Please help in translating Noice to your local language.

Note: Even if translations for your local language exist in Noice, it is a good idea to revisit them. The project is always under development and translations are lagging behind. If you have Android Studio environment setup on your local machine, clone the repository and take a look at values/strings.xml. Android Lint will highlight missing translations.

Steps to translate

• Creating a new strings.xml file for translations
  1. Open the new file wizard under File > New > Android resource file in the Android Studio
  2. From Available qualifiers add Locale to Chosen qualifiers
  3. Select the correct language and region and create the new strings.xml file.
• Translate all the translatable strings in values/strings.xml
• [Bonus] Translate the F-Droid/Play Store metadata. See docs.
• Create a new Pull Request
• [Optional] Add your name to the Credits section in AboutFragment. See example.

Also, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Speeding up the process

You can use Google translate to quickly come up with rough translations of all the strings. But since additional context is needed to translate English to most languages properly, you should edit these rough translations by hand until it conveys same message as its English counterpart.

Changes

• Update sound library UI
• Add two demo icons

Testing

• [x] Tested on a physical device
• [x] Added or modified unit test cases

Others

• Resolves #596

How to add new icons

• Icons will be placed as end-aligned backgrounds in list items, so consider the following.
  • Icon height can be up to 126dp. There's no restriction on width, but the icon shouldn't be too wide.
  • Keep your icons monochrome.
  • Background container has horizontal padding set by default but there's no vertical padding. See the howling wolf icon in the preview. Add vertical padding to your icons, horizontal padding is optional.
• Create a vector drawable of the icon using Android Studio.
• Add icon and its credits to the Sound class.
• See commit https://github.com/ashutoshgngwr/noice/pull/601/commits/18e7b371b5651eea7bdda6c69a4f004f808f095b for reference.
• Create new PRs against branch feat/sound-icons so we can merge your changes to this pull request.

Preview

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When i translate, it was hard to find out where am i and where is the string that i will control.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want to group strings and make topic comments to their head for all string.xml files. Group names that i suggest:

• Navigation Drawer
• Library
• Saved Presets
• Sleep Timer
• Wake-up Timer
• Theme
• About
• Help
• Support Development
• Buttons
• Others

An example:

  ...
  <!-- Navigation Drawer -->
  <string name="library"></string>
  <string name="about"></string>
  <string name="report_issue"></string>
  ...

  <!-- Library -->
  <string name="airplane_inflight"></string>
  <string name="airplane_seatbelt_beeps"></string>
  <string name="birds"></string>
  ...

Description

The wake-up timer seems to only work on my phone when the phone itself is unlocked and awake. When I leave the phone locked and the screen black, the timer never goes off at the set hour. I'm not sure if the app gets optimized into the background to save battery life or what else could be going on but I simply can't use the app as an alarm clock.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Set a Wake-up timer to trigger in the next 3 minutes
2. Schedule it
3. Lock your phone screen and don't touch the phone anymore
4. After 3 minutes or even more, you'll see that nothing happens. The Wake-up timer should have triggered in this time

Others

• Device: Oneplus 5T running lineageos 18.1 (on latest update)
• Android Version: 11
• App Version: v1.3.3

This preset provides a ready to use white noise for newborns and infants to help them induce sleep and also help them maintain sleep by muddling ambient noise (eg, by parents). This is inspired by Dr Karp's advices on what constitutes a good white noise sound for infants, similar to what their commercial offer Snoo implements. For more details, see this, this and this as references.

Here are the major features implemented, with the overall goal of simulating what fetuses hear while in the womb as advised by Dr Karp:

• Nearly only low-frequency sounds, no or little high-frequency sounds.
• Train sound to simulate a heart-beat.
• Can simulate shower-like loudness (70db to 90db) if used on a tablet.

There is one major difference:

• Dr Karp specifically states that white noise is better, and discards pink noise and brown noise as alternatives, although no justification is given. In this preset, brown noise is used instead of white noise, because it empirically produced better results for me.

