Script to download white noise mp3 from YouTube

I have a script to make it an MP3, which assumes you have both youtube-dl and ffmpeg.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfPqeZjc2c --output whitenoise.mp4
ffmpeg -i whitenoise.mp4 -q:a 0 -map a whitenoise.mp3

Now, you can use the MP3 file anywhere. It's 10 hours long, and should do the trick.

(Nothing particularly creative about this one, but I just thought it'd be a great computer hack.)

See also:

How to install youtube-dl

To install youtube-dl, first ensure that you have a Python installed in your computer. Then, go ahead and install youtube-dl using pip.

White noise is surprisingly effective to help newborns sleep

Tried playing a YouTube video containing white noise, and used it in conjunction with a remote controllable red light bulb and swaddling to get the kid to bed.

If you have an old iPhone, then this is a great use case for it: sacrifice the phone and use it to play white noise on demand.

See also: Script to download white noise mp3 from YouTube

How to install ffmpeg

ffmpeg is installable using Homebrew, which is my preferred package manager for macOS. The commands:

brew install ffmpeg

Done! Homebrew will install all of the necessary dependencies for you.