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Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work

by newcoders on 9/26/20, 5:12 PM with 39 comments

  • by merricksb on 9/26/20, 8:17 PM

    From the style/content of the credits, it looks like another variant of a concept that has already been posted twice here in just the past few months.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431132

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985825

    The credits can be seen/compared here:

    https://landemy.netlify.app/credits.html

    https://rainbowhunt.com/credits.html

  • by no_wizard on 9/26/20, 6:44 PM

    If you like this I can’t recommend Brain.FM[0] enough. I use whenever I need to deep work/think about things and I find I have long stretches of incredible productivity combined with noise isolating headphones

    They also boast a lot of actual research that backs up why they play the sounds they do and such.

    It’s been a life changer for me, really. I hope I never see the day they go out of business cause I am heavily reliant on it to maintain productivity at this point (thanks ADHD)

    [0] https://www.brain.fm/

  • by aflag on 9/26/20, 6:05 PM

    I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it's someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?
  • by trynewideas on 9/26/20, 7:50 PM

    My favorite is still, with `sox` installed, some variation on

    play -q -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 400 lowpass -1 300 lowpass -1 200 lowpass -1 100 gain +10

    and tweaking the number of `lowpass` filters and their values appropriately

  • by jimbob45 on 9/26/20, 7:00 PM

    I’ve been throwing on ASMR reruns during work. It helps when I need to be in the zone for pure coding but not as much when answering emails or crafting documentation.
  • by galkk on 9/26/20, 8:02 PM

    My recent favorite is "creaky wooden ship sounds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89XoBPjgWcI. My daughter also sleeps very well with this sound

    There's also https://generative.fm for generated ambient sound.

  • by cyrusmg on 9/26/20, 7:31 PM

    I rely on white noise in crowded offices or when I just need to get in-flow quickly. So far I have used ASoftMurmur with following config [1], but working on a space ship seems cool and I will try it.

    [1] https://asoftmurmur.com/?v=000000001a3d00240000

  • by unemphysbro on 9/26/20, 8:10 PM

    This is fantastic!

    My goto for the last few years has been the Faster than light video game soundtrack.

    I recently found this youtube channel which reminds me of your app:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVHOgH4XEyYx-ZEaya1XqCQ

  • by butz on 9/26/20, 6:29 PM

    UX nitpick: no pause/stop button.
  • by SubiculumCode on 9/26/20, 7:09 PM

    Apparently starship environments mostly include the sounds of air hitting the side of the starship.
  • by Kosirich on 9/26/20, 7:51 PM

    Thank you. Usually I just extend youtube with similar themed video on one of the screens. I have to be careful which one I use as a lot of them make me sleepy. Example being that Live Norwegian CAM, which makes me go from wide awake to lullaby sleepy in minutes.
  • by fictorial on 9/27/20, 4:48 AM

    I enjoy this. I have been using binaural beats via sbagen for over 10 years to get me in the zone. It’s incredible.
  • by eeZah7Ux on 9/26/20, 7:58 PM

    mynoise.net is so much better