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I love, recommend, and use Noisli often in our open plan office.

The only tiny annoyance is that I really like the ambient cafeteria noise, and after a while I start to notice the looping! There's a very prominent bit where a lady shouts "Swwwwing!". There isn't much you can do about it though other than make the sample much longer, and it's hardly a problem. Just something I notice.

Thanks for the site. I actually registered noisebubble.com a while back with something similar in mind, but you beat me to the punch and I'm happy you did.

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There's a way to make this harder to detect: create "loops" which are actually a multitude of loops that have prime number lengths. The individual components will repeat, but "beats" of simultaneous repeats won't exist, giving the illusion of a much longer sequence.

I've seen an example in graphics used to create very large tiling patterns from a small image space. See:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110410071059/http://designfesti...

Thanks for the hint ;)

Since people are likely to play several loops at once, you might make a policy that _all_ loops are different lengths, in prime integer numbers of seconds. I haven't checked for how long your segments are, but that would allow users to mix-and-match.

Thank you so much for using Noisli and for recommending it! Also thanks for the feedback!! It's something we will definitely keep it mind to keep improving the service ;)

Listen any loop enough times and you start spotting repeating noises. I've experienced this even with rain loops and it's super annoying.

We keep working on enhancing the service and its features :) Sorry for the annoyance.

I have had the same problem with 'ambient sound' apps, and they eventually render them useless for me. Perhaps it would be an idea to layer two tracks of different lengths on top of each other to at least make it 'random' for longer? Have you considered this?

(Other than that, great work. I might buy the iOS version soon!)

Thanks :) Definitely. We are doing our best to deliver the best service ;)

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