumonkey 14y agoQuite nice. Next time I'm in west indies I'll make some samples. Their fat raindrops on top of metal roofs is quite pleasing.
- xentronium 14y agoFor some reason, that rain doesn't sound real to me. Is it procedurally generated?
- davidism 14y agoIs the only difference from http://www.rainymood.com/ http://www.rainymood.com/ the lack of thunder?
- Difwif 14y agoIn my opinion rainymood is much better than this. After listening to raining.fm it became quite obvious that it's on a very short repetitive loop. Rainymood is a much longer loop and actual feels like you have your window open on a rainy day.
- Nathandim 14y agoAnother bonus point for RainyMood comes from the daily music suggestions. They even choose music from video games and anime. I've found out some great tunes from them. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k
- 0x0 14y agoWow, the comments in the html source there really has quite the attitude.
- sealo 14y agoYes those source comments are pretty full on hahah, especially for a relaxing site, but thunders not my thing nor "Gundam Seed Destiny - Theme of Rain".
- jeffool 14y agoI do agree, but they were probably written in the constant annoyance of people copying the sound file when he first started. (The site was much simpler. As I recall you could find the mp3's location listed simply in the source.) So attitude? Yes. But with that context, I get an annoyed attitude.
- goldenchrome 14y agoInternet Download Manager automatically rips the .mp3 file from RainyMood with ease.
- Of_Prometheus 14y agoYou can also just freely download sound clips of rain or thunder to your heart's content from Freesound.org
- kefs 14y agoRainymood.com is great, and definitely better. I especially like their notice at the top of the source html. | Sorry if all that sounded snarky. But seriously, there are lots of great business ideas out there. Find something you love, and do it better than anyone ever dreamed. You can't lose with that formula!
- simonbrown 14y agohttp://simplynoise.com/ http://simplynoise.com/ is also worth trying.
- mgcross 14y agoNice, I love the oscillating brownian noise.
- mgcross 14y agoHow about this part? "Just look at the code below - do you really think you can understand it? Of course not." What kind of a presumptuous ass puts something like that at the top of their source? Tailored Music, Inc. does.
- josscrowcroft 14y agoYou left out the obligatory "Being A C--t In Your Source Code" warning: view-source:http://www.rainymood.com/ http://www.rainymood.com/ That just makes me think "what a loser" @sealo I love the raining.fm site, definitely a neat side project. You could just start selling white noise audio through the site for affiliate commissions, if you focus on getting people to visit the site. Or make it into a simple app with one function and sell that via the site..
- rane 14y agoNever changed my opinion about a site this quickly.
- Of_Prometheus 14y agoSame. I understand the motivation, but there really was no need to sound so vicious.
- parge 14y ago"Just look at the code below - do you really think you can understand it? Of course not." Dick.
- sealo 14y ago@josscrowcroft, I am definitely keen on developing the app to deliver the best rain experience possible for people :)
- fchollet 14y agoPompous dick-head spotted. Besides, talk of IP is not welcome on the part of somebody who embeds infringing material on their page.
- lightyrs 14y agoFrom the source: <!-- RainyMood.com Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Tailored Music, Inc. All rights reserved. DO NOT COPY THIS WEBSITE. If you copy this website, Tailored Music, Inc. will find out. Just look at the code below - do you really think you can understand it? Of course not. Can you find all the places where it contacts outside servers to report its location? Nope. Hey, do you know about trademarks? "Rainy Mood", "RainyMood", "RainyMood.com", and "Rain makes everything better" are trademarks of Tailored Music, Inc. That means it's against the law to impersonate us or to make products that use our trademarks. Sorry if all that sounded snarky. But seriously, there are lots of great business ideas out there. Find something you love, and do it better than anyone ever dreamed. You can't lose with that formula! -->
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoVery nice. I love the rain and use the White Noise app set on Rain on my phone every night to help me sleep. Just one thing, I am not sure how dropping my name and email will contribute to more features? I know you say you're not going to spam me, but it seems like you're just collecting emails to selective email me other things I might not be interested in.
- andrewfelix 14y agoHey, I didn't create the site. But a friend of mine did. He did this in his spare time. The email thing I assume is a way of gauging support and maintaining interest. I think he wants to be able to tell people about added audio etc. I'll get him to comment on it further.
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoGotcha, that makes sense and is legitimate. Sometimes I get so jaded about people collecting my name and email for no reason that I forget that there are perfectly okay reasons to request it.
- forgotmyuser 14y agoListening right now, thanks! Nvm just realized its short and on repeat... yikes
- michaelkscott 14y agoI seriously needed this, thanks. Anyone have tips on how to focus?
