• cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Surely the bandwidth isn’t that expensive.

    Compared to the CPU requirements to generate it locally, it is thousands of times more expensive to stream it.

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        1 year ago

        Do you mean “how do I write a white noise app?” or “what is the best white noise app?”

        White noise boils down to generating random numbers and sending it to your audio out. You may want to tweak the distribution to make the noise more pleasant. That shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

        For existing white noise apps, IDK I don’t do that. But like, Google knows.

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          1 year ago

          No, I mean for everyone saying that streaming white noise is a waste of bandwidth and resources, what exactly is an easier or faster way of getting white noise than just searching for it on something like Spotify?

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            1 year ago

            Then the question you are asking is “What is the best white noise app?”

            YouTube and Spotify have every reason to pull their white noise content. Just Google for “white noise app” and download the first one that isn’t totally sketchy.

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              1 year ago

              So your faster and easier solution is to download an app for something I may need only once?

              Cool.