• bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I got two of them. One is on my nightstand in my bedroom, the other is a portable one for when I travel. I don’t like the idea of having my phone playing something all night, nor so I want to sleep next to a computer playing audio all night. A notification could come in and wake me up, an update could get pushed and the noise would die, the internet tends to go down a lot a night so the noise would cut out, lots of little annoying things. I recognize there are ways to mitigate against some of this, but it easier to just get a white noise maker and be done with it. Just push a button to toggle it on/off. Plus the white noise maker is making actual white noise instead of looping an audio file.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never had any of these problems personally. Not that I have anything against white noise machines but that’s why people see them as superfluous. They kind of are.

        But maybe if you have spotty internet that makes sense.

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          1 year ago

          I’m also old, so that might have something to do with it. I assume the Spotify user base skews young.

          Apple did add a white noise maker into iOS 15. I assume I’ll end up trying that at some point if I’m looking to pack extra-extra light, or just end up in a situation where I need to sleep somewhere and forgot my white noise maker. They just put it in a really weird spot (Settings > Accessibility > Hearing: Audio/Visual > Background Sounds) so I’m sure most people don’t know it’s there or find it too much trouble to access. I just setup it up so I can tap the back of my phone twice to toggle it on/off, maybe that will lead me to trying it out… we’ll see if it gets annoying enough that I need to find some other way to make it easier to access.

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            1 year ago

            Sometimes I play rain/storm sounds I’ve downloaded from YouTube. Other times I use the iPhone white noise generator. I’ve set up 2 Siri shortcuts (one for sound on and one for sound off), but tapping the back sounds like a good way to do it, too.

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            1 year ago

            Wow you are right that is hidden. I have an iPhone and had no idea that was there. I’ll have to try it out.