<story><title>Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/how-to-make-money-on-spotify-a-white-noise-podcast-could-bring-you-big-bucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raesene9</author><text>One thing I didn&amp;#x27;t realise till recently, is you don&amp;#x27;t need spotify to generate white noise if you have an iPhone&amp;#x2F;iPad, as it&amp;#x27;s an in-built function under accessibility --&amp;gt; Audio&amp;#x2F;Visual and background sounds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mft_</author><text>Thanks - really good to discover this!&lt;p&gt;Interesting to note the size of the samples that Apple is using:&lt;p&gt;* Balanced noise: 1.8MB&lt;p&gt;* Bright noise: 1.8MB&lt;p&gt;* Dark noise: 1.8MB&lt;p&gt;* Ocean: 62.4MB&lt;p&gt;* Rain: 63.7MB&lt;p&gt;* Stream: 72.1MB&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s a lot of effort to ensure your background water sounds are (presumably) high fidelity and non-repeating!</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/how-to-make-money-on-spotify-a-white-noise-podcast-could-bring-you-big-bucks</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raesene9</author><text>One thing I didn&amp;#x27;t realise till recently, is you don&amp;#x27;t need spotify to generate white noise if you have an iPhone&amp;#x2F;iPad, as it&amp;#x27;s an in-built function under accessibility --&amp;gt; Audio&amp;#x2F;Visual and background sounds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gyan</author><text>FFmpeg has a colored noise generator.  
&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ffmpeg.org&amp;#x2F;ffmpeg-filters.html#anoisesrc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ffmpeg.org&amp;#x2F;ffmpeg-filters.html#anoisesrc&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>