Dev here. So surprised to hear my cat purring a lot this morning, and then realised it was featured on HN today! :) To celebrate this, the Cat Purr IAP on myNoise's iOS App has been set to Tier 0, so you can all enjoy the same sound on your iOS device for free as well! (https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/mynoise/id813099896?mt=8)
Is there somewhere I can subscribe to find out when the Android app is released, as I'll buy it day one, your stuff has been a life saver working in noisy environments.
Hi, if you could change the jquery Google CDN(which is blocked in China) to fallback to locally hosted, guys in China could access your website without a vpn. Try something like fallback.io
OP here. I'm so glad I found your lovely app and site. And even gladder it's so well received.
I was looking into the therapeutic uses of cat purr for a while. Sure, there's nine hours of cat purr loops on youtube, but I thought someone might have tackled synthesis of it. Blam!
I've been using this website for a while, even donated some money. There are endless possibilities of sound combinations, you should have a look at the other generators on the site: http://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php
This is great! I was hoping to get a reaction from my cats, but they were pretty indifferent, giving me a look that said "So what? I'm still hungry."
I am addicted to having the sound of a fan when I sleep. I can trace that back to the college dorm days where we would use this really old box fan at night to generate noise to drown out whatever else was going on in the halls. And by old, I mean it was made when it was still okay to make a fan with a grill you could reach your hand through.
That fan having long since disappeared, I now rely on a mobile app to meet that need.
I agree with you, it doesn't sound as real as I wished it to be. Cat Purr was a request of many early myNoise users. At beginning, I kept explaining all the reasons why the myNoise sound player was not designed for playing a cat purr (it was initially designed to play random-phase and flat spectrum noises such as white noise and rain) and why I wouldn't implement a cat purr. Then, I gave up and programmed it, just to stop people asking :D It is not the myNoise sound I am the most proud of, but it seems that people like it (or the concept).
While it might not sound 100%, my cats reacted as soon as it started playing and they normally ignore speaker sounds so there's that. I think they were much happier with the purr than when I try to get a reaction from them by playing kitten cries on YouTube. Very cool project and, like others have said, very relaxing sound. Nice work!
our office has been listening to jungle life and absolute rain all week at work. we love your site. if/when an android app comes out i'll definitely buy it.
Cat Purr is one of my favorites. I blend it with one of the water sounds, which effectively blocks out most office noise and creates a calm, soothing space.
Also, my cat freaked out a little when I played it for her.
My cat noticed this. Normally, she is around, or sitting close. She investigated the Mac, gave me the "da fuck?" look and curled right up near the machine and joined in the purring.
I used this for a while today. Nice. I was relaxed.
Even though I know this isn't a real kitty purring in my ear, I can sense myself feeling relaxed and soothed by this as if it were a drug. I've heard that petting a cat or dog lowers a person's blood pressure. I bet hearing cat purrs does, too. I recently read the book Influence which describes a myriad of ways people and animals have automatic responses to various stimuli; I wonder if this is that kind of thing.
I like these kinds of concepts; simple and can really improve productivity when being played in the background. There is another app for coffee shops: https://coffitivity.com/
Although you can't modulate SFX, its still nice to run in the background.
You can choose from a lot of other sounds on the website as well just take a look around. I really like the "Healing Water" one. Another site which was featured lately: http://rain.today/?
