Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2020-02-08, Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 07.02.20 23:53, Long Wind wrote:
>> i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by masking other noise)
>> but when it reach end and restart to play againthere's some interval, which isn't desirable
>> any mplayer option or other player i can use so that it plays seamlessly??
>
> I find it very effectively masks barking neighbourhood dogs and dripping
> water. Most pleasant has been a Surf Sound Generator I built from a kit
> around 40 years ago. It adds 3 long-period (several seconds) RC
> oscillators, which amplitude modulate the slightly pink noise. Their
> different periods keep them out of phase, like random waves whooshing up
> a beach.
>
> A little bit of low-pass filtering of white noise makes it a bit pink. I
> find modest low frequency emphasis more relaxing - and perhaps a little
> better at masking, as it is the low frequencies which travel.
>
> And it's cheaper than double or triple glazing.


  play -n synth whitenoise
  play -n synth brownnoise
  play -n synth pinknoise

I find the brown quite relaxing, the white too strident, and the
pink a tad too treble for my taste (or my aging ears).


> Erik
>
>


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