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoStay off HN. Stay off Twitter. Stay off RSS feeds.
- sealo 14y agoHi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site. Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :) @Difwif yes you are correct the loop is short currently, the reason I did this is obviously to keep bandwidth down in this initial period and to just qualify the idea, @davidism, If people show interest I will be adding longer audio and also different varieties of rain, hard rain, thunderstorms, light rain, rain on water, rain on tin roof.. you get the idea aka i'm rain crazy Any suggestions/criticisms are welcome, thanks guys - Neil
- anigbrowl 14y agoYou don't need rain samples as such; you can synthesize rain very effectively by running white noise through a vocoder, which is just one array of bandpass filters + envelope followers controlling another array of bandpass.
- sealo 14y agovery clever, my brother played with this type of effect in flash a year or so back, but I think because I knew it was fake it just wasn't the same hahah.
- robin_reala 14y agoA transcode to Ogg/Opus would be nice for Firefox.
- sealo 14y agoI'll put it on the list :)
- mb_72 14y agoI'm someone that uses rain / rain + thunder / waves on seashore sounds to help sleep - it's quite noisy where I live and these sounds mask outside interference - but I can't see myself moving away from the mp3 player (Cowon J3) solution I use to this website. The main reason would be the mp3 player does just the one thing I want, i.e. playing the sounds, and this is very power efficient; I wouldn't want to leave my PC / tablet / smartphone running this webpage. Also, an mp3 player allows me to loop or create a playlist, for example with 'heavy thunder' at the time of night when I need the most noise-masking, and with 'light rain' when I need the least. Finally - and, yes, I realise I might sound a bit kooky here - I want to be able to select my own loops and samples. Some mp3 sources for rain I've found on the 'net have lots of aliasing noise, and I simply can't sleep as my mind focuses on the artifacts rather than just drifting away. A couple of the above points (especially the 'timed program' one) might be able to be addressed by your implementation. And while I think I'll stick with my implementation for now this is because I've already done the 'hard work' of setting something up; for 'beginner' or occasional noise-maskers, your site is a quick and easy solution. My suggestion, then, would be to focus on this group as a target audience. Good luck. :^)
- barking 14y agoThanks but all this 'summer' all i've needed to do is open my window.
- sealo 14y agocant beat the real thing ;)
- nostromo 14y agoChill out, go outside, and watch the meteor shower. http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/perseids_2012.html http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/perseids_2012.html
- chimi 14y agoI did that this morning at 4 am and coincidentally, it was raining...
- pud 14y agothanks. gonna leave this on tonight.
- sealo 14y ago@pud perfect! I knew there were others like me!
- detst 14y agoI really want to use something like this but I can't trick my brain to believe it's real and I become anxious. Anyone else like this or have an explanation?
- jeffool 14y agoPerfectly cool, but like others here I'm curious how you're going to "out do" RainyMood.com. Personally, since they added the "recommended song" feature, likely in response to people so often comparing songs to couple with it (especially The Fragrance of Dark Coffee as I first saw on 4chan), I can't think of much. I think the changing images are nice, but I think you'll need to do more. Starting with making everything except the image invisible after not moving the mouse for say, 10 seconds. Second, and while larger, better, consider using gifs instead. Up to 1920x1080, looping gifs of rainy scenes. I'll bet you could find some people to help you with that if you wanted. Let one load up, then cycle to it. I think that alone makes you look like a "premium RainyMood". Maybe if your sound is procedurally generated, maybe adding interactive parameters like "size of rain" (size of field to sample), "amount of drops", "location" (city, rural, forest, lake), and then thunder variables. Let users set up parameters and share them with hashed urls a la "raining.fm/r/fdDiOd4dfji". And if you do use "location", then try to match the images to that.
- sealo 14y ago@jeffool, definitely some great ideas there thanks for the suggestions, a few of which I have knocking around in my head already ;) I certainly have plans to take it far beyond it's current state and that of anything else out there. Thanks again!
- fumar 14y agoOne suggestion, Volume slider. I like to play the rain behind actual music.
- damncabbage 14y agoI can't if it's either audio skipping or a bad loop, but it hops about every thirty seconds or so.
- sealo 14y ago@damncabbage, that is no good, can you tell me what browser and OS you are using mate? see if we can't get that sorted for you :)
- damncabbage 14y agoChrome 21, Ubuntu Linux (11.10). (I don't mean to send you on a wild goose chase. Sorry about that.)
