Soundscape is an open-source system-tray resident desktop application for playing a mix of sounds, e.g. natural sounds by animals or wind and water.

The application comes with two example soundscapes. Use mouse right-click in the main window or on the tray icon to access application menu where you can add or remove soundtracks and change their settings.

For each track you can change its volume, loop transition and playback state.

From the application menu you can pause and resume all tracks at once.

On Linux and Windows, use the Quit item from the application menu to finish the application. Pressing the close window button will just minimize the application to the tray.

Command line options:

• --load <path to file> load track list from a file on start,
• --minimize minimize window to tray on start,
• --disable-tray disable tray icon.

Freesound is a good source of sounds for your own soundscapes.

Packages for some Linux distributions are available.

Ubuntu users can install the application from PPA repository ppa:ddanilov/soundscape, see https://launchpad.net/~ddanilov/ archive/ubuntu/soundscape for details.

Debian, openSUSE and Fedora packages can be installed from download page of home:danilov:soundscape OBS project, see https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=soundscape&project=home:danilov:soundscape.

Flatpak package is available from Flathub app store at https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.ddanilov.soundscape

You can install the application using Windows Package Manager

winget search soundscape
winget install Danilov.Soundscape

Prebuilt binaries for Windows, macOS and Linux are available from the Releases page.

On Linux you may need to install additional packages in order to run the prebuilt binary. Most likely XCB util-cursor module is missing. On Debian-based systems you can install it with

sudo apt-get install libxcb-cursor0

on openSUSE with

sudo zypper install libxcb-cursor0

and on RedHat-based systems with

sudo dnf install xcb-util-cursor

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.