[HN Gopher] Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
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Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
Author : arazy
Score : 289 points
Date : 2021-03-17 14:45 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (soundsofthepub.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (soundsofthepub.com)
| brundolf wrote:
| Love this!
|
| Small bug: if you adjust the sliders while the sound isn't
| playing, the next time you click "Play" the adjustments won't
| take effect. This includes if you Play -> adjust -> Pause -> Play
| (the levels get reset but the sliders don't)
| codex_irl wrote:
| I like it, but the loops are a little short.
|
| I did a little searching & found this Irish pub ambient track
| which I'm enjoying right now, reminds me being in pubs back home
| :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMw-ESqCUE
| dmrackateer wrote:
| It's awesome
| davide_v wrote:
| Funny that rain is part of the sounds :D. As an italian I'd never
| thought about adding it. Btw it's sounds amazing, but the sounds
| are a bit short in length and you can "feel" the repeating loop.
| 11thEarlOfMar wrote:
| After listening for a while, I came back to say exactly this.
| It's certainly much more work, but I think worthwhile for
| people want to spend a length of time with it on. Perhaps 10
| minutes plus. Also, make the durations of each track different
| lengths so they cycle asynchronously.
| seaman1921 wrote:
| yes, great idea but they could have smoothened the transition
| when it loops a bit. Nevertheless, thanks for the good 30
| minutes!
| brobdingnagians wrote:
| Love the idea!
|
| Where do I make a bug report? I think turning down the old man
| doesn't work; if you turn off all sliders, you still get the
| voice telling the story.
| kawfey wrote:
| I don't think that's a bug. The old man NEVER stops talking!
| inkeddeveloper wrote:
| It's not a bug; it's a feature.
| eschneider wrote:
| This.
| tuanx5 wrote:
| This reminded me of the NPR Planet Money episode [0] about the
| design universality of international Irish pubs
|
| [0]
| https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/12/523653040/epis...
| dmje wrote:
| Where is the "fight after 8 pints of Guinness" toggle?
| airhead969 wrote:
| That would break the screen and lead to hospital.
| djstein wrote:
| Reporting no sound when click play on iPhone 12 Pro Safari on iOS
| 14.4
| friehe wrote:
| Same for me. It worked after adjusting one of the sliders.
| dave84 wrote:
| Works for me once I take my phone off silent.
| depingus wrote:
| There's also http://imissmybar.com/ which was posted in the
| comments here a few weeks back.
| 83457 wrote:
| only slightly relevant... your comment reminded me of a song
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fulz4ytZ54
| Tor3 wrote:
| That one works for me. But soundofthepub doesn't.. the
| play/pause buttons don't work here (the sliders work) - what in
| ublock's list do I have to enable to get it working? Everything
| from the actual site is green, it's only blocking google
| analytics stuff as far as I can tell.
| TorKlingberg wrote:
| Here is the discussion if anyone wants to go copy the top
| comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188710
| dylan604 wrote:
| I've been playing with this one for a bit, and there's a
| strange "pause" in audio from a couple of the options. It's
| almost like the loop gets to the end, and then goes silent
| while the loop "rewinds". Obviously, that's not what is
| happening, but that is what it sounds like. It's too
| distinctive than the random lulls in large crowd noises that
| occur naturally.
|
| Either way, both of these are fun. I've been on film shoots
| where we've had all of the cast and crew involved to record
| walla walla. It's a tough one to get right for long enough that
| it's not easily discernible as fake and so short you hear it
| looping. Adding music helps. All of that to say, these types of
| generators might make that a thing of the past.
| mojuba wrote:
| That's a well made one, pretty cool. And you can get the sound
| of loneliness in two easy steps: just turn on Bartender working
| and Night ambience
| dkjaudyeqooe wrote:
| Without being vomited on and/or having your head punched in, it's
| really not the same.
|
| Maybe look into those for version 2.
| cutler wrote:
| Am I missing something? The Play button isn't even clickable on
| my Catalina Safari, Firefox and Brave.
