I would add the smells of rain, wet wool, sweat and breath, and sawdust. Fragrance is so evocative and complex, but it'll be a while before we can call it up in our browser.
I remember a Disney World hang-glider ride where they puffed cool humid forest-scented air in my face. That was a very effective ambiance enhancer.
I sure hope it's a while before smells come to the browser. I'm annoyed enough by autoplaying audio, although now that I think about it, it seems not to happen much at all these days.
That little pit in the border of your laptop screen near the camera could be both a puffer and a mic pick up! I'm not sure what would be behind it but I'll be putting on a full noddy suit before I do maint. on your lappie, having noted the piece of tape over it. I'm not sure what would end up trapped inside the shell over time but I suspect both of "BC".
Don't worry, you'll be protected by the HP firmware. It'll detect that you're out of butyl compounds even though the scent requires none, refuse to spray the scent, and automatically place an order for you.
The military does that. The USS Trayer is a ship disaster simulator. "Suddenly, we're on a pier, the Trayer rising above us. We're indoors, but a gentle breeze carries the distinctive tang of the sea. Gulls caw somewhere overhead, and waves lap between the pier and the hull." It looks and smells like a real ship, but it's indoors in North Chicago, at the Navy's training center.
The army version, a section of a Third World city: "From the control center AFSOC can observe and change everything from lighting to sounds and smells. “They can simulate the smell of a bakery right down to burning cars or rotting meat.” The US military has several facilities like that.
and the bathroom attendant in the guys bathroom not letting two guys go in the stall together to do cocaine, while getting berated by everyone in line about equality because the girls go in stalls together routinely
It was actually my day job from which I eventually pivoted into infosec. The industry is full of people like myself who aren't bothered by the smell of human feces dressed up as technological solutions. Thinking back, I guess I came a long way. But it all started in that loo! Always remember your roots!
Irish musician here, missing regular sessions at Patrick's Pub in Providence, RI. Smithwicks' Ale for the players, random audience members singing Irish songs in Irish and English, we are all missing the community, especially since our outdoor jams ended 5 months ago.
My father has been playing in the same pub session with the same friends almost every week for close to 40 years. Pubs in Ireland have been closed for a full year now (gastropubs could operate over the summer for a bit but in a limited capacity) and it’s been very hard for them to adjust to the loss of community, especially since they’re all relatively recent retirees. Here’s to some normality soon.
I've been playing with this one for a bit, and there's a strange "pause" in audio from a couple of the options. It's almost like the loop gets to the end, and then goes silent while the loop "rewinds". Obviously, that's not what is happening, but that is what it sounds like. It's too distinctive than the random lulls in large crowd noises that occur naturally.
Either way, both of these are fun. I've been on film shoots where we've had all of the cast and crew involved to record walla walla. It's a tough one to get right for long enough that it's not easily discernible as fake and so short you hear it looping. Adding music helps. All of that to say, these types of generators might make that a thing of the past.
That one works for me. But soundofthepub doesn't.. the play/pause buttons don't work here (the sliders work) - what in ublock's list do I have to enable to get it working? Everything from the actual site is green, it's only blocking google analytics stuff as far as I can tell.
The play/pause buttons work fine on my side with default settings/lists. You may have enabled non-default filter list(s) which interfere, or you have custom filters/rules. Use the logger to find out what is being blocked to cause the breakage, and by what.
This looks great! I've been using https://asoftmurmur.com/ because I like the "meander" feature which gives a randomness to the noise. Strangely I find "flat" noises (like a fan running at a constant speed) to be too distracting. Looks like mynoise has a similar feature called "slider animation" and lots more selection.
Possibly the best, and very comprehensive. Great user interface. I am in touch with the owners, they're looking at creating a 'pub' option. Authenticity is important so until pubs are open, it sits in the planning stage, as all the appropriate recordings can't be made.
Funny that rain is part of the sounds :D. As an italian I'd never thought about adding it.
Btw it's sounds amazing, but the sounds are a bit short in length and you can "feel" the repeating loop.
After listening for a while, I came back to say exactly this. It's certainly much more work, but I think worthwhile for people want to spend a length of time with it on. Perhaps 10 minutes plus. Also, make the durations of each track different lengths so they cycle asynchronously.
This was my exact problem with the last implementation of this posted on HN. The “bartender” track asked “want another one?” Roughly once a minute. Thunder cracked on a short cycle in the rain loop. Just too many identifying marks. And after I spotted those pattern sounds I couldn’t not hear them.
If the website author is around: On my screen, all I could see was the top of the page, none of the controls. I was confused for an embarrassing amount of time before scrolling. On my end, I have scroll bars always on so I should've figured it out sooner, but that isn't usually true for others.
I'd like this a lot, if it was discrete. I lived in Dublin for two years, and in my limited experience of going out the experience could always be summarised as "loud, couldn't understand anyone". If I could hear a little less of random people and noise and a little more of the people I'm talking to I might have enjoyed it more.
Funny how we keep using technology to recreate dystopias.
In this case, personal "flappers" ala Swift's Gulliver's visit to Laputa
Can you imagine a world where politicians could have headphones tuned to cancel out non-approved voices 24/7? Protesters could camp outside offices and scream as much as they wanted to no avail
Isn’t this already the case? Legislative offices in some countries are eavesdropping-proof, so one would imagine that drowns out sound coming from the outside. Protestors these days are under no illusion that politicians are looking at them as they protest, rather their goal is to win over members of the general public walking by, and make a splash in the media that might then get the business world and politicians’ attention.
Creepy will be when augmented sensory enhancements emphasize certain people, objects, and themes while obscuring others. I can't remember if that was a Black Mirror episode or not.
A decent imitation can be had at Half Time Rec in St. Paul, Minnesota. Just ask any of the older bartenders about the Saints/Cats brawl after the 2006 American Association baseball championship. https://www.abqjournal.com/sports/apbrawl09-12-06.htm
This is a disease nowadays in modern websites which are reactive or ajax-driven - you have to explain to people step by step how to reproduce something (or send screenshots), as opposed to back in the day when everything was a GET request.
I did a little searching & found this Irish pub ambient track which I'm enjoying right now, reminds me being in pubs back home :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMw-ESqCUE
It's nice, but also a hot mess! Try sliding some sliders, then clicking on the about page (mismanaged as a plus sign), and then clicking back - a sweet whiskey laden cacophony! At this point, every slider needs to be explicitly interacted with in order to toggle it.
Small bug: if you adjust the sliders while the sound isn't playing, the next time you click "Play" the adjustments won't take effect. This includes if you Play -> adjust -> Pause -> Play (the levels get reset but the sliders don't)
There are signal processing techniques to cleanly separate audio into different logical tracks, using an array of microphones. These techniques are used e.g. when recording concerts, but also to reduce echo and background noise in voice calls.
