Cat Purr Generator
August 23, 2015 3:39 AM Subscribe
If cats were real this is probably how they would have sounded like.
Hee hee. One of my cats just went bug-eyed.
posted by CincyBlues at 4:04 AM on August 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by CincyBlues at 4:04 AM on August 23, 2015 [4 favorites]
Is this the completion of the internet, or is there more work to do? I can't think of anything...
posted by skippyhacker at 4:35 AM on August 23, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by skippyhacker at 4:35 AM on August 23, 2015 [7 favorites]
That made my cat snap to attention and then start purring. Awesome!
posted by ourobouros at 4:51 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by ourobouros at 4:51 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Thought number one: This is great! I could download this app and then fire it up whenever I'm away from home and then I won't miss Lola so much!
Thought number two: *sees myself lying in the fetal position on a hotel room floor, cradling my smart phone in my arms and crying because of missing Lola.*
Thought number three: Hey, I can create some raster-noton type music with this thing!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 4:54 AM on August 23, 2015 [9 favorites]
Thought number two: *sees myself lying in the fetal position on a hotel room floor, cradling my smart phone in my arms and crying because of missing Lola.*
Thought number three: Hey, I can create some raster-noton type music with this thing!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 4:54 AM on August 23, 2015 [9 favorites]
Hahahaha! The first step toward building RoboCat is COMPLETE!
The called me mad, did they? Is this the work of insanity!!!!!?
*The mad professor quickly listened to robopurring for a while to soothe that overheated science drive.*
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:08 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
The called me mad, did they? Is this the work of insanity!!!!!?
*The mad professor quickly listened to robopurring for a while to soothe that overheated science drive.*
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:08 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
If we were to slow this down slightly, wouldn't it be the sound of the Enterprise-D's warp core?
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:36 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:36 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
I guess not. But slowed down it seems like it would make a really awesome interstellar space-drive noise that some sage engineer would surely describe as "purring like a kitten"
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:43 AM on August 23, 2015
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:43 AM on August 23, 2015
Fat Tony is nonplussed but One Eyed Bobo is losing his shit over this and freaking out. He KNOWS the metal box is talking. More results if they get interesting.
posted by kinetic at 6:17 AM on August 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by kinetic at 6:17 AM on August 23, 2015 [6 favorites]
How they would have sounded. What they would have sounded like. Not both. Sorry, I can't help it sometime.
posted by Splunge at 6:40 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Splunge at 6:40 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Vida does not like it when the stupid box of light starts making cat sounds. It apparently does not actually contain a cat, but that doesn't help much. It's almost as bad as when the stupid food ape uses the box of light to listen to Leonard Cohen.
posted by Frowner at 7:07 AM on August 23, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by Frowner at 7:07 AM on August 23, 2015 [8 favorites]
I'll have to try this when I get home from my trip later today.
"Dear cats: I've missed you very much and wish I could have taken you with me. Now, let me try to confuse you with something from the internet."
posted by metaquarry at 7:22 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
"Dear cats: I've missed you very much and wish I could have taken you with me. Now, let me try to confuse you with something from the internet."
posted by metaquarry at 7:22 AM on August 23, 2015 [2 favorites]
Thought number one: This is great! I could download this app and then fire it up whenever I'm away from home and then I won't miss Lola so much!
As you subsequently learned, that definitely won't work. I know this because despite my never having met Lola and having multiple lovely cats giving me the Breakfast Glare as I speak, just seeing her picture makes me miss Lola.
posted by FelliniBlank at 7:25 AM on August 23, 2015 [8 favorites]
As you subsequently learned, that definitely won't work. I know this because despite my never having met Lola and having multiple lovely cats giving me the Breakfast Glare as I speak, just seeing her picture makes me miss Lola.
posted by FelliniBlank at 7:25 AM on August 23, 2015 [8 favorites]
Fat Tony is nonplussed but One Eyed Bobo is losing his shit over this and freaking out. He KNOWS the metal box is talking. More results if they get interesting.
Nothing to report.
posted by kinetic at 8:06 AM on August 23, 2015
Nothing to report.
posted by kinetic at 8:06 AM on August 23, 2015
Upon inspecting the page with the Web Developer tools, I'm slightly disappointed that the cat purr effect is done with about a dozen MP3/Ogg files, rather than having a physical model of a cat's voice box coded in JavaScript.
posted by acb at 8:31 AM on August 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by acb at 8:31 AM on August 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
This is now what I'm listening to as I study XML DTDs. So many other sounds in my head must be made quiet, and a contented/sleeping/whatever'ing cat is drowning them out both efficiently and entirely.
