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Comment author: niceguyanon 17 October 2013 06:00:31AM 2 points [-]

Since you are already fine with white noise, you should try using white noise to drown out the music or voices. A quick search of white noise on the internet lead me to where you can stream white noise over the internet. If not, then try a phone app.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 17 October 2013 08:01:44AM *  0 points [-]

I don't need such a thing for sleeping, but I find SimplyNoise gives a satisfactory sound having a much steeper fall-off with frequency than white noise (flat spectrum of energy vs. frequency) or pink noise (3dB fall-off per octave), both of which sound unpleasantly harsh to me. They also have a few soundscapes (thunderstorm, river, etc.). The app is not free, but cheap, and there are also pay-what-you-want mp3 download files.