Here is the link to the preset I made:

https://ashutoshgngwr.github.io/noice/preset?name=InfantWombSim&playerStates=%5B%7B%22soundKey%22%3A%22brownian_noise%22%2C%22timePeriod%22%3A300%2C%22volume%22%3A25%7D%2C%7B%22soundKey%22%3A%22electric_car%22%2C%22timePeriod%22%3A300%2C%22volume%22%3A13%7D%2C%7B%22soundKey%22%3A%22moving_train%22%2C%22timePeriod%22%3A300%2C%22volume%22%3A22%7D%2C%7B%22soundKey%22%3A%22soft_wind%22%2C%22timePeriod%22%3A300%2C%22volume%22%3A25%7D%2C%7B%22soundKey%22%3A%22water_stream%22%2C%22timePeriod%22%3A300%2C%22volume%22%3A6%7D%2C%7B%22soundKey%22%3A%22wind_in_palm_trees%22%2C%22timePeriod%22%3A300%2C%22volume%22%3A15%7D%5D

Of course, please license the preset however is adequate for the Noice project, I relinquish all rights.

Describe the solution you'd like

Using white noise machines is very common for infants, and only paid apps currently offer tailored white noises for infants. If it was included natively in Noice, this preset would offer a ready to use free alternative for new parents. I'm sure it would be useful to a lot of people.

Also adults can sleep with it too, it's not just for infants ;-)

Some of the included samples are terribly irritating. An example is the Bonfire sample. It's about 1 1/2 seconds long, and for all the world sounds like somebody left a record player on after the record was finished.

Sounds which by nature will have a repetitive pattern like this one are easily masked, however. You simply have two separate samples of different lengths. For example, for this bonfire, I would recommend two samples, one eight seconds long, and one 15 seconds long. If you start them both at the same time, and repeat them both (assuming a smooth transition on both samples, of course), it would be several minutes before the pattern repeats.

Both samples should be of equal volume, and could both be controlled by the same volume selector. This functionality is simply to provide a non repetative sample, it's not necessary to have it appear as two separate samples. ;)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It would be boring if those nice icon doesn't have animation

Describe the solution you'd like

Add animation on icon when sound played (also add toggle on setting which mean users can turn this feature on off)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...]

Noice app utilizes certain type of sounds which leans toward a (mid-)high frequency band, such as sound of rain, chirping birds, sea wave, etc. But MP3 codec has a limited bandwidth and some encoders usually clip the frequency range above 16khz for compression. This leads to an audible loss of quality in such sounds. Unlike contemporary music, this is a playback in a loop, so it is even easier to notice the quality loss.

Describe the solution you'd like

A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.

I wonder if it's possible to use Ogg Vorbis codec instead of MP3 file as long as Noice can handle a gapless loop playback of it. Ogg Vorbis is far superior to MP3 in many ways, especially when it comes to preserving (mid-)high frequency band. I think modern Android devices are powerful enough to handle an extra processing for Ogg Vorbis playback. Battery capacity is sufficient too. The downside would be negligible while the sound quality can be improved much better.

Additional context

Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Describe the bug

Starting in 0.3.1, at some point during the night, the sounds turn off. I suspect that they pause for a notification noise or something, then never turn back on.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Turn on some sounds.
2. When you wake up, they're off.
3. Double clicking one sound turns them all back on.

Expected behavior

Sounds remain on until you shut them off (since there is no timer).

Changes

Made these translations more accurate based on real time usage:

• in_app_feedback__description
• mood
• focus
• relax
• intensity
• intensity_description
• dense
• light

Could we get the plain cricket noise back? I grew up being sung to sleep be crickets, and it was by far my favorite noise. The current one with the cicadas jars me awake every time the cicada chirps.. until I'm too tired to care.

In would suggest adding 'Crickets' to the list. I'm sure that there are plenty of people from the south who prefer the noise with the cicadas. ;)

Translations update from Hosted Weblate for Noice/Android.

It also includes following components:

• Noice/Play Store and F-Droid Listing Metadata

Current translation status:

The problem

I usually use Noice while reading to give myself some additional atmosphere. I like to change composition of sounds when background of the plot changes, so it's pretty often. Right now it takes some time to find currently playing sound and change it's volume or replace it with another. It's not like very long time but searching for it can easily destroy the immersion.

The idea

I thought about quick mix view, where would be displayed only sounds that are currently playing. There would be also ability to add new sound and it would open popup where user can search sound by name. It would be also possible to remove sound from the mixer, and then it would stop playing

Hi there,

Thanks for the app, really nice 👍

It would be great to have a checkbox setting to let the volume decrease along the sleep timer, from the actual level of volume to 0% when the timer end,

Would be a great help to fall asleep IMHO,

What do you think?

Another approach is to have a fade-out duration setting like in this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amikulich.whitenoise

I use Noice to help my baby go to sleep. The one sound missing for me compared to other apps is a rhythmic "shhhhh... shhhhh... shhhhh..." typically referred to as "shushing" in other apps. I'd be willing to source or record something if this is of interest to anyone else.