Just discovered this app and, not that I know it will fill a need in my life, I couldn’t help but wonder: how many more of you guys will benefit from this?
Furthermore, GNOME making it part of its default suite, it begs to ask the question: how much modernity could MATE import in 2025? I think the Blanket ambient sound generator could very well be part of the answer.
Gimme a thumb up if you also believe this should make a fine addition to mate-default-applications!
Not useful for me. If I want sounds (and I listen to a lot of ambient music), I prefer actual music and not generated "white noise" which this makes me think of. Adding it to MATE just adds that much more unnecessary bulk, IMO.
Nice one. I’ve got a similar app on my phone, although it’s been a couple years since the last time I used it. Back then and for several years I activated it every night, helped me sleep.
Some people feel the need of nature sounds or just a background soft noise, like from a ceiling fan, or the refrigerator, maybe even a cat purring nearby!
I see it is available to install as a snap package in the App Center. Good to see it there, but I wouldn’t like to have it installed by default.
I think these Youtube videos would also work 
10 Hours of Rain Sound Relaxation / Ultimate Stress Relief, Deep Sleep,...
Open Ocean: 10 Hours of Relaxing Oceanscapes | BBC Earth
Or rip the audio from it and play it with audacious in a loop 
(There is a boatload of this kind of media on internet)
Thanks, Daniel (@DLS) . A couple of afternoons a week, I take my Ideapad to a coffee shop to write. I know this sounds bizarre, but often it's too noisy in the coffee shop, so I put on my noise-canceling Bose headphones and use this website (https://imissmycafe.com ) to erase the ambient noise, and just listen to some cafe sounds that won't distract me. I can choose the sounds I want and set the volume to my preference. It's great.
The one drawback is that this strategy doesn't work without WiFi, or if there are too many web-surfing coffee-sippers slurping the bandwidth.
So I downloaded this app, and it looks like it will do the same thing for me without needing an internet connection. I'll give it a try this afternoon at Method coffee shop in Prescott. (Their salted caramel brownies are to die for, and the first brewed coffee refill is free.)
It puzzles me that this app is distributed as a flatpak. I assumed that, like Canonical, Gnome would be favoring snaps instead. My install shows that it takes about 105 Mbytes of disk space, which is a bit pudgy. On the other hand, I still have 73 Gbytes of free space on my 128 Gbyte SSD, so not a big deal.
Based on its flatpak packaging, I don't think this app should be installed with Ubuntu MATE by default. However, it is exactly the kind of app that, properly curated, would have been appropriate for the Software Boutique.
(Sigh.)
The overview looks fantastic but, as Dave said, it would be a worthy addition to the curated list of Apps available through something like Software Boutique.
Also, like Fred said, I prefer recordings of natural, rather than synthetic, "white noise". The brain does recognize the synthetic as synthetic ... and it drives me absolutely crazy, and I have to switch to something immediately!
Brilliant ! 
You can even mix the 8 different ambient sounds tracks [1] realtime to your taste. This is both crazy and genious. How on earth did you discover that site ?
If you fetch the soundfiles and put them all together in a folder, you could use the script below to play them locally (put this script in the same folder).
Closing the script will nicely stop the sounds
#!/bin/bash
[ ! -x "/usr/bin/mpg321" ] && echo install mpg321 first && exit 1
pids=( )
for sound in *mp3
do
cmd="${sound//.mp3/}"
[ -x "${cmd}" ] || cp "/usr/bin/mpg321" "${cmd}"
./"${cmd}" -l 0 "${sound}" &>/dev/null &
pids+=( "$!" )
sleep 0.1
done
trap "kill -SIGTERM ${pids[*]}" INT TERM EXIT
wait
You adjust the volume by using the mate soundsettings like this:
It works just like the website but it only takes a fraction of RAM and it works offline
1 barista
2 preparing drinks
3 coffee cups
4 other customers
5 machinery
6 rainy day
7 sunny day
8 fireplace ↩︎
I sleep to an old school Marpac Dohm that I've had for close to 25 years. Straight up white noise and nothing else.
