naturemood

Nature ambiance recordings from the command-line.

Inspiration

A few months ago, I was browsing Twitter and stumbled on rainymood, a small bash function to launch rain sounds from the command line. I found it funny, added it to my .bashrc, and have been using it from time to time.

The American National Park has been recently releasing amazing ambient recordings, so I was inspired to compile the recordings and create this small script.

Listen & relax!

Blog post here.

Installation

Tested on Ubuntu, the only requirement is mpv.

# mpv installation
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/mpv-tests
$ sudo apt-get install mpv

# script fetching
$ wget --no-check-certificate -q -O - http://github.com/ClementC/naturemood/raw/master/naturemood

# make script executable
$ chmod +x naturemood

Usage

Just execute the script, it will randomly choose a recording and start playing it!

$ ./naturemood
Now playing Dawn Wetland Soundscape from Moraine Park
Now playing Thunderstorm, Rain and Hail Soundscape from the Sunrise Campsite