HomePod Ambient Sounds is disappointing & too repetitive

[symphony]

Besides the white noise, all the other ambient sounds are way too repetitive that makes it more of a nuisance to listen to as background ambiance, it feels like annoying noise.

They’re like 2 seconds of sounds that get looped. Why cant they be 5-10 minutes of distinct sounds that loops???

I’m disappointed.

 

[1196403]

I’m also disappointed. The audio quality of them aren’t great either.

 

[fpnc]

Well, I wouldn't call the ambient sounds great, but I'm pretty sure that some of them have more than "2 seconds" before they loop. I listened to the forest theme and after a minute or two I heard a completely different bird call. However, they may be looping multiple, selected segments so that there is always something of note to hear. Normally in a forest you'd hear pauses and some quiet time, but the forest theme remains pretty active constantly and they may combine and loop different sound clips into a longer passage.

 

[atmuwben]

You would think Apple could have went to a forest with high quality equipment and recorded for 100 hours.

Instead the ambient sounds sound synthesized and annoying.

 

[fpnc]

I'm sure they just purchased the sounds from a third party. Still, you would have hoped that they would have gone to a good source (for the sounds).

 

[AbSoluTc]

The sound I play every night is "thunderstorms". Freaking unreal! I am still blown away by how realistic it sounds.

 

[bbednarz]

I'm not disappointed by them. I like them quite a bit to be honest, especially rain.