https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-154...
https://circuitdigest.com/electronic-circuits/simple-white-n...
Generate your favorite type of noise. If you want to apply filters/EQ, do it now. If so, trim several seconds from the start and end of the filtered noise to make sure there are no audible boundary effects from the filters acting on the start or end of the noise.
Duplicate the noise twice, so you have three copies of it, all on separate tracks. Drag track 3 to the right until the beginning of it snaps into alignment with the end of track 1 (watch for the yellow line; it's very important to align all the edits correctly). Drag track 2 somewhere in the middle.
Using the auto-snapping again, select both tracks 1 and 2 in the part where they overlap (drag across both, using the auto-snapping to align the selection. You should see two yellow lines). Use the "Crossfade Tracks" effect with a "Constant Power" fade type to crossfade tracks 1 and 2. Do the same for the part where tracks 2 and 3 overlap.
Select the beginning part of track 1 where it plays alone (snapping with the yellow line again) and also the empty space below it (drag down). Delete this. The tracks should all stay in alignment. Select and delete the ending part of track 3 where it plays alone too. Mix all the tracks together using Tracks, Mix, Mix and Render.
If you loop the result you get effectively 2 copies of the noise playing simultaneously but out of phase, repeating indefinitely, very slowly crossfading in and out, and with the loop point of each copy set at zero volume so you can't hear it.
"Here’s how to play white noise on your iPhone, step-by-step:
Head to your iPhone’s Settings. Next, tap Accessibility. On the Accessibility page, find Audio/Visual and select it. From there, search for “Background Sounds” and toggle it on."
Now of course, you get lawsuits from site owners because a visitor can get the information needed without actually visiting the site which is detrimental to the site owner's ad revenue. Expect this kind of lawsuits to continue as LLMs become popular.
Head to your iPhone’s Settings.
Next, tap Accessibility.
On the Accessibility page, find Audio/Visual and select it.
From there, search for “Background Sounds” and toggle it on.
Wild. Why is it under accessibility?Much like a lot of accommodations for disabled people, it turns out to be useful for a lot of other folks too. :)
I think the real reason is Spotify pays you per "song played" not per minute played. If I listen to Dopesmoker by Sleep, which is an hour long, then I listen to a 60 second white noise clip, both artists get paid an equal amount.
Also, the music they make is amazing. So it's always relevant to most music conversations.
(Albinoblacksheep flashback is still my go to when I'm feeling nostalgic)
I don't think I've heard them for at least 10 years, I'll put it on for listening!
Edit: OMG I just remembered the existence of this masterpiece: Shpongle - Star Shpongled Banner !!!
I don't have a Spotify link handy, but here's a YouTube Music example:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_K6GgImOp-3...
There’s a quick way to access all of this if you’d rather not dive into menus every time you want to turn on white noise. Once you’ve set your preferred sound from the options above, follow these steps:
Navigate back to the Accessibility menu. Scroll down to the bottom and tap Accessibility Shortcut (under General). Tap Background Sounds to select it from the list. This will set white noise as your accessibility shortcut so your preferred background sound will play anytime you triple-click the side button, even with the screen locked. You can map this function to Back Tap, too, if you prefer.
You should probably use an app though. Noise doesn't compress well, which means that you can get strange artifacts when it is compressed from the server to you, and then from your phone to a BT device. An app playing from hardwired or internal speakers is best.
There is a good app called Chroma Doze. It lets you tune the noise to the exact spectrum needed for your situation. It also blends the noise very well so that there is no loop heard. Plenty of apps/devices think that 3-4 seconds of noise looped is enough, but one you hear it, you can't unhear the loop.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pmarks.chr...
Or having some noise mp3/AACs loaded into your phone's music app?
Spotify is also probably more feature-filled than the average crap app thrown on the appstore for quick money as a whitenoise maker. For example the ability to download or send to speakers (like Sonos, Alexa, for example). Plus Spotify has greater selection of noises (yes there are MANY different types of white noise). Plus you can easily switch to your other podcasts and songs when you want.
I for one am an avid whitenoise listener on spotify throughout the day. I will listen to one type of whitenoise in the morning, then listen to a podcast episode, switch to a different type of white noise for a while, then some ambient noises, maybe some actual music around lunchtime, some more soft whitenoise after lunch to focus, another podcast at the end of the day. Doing it all in Spotify has value. Could I switch apps if I had to...? Sure. But a fully-featured music app is a natural place for long tracks of audio, so it makes sense to have it all together.
same reason as any other enshittified website as of late: you lose control and at some point they will make it painful for you to use stuff you like, because your convinence is not necessarily profitable.
If you are fine paying them $15 a month or ads (and yeah, that's the sticking point here: ads in the middle of your white noise seems to defeat the purpose f white noise) or whatever for those vast variety of white noise and the loss of control, I guess it's a successful business transaction. But I say this as a fogey that still prefers to have MP3's on my phone, so I don't know what the modern users want.
> Could I switch apps if I had to...? Sure.
glad you could. I dont get that sense from many users in other big apps, sadly. That's why they can scheme like this; they know angry fogey's like me are the minority and quickly replaced.
There are thousands of free apps that do exactly that.
Streaming white noise from Spotify or iTunes seems, to me, incredibly crazy.
Or have your battery drained even faster by yet another ad-infested surveillance "utility" app.
Is it technically accurate? No, but most people's feathers aren't ruffled by it.
If you have 10 6 minute songs, someone can only listen to 10 songs in an hour. If you have 20 3 minute songs, someone can listen to double the number of songs in an hour. If you're creating an album of white noise and trying to make the most money from Spotify, you don't want to create a long "song".
Thats why a lot of movies have crept down to 80-90 mins. It allows theaters to fit a whole extra showing into the day, which means more box office revenue. Only the big hits are generally allowed by the studios to be longer (like a Christopher Nolan or James Cameron movie for example).
Because the same thing is true for movies. A theater ticket is going to be $10 regardless of whether the movie is 75 mins or 180 mins. Might as well squeeze more showings out.
Interesting – in Germany a small supplement for "over-length" movies was (or still is?) a commonplace thing.
I noticed it too recently, but it's not always this way. A few years ago I could find white noise songs with hours of duration.
Definitely not, I have plenty of real songs in my Spotify library that are an hour long or longer. My guess is that it has more to do with how Spotify calculates artist payouts and that white noise "creators" found that they could get 20x the number of views if they split all of their tracks up into 3 minute chunks.
If you find a shorter one just put the track on repeat and up the cross-fade to like 3s.