Filed under: Audio, Productivity, Freeware
Rainy Mood helps you relax with the sound of RAIN!
One of my favorite hacks involves using audio to set a mood. I've created an "anger playlist" to calm myself down when I'm angry, and I often listen to binaural beat tracks to help wake myself up without the use of caffeine, or to help me focus on what I'm working on.
The sound of rain has always created a certain calmness for me. Apparently the same is true for others, to the extent that someone went to the trouble to create Rainy Mood, a single-purpose website that plays a high-quality 30 minute loop of rainy weather sounds.
The audio is superb, and if you close your eyes it can transport you to a totally different place. But what I particularly enjoy about Rainy Mood is that the sound is very much like white noise, and I can use it to cover up the distracting noises going on around me, but it's far more pleasant to listen to than noise tracks.
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Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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Aemony said 4:35PM on 1-26-2010
That should probably be 15 minutes, as it says so on the page itself.
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JJ said 4:38PM on 1-26-2010
Weird... site says 15 minute loop for me... though your screenshot shows 30.
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Scruffy Bob said 5:09PM on 1-26-2010
It looks like they changed it. The 30-minute MP3 is still there, btw.
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ShayMac88 said 12:17AM on 3-10-2010
Where is the download for the mp3?
gb said 7:15AM on 1-27-2010
http://www.soundsleeping.com/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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chodorowicz said 9:01AM on 1-27-2010
thanks! I was looking for sth like this
HuBu said 9:27AM on 1-27-2010
unfortunately the downloads aren't free.
chesama said 7:44AM on 1-27-2010
better to listen to just the mp3, anyway. no volume control through the flash, which, as a flash developer, seems silly.
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Phil said 8:13PM on 2-01-2010
@Scruffy Bob
Yeah! Thanks for pointing it.
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qsshidong said 4:42AM on 3-21-2010
www.free-sleep-music.com of course!!
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qsshidong said 4:46AM on 3-21-2010
www.free-sleep-music.com of course!! This is the only website that offer free sleep music download.
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Tammy said 10:55AM on 4-09-2010
Just found a similar iPhone app named Rainy Music and it working really great! I can play the rain sounds with my iPod music now!
http://itunes.apple.com/app/rainy-music/id366161617?mt=8
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Neil said 5:05PM on 4-20-2010
I found another iPhone app like this, cheaper than that one! It's pretty cool, does a slideshow too.
It's called Rainy Mood, http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/rainy-mood/id355424421?mt=8
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