- sharms 14y agoI personally have never heard of rainymood.com, but I did find this site pretty neat. There is probably a lesson here that it isn't "X already does this, why are you?", but that it there is likely room for more than one variation on the subject. Great website!
- fumar 14y agoI turned it on for a few minutes... Eventually it began to sound like sizzling bacon.
- Swizec 14y agoI read this comment ... and it started sounding like sizzling bacon in 20 seconds. Now I'm hungry.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoAre you hungry enough to make fryingbacon.fm?
- xwowsersx 14y agoThis is awesome. I find myself so often wanting some sound just to give me a sense of flow while I work and music can very often be too disruptive (I guess it's too exciting sometimes and not constant enough). Rain is perfect!
- mattacular 14y agoHave you ever tried out some ambient? Music with lyrics and a lot of electronic beat-driven stuff can be too complex and distracting while I work, especially if the problem itself is complex. Ambient always seems to do the trick though! Check out Tim Hecker and Jon Hopkins. Also Aphex Twin has a couple albums of ambient work that is great for coding.
- fumar 14y agoI would like to add. Janus, Brian Eno, Bark Psychosis, Stars of the Lid, Steve Reich, and Steve Roach. http://janustrio.bandcamp.com/ http://janustrio.bandcamp.com/
- necenzurat 14y agoi like more http://rainfor.me http://rainfor.me
- ChrisNorstrom 14y agoThere's a jquery plugin out there somewhere that loads the full width background image first, then fades it in. I think it would suit you much better. Honestly, it's a nice site, but with only a 30 second loop of rain I am very disappoint. Your competition is http://www.rainymood.com http://www.rainymood.com and http://www.naturesoundsfor.me http://www.naturesoundsfor.me . If you're worried about bandwidth ditch the background images, minify all of the code, and extend the rain sample as it's the most important content of this site. I'd rather have a single image for the background and a longer loop sample, than a shorter loop sample and multiple background images rotating.
- sealo 14y ago@ChrisNorstrom, Thanks for the advice Chris, we will definitely need to refine some things now that people have shown an interest.
- intellegacy 14y agois there some way to get different kinds of rain? Rainymood only has one loop. I don't want to listen to the same kind of rain every time; it's not realistic. A site with 10 different rain samples would be nice.
- sealo 14y ago@intellegacy yes that is what we intend to do, have different rain types :)
- khuey 14y agoHeh, one of the few things I miss about the east coast after moving to SF is the rain and thunderstorms.
- kator 14y agoFunny but true I moved to the East Coast after living in Los Angeles all my life and I love the rain storms. But the Los Angeles rain storms last longer. In New York city the rain seems to come in short spurts. Once in a while we get a good rain storm. In LA it would rain for days sometimes and I really enjoyed those days even if they were few and far between.
- exogen 14y agoI like the sound much better than RainyMood.com. Kinda weird feedback, but I actually find the images with people in them a bit stressful. When I think of enjoying some rain, it's from a cozy dry spot. Being where those people are just looks uncomfortable. :)
- sealo 14y ago@exogen I am thinking of perhaps categorising the images, so the user can view categories or shuffle all, eg, nature, architecture, people etc also adding pause so you can sit on your favourite slide.
- BonPasCher 14y agoThe sudden rainstorm of the summer makes the most shocking. www.bonpascher.com
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- BonPasCher 14y agohttp://www.bonpascher.com http://www.bonpascher.com
- BonPasCher 14y agowww.bonpascher.com
- primigenus 14y agoVisited this on my Nexus 7 and got a message saying it doesn't work because mobile devices don't support the audio tag well. But they do support the Web Audio API! So why not use that?
- sealo 14y ago@primigenus I will look into that, thank you!
- geoka9 14y agoOh no, we get so much of it here (Vancouver, BC), this site actually made me hurt reminding me of what's to come.
- devgutt 14y agoI use Clementine music player (Ubuntu). Go to Extra|Rain.
- windock 14y agoThe need for noise of nature is ultimately solved by http://www.naturespace.com/ http://www.naturespace.com/ already, with their mobile app. The collection of over 80 different tracks, grouped by topic (thunderstorms, rivers, etc) is amazing. Every track is about $1-4, though. That app is the only thing which allows me to sleep in the night and work productively.
- wookiehangover 14y agoIf you're like me and you like the sound of white noise more than rain, you can relax to this http://wookiehangover.github.com/whitenoise/ http://wookiehangover.github.com/whitenoise/
- j45 14y agoLove it, it's oscillating between quiet and loud rain a little too quickly for me, is there a way to leave it level/even?
- j45 14y agoA follow up message from the better half: "I love that sound It always helps me sleep thanks you :) "