Ambient sounds and music

Focus view has two sound panels and they are independent: you can run rain under a playlist, or either on its own.

Sounds

The speaker icon opens Sounds: 22 loops in six groups — Rain, Nature, Animals, Places, Things and Noise.

• Click a sound to start it. Click it again to stop.
• Play several at once. Rain plus a café plus keyboard is a normal thing to do here.
• A volume slider appears under a sound once it is playing, so each layer is mixed on its own. A sound that is off shows no slider.
• Stop All at the top silences everything without changing your levels.

Sounds keep playing when you open another panel, and while you use the Stopwatch or read the analytics.

If a sound is thin or hissy

The loops stream from a CDN. When one cannot be fetched — offline, or a blocked network — TabOasis quietly generates an approximation of it in the browser instead of failing. It is recognisably the same kind of sound, and recognisably not the recording.

Music

The music-note icon opens Music, which is your own playlist rather than a library.

Two ways to add a track:

• Add YouTube Video — paste a YouTube URL. TabOasis reads the video’s title and plays it through an embedded player.
• Upload Audio File — pick an audio file from your computer.

Once there is at least one track, a bar appears along the bottom of Focus view: play/pause, previous and next, a seek bar with elapsed and total time, a volume slider, shuffle, and a repeat button that cycles none → all → one.

The panel itself can search your tracks, drag them into a different order, select several to delete, or Clear all.

Uploaded files do not survive a restart

An uploaded audio file is held for the current browser session only. After you quit and reopen the browser the track is still listed but cannot play, and you have to add the file again. YouTube tracks are unaffected — they are just a URL.