Soundscape is an open-source system-tray resident desktop application for playing a mix of sounds, e.g. natural sounds by animals or wind and water.
Soundscape is an open-source desktop application designed to play a mix of natural sounds, such as those from animals, wind, or water. It provides users with a customizable soundscape experience, allowing them to create a relaxing or immersive auditory environment.
Key Features:
Customizable Soundscapes: Add and manage multiple soundtracks, adjusting volume levels, loop transitions, and playback states for each track.
Track Management: Access tracks via the system-tray menu, where you can add, remove, or modify their settings. Pause or resume all tracks at once using simple controls.
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Soundscape
Soundscape is an open-source
system-tray resident desktop application for playing a mix of sounds, e.g.
natural sounds by animals or wind and water.
Usage
The application comes with two example soundscapes. Use mouse right-click in the
main window or on the tray icon to access application menu where you can add or
remove soundtracks and change their settings.
For each track you can change its volume, loop transition and playback state.
Volume
Loop transition
For transition with gap you can specify the gap length in track settings. In
addition, you can also configure the gap length to be chosen randomly each time
between left and right number of seconds (see random up to check box).
Playback
From the application menu you can pause and resume all tracks at once.
On Linux and Windows, use the Quit item from the application menu to finish
the application. Pressing the close window button will just minimize the
application to the tray.
System-Tray Accessibility: Minimize the application to the tray for easy access while keeping your desktop clutter-free.
Command-Line Options: Install and configure Soundscape with options like loading track lists on startup or minimizing to the tray.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for users seeking to enhance their relaxation, focus, or meditation practices by creating a calming auditory backdrop. Whether you're looking to reduce stress or improve concentration, Soundscape offers a flexible tool to craft your perfect soundscape without requiring internet access. It is particularly beneficial for those who value privacy and control over their sound environment.
Soundscape can be installed via winget on supported platforms, making it easy to integrate into your workflow.
Prebuilt binaries for Windows, macOS and Linux are available from the
Releases page.
On Linux you may need to install additional packages in order to run the
prebuilt binary. Most likely XCB util-cursor module is missing. On Debian-based
systems you can install it with
sudo apt-get install libxcb-cursor0
on openSUSE with
sudo zypper install libxcb-cursor0
and on RedHat-based systems with
sudo dnf install xcb-util-cursor
License
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as
published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see .
