Does anyone know of a streaming TV channel that is “white noise” type channel that a friend can put on to deal with tinnitus when trying to sleep? So they will have “white noise” coming from the TV during the night,
Stations they have are HULU, Prime, Samsung and Netflix’s
YouTube does have a lot…one thing I discovered though,since I’m just on the freeloader plan…they had some very good 10 hour long “white noise” videos….but SOME of them forget that they are there to help induce sleep and run an ad..Usually a very obnoxious ad….right in the middle of it. I avoid it by having it stop playing after an hour.
I used a browser app and also a downloader program to actually download the audio files from Youtube (on the free plan). Then they don’t have ads.
Another way might be to download and install Audacity, the free audio program. It can edit audio but it can also create white, pink and brownian noise in many formats such as MP3, WAV and so on. I created 1 hour of white noise in about 4 seconds and the saved MP3 was 7mb on my computer.
Alexa will also play white noise but I think it only does that for a specific time. Because it streams things and does not generate it locally, imagine the overhead if lots of people used those devices to stream white noise all night. That explains why Amazon added a clock to later versions of the echos, I think to limit millions of people constantly asking what time it was.
My Samsung TV routinely interrupts whatever is playing after several hours, and asks if I’m still watching. Almost always at an inopportune time during live streaming . I have not figured out how to turn that “feature” off.
For myself, I prefer listening to a calm, peaceful voice as drift off to sleep (if I’m having sleep difficulties). Fwiw, Clarks voice fits the bill both for me and the friend who introduced me to his podcast. So sometimes I have to listen to a show several times to actually hear the whole content.
There are many white noise podcasts, and they tend to put the ads up front and then no more after that. There are also other sleep noise podcasts, like summer storm, wind blowing, waves lapping, winter storm, etc. Lots of options.
Another option is to listen to youtube white noise on your browser with an adblocker add-on. I use “Ublock Origin” with Firefox browser, and it eliminates all ads from youtube. It won’t eliminate the ads on the youtube app, but it will on a browser.
This is why you should be using the Braver browser. There may be an initial 5-10 seconds ad and then no ads after that. The ad blocker is built-in. It also doesn’t take as much memory as other browsers.
They would be better off using a white noise machine. Mine is a small fan inside the machine. It used to be called SleepMate, but is now made by Dohm. Amazon has them as low as $36.