Leave it to a cat to take charge of the situation. Now, back to my Waterloo...
posted by datawrangler at 9:49 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Leave it to a cat to take charge of the situation. Now, back to my Waterloo...
posted by datawrangler at 9:49 AM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
I put this on like two hours ago, and I tab away from it and keep forgetting it's open and get to feeling relaxed and then am like, oh right, mind control from the internet, I'll go turn that off, and then I go and there's the cat on the page and he's sleeping and hey I won't wake you up buddy, who's a kitty, who has a little nosey.
posted by LobsterMitten at 9:55 AM on August 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by LobsterMitten at 9:55 AM on August 23, 2015 [11 favorites]
Yeah, edie and oscar dont respond to this nearly as much as they do to Chris Watson's field recording of a Cheetah. Terrified frightened confused curious concerned...
posted by bigZLiLk at 1:05 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by bigZLiLk at 1:05 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Could a phone's vibration feature be used to simulate purring?
posted by unmake at 2:33 PM on August 23, 2015
posted by unmake at 2:33 PM on August 23, 2015
Also you can fiddle with the settings until it sounds like a Predalien sneaking up on you from behind and about to punch its inner jaw through the back of your skull.
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:02 PM on August 23, 2015
posted by turbid dahlia at 3:02 PM on August 23, 2015
I love the white noise generator for this site - helped me sleep for about a year.
posted by mikurski at 3:33 PM on August 23, 2015
posted by mikurski at 3:33 PM on August 23, 2015
Finnegan gave the computer a funny look, then went back to his Very Important Job of keeping an eye on the neighborhood, in case of zombie attack.
posted by sarcasticah at 3:39 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by sarcasticah at 3:39 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Android version?
posted by Pressed Rat at 5:04 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Pressed Rat at 5:04 PM on August 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
Pressed Rat: Relax Melodies P: Sleep & Yoga has a cat purr in the pay version but I can't promise that your cat will be fooled.
posted by irisclara at 5:10 PM on August 23, 2015
posted by irisclara at 5:10 PM on August 23, 2015
This is a great site. Good timing, too. I was just needing some study music.
posted by irisclara at 5:16 PM on August 23, 2015
posted by irisclara at 5:16 PM on August 23, 2015
I had to put my twenty year old cat down earlier this year. The purring sounds brought tears to my eyes. I miss his purrs so much! A minute into playing it, the tension just left my shoulders. This is really the BEST of the net!
posted by JujuB at 9:06 PM on August 23, 2015
posted by JujuB at 9:06 PM on August 23, 2015
Upon inspecting the page with the Web Developer tools, I'm slightly disappointed that the cat purr effect is done with about a dozen MP3/Ogg files, rather than having a physical model of a cat's voice box coded in JavaScript.--acb
Don't be so unimpressed. This is basically the trick that Google uses to create Google maps, and that is why it is so fast and why they can't store entire states on your phone the way other map software can.
If you start hearing cat purrs out of your GPS, you know Google grabbed the wrong file (I know this last part doesn't make any sense, but that's how my mind works).
posted by eye of newt at 10:08 PM on August 23, 2015
Don't be so unimpressed. This is basically the trick that Google uses to create Google maps, and that is why it is so fast and why they can't store entire states on your phone the way other map software can.
If you start hearing cat purrs out of your GPS, you know Google grabbed the wrong file (I know this last part doesn't make any sense, but that's how my mind works).
posted by eye of newt at 10:08 PM on August 23, 2015
If you increase the Treble and High Treble you can get a snoring effect.
I may need a nap here in my office now.
posted by travertina at 7:15 AM on August 27, 2015
I may need a nap here in my office now.
posted by travertina at 7:15 AM on August 27, 2015
If you increase the Treble and High Treble you can get a snoring effect.
Or possibly the soliciting purr cats use to control humans.
posted by acb at 3:57 PM on August 27, 2015
Or possibly the soliciting purr cats use to control humans.
posted by acb at 3:57 PM on August 27, 2015
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The author of the site also wanted to make a sophisticated rain noise generator site, but felt limited by the engine used by the above noise generators, so he created rain.today. I think it's better than rainymood.
posted by dereferenced at 3:53 AM on August 23, 2015 [8 favorites]