Tag Archives: ambient

moodist ~ Self-hosting Ambient Sound

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Ambient sounds for focus and calm.

Features:

  • 84 curated ambient sounds you can layer into custom soundscapes.
  • Smooth fade transitions on play/stop and sleep timer shutdown.
  • Shareable mixes via URL with one-click import.
  • Presets to save, rename, delete, and instantly reapply mixes.
  • Built-in binaural beat and isochronic tone generators.
  • Built-in breathing exercise, Pomodoro, countdown, todo, and notepad tools.
  • Installable PWA with offline caching.
  • Open-source and self-hostable with Docker.
  • And much more!

github.com/remvze/moodist

Blanket ~ Listen To Ambient Sounds

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Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different ambient sounds

Also can help you to fall asleep in a noisy environment.

Features:

  • Save presets
  • Add custom sounds
  • Auto start in background
  • MPRIS integration

Included Sounds in the App:

  • Birds
  • Boat
  • City
  • Coffee Shop
  • Fireplace
  • Pink Noise
  • Rain
  • Summer Night
  • Storm
  • Stream
  • Train
  • Waves
  • White Noise
  • Wind

apps.gnome.org/en/Blanket
github.com/rafaelmardojai/blanket

lowhum ~ Deep Brown Noise For Focus

Posted by tom2tec on

Deep brown noise for focus, for the macOS menu bar.Β 

Single-purpose menu bar app that generates deep brown noise locally and plays it on loop. Install it, click play, forget about it. Cumulative-sum brown noise through a Butterworth bandpass (1 to 500 Hz, 20 Hz sub-bass highpass), RMS-normalized per chunk, crossfaded at boundaries. Everything is stored inΒ ~/.lowhum/. Playback streams through PortAudio via memory-mapped files, so the full WAV never sits in RAM. The app polls audio devices every 2 seconds and stops instantly if headphones disconnect or a Bluetooth device drops.

Menu bar controls

The menu bar icon is a template image, so macOS handles dark/light mode automatically. Further, use it for:

  • Play / Stop from the menu bar
  • Pick any connected audio device from the Output Device submenu
  • Noise color selection (brown, pink, white)
  • Auto-stops when headphones connect or disconnect

Requires macOS and Python 3.12+.

lmarkmann.github.io/lowhum
github.com/lmarkmann/lowhum

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise