 When I'm sitting at a computer for long periods of time, especially if I'm in a very silent place, a quiet room, a quiet building, I like having some background noise. I like having a little bit of ambient background noise while I'm working. And recently I came across this great application. This application is called Blanket. What Blanket is, it's a GTK application that allows you to play a variety of ambient background sounds. You can actually play more than one sound at the same time and you can adjust the volume levels. You can also add your own custom sounds to Blanket. Now Blanket should be available in many Linux distributions repositories. I know it's available in the Arch repository, it's in the Extra repository, but right now they're on an older version of Blanket. Right now they're on 0.6 in the Arch repositories, but you can get Blanket 0.7, which was recently released. That's actually available in the AUR. You can also get updated versions of Blanket on FlatHub. You can also get Blanket as a snap pack as well. I believe it's also available on a PPA on Ubuntu as well. So I've installed the latest version of Blanket from the AUR here on Arco Linux. And let me go ahead and launch Blanket. When you launch it for the first time, it's going to already have six of the sounds pre-selected. So the sounds that are highlighted here with blue icons, these are the sounds that are currently enabled. And if I hit play, it's going to play all six sounds at the same time. So it's playing rain, storm, wind, waves, birds, and the city noise. Now let me turn that off because to me, I mean, this is a good starter example. I like this as the default settings, but it's kind of odd having all of these different sounds. I mean, why are birds chirping during a thunderstorm? It's kind of odd. Let me turn that off. I'm going to turn the city off and I'm going to turn the waves off as well. We'll turn the wind off. Now let's just do rain and storm, which makes sense. You got rain going on and then storm is the thunder sounds by turn off the thunder. We just get rain by turn the thunder back on, turn the rain off. You just get the rolling thunder by turn both on. But maybe I want more rain sounds than thunderstorm. You know, I can adjust the volume or less rain, more thunder. You know, you can play with the volume settings for these. So blanket ships with 12 sound files out of the box, but you can add your own ambient background sounds if you want to. For example, we've got this button here, add. And for me, I actually do have a collection of ambient background noises because I've created my own background noise app in the past. You guys know that part of my DM scripts, I have a DM sounds script, which is for ambient background sounds. And if I can remember where I have those background sounds saved, I got it in one of my GitLab repos. It may take me a second to go find these. So I found one of the background sounds here that's on my system. I'm going to add this one called plane. Now this is a plane taking off. Now this noise, it's going to be kind of hard to hear because at first I believe it starts off very softly, right? Because the plane moves slow down the runway, right? Well, once it really takes off, then it gets quite loud, but you can start hearing it now. Hearing it, then it'll get quite loud. I'm not going to play it too much further. That is the plane sound. Kind of annoying sound actually for ambient background noise. I probably wouldn't want to listen to planes taking off, but hey, that's just me. But that's how you add your own custom sounds into blanket. And there's really not much else to this app. You do have some controls down here. You have the play and pause. So if I had anything turned on, like rain here, you know, it's going to automatically start playing because I had the play button on the whole time, but I can pause them. You can also adjust the volume right here. So you can adjust the volumes here if you don't want to adjust them individually. And then in this menu here, you have hide inactive sounds, save as new preset. So if you want to have the same sounds auto start all the time, you want to save them. For example, for me, I'd probably default to something like a mixture of rain and storm. So I'll go ahead and save that as a new preset. I'll just say DT preset for the name. If I close blanket, and let's see if I can reopen it. And well, if I type the name, right, and you say I get rain and storm already turned on, ready to go. Go ahead and start them playing. Also, you have a menu system up here, the little hamburger menu. You do have some keyboard shortcuts here and just a few really not much to really have key-binded here, but you also have a preference section here. And all this is, is the ability to turn dark mode on and off. If you want, do you want it to auto start in the background? Or do you always want it to start on pause? And for me, I probably would want it to start on pause. I'm going to go ahead and turn that off because a lot of times when I'm opening the app, I may not want it to start playing right away. So again, that's just a setting for me. So that is blanket, a really cool ambient noise GTK application. It's licensed under the GPL v3 free and open source software. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. Gabe James, Matt Paul, Steve Wes, Arkotic, Armor Dragon, Commander Angry, Darloff, George Lee Matthew, Methos, Nate Ariane, Paul, Peace, Archimoudour, Realities4less, Red Prophet, Roland, Soul, Astrid, Tienren, Tools, Devon, Wardgentu, and Ubuntu, and Willie, these guys. They're my high steered patrons without these guys. This quick look at Blanket would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by all of these fine ladies and gentlemen. 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