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'white noise' sound files to reduce distraction?
duus | Mar 23 2007
Hello. I am looking for sound files of things like rain, water, etc, that can be played on ipod gapless and make a continuous relaxing background noise, to use in combination with my noise-reduction headphones. (Music works, of course, but that's distracting, too.) I've poked around on the web, but all my google searches have brought me to junky websites that are badly organized and trying to sell me overpriced sound-effect CDs for movies and stuff, which isn't really what I'm looking for. There must be some people out there who just recorded rain and put it on the web, yeah? Anyone? 14 Comments
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 Berko, you are so knowledgeable...Submitted by Berko on March 24, 2007 - 6:26pm.
ggrozier;8679 wrote:
Berko, you are so knowledgeable and analytical about music. Are you a musician? I've seen your posts before here but didn't notice the interest in music. I wasn't able to complete my music degree, but yeah, I have a lot of experience with music and my wife has a Master's of Music. I play guitar, bass, and low brass (tuba, euphonium, trombone) and dabble with keyboards and drums. The wife plays flute. So, yeah, I guess you could say we are musical. Thanks for asking! Quote:
This is a bit off-thread, but related -- I spent some time last year trying to get my mind "programmed" to concentrate on work and not get distracted when I played a certain kind of music, and had other environmental things under control, like colors I like, scented candles or airwick-type things, etc. I didn't get it to really work as well as I wanted, but never got it to work. With the ADD I wanted more control over my mind and to work more steadily instead of getting distracted, and I hoped the music would help to turn a switch. Has anyone else tried this? What seemed to work best? I think this works best with a genre of music that you like but don't necessarily listen to much. Say, for instance, you like big band/swing stuff, but you don't listen to it very often. You could turn that into your study music. You only listen to it when you study and you don't listen to anything else when you study. I recommended this on another thread concerning "how to get momentum." Hope this helps. » POSTED IN:
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