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NutmegCT

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Would anyone know where I can download a file playable on my CD player (not mp3) that is about 30 minutes of "white noise"? a "loud hiss"

I've found WAV and MP3 but my CD doesn't know what to do with them. Maybe I need aiff format? or a way to convert WAV or MP3 to AIFF?

Thanks.
Tom
 
I use NERO to burn WAVs and/or MP3s as an audio CD. Drag-drop-burn-done. I think iTunes does it too.
 
Thanks - I use iTunes myself. Works fine now that I figured out the WAV to AIF conversion.

Still looking for the appropriate sound files, altho' I've found some possible samples at https://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

Trying to develop a "cure" for a tinnitus problem I've had for about a year, which centers in on 7500Hz and 15000Hz. I'm thinking that white noise samples are the closest thing I'll find to cover those frequencies, as I don't know how to generate them myself.

Thanks.
Tom
 
Any local news program has about 30 minutes of that. If you take the commercials into account.
 
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been watching our Connecticut news again, eh?
 
Back in the days of analog tuners we’d tune between FM radio stations for “interchannel hiss.”

It’ll work with digital tuners too. Just tune to an unused frequency or unplug the antenna input.


PC.
 
I hear-tell that "no signal" noise is magic... Arno Penzias told me. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif
 
I've had horribly LOUD ringing (tinnitus) in my ears for many years after serious ear infections and 50% hearing loss from ear infections gained while scuba diving North of the filthy Amazon an Orinocco rivers.

My tinnitus is so loud and horrible that I have often considered killing myself to escape the noise and anxiety. My tinnitus is so loud that I can barely hear my XJ-S's wind noise with the top down. The ringing in my ears is loud during 100% of my days and nights.

Lately, at home, I have been tuning my digital radio receiver between AM stations and turning the volume VERY high to use that blank signal as white noise.

I find it is best to turn the volume of the white noise up to equal the volume of the tinnitus and then back the volume down just a little bit. You still should slightly hear the ringing just above the white noise.

I have 4 piezio-electric tweeters on my stereo system and have found them to priceless in my battle against the tinnitus.

I adjust the volume of the white noise as I described above, and then hold the extremely high frequency tweeters tightly against my ears. The relief occurs quickly.

Unfortunately, the relief does not last long; but it sure is enjoyable for the short while it last.!
 
Don - that's really interesting. A few places I've looked, I've found a technique called "residual inhibition". I've tried it (what I could conjure up) and found it has really helped me.

When you're exposed to short sound pulses similar in pitch to the tinnitus sound (frequency, amplitude), the pulses can reduce the tinnitus for a short time. And if the pulses are further optimised and repeated, so they sound like little clicks or puffs, the tinnitus can be gradually eliminated, or at least greatly reduced.

Seems the way to do it is to have a *good* aural examination to determine exactly which frequency(s) you're hearing as "background". Have those frequencies made into sound files, and play them *just* loud enough to cover up the tinnitus you have. I do this about an hour a day (or twice a day). Definitely reduces what I hear as tinnitus.

Eventually (haven't reached that point yet), you listen to the sounds in "pulses", which (according to research) "inhibits" the sensation from making it to your brain.

No guarantees, and I'm certainly no doctor. And there are various forms of tinnitus. But I'm sure making progress.

Tom
 
hmmmmmm...I also suffer from tinnitis....need to try that.
 
Good luck, and let us know how it works out. I've got a bit of tinnitis as well -- lots of years playing rock-n-roll.
 
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