| [deleted]
| fnord77 wrote:
| just in time for the great reopening after the inoculations...
| supercanuck wrote:
| Any ideas on how to pipe this through, Sonos?
| divbzero wrote:
| Coffitivity [1], created well before the pandemic, provides
| similar ambiance for coffee shops.
|
| [1]: https://coffitivity.com/
| platz wrote:
| Why not just use a real recording
| airhead969 wrote:
| Feel free to do the work to record a dozen stems to make it
| adjustable.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Where will you make it?
| projectileboy wrote:
| A decent imitation can be had at Half Time Rec in St. Paul,
| Minnesota. Just ask any of the older bartenders about the
| Saints/Cats brawl after the 2006 American Association baseball
| championship.
| https://www.abqjournal.com/sports/apbrawl09-12-06.htm
| ms123 wrote:
| Cheers for that! I also miss going to the pub, so I created
| midnight.pub.
| WhompingWindows wrote:
| Irish musician here, missing regular sessions at Patrick's Pub in
| Providence, RI. Smithwicks' Ale for the players, random audience
| members singing Irish songs in Irish and English, we are all
| missing the community, especially since our outdoor jams ended 5
| months ago.
| dave84 wrote:
| My father has been playing in the same pub session with the
| same friends almost every week for close to 40 years. Pubs in
| Ireland have been closed for a full year now (gastropubs could
| operate over the summer for a bit but in a limited capacity)
| and it's been very hard for them to adjust to the loss of
| community, especially since they're all relatively recent
| retirees. Here's to some normality soon.
| thepasswordis wrote:
| I think everybody is just holding their breath waiting for
| everybody else to go first.
|
| I say: GO FIRST!
| eschneider wrote:
| Hope to see you there when they reopen!
| conformist wrote:
| To recreate it more authentically, additionally dip an old towel
| into stout and frying oil and hang over a radiator.
| nealabq wrote:
| I would add the smells of rain, wet wool, sweat and breath, and
| sawdust. Fragrance is so evocative and complex, but it'll be a
| while before we can call it up in our browser.
|
| I remember a Disney World hang-glider ride where they puffed
| cool humid forest-scented air in my face. That was a very
| effective ambiance enhancer.
|
| I also remember getting an Odorama card [
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision#/media/File:Odo...
| ] when I saw the movie Polyester. Amusing, but not exactly
| Proustian.
| KyleBrandt wrote:
| Disney ride was soarin'
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soarin%27
| rebuilder wrote:
| I sure hope it's a while before smells come to the browser.
| I'm annoyed enough by autoplaying audio, although now that I
| think about it, it seems not to happen much at all these
| days.
| dylan604 wrote:
| >although now that I think about it, it seems not to happen
| much at all these days.
|
| Thank you Mozilla!
| dasyatidprime wrote:
| A bit of short fiction (not mine) from 2007, on recreating
| experiences for those who are stuck at home: https://everythi
| ng2.com/title/We+control+the+algorithms+for+....
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| for a more authentic experience here are some visuals (free of
| charge) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o4iZqa2VEg
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| That was Game of Thrones!
|
| You had Cercei, Mormont, Hodor and Tyrion!
| ddoolin wrote:
| But why? What does this accomplish?!
| Fellshard wrote:
| You want to tap into vivid memory? Recreate a smell.
| souldeux wrote:
| Ambiance
| read_if_gay_ wrote:
| You forgot the piss.
