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Show HN: Lofimusic.app, an open source Background Music Progressive Web App
- chii 6y agothe app needs a volume control. It's playing at the same loudness as the system's volume, which is not right for a background music app. It prevents you from listening to it while also listen to someone on a video call!
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoI'm also starting to really hate this direction in software design where all buttons are either flat with the UI or hidden through some cryptic menu or swipe gesture or even worse, they're unavailable to the user, all for the sake of simplicity. If you were to teleport 2003 me into the present, I would have no idea how to use most front ends of today's websites or smartphones.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoThis is not a UI direction, its just a missing feature. Most websites with audio have a volume slider.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoI wasn't referring to this website specifically but to an industry trend in general of removing basic controls for the sake of simplicity and clean GUIs.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoIn firefox, every tab has its own output stream. On a suitably advanced platform, you control the volume of each stream with a system tool, independently.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoYes but I shouldn't have to dig through my system settings to change the sound of a tab. Imagine youtube or VLC had no sound control and you'd have to change it in system settings individually.
- ayyy 6y agoI want to love this. I leave these stations on in the background anyway and being able to change them like a radio station is a desirable feature. It's missing 2 key features that will prevent me from using it and recommending it to everyone I know: 1) No volume control. You could argue this is more a failure of my browser, but it's easier if you just add a volume control. Bonus points if up/down arrows controls work to control it. Really, all the youtube keyboard controls would be helpful here. 2) YouTube sometimes detects my bitrate incorrectly and I need to manually set it to highest. I don't know why this happens, but it does. Let me change that somehow on your site. Even if I have to opt-in to seeing a full youtube player to set it, that's ok. I would also like a convenient way to get this on my TV. I wonder which android TV devices can install PWAs now.
- icelancer 6y agoAgree to #1 for sure (I use the Force HD chrome plugin for #2). Please add a volume control button!
- ayyy 6y agoIt never occurred to me to fix that with an extension, good tip.
- glalonde 6y agohave to appreciate the irony in worrying about the bitrate of simulated lo-fi crackling
- samoa42 6y agosame same
- eric_khun 6y agoLooks like a Pull request for the volume control was created[1]. Hopefully the author will merge it soon. Internet is awesome [1] https://github.com/maxence-charriere/lofimusic/pull/3 https://github.com/maxence-charriere/lofimusic/pull/3
- captn3m0 6y agoGreat work. Suggestions from a small device user (iPhone SE): - A reminder to open in Safari and how to add to home screen. I opened in Firefox and the music pauses as soon as I switch tabs. - Test the design on a small device please. The shuffle button gets on top of the other buttons. - No obvious way of getting out from the hamburger menu. Figured out I can click on the title, but it wasn’t obvious.
- MuffinFlavored 6y agoWhat does it mean that members of society have evolved to constantly need audible stimulation? I feel like there has to be some sort of mental effect from listening to music constantly.
- bonchicbongenre 6y agoI don't have an answer for you, just wanted to pile on with my own experience and questions in the same vein. I find that a background noise app really helps me stay calm/lowers stress and anxiety, and I get a huge productivity boost out of it. Something about being at peace hearing natural sounds really does feel like it's deeply engrained in me, and I assume other people also. I wonder: (1) if there's a difference between the effects people generally get from various noise types (lofi, natural sounds, white noise etc), (2) whether something relevant about the individual correlates with preference among these, and (3) what is universal among these that makes background noise so commonly helpful. (I use Noice for free nature/background sounds, off f-droid. I highly recommend it)
- scns 6y agoTried noice, uninstalled since it would stay open in the background, even though i closed it. Display used 36%, Noice used 11% of power! Was open for 36 minutes, ran 1:3X:XX.
- Apocryphon 6y agoI think this is a valid question worth asking. As we dive further into the age of constant electronic activity and people preach digital detoxes, lament the loss of "deep work", and wax on about dopamine, it's good to consider all areas in which we've allowed such stimuli to pervade every part of our daily lives. Certainly, people can point out that constant audible stimulation dates back to at least the radio craze near the beginning of the 20th century. So that gives us a place to start researching comparisons on the effect on attention spans and other aspects of human cognition.
- garganzol 6y agoThis is the way it always was. Depends on a particular human being, but some of us are persistent music lovers.
- TekMol 6y agoIs it in line with YouTube's TOS to embed them like this? Without displaying the video gui? It also seems to somehow supress the ads?
- ralphstodomingo 6y agoAsking the same questions, and some more: I like the idea, and the app looks cool. I just wish there was a way to just get the audio streams from these channels and have the video constantly looping be embedded into the app or something. The reason why I don't stay tuned to the YT channels is exactly because of ads, and I don't like my bandwidth being consumed by video when I'm not watching anything.
- yellowapple 6y ago> The reason why I don't stay tuned to the YT channels is exactly because of ads This is why God gave us ad blockers :)
- FractalParadigm 6y agoI'm curious - are there good adblockers today that can block YouTube ads? I vaguely remember uBlock Origin facing the problem of Google serving ads from the same domains/addresses as the actual video, making adblocking on YouTube virtually impossible.
