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Chill out and silence the sounds of your environment with the sounds of rain, the ocean and more. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac/W.carter/Wikimedia Commons Working in an office or in the city, ...

Functional content — think rain noises, whale sounds, recordings of wind rustling the leaves and the like — will be significantly devalued under Spotify’s new royalty system: Plays of this audio will ...

Sound Curtain is a very, very simple noise masking app that works on the iPhone when you’re wearing a set of mic-enabled headphones. It performs much better than its $0.99 price would imply. There’s ...

(CNN) -- Spotify's new royalty system means so-called functional noises like the sound of rainfall will earn significantly less than traditional music files. (CNN) — Spotify’s new royalty system means ...