Sleepy Time Sounds: play soothing background sounds on Android

If you cannot work, concentrate, read, or sleep in total silence, or when there is noise coming from the neighbor's TV, cars outside, a chatty couple downstairs, or a family with kids on floor up, then you have probably tried several things to reduce the impact of that noise.
Maybe you have started to listen to music, wear headphones, use earplugs, or something else. While some of it may work, it depends largely on the situation you are in.
I'm very noise sensitive, which is sometimes good and most of the time bad. I get distracted by the noise of the fridge, someone walking outside, animals, a buzzing screen, and more or less all other noise that one comes in contact with throughout the day.
While music would help, it won't work when I'm working as I feel that it is too distracting. The next best thing is white noise, or rain, or other sounds that have a soothing effect.
Sleepy Time Sounds has been designed for people who have troubles falling asleep because of the noise around them. While designed for sleep or naps, it can have a similar effect when you are distracted by noise while you are working.
What I like about the app is its design, and how easy it is to use. It ships with six sounds that you can enable or disable individually. You can mix them if you want, which is another nice feature.
To enable a sound, simply tap on its icon once. It starts to play automatically, and you can use the slider that appears to increase or decrease the volume of it.
Available for selection are white noise, chimes, waves, rain, nature and city: the usual suspects of apps of its kind.
Another option that you have is to set a timer for the sound. The sound will play for the selected period of time and stop playing afterwards.
That's all in terms of functionality. The application displays advertisement in its interface, which is probably one of the reasons why it requires network connection access.
Verdict
If you want a lightweight app with an interesting design, then you may want to give it a try. The application could use a couple of extra features, like additional sounds -- forest, fire or storm for example -- and additional features, like an option to save presets so that they can be loaded the next time again.
Sleepy Time Sounds all in all is a promising application for Android.
Now Read: Listen to white noise on YouTube
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.
The only “Hot” aspect about this discussion is that all the users are psychic and have discovered a way to comment on a particular topic a couple of weeks before it actually appears i.e. the article is dated 3 October while the comments date from August 18.
Is this an example of how the super intelligent AI is going about its business?