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A very nice but bulky relaxing sounds program. Includes either meditation or familiar ambient noises like nature and office. Also includes a timer (when enabled, will shut off after an hour by default).

Resources: 70 megs disk space, 240 megs of RAM

Steps: Download portable version, unzip, and launch opal.exe

Status: Portable, writes very minor settings to the local folder in opal.properties

It appears possible to modify the config file and set autoUpdate=false to autoUpdate=false to prevent update checking.

License: Open source, GPLv3

Home page
https://codedead.com/software/opal/
https://github.com/CodeDead/Opal
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedi ... Dead.shtml

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v.1.0.3 https://codedead.com/blog/2022/06/17/opal-1.0.3

I downloaded the v.1.0.3 version and it works fine.

Same here. It works nicely now. At first, it popped an error message, telling me that it could not find the .cfg file in the app-folder. So I simply created a subdir "app" and put the opal.cfg into it. That's all it took to get it running.

I have added Opal to the database:

https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=3089

Please vote!

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Occasionally, I find it easier to sleep with the help of some background noise. I usually go to YouTube and find some hour-plus long background noise to play. This program is a nice alternative when the need arises.

My only complaint is the size of the program: 85MB, of which 81MB is the runtime (looks like an embedded Java runtime).

Also, auto-update does not work for me. An error message is displayed:


This can be "fixed" by disabling auto-update under Tools, Settings (I disable auto-update for most of my portable apps anyway).

This is great.

Andrew Lee wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:05 pm I have added Opal to the database

Thanks for doing that