Ambientsounds

Curses based ambient sound player inspired by Noizio, A Soft Murmur, etc...

Dependencies

The program depends on :

• python 2
• pygame to play the tracks
• mutagen to read the ogg vorbis tags

Manual

• Up/Down to select a track or a preset
• Left/Right to change the volume of the selected track
• q to quit

Sounds

The original sound files are listed below.

• Fireplace by inchadney (CC0)
• Heavy Rain by D W (CC BY)
• Forest Rain by Corsica_S (CC BY)
• Stream by mystiscool (CC BY)
• Thunderstorm by RHumphries (CC BY)

To add new sounds, you just need to create an ogg file of a few minutes (preferably less than 5) that loops seamlessly, set the title tag correctly, and put it in the sounds folder. Creating a seamless loop is pretty easy with natural sounds, I personally use audacity, with this method to extract a segment that loops without clicking, or this one to fade the beginning and the end of the track. You can also modify the tags when you export an ogg file with audacity.

If you want me to add your sound to the program, you can make a pull request or open an issue. This program is a free software, and will only contain free sounds, with licenses such as CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA (and not CC BY-NC or CC BY-ND).

TODO

• Add new sounds
• Save and load presets