Gentle Ocean Waves Sound
An authentic wide stereo shoreline field recording made with a Tascam DR-05x. The waves travel left to right across the stereo field, and occasional distant gull sounds may be heard.
Listen to Gentle Ocean Waves
Press Play to begin. There is no autoplay. The existing shared player preserves pause, volume and Sleep Timer across navigation. Native HLS is used on supported Apple browsers; other browsers play the looping MP3.
What makes this recording distinctive?
An authentic wide stereo shoreline field recording made with a Tascam DR-05x. The waves travel left to right across the stereo field, and occasional distant gull sounds may be heard.
The existing Ocean Waves source retains its original 90-second CC0 field recording and its existing URL. Gentle Ocean Waves is from another creator and uses roughly 605 seconds of distinct selected source, not the old short loop or a remaster of it.
Original field recording and CC0 license
Recorded by Sandy-Ogilvie and released under Creative Commons Zero 1.0 (CC0). Read the original Freesound recording and licensing page. The approved WhiteNoiseChoir audio was made from the creator's publicly available lossy Freesound HQ MP3 preview, not the original WAV. Encoding at 192 kbps does not restore fidelity already lost.
Original source duration: approximately 1238.0 seconds. Independently selected field source used: 605 seconds. Approved master: 600 seconds, 44.1 kHz, stereo, 192 kbps MP3. The same exact SHA-256 approved listening-review master was used in production without re-encoding.
How continuous playback works
The ten-minute master uses approximately 605 seconds of distinct recorded sound with a short circular seam; no separate short section is repeated within the first ten-minute arrangement. A seven-day static HLS VOD playlist repeats the whole 600-second audio cycle for long listening on native-HLS devices. Other browsers use MP3 loop fallback. The static playlist is not an infinite livestream, and iOS lock-screen behavior remains device-dependent.
Some seabird calls are part of the field recording, so this is not gull-free surf. Quiet average volume and changing waves call for comfortable low playback settings. This is a listening aid, not a medical treatment. Keep volume comfortable, particularly around children and infants.
The master is owner-approved, but this dedicated sound page remains noindex,follow while the family intent and existing Ocean Waves URL are editorially reviewed. This page is intentionally omitted from the sitemap.