Are there any free, high quality recordings of rain on the internet?

subclub — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:39:19 -0800

Is there a good source for free, high quality recordings of rain (or other nature sounds) on the internet? We recently bought a cheap "nature sounds" alarm clock that plays rain sounds while we sleep. While the sound is very helpful (we live in a very old apartment building and it blocks out the sounds our neighbors make), the quality of sound coming out of the clock is pretty awful. I'm not really an audiophile, but digital compression artifacts drive me insane sometimes (I'm talking 128 kbps and lower). So I'd like to load an iPod up with some high quality rain recordings. Is there a (free) good source for these on the internet? Google hasn't been very helpful. Here's what would make me happiest:

Track duration: 30 minutes or an hour long (but looping and crossfading a 5 minute recording would be ok)
Encoding: 192 kbps MP3 (or something better)

Somebody please tell me there is a huge archive somewhere with hundreds of files like this that I just haven't been able to find! I guess if all else fails I can just buy and rip some CDs, but I am poor.

Also: this AskMe post from last year has some good links to software that can generate nature sounds, but I'm looking for actual high quality field recordings.

I can't think in this place!

knave — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:24:19 -0800

Help me drown out the world. Where can I find quality MP3s (or other) of nature sounds, running water, birds, etc, that I can listen to at my desk? Preferrably the recordings would be ten or more minutes long, I don't want to loop a 12 second clip over and over again.

Related question, what do you listen to at work to relax and drown out everyone else? I have the brainwave generator software, but it is not the most pleasant thing to listen to. All suggestions welcome.

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Are there any free, high quality recordings of rain on the internet?

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