11 websites and apps where you can listen to the sounds of nature

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The noise of rain, wind and sea surf will help you relax and unwind, or, conversely, concentrate and become more productive.

1. A Soft Murmur

A convenient site that allows you to create mixes of sounds. Here you can find the noise of rain, thunder, wind and surf, cries of birds and even television interference. All this goodness is easily mixed in any order. Mixes can be saved and used according to your mood. And if you are too lazy to mess around with the settings, just turn on the white noise generator - it also works great.

The service has applications for smartphones that duplicate its functionality. So the soothing sounds are easy to take with you.

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2. Nature Soundmap

A very interesting service that will appeal to those who want to travel the whole world, but cannot yet.

A map of the Earth will open in front of you. Click on any point marked with a marker and you can listen to the sounds of nature there: the sound of springs in the Irish valleys, the chirping of insects in the African prairies, the rustle of trees in the jungles of South America and the rumble of the sea in the cold Norwegian fjords.

Turn on the sound, close your eyes and take an unforgettable journey.

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3. Noisli

This site, as well as its Android and iOS apps, gives you the opportunity to fill the space with the sound of rain, crackling fire, howling wind, rustling leaves and other sounds of nature.

The page is designed in a very stylish way: nice icons with a volume control against the background of a changing color of the background. In the built-in notepad, you can write down thoughts that arise while listening.

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4. Soundrown

Another site, the sight of which is no less enjoyable than the sounds it makes. The buttons combined with the volume control allow you to create any combination of the sounds of rain, surf or flame, birdsong and so on. The background also changes according to your choice. And in parallel with the sounds of nature, you can play leisurely melancholic music from SoundCloud.

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5. Ambient Mixer

The Ambient Mixer interface is rather unsightly. But you are not going to admire it, but listen to the sounds of nature?

The music library of the service is very rich. There are many audio templates here that can be used individually or mixed. In the presence of the noise of a summer forest, pouring rain and a violent storm, the chirping of birds and the stomp of wild horses.

In addition, the site contains sounds from the Gryffindor living room, singing from the Christmas streets of Victorian London, and other unusual tracks.

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6. Rainyscope

The Rainyscope lets you choose the time of year and listen to the sound of rain or blizzard. You can also determine what the precipitation will be: a spring thunderstorm, a light summer rain, a dull autumn drizzle or a winter blizzard. The landscape in the background will change depending on the season.

If you feel that sounds are addictive and you lose touch with reality, turn on the timer on the side. So you can stop in time and return to work, for example.

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7. Jazz And Rain

Imagine that you are hiding from the shower in a cozy jazz cafe and drinking coffee accompanied by soft and unhurried music that merges with the sound of falling drops. Jazz And Rain provides something like this.

The service plays random jazz songs, and in parallel with them, you can let it rain by adjusting its volume. In this case, the background will be replaced by beautiful photographs taken in different places of the planet.

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8. Raining.fm

Raining.fm specializes in rain noise. The sound here is adjusted with just three sliders. One adjusts the intensity of the shower, the other two - the frequency and strength of the thunder. By moving the sliders, you can create at least a light autumn rain, at least a real tropical downpour.

The site is decorated with a thematic slideshow, and in the settings there is a timer and a smooth mute.

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9.myNoise

MyNoise has a bunch of all kinds of audio tracks that you can customize as you like. Do you want to find yourself in a gloomy forest where dusk falls, the wind rustles and an owl hoots ominously? Or do you prefer the atmosphere of a Japanese garden, where cherry blossoms rustle, bells ring and water in a pond murmurs? myNoise can create a wide variety of moods.

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10. YouTube

Why look for some third-party services when YouTube is always open in your browser? Just subscribe to these channels for rich collections of nature sounds and unobtrusive ambient:

• K-MUSICLIFE - Japanese collection of nature sounds mixed with chill-out music.
• johnnielawson is the channel of Johnny Lawson, an artist and photographer from Ireland. He collects the sights and sounds of the places he has visited.
• Relaxing White Noise. In addition to white noise, on this channel you can find the roar of the surf, and the sounds of forest rain, and violent thunderclaps.
• austinstrunk is a channel filled with 10 hours of videos. There is crackling fire, noise of wind and rain, and much more.
• Nature Relaxation Films is a beautiful channel for photographer and videographer David Huting. Views from different parts of the world are accompanied by ambient and sounds of nature.
• RainbirdHD - Most of the videos on this channel were filmed in Florida. Here you can see and hear rain, snow storms and winds sometimes mixed with classical music.

11. NASA.gov

And as a bonus - extremely unusual sounds that not a single person has ever heard live. These are radio waves captured by NASA spacecraft and turned into audio recordings. This is exactly what hurricanes on Jupiter, streams of solar plasma and Titan's atmosphere sound like. Just keep in mind: sometimes this is pretty creepy. Apparently, Lovecraft foresaw something when he described his Juggoth.

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