Nature Sounds
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Strange request I guess, but does anyone know of any free nature sounds programs...I'd like to listen to swamps, rainforests, birds and other such stuff while I'm modeling on my MP3 player. I listen to a lot of music while I work, but I wouldn't mind a complete change of scene.
I used to have this one free program back like in 2001 or 2 but I can never remember its name. I tried Googling but all I get is sound effects CDs...I want free damnit! Does anyone else here listen to nature sounds?
Just to clarify, I don't mean sound effects, I mean really long field recordings that are around 30 minutes or so. Cheers.
I used to have this one free program back like in 2001 or 2 but I can never remember its name. I tried Googling but all I get is sound effects CDs...I want free damnit! Does anyone else here listen to nature sounds?
Just to clarify, I don't mean sound effects, I mean really long field recordings that are around 30 minutes or so. Cheers.
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http://music.download.com/3607-10568-0.html?tag=MDL_browseAllNode
Also
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=nature+mp3+free
Audio Books sounds like a great idea too. Thanks guys.
The first would be Neil Gaiman's 'A Study in Emerald', which I loved to bits (despite having read the short story before). Neil's got a pretty pleasant reading voice:
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com/561E7854-3614-403B-8D55-5C494C115042/10/125/en/NeilGaiman
It's to the left. There are also some free ebooks there, but I don't really like reading longer stories on the screen.
There is The Moth, whose podcast features people telling stories about their city, and something that happened to them in it. There's a really gripping one on there about a guy who gets stabbed by a gang in New York. All true, I believe.: http://www.themoth.org/podcast
Then there's War of the Worlds, which I believe is public domain (but I'm not entirely sure). If you really like it, make sure to get the pure audiobook, the one with a (experimental) audio-score, and the mashup with 65daysofstatic's The Fall of Math
There's more, but you'll need to dig around for the really good ones. The few I got off of librivox didn't really do it for me.
This guy reads all his books and gives them away as podcasts. He started the podcast as an unpublished author and is now incredibly successful publishing as well. Wickedly entertaining stuff.
http://www.scottsigler.com/
This site has volunteer readers reading books in the public domain. Pretty much anything written before 1920 is done or in the works. Some are, of course, better than others.
http://librivox.org/
Call me crazy, but I too would love to have an ongoing nature sounds track running while I work -- especially since at night I work in a closet.
Scott
http://www.simplynoise.com/