Introducing Travelear: Listen to the World in 3D Audio

There are some phenominal recordings here. I found the Voice Over access confusing for a while but got there in the end. I just acquired a pair of Nuraphones which really brought out the detail and feeling of space. A stand-out was the recent Sacromento Airport one for realism, and and the London Flower Market but they are all great and very different. I also tried the app with a pair of B&W P7’s with an Oppo 2 headphone headphone amp, and the dynamics of recordings like the Boston Fireworks Display really comes over.

I have the excellent Nature Sounds app but TravelEars does something different as it capture soundscapes full of motion and contrast. Would I pay for it? Yes, I’ve paid for most of the bundles in Nature Sounds. Would I pay a subscription? No, I don’t believe in paying over and over again for the same thing. Apple Music, yes, but it is vast in scale and choice and I’ll never be able to listen to everything even if I used it everyday. An app like TravelEars I would dip into now and again for relaxation or maybe background aural wallpaper. The recordings are brilliant though and I would certainly be hahppy to pay for select recordings or better yet small bundled offers and build a collection.

I love the airplanes soundscape. It is awesome.
Well, my headphones were still cheap. because the sound is great. :-)

Last night I listened to the skate boarding sounds and it helped me to fall asleep. The recording is so wonderful I felt like I was there. I even tried to catch one that was coming towards me. lol. Is it possible that you could have a timer setting like if we set a certain time then loop it for that duration? Thanks and keep up the great work.

I love the French Quarter Jazz Festival soundscape... I listened to it right before I went to bed, and it was so relaxing.

I downloaded the app and listened to the Santa Monica Airport soundscape. It was disappointing that the air traffic control was so quiet on the recording. I could not understand most of the words spoken. It would have been cool if one could have clearly heard ATC and then the planes land and take off. This would be similar to people synchronizing the recordings of 911 calls, police radio communications, and body cam video and audio so one hears all the audio information sequenced to the time and order it happened in a police incident.

Another recording idea is on a sustainable farm. This is one where the farm animals are raised on pasture and in a manner that is ecologically sustainable. America’s most famous sustainable farmer is Joel salatin of Polyface Farms in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. He gained prominence after being profiled in Michael Pollan’s book “the Omnivore’s Dilemma.” I experienced farm animal sounds over a few days on a Midwestern farm. The day started with roosters at sunrise, turkeys were moved from the barn to a pasture by a pond, where they would eat the greenery and drink the water. Around mid to late morning, cows were allowed to graze on knee-high grass on a new pasture. I could hear them biting off enormous amounts of grass, chewing it slightly before they swallowed. Hungry cows make a lot of noise when they feast. I made sure to keep my distance because cows are about 1,200 pounds and they sometimes are not mindful of what is around them. Later, sheep gave birth to lambs. Hearing the birth of a lamb can be an emotional experience. Sheep often have multiple births and the lambs may not slide out the birth canal easily so the mother thrashes around to dislodge the lamb. When the lambs pop out, they begin to make noise and seek attention from the mother. Pigs also can be recorded. On a sustainable farm they make a lot of different noises when drinking water and tearing into a pasture. Also, if you get down to Texas, hearing a wild hog hunt would be cool. People hunt down a wild pig with a rifle or shotgun, slaughter it, process the animal in the woods or at home, and then eat the fresh pig out of a cast iron skillet all on the same day. Meat commercially sold in the United States needs to be processed at a government facility so sustainable farmers need to bring their live animals to one of a dwindling number of facilities available to independent farmers. This would not be sound rich. The problem with farm sounds is that they don’t always happen when someone wants to hear them, so staying at a farm for two or three days may be necessary to experience everything.

Greetings!
I am wondering whether the TravelEar app could be posted on the canadian App Store. I enjoyed the podcast, but when I tried to download the app from the App Store, the search could not find it. I am in Canada, and I would like to access this app. Thanks.

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Hello everyone! I'm a little late to this party but I just wanted to come in and say hello and thank you for your feedback and support. My name is Nick and as Garett mentioned earlier, I'm one of the founders and the developer on the project.

I wanted to let you know that that I've gone through and made some improvements to labeling and navigation for voice over control. I hope you find this to be helpful, let me know! I found a few bugs in the build but I'm hoping to go into review early next week and have the new version out to you by the end of the week. If you have any questions or comments for me specifically definitely feel free, I'm looking forward to working with you more on this.

Also, we are currently looking for anyone who would like to help out in other ways. Garett and I both have full-time day jobs outside of Travelear so updates are often slower than we would really like. If anyone here has social marketing experience, development experience, or general business development experience, we would love to chat.

Take care! I'll check back in with you in a couple days!

Absolutely love the Night Chimes recording as does my 18 year old son.

BTW, what is the More Dark button?

Another recording possibility is a Carillon. These are musical instruments made out of heavy bells and played like a piano. The bells are in high bell towers often more than 100 feet in the air. People listen outside and the sound is heard in a line of sight from the bell. Walking around the bell tower while staying within the line of sight during a Carillon concert could be cool. We have a Carillon here in Chicago in Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. The university programs a daily one hour recital. In southern California Carillons can be found in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California with a very high bell tower, in Garden Grove at the magnificent Christ cathedral, and at University of California locations in Riverside and Santa Barbara. San Diego also has a couple. I don’t believe any of these locations has daily recitals like at the University of Chicago.

Just wanted to thank the developer for making some nice changes for Voiceover users. App looks great and sounds even better. Thanks for this app. Keep the soundscapes coming.

A new version of our ios app is up!!! hope you like it!

link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/travelear/id1159408401?mt=8

thanks,
Nick