Free Wave Sounds

[Robert]

Oceanwaves sounds continually play while i use the MAC. It is extremely annoying. How do I find where it is coming from to stop it? Putting audio on mute does not stop it. All other audio mutes. BUT NOT THE WAVES sounds.

I have a new iMac running 10.9.3 Every once in a while I get a weird sound on my computer. I can describe it best as sort of like an ocean wave. I've tried using the Activity Monitor to see what process is running when I hear the sound but I only hear it once and it's not possible to tell for sure. My best guess is that it's coming from Firefox. To the best of my knowledge I've never heard the sound when I don't have the browser up. Then again that's not necessarily significant since Firefox is my main browser and I have it open almost all the time. One other thing that worries me is that the sound seems to go directly to my speaker. This morning I had my headphones on but I heard the wave sound but not through my headphones I could hear it on my main computer speaker even though the headphone jack was connected. I had Intego but let it lapse (I wonder could this be an Intego marketing ploy? just kidding) but I've renewed my subscription to Intego and done a quick scan of my computer and no malware was found. I'm going to do a full scan tonight and after that if I still have the problem will also submit a report to Intego but was wondering if anyone has heard of malware like this. FYI, I'm pretty careful not to open emails from people I don't know or to click on potentially malicious sites.

You may be hearing momentary increases in the exhaust fan speeds while Intego burdens your Mac with a multitude of processes searching for viruses that do not exist. Uninstall Intego and determine if the noises subside.

Installing Intego's Net Barrier and Virus Barrier products on a brand new Mac containing nothing other than Mavericks and one minimally configured User account resulted in the worst performance degradation of any such product I evaluated. Any knowledgeable Mac user would consider it completely unacceptable.

You must use Intego's uninstaller to get rid of it. You cannot simply let its subscription lapse. The uninstaller is included with its downloaded installation package. Do not use any so-called "cleaner" or "zapper" type utilities to uninstall it. After uninstalling Intego, restart your Mac.

Consider running EtreCheck and posting its results as explained below. It will provide a quick summary of your system configuration, to preclude the need for a dozen time-consuming questions.None of what follows is intended to fix anything, but it will provide the additional information required to advance troubleshooting.

Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Read about it here. It contains a link to download EtreCheck. Don't download it from anywhere else (such as may be found by following the results of an Internet search).

EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.

Some sites such as Facebook will play sounds in the background when someone posts a message on your feed, comments on your post, etc. Before assuming your machine is infected I'd look at the web sites you're visiting.

That's just it, there is no pattern that I can tell at all. And it's not Firefox. I closed Firefox last night and started using Chrome but this AM I opened a new Chrome browser and only checked email (on Yahoo!) and then came to the Apple site to view the newest post here and I heard the sound. I'm beginning to think John might be right, perhaps it is the fan just because I can't imagine what else it could be. The fan would also be consistent with hearing it with my headphones on but not through the headphones. It's a very brief sound, about 1-2 seconds and a kind of whooooooosh sound.

I did a full scan with Intego last night and no Malware was detected. Also, I'm pretty security paranoid. I have script blocker installed on Firefox and I'm very careful to never even open suspicious emails.

Sorry for the initial abrupt reply. I still find it hard to believe that the sound is the fan but as I've ruled out just about everything else maybe you were right. It's a brief 1-2 second woooosh kind of sound, as I said initially it kind of reminds me of an ocean wave breaking.

1) Could it be your disk drive? If your system has a spinning disk (not SSD-based) then it could be the disk idling and spinning back up, This would be (mostly) independent of what apps were running. It could also be a sign of a disk on its way out.

If you want to edit the left & right separately there is a little drop-down arrow to the left of the waveform where you can select [u]Split Stereo Track[/u] or Split Stereo to Mono.

If you are trying to cancel out the sound by creating the exact inverse, I think you will need to be able to play it back EXACTLY in time and, I suspect, EXACTLY at the same amplitude, otherwise the two sounds will not be a perfect match for each other and will slowly drift out of synch. Whilst creating the inverse signal is feasible. I think your approach is fundamentally flawed.

The problem that you will have is that (a) the recorded sound will not be identical to the live sound (there will be small but significant differences) and (b) even if you did have an identical copy of the sound you have no way to synchronise the recorded sound with the loud sound so that they are exactly 180 degrees out of phase with each other.

In my case, there is an external source creating a high pitched sound, it is just like a whistle, and it is very annoying. This is the only sound I would like to remove. The rest do not mind.

The sound is mainly constant.

Any suggestions?

A more useful technique might be to use your live recording to find the source of the noise. You listen to Audacity with good quality headphones and set Edit > Preferences > Recording > Playthrough to ON. Start a recording and listen to the microphone while you move it around.

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.In human physiology and psychology, sound is the reception of such waves and their perception by the brain.[1] Only acoustic waves that have frequencies lying between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz, the audio frequency range, elicit an auditory percept in humans. In air at atmospheric pressure, these represent sound waves with wavelengths of 17 meters (56 ft) to 1.7 centimeters (0.67 in). Sound waves above 20 kHz are known as ultrasound and are not audible to humans. Sound waves below 20 Hz are known as infrasound. Different animal species have varying hearing ranges.

Sound is defined as "(a) Oscillation in pressure, stress, particle displacement, particle velocity, etc., propagated in a medium with internal forces (e.g., elastic or viscous), or the superposition of such propagated oscillation. (b) Auditory sensation evoked by the oscillation described in (a)."[2] Sound can be viewed as a wave motion in air or other elastic media. In this case, sound is a stimulus. Sound can also be viewed as an excitation of the hearing mechanism that results in the perception of sound. In this case, sound is a sensation.

Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gasses, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound, and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician, while someone working in the field of acoustical engineering may be called an acoustical engineer.[3] An audio engineer, on the other hand, is concerned with the recording, manipulation, mixing, and reproduction of sound.

Applications of acoustics are found in almost all aspects of modern society, subdisciplines include aeroacoustics, audio signal processing, architectural acoustics, bioacoustics, electro-acoustics, environmental noise, musical acoustics, noise control, psychoacoustics, speech, ultrasound, underwater acoustics, and vibration.[4]

Sound can propagate through a medium such as air, water and solids as longitudinal waves and also as a transverse wave in solids. The sound waves are generated by a sound source, such as the vibrating diaphragm of a stereo speaker. The sound source creates vibrations in the surrounding medium. As the source continues to vibrate the medium, the vibrations propagate away from the source at the speed of sound, thus forming the sound wave. At a fixed distance from the source, the pressure, velocity, and displacement of the medium vary in time. At an instant in time, the pressure, velocity, and displacement vary in space. The particles of the medium do not travel with the sound wave. This is intuitively obvious for a solid, and the same is true for liquids and gases (that is, the vibrations of particles in the gas or liquid transport the vibrations, while the average position of the particles over time does not change). During propagation, waves can be reflected, refracted, or attenuated by the medium.[5]

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