whitenoise
whitenoise is a small utility that turns your computer into an ambient random noise generator. This can be useful for relaxation, helping you get to sleep, drowning out noisy neighbors, etc. Command-line options allow the user to tweak noise characteristics and set a shutoff timer.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 12 Feb 2004 19:54
Changes: This release offers the ability to read commands in realtime, to enable integration with frontends. Low-latency capability and aRts support were added, as well as automatic generation of frequency response plots.
- 08 Jan 2004 20:30
Changes: This release includes an option to set the sound card samplerate. In addition, a bug that prevented sound from being properly generated on certain hardware was corrected.
- 09 Apr 2002 04:57
Changes: A fadeout option and a choice of five different noise filter models were added.
- 03 Apr 2001 13:16
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- All comments
Recent commentsHighpass filter?
I was hoping for something more like the sound of sand being spun around in a turning tin can. I find the low pass a little disturbing and bombastic. Is there a possible high-pass or middle-pass filter in the works?
wow
This completely drowned out my noisy suitemates, thanks so much. Also, thanks to senda for the good preset.
Re: Private Jet
I'd have to agree, an excellent setting. Thanks very much for the posting.
Private Jet
My favorite setting so far is "whitenoise -F 4 -c 0.1 -r 11025"; this feels like you are in the cozy seat of your private jet, well high above the messy world :)
Re: Thank you
> I listen to this whitenoise every night
> to help myself sleep. Thanks for the
> extra energy I've had over the past
> month. One thing that would be nice
> though is a native Windows port because
> I always have to reboot into Linux each
> night.
Thanks for the comment.
I probably won't take responsibility for a native Windows port myself, but if another developer wants to take on the task then I would be happy to help out as I can.
In the past, users have reported that whitenoise works fine under Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com); you might want to give that a try.