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Music for falling asleep

The longest and darkest of it. Barely moves, and never startles.

Built to be ignored

The Sleep channel holds the longest and least eventful pieces on Longwave — extended low drones, a slow prelude, and ambient pieces that change so gradually you cannot say when one thing became another. Nothing in it has a sudden entrance, a bright transient or a key change that could pull you back from the edge of sleep.

Volume matters more here than track choice. Set it low enough that the music sits under the sound of the room rather than over it, and it will stop registering as something to listen to.

Use the sleep timer

The timer button in the player stops playback after 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 minutes or three hours, or at the end of the current track, and fades out rather than cutting. That way the music covers the part of the night where you are falling asleep and is gone by the time you are deeply asleep.

Some people fall asleep faster to steady sound than to music. If that is you, try brown noise, or rain for something less flat.

What is in the Sleep playlist

  • Long Note Two — Kevin MacLeod
  • Ossuary 5 - Rest — Kevin MacLeod
  • Lightless Dawn — Kevin MacLeod
  • Prelude in C - BWV 846 — Kevin MacLeod
  • Frost Waltz — Kevin MacLeod
  • Ambiment — Kevin MacLeod
  • Organic Meditations Three — Kevin MacLeod
  • Cryptic Sorrow — Kevin MacLeod
  • Inexorable — Kevin MacLeod
  • Overheat — Kevin MacLeod
  • Kalimba Relaxation Music — Kevin MacLeod
  • Eastminster — Kevin MacLeod
  • Mesmerize — Kevin MacLeod
  • Dreams Become Real — Kevin MacLeod
  • Parting of the Ways - Part 2 — Kevin MacLeod

15 tracks, all by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The player shuffles them and crossfades between tracks so the playlist runs without a gap. Full credits →

Questions

  • Will it stop on its own?

    Only if you set the sleep timer. Otherwise it keeps playing, shuffling through the channel indefinitely.

  • Will it wake me with an ad?

    No. There is no advertising anywhere on Longwave and no interruption of any kind between tracks.

  • Does it work on a phone with the screen off?

    Yes, in the browser, with lock-screen controls. On iOS the screen must not be fully locked before you press play the first time.

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