I went to the site and listened to the track. Sounds nice! But not having played the game I am lacking context.
What about the sound is so nice / interesting / soothing that drives you to these lengths? What about it do you like?
I find your whole project really fascinating. I want to do something similar at some point, even though I don’t have the same kind of sound capturing my interest at the moment.
> I went to the site and listened to the track. Sounds nice!
Thanks! I played a lot of FFXIV and idled a bit in between dungeons and often sat at the Aetherytes (teleport / fast travel locations). The ambiance was nice enough that I didn't feel the need to mute the game when tabbed out.
> What about the sound is so nice / interesting / soothing that drives you to these lengths? What about it do you like?
Most of the audio I keep playing (either music or ambiance) is usually unobtrusive. I appreciate less demanding audio because I can focus cognition towards the task at hand, usually work or games. This means I gravitate towards genres without vocals, like EDM, jungle, IDM, etc. I actually used to use a tool to loop music without gaps because the clip would annoy me[1].
For the aetheryte ambiance in particular, it was just low and novel enough to be relaxing, without constantly drawing my attention to it.
> I find your whole project really fascinating. I want to do something similar at some point, even though I don’t have the same kind of sound capturing my interest at the moment.
You could also try recreating my project on a new platform! I've actually recreated this tool as an iOS app because background play on iOS is toxic and changed between iOS versions. [2]
Even if you don't have an earworm it's fun to explore new APIs. I really liked CoreAudio and Web Audio.
What about the sound is so nice / interesting / soothing that drives you to these lengths? What about it do you like?
I find your whole project really fascinating. I want to do something similar at some point, even though I don’t have the same kind of sound capturing my interest at the moment.
Thanks! I played a lot of FFXIV and idled a bit in between dungeons and often sat at the Aetherytes (teleport / fast travel locations). The ambiance was nice enough that I didn't feel the need to mute the game when tabbed out.
> What about the sound is so nice / interesting / soothing that drives you to these lengths? What about it do you like?
Most of the audio I keep playing (either music or ambiance) is usually unobtrusive. I appreciate less demanding audio because I can focus cognition towards the task at hand, usually work or games. This means I gravitate towards genres without vocals, like EDM, jungle, IDM, etc. I actually used to use a tool to loop music without gaps because the clip would annoy me[1].
For the aetheryte ambiance in particular, it was just low and novel enough to be relaxing, without constantly drawing my attention to it.
> I find your whole project really fascinating. I want to do something similar at some point, even though I don’t have the same kind of sound capturing my interest at the moment.
You could also try recreating my project on a new platform! I've actually recreated this tool as an iOS app because background play on iOS is toxic and changed between iOS versions. [2]
Even if you don't have an earworm it's fun to explore new APIs. I really liked CoreAudio and Web Audio.
[1]: https://github.com/NolanNicholson/Looper [2]: https://github.com/haze/Aetheryte.app