- gillesjacobs 6y agouBlock Origin (even with default block lists) + Sponsorblock is what I use for a fully ad-free YouTube experience. Sponsorblock is a crowd-sourced native sponsor-content timeskipper. For medium to large channels it works like a charm. I highly recommend this setup.
- yellowapple 6y agoI use uBlock Origin on Firefox and it seems to work fine for blocking YouTube ads (to the point where I frequently forget YouTube has ads until I make the mistake of trying to access it on a browser lacking an ad-blocker, lol).
- jmiskovic 6y agoThis is awesome! Looks very slick. I'd have this open constantly if it had a pause button. Bonus points if there's a easy keyboard shortcut. This kind of music increases my productivity enormously. Part of it is there's no lyrics and rhythm is interesting but steady. The other part is my brain associates this music with productive coding so it's easier to get into the zone.
- nagarjun 6y ago+1 for pause button
- MasterOfCone 6y agoYou need a pause button, I can't use this without it.
- dharma1 6y agowould be nice to see what each track playing is and who made it, rather than have it reduced to anonymous muzak
- wazoox 6y agoSome playlists have the info, some others don't.
- Maxence 6y agoPause button, volume slider... lets code it :) thanks for the feedback!
- konart 6y agoI need some sort of extension that would "cut" out the beats from all those lofi music so I can actually concentrate.
- soylentcola 6y agoJust the kick/low-end drum beats, or all of the rhythm (only leaving the melody)? Just curious. Sometimes I listen to relaxing music or videos on headphones when I can't sleep and I use the EQ on my phone to cut low frequencies. If it's all of the drum/rhythm that distracts you I don't know of a good solution other than finding music that's all melody and no rhythm.
- konart 6y agoJust the most distinct ones. I'm not agains drums or anything like that (hell, I usually code with heave metal in my headphones), but it's one thing when it's part of the picture and a whole different thing when the music goes like this: ____..__._A_.___.___ Where A is the beat. I'll try to do something using EQ (never though about this option for some reason)
- eyyeyeyeyeyeye 6y agoThe tiny drop shadow on the text looks really good. I enjoy a most of the music in this genre. But a lot of the tracks use effects that makes me nauseous, heavy stereo panning and some sort of woomwoom feeling sound (is this "ducking"?). Makes it impossible for me to listen with headphones. Bearable on low volume on laptop speakers.
- filleduchaos 6y agoA bit of a tangent, but this sort of music actually makes it near impossible for me to concentrate. Instead, I have what I call "loop songs", which are selected favourite tracks that span a range of genres from fairly heavy metal to Afrobeats. When I want to focus I pick a loop song and set it to repeat (the ideal volume varies per song, but is typically moderately loud). I can't explain how or why but it settles my brain far, far better than any white noise or "chill" playlist I've tried. It's also a point of humour with my friends because they're horrified that I listen to the same song hundreds of times over a couple of days, while I'm perplexed that they can actually get tired of listening to a song to the point of disliking it.
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- lm2s 6y agoThat makes sense to me and I think it's the principle being mantras, repetition gets someone into a state of trance. Although I don't know if I would be able to loop just one song, I do repeat albums that I like. So I put a few albums that I like and have listened to many, _many_ times, on queue. Already knowing the songs makes my brain settle (or at least reduces the cognitive(?) load a lot), and sometimes I even discovered "new sounds".
- specialist 6y agoSame. My personal theory is the predictability allows you to tune it out, making it invisible to your conscious brain. Based on my half-baked understanding of Jeff Hawkin's theory that our brains are wired to notice differences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
- codeyperson 6y agoMe too! I can't have it too loud though. But same song, on loop for an hour or so. I think the feeling of the headphones over my ears acts as an unconscious trigger to concentrate too.
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- toyg 6y agoThey have the radios on Spotify, your smart tv probably has an app for that. If you mean the video part, wouldn’t it be a bit distracting? Still, I think webos-based TVs (LG) have a webkit browser that might be able to handle it. Edit: nope, they are not. Sadface.jpg
- quantumwoke 6y agoI don't know if it's just my Chrome browser but this website doesn't load at all for me and just hangs on a black screen. The only relevant extension I have is uBlock and uMatrix.
- vaccinator 6y agouMatrix breaks many websites if you don't mess with it constantly.
- jermeh 6y agoThis is so close to being a tab I'll constantly have open for coding. Simple volume and pause controls make this a 10/10 site. Awesome job!!
- nowledge 6y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qA0nelfNc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qA0nelfNc doesn't get any better than that for me.
- monkeycantype 6y agoI'm looking for almost this, except I don't want music, I would like the white noise of people in a public space where don't speak english. Any recommendations?
- jclos 6y agoHave you tried HipsterSound [1] ? It's not perfect but it's closer to it [1] https://hipstersound.com/ambient.html https://hipstersound.com/ambient.html
- terrycody 6y agoI love this soooo much!