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| also missing are girls crying in the loo and occasional
| muffled sounds of a fight unfolding outside
| secfirstmd wrote:
| Ah the best few minutes of anyone's day.
|
| "Every Irish Pub ever." (Absolutely hilarious)
|
| https://youtu.be/Hy2AYdBtzBo
| [deleted]
| RLN wrote:
| I love the Paddy Losty (45 pints) reference in the old man chat:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcXjholnGk
| adam12 wrote:
| Developer should limit the height of the main image to something
| like 80-90% of the viewport so that it doesn't hide the play
| button.
| ape4 wrote:
| How do these things work? Are they just N looped audio clips
| inside N <audio> tags?
| pbw wrote:
| This is how AirPods might work in a few years. In any environment
| you will be able to turn up/down the different sound sources
| around you.
| Ambroos wrote:
| I'd like this a lot, if it was discrete. I lived in Dublin for
| two years, and in my limited experience of going out the
| experience could always be summarised as "loud, couldn't
| understand anyone". If I could hear a little less of random
| people and noise and a little more of the people I'm talking to
| I might have enjoyed it more.
| skrebbel wrote:
| Creepy shit
| ksm1717 wrote:
| Apple brand hearing aids
| airhead969 wrote:
| Creepy will be when augmented sensory enhancements emphasize
| certain people, objects, and themes while obscuring others. I
| can't remember if that was a Black Mirror episode or not.
| NSCFType wrote:
| It was -- specifically, it was the 2014 Christmas special
| ("White Christmas").
| [deleted]
| DrPhish wrote:
| Funny how we keep using technology to recreate dystopias. In
| this case, personal "flappers" ala Swift's Gulliver's visit
| to Laputa
|
| Can you imagine a world where politicians could have
| headphones tuned to cancel out non-approved voices 24/7?
| Protesters could camp outside offices and scream as much as
| they wanted to no avail
| annoyingnoob wrote:
| Its only good once a year but I'd love a Halloween version of
| this.
| jmholla wrote:
| If the website author is around: On my screen, all I could see
| was the top of the page, none of the controls. I was confused for
| an embarrassing amount of time before scrolling. On my end, I
| have scroll bars always on so I should've figured it out sooner,
| but that isn't usually true for others.
| me551ah wrote:
| This is actually way better than those boring white noise
| generators.
| airhead969 wrote:
| Do you mean politicians?
| Nextgrid wrote:
| That's insulting to white noise generators.
| airhead969 wrote:
| TV reporters are so insecure these days.
| lstodd wrote:
| Reminds me of https://purrli.com/
| johnnyRose wrote:
| This is a lot of fun! Definitely makes me miss my favorite Irish
| pub (located in the Midwest).
|
| Nit: I wish the traditional music cycled between a few different
| songs. What's provided is pretty repetitive, and is already stuck
| in my head.
| everyone wrote:
| I just immediately turned "old man" up to max and all others down
| to zero.
| bloak wrote:
| What do you make of his accent?
| tummybug wrote:
| Fairly typical old man Dublin accent, I had a good chuckle
| listening to his stories.
| lalabert wrote:
| Love it :). Similar to http://imissmybar.com/!
|
| As a Brit with 12 pubs within 60 mins of country walking - I need
| this!
| brianzelip wrote:
| It's nice, but also a hot mess! Try sliding some sliders, then
| clicking on the about page (mismanaged as a plus sign), and then
| clicking back - a sweet whiskey laden cacophony! At this point,
| every slider needs to be explicitly interacted with in order to
| toggle it.
|
| Thanks for the ambiance!
| parhaml wrote:
| I love these kinds of projects.
|
| My favorite of online noise is https://mynoise.net/
|
| Infinitely configurable, can save personal settings in a cookie.
| Good stuff
| noodlenotes wrote:
| This looks great! I've been using https://asoftmurmur.com/
| because I like the "meander" feature which gives a randomness
| to the noise. Strangely I find "flat" noises (like a fan
| running at a constant speed) to be too distracting. Looks like
| mynoise has a similar feature called "slider animation" and
| lots more selection.
| IndySun wrote:
| >My favorite mynoise.net/
|
| Possibly the best, and very comprehensive. Great user
| interface. I am in touch with the owners, they're looking at
| creating a 'pub' option. Authenticity is important so until
| pubs are open, it sits in the planning stage, as all the
| appropriate recordings can't be made.
| choicenotchance wrote:
| Not playing.
| istorical wrote:
| how common is it to have this type of traditional music playing
| at public bars / restaurants in Ireland?
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