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'white noise' sound files to reduce distraction?

Hello. I am looking for sound files of things like rain, water, etc, that can be played on ipod gapless and make a continuous relaxing background noise, to use in combination with my noise-reduction headphones. (Music works, of course, but that's distracting, too.)

I've poked around on the web, but all my google searches have brought me to junky websites that are badly organized and trying to sell me overpriced sound-effect CDs for movies and stuff, which isn't really what I'm looking for. There must be some people out there who just recorded rain and put it on the web, yeah?

Anyone?

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The sound or white noise...

ggrozier;8679 wrote:

The sound or white noise files can be annoying if they're repetitive -- sometimes I listen to them for a while and can detect repeated insect noises that come right before or after a certain thunder sound, etc. Or the volume changes, or the quality of the sound changes, in some pattern.

This is the nice thing about boodler: it generates the soundscape as you listen. The implication of that, though, is that you'll need a computer to listen to it, not a music player (though it will run on some PDAs). You could, in principle, generate enough sound in advance that you're highly unlikely to notice repetition, though that might take a significant amount of space.

 
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