The best white noise app on Windows
Ambie is an app that plays white noise and nature sounds to help you focus, sleep, and unwind. For many people, having background noise while working on a task helps with concentration. Ambie has a good starting selection of built-in sounds such as rain and beach waves that help you. These can also be used to help you sleep, relax, and de-stress. For instance, those with tinnitus and anxiety have reached out saying Ambie has helped them. And if you download Ambie from the Microsoft Store, you'll get access to a catalogue of online sounds that you can download to expand your library.
For new features, please make sure there's an issue created for it first and that maintainers have confirmed that the new feature should be on Ambie's roadmap. In some cases, you might have contacted the maintainers directly via other channels such as Twitter or Discord. You might have asked the maintainers if you can submit a PR. In those scenarios, an issue is not required.
For bug fixes and translations, please feel free to open a PR right away.
To help translate, follow these instructions.
- Ensure you have Visual Studio 2022 and the Multilingual App Toolkit extension.
- Fork and clone this repo.
- Open in VS 2022.
- Right click on the
AmbientSounds.Uwp
project. - Select Multilingual App Toolkit > Add translation language.
- If you get a message saying "Translation Provider Manager Issue," just click Ok and ignore it. It's unrelated to adding a language.
- Select a language.
- Once you select a language, new
.xlf
files will be created in theMultilingualResources
folder. - Now follow the
Improving an existing language
steps below.
- Inside the
MultilingualResources
folder, open the.xlf
of the language you want to translate.- You can open using any text editor, or you can use the Multilingual Editor
- If you're using a text editor, translate the strings inside the
<target>
node. Then change thestate
property totranslated
. - If you're using the Multilingual Editor, translate the strings inside the
Translation
text field. Make sure to save to preserve your changes. - Once you're done, commit your changes, push to GitHub, and make a pull request.
- Windows Community Toolkit
- WinUI library
- Sounds. Specific file attributions are in
Data.json
. - Images. Specific image attributions are in
Data.json
. - Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
- System.Text.Json
- AppCenter Analytics
- Czech: Michal Moudrý
- Spanish: Leonardo González Castro, Breece W
- Hungarian: Kristóf Kékesi
- Portuguese [BR]: Vinicius Rodrigues
- Turkish: Serdar Türkoğlu
- Danish: Paw Hauge Byrialsen
- Dutch: Christof Becu
- Russian: Dmitry Gorbushin
- Hebrew: Adam Dernis