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I have started listening to random American city council meetings lately for white noise. Since they're all bureaucratic-flavored boredom anyway.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

BTW - For anyone with F-Droid, I highly (highly) highly recommend Noice

It has:

  • White noise
  • Brown noise and pink noise
  • Various background noise like cafe chatter, waves, rain, or birds
  • Further improved my sleep ❀️

Back in University I used it to sleep right through a massive party my roommates threw when I had a midterm the next day. 10/10 app

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Brown noise

Ain’t that the one that makes you shit yaself?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

You're thinking of the brown NOTE, which has not been proven to actually exist.

It goes something like this:

  • White noise is a mixture of all frequencies audible to humans, which sounds quite high pitched. It's excellent for focus, against tinnitus and just for it not to be too quiet. Helps a lot of people sleep too.

  • Pink noise is the same thing except tweaked to sound lower yet still "crisp". It's been shown to generally be even more effective for falling asleep than white noise.

  • Brown noise is the same deal yet deeper still. It's been shown to be effective against anxiety and, at least in my own anecdotal experience, against anxiety-induced insomnia.

On top of all these benefits, a combination of all three is what headphones and earbuds use for active noise canceling, an effect you can also achieve to some degree yourself.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

It's a lower frequency noise, some people enjoy it more. As a bad analogy, it's a bit more like hearing a "waterfall" (brown noise) than "wind" (white noise)

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

Not quite, that's the mythical 'brown note'.

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, it's one of the Alarm Clock options

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It certainly was a little under a month ago when I had Legionaire's! 😬

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What were the French doing to your bowels?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Nothing good, that's for sure!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just installed. This is sweet as hell.

I was kind of surprised that Office was one of the noises you could play. I would probably have work nightmares falling asleep to that.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it include the 2000s corporate landline phone sound? *shudder*

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think so yeah πŸ˜–

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How battery intensive is it? I tried sleeping to a brown noise audio file in a normal music player app (Music Player Go) and my phone ran out of battery before my alarm went off, causing me to oversleep 😬

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It used to be bad on the battery, but then it became a super big focus and now it's great.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yay! Gonna try it out for sure, then!

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This app was fully offline previously. Now with premium thing they removed it and i cannot turn of my mobile data to sleep. So this ruined the whole experience for me.

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the beauty of Foss. Fork it!

Or I might just have to find the older version 1.x and install it

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Does it have creamed spinach noise? ("Creamed spinach" refers to the color used in the DMG Game Boy's screen, as Sega referred to it in one of its Game Gear commercials)

[–] itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

On one hand, yea, on the other, #worth. They were great overall - Sometimes you gotta take some losses and some wins.