ANoise is an ambient noise player for Ubuntu designed to play looping environmental sounds from a lightweight desktop application.
The program is designed to help create a calmer desktop environment with looped background sounds for relaxation, focus, or masking distractions. It integrates with the Ubuntu Sound Menu so playback can be controlled from the desktop, while the application itself remains small and straightforward to use.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Plays looping ambient background sounds such as Coffee Shop, Fire, Forest, Night, Rain, River, Sea, Storm, and Wind.
- Integrates with the Ubuntu Sound Menu using MPRIS controls.
- Supports play, pause, next, and previous track controls.
- Includes a sleep timer to stop playback automatically after a chosen interval.
- Offers an autostart option so the application can launch automatically with the desktop session.
- Supports additional user-supplied audio files placed in ~/ANoise or ~/.ANoise.
- Remembers the last selected sound between sessions.
Website: github.com/costales/anoise
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Developer: Marcos Alvarez Costales
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
ANoise is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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