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walthamstowyesterday at 11:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

Very interesting that a white noise track for babies is the 4th most popular track on Spotify.


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cluckindantoday at 12:02 AM

Interesting if that is considered to be copyrightable. Any white noise track is perceptually indistinguishable from another, but none have the exact same sequence of samples except by chance, or if the noise generator happens to be deterministic as a function of time.

al_borlandtoday at 12:59 AM

I find it so odd that people then to streaming services for stuff like this. I have a dedicated white noise machine, and when I travel, I use the white noise (bright noise actually) built into the iPhone.

Relying on an external hosted service would never cross my mind, and surely wouldn’t be something I go to on a daily basis.

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