White noise

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Nathan Powell

I found a site that has free mp3′s of whitenoise. Download one, then in the shell

mplayer -loop 0 foo.mp3

That will loop over and over forever.

The only problem so far is when the file starts over there is some silence. That is distracting, however I am going to see if I can edit the file tonite, Or at least find a longer one.

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I am a middle aged technologist freak-ball.
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2 Responses to White noise

  1. mgoss says:
    May 3, 2007 at 9:16 am

    Pink Noise > White Noise

    This is the best pink noise generator.

    That said, that mp3 doesn’t cost anything, so yeah. ;)

  2. Doug says:
    May 3, 2007 at 9:27 am

    This is probably because of MP3′s internal block structure. If you can find the originals (wav or some other PCM) that don’t have a gap on the end you can use –nogap with lame to produce a better file.
    Or use Ogg ;)