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Anyone know of a sound generating program that would produce an endless, seamless stream of white noise (actually, I've found "pink noise" is better)??

I'm in hotels about 3 nights a week, and if the room's too quiet, I use a "sound machine" to generate background noise. It's a feeble attempt at drowning out maids and guests in the hall. I'd like to use my N800 to generate the noise so I could leave the sound machine at home.

I found .wav files, but the players I've tried don't have a loop feature; and even if they did, the looping would have to be seamless or it would be a distraction instead of the soothing effect I'm after.

I tried sox-13.0.0, a Linux sound generator; but I'm no techie, and the import is beyond me. Any suggestions / ideas???

Thanks,
Steve

Hey, that s a really neat idea

All the tets i made (http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pelzlpj/whitenoise/ or sox) failed because i cannot use /dev/dsp .

People on irc tells me to use gstreamer, but i m not sure one can generate sound with gstreamer...

Could you please post a link to those white noise mp3 you mention ?

I wonder if players such as ukmp actually make a pause between songs or not.

Something to try would be to use the radio application without any headset plug in: pure random white noise

I wonder how fast it eats the battery though.

FMradio set on a station with no signal should do the trick....no wifi necessary.

rhouge's idea of using FMradio static's good enough for me. Not worried about battery--it's a hotel & I'll have my charger!

As for the mp3... I got one from the Freesound Project ... http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ .
Searched for "white noise"; found out "pink noise" is a little better. I had to register to download.
Thanks... Steve

A MIDI player would also do the trick... Does any known browser play midi's embedded in a web page?

AFAIK there's no "white noise" instrument in the MIDI voice set which you could drive, but it's been a while since I looked.

PDA has a noise generator. It comes with lots of example files that include one that can be filtered (hi/lo/bandpass).
http://gige.xdv.org/pda/

We've got XMMS (media player) for the tablets in free's repository:

http://debfarm.free.fr chinook user

As far as I know, it does gapless playback of most formats, and you can have a looping playlist that should do the job.

But if FM radio static does the job, yay! As long as nothing passing by in the hallway causes the static to change, it should work well...

As discussed in this thread : http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=20712
Boodler seems to be a good solution. Just need a good GUI.

http://simplynoise.com/

White and Pink Noise.