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'white noise' sound files to reduce distraction?

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?

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I grabbed the buddhamachine tracks...

duus;8709 wrote:

I grabbed the buddhamachine tracks at some point...i dunno, i don't like them so much, I don't know what it is, really. I noticed the repetition and it distracted me.

Update on boodler: as of last month or so, it's back under active development, and there are a couple of new soundscapes that can be downloaded for it. One of these is a fancy white noise generator, that is capable of generating varying white noise such as the sound of surf. The other is a boodler harness for the buddhamachine tracks. It can play random buddhamachine tracks, more than one at a time, while fading them in and out and altering their pitches. This seems to be just about enough to make the repetition no more noticable than it is on an ambient internet radio station like Cryosleep or Drone Zone.

 
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