How to Use Your Mindspace Player

Step 1

Meet Your Player

Everything happens inside one glowing orb. There is no menu to learn and nothing to set up — press play and the sound begins.

Underneath the orb you will see the track name and, below that, a short line telling you what the track is for. Along the bottom sits a small bar of icons. That bar is where all the controls live, and we will walk through every one of them.

Starting the sound

1. Press the round play button on the right of the icon bar.
2. The sound fades in gently over a couple of seconds. This is deliberate — nothing ever starts abruptly.
3. Press the same button again to pause.

Step 2

The Control Bar

The little bar at the bottom of the orb holds six controls and a play button. Tap any icon and a small panel slides up. Tap the × in that panel, or tap somewhere else on the player, to close it again.

From left to right, here is what each one does:

• Music note — the volume of the main soundscape
• Wavy line — the binaural beat layer
• Rain cloud — nature and ambient sounds
• Clock — the sleep timer
• Sun — screen brightness
• Speaker — the overall volume
• Play — start and pause

Step 3

The Soundscape — Music Note

This is the main piece of music: a long, slow ambient piece composed for listening rather than for attention. It loops seamlessly, so it can run all night without a join or a gap.

Tap the music note and a vertical slider appears. Drag it up for louder, down for quieter. The number underneath shows the level as a percentage.

Turning it off completely

At the bottom of the same panel is a Mute drone button. Tap it and the music stops while everything else keeps playing. This is useful if you only want rain, or only the binaural layer, with no music underneath.

Step 4

Binaural Beats — Wavy Line

A binaural beat is made by playing a slightly different tone into each ear. Your ears receive two pitches; together they create a slow, gentle pulse. Binaural beats are widely searched for their association with focus and calm, restful listening states.

Before you start: switch off Spatial Audio

This one catches almost everybody, so it is worth two minutes.

Modern headphones — AirPods especially — often have Spatial Audio switched on by default. It is designed to make music feel like it is coming from around you rather than from inside your head, and for films and music it is lovely. For a binaural beat it is the one thing you must turn off.

The reason is simple. A binaural beat needs your left ear to hear only the left tone and your right ear only the right one. Spatial Audio deliberately blends a little of each side into the other to create its sense of space. The moment it does that, the two tones mix before they reach your ears and the slow pulse is weakened or lost altogether.

Head Tracking is worth turning off too. It moves the sound around as you move your head, which is the last thing you want when you are settling down and turning over in bed.

How to turn it off

On an iPhone or iPad, with your headphones connected: open Control Centre, press and hold the volume slider, then tap Spatial Audio and choose Off. You can also find it in Settings, under Bluetooth, by tapping the small i beside your headphones.

On an Android phone, the same feature goes by different names — look for Dolby Atmos, 360 Audio or 3D audio in your sound settings, or in the app that came with your headphones, and switch it off.

This layer starts switched off. Tap the wavy line to open it.

Choosing a frequency

At the top is a grid of choices, each showing a number in Hz and a band name. Lower numbers pulse more slowly. Tap one to select it — it lights up in its own colour, and the orb changes colour to match.

• 0.5 Hz · Delta — the slowest pulse of the set
• 1 Hz · Delta — the usual starting point
• 1.5 Hz · Delta
• 2 Hz · Delta — the quickest of the four

Delta-range settings are commonly associated in popular wellness culture with winding down and deep rest.

Choosing how strong it is

Beside the tall slider are four words. Tap a word, or drag the slider, to set how prominent the layer is:

• Low — barely there, sitting under the music
• Medium — noticeable but soft
• High — the default, clearly present
• Powerful — the strongest setting

Turning it off again

The button at the bottom of the panel switches the whole layer off. It also tells you which state it is in, so you are never guessing.

Step 5

Nature Sounds — Rain Cloud

This is where you build your own atmosphere. Rain, waves, rivers, night forests — you can have as many playing together as you like, each at its own level.

Tap the rain cloud to open the list. Sounds are grouped so they are easy to find, with each group in its own colour.

Adding a sound

1. Tap a name in the list. It lights up in its group colour and starts playing.
2. A small slider appears directly underneath it. That slider controls only that sound.
3. Tap another name to add a second sound, and so on.

Removing a sound

Each sound that is playing has a small × on its right. Tap that to remove it. Tapping the name again will not switch it off — that is on purpose, so you cannot lose a mix you have carefully balanced with a stray tap.

The tall slider on the right

That one controls all your nature sounds together, without disturbing the balance you have set between them. Think of the small sliders as the recipe and the tall slider as the serving size.

Step 6

Sleep Timer, Brightness and Volume

The sleep timer — clock icon

Choose how long you want to listen and the player fades itself out and stops. Tap the clock and pick a length from the list. A small countdown appears in the corner of the orb so you can see how long is left.

The ending is a slow fade, not an abrupt stop — the point is that it should not wake you.

Screen brightness — sun icon

This dims the picture without touching the sound. Drag it down and the orb and artwork fade towards black while the controls stay readable. It is meant for a dark bedroom, where a bright screen is the last thing you want.

On a phone with an OLED screen a dimmed picture also uses noticeably less battery overnight.

Overall volume — speaker icon

This is the master control for everything at once. If a mix sounds right but is simply too loud or too quiet, change it here rather than adjusting each layer.

Step 7

Favourites — The Heart

In the top right corner of every player is a heart. Tap it and a small menu opens with six choices. This is where you keep the players you want to come back to.

Add to Favourites

The first item. Tap it and the heart fills in red. Tap it again to remove. That is the whole thing — one tap to keep a player, one tap to let it go.

My Favourites

Opens your list. Every player you have hearted appears here, whichever player you opened the menu from — it is one shared list, not a list per player. Each row gives you three things:

• × on the left — remove it from your favourites
• The download arrow — save the audio to your device (Step 8)
• The blue play button — jump straight to that player

Add to Playlist and My Playlists

Playlists are for grouping. You might keep one called Bedtime, another called Focus. Tap Add to Playlist, then either pick an existing list or type a name and tap Create.

My Playlists shows them all. Tap a playlist name to open it up and see what is inside, and use the small × buttons to remove either a single item or a whole list.

Step 8

Save a Mix and Listen Offline

Once you have built a combination you like — the music at the right level, a binaural setting chosen, two or three nature sounds balanced against each other — you can keep it and bring it back with one tap.

Save This Mix

1. Build the mix you want.
2. Tap the heart, then Save This Mix.
3. Type a name — something you will recognise, like Rainy night.
4. Tap Save.

My Mixes

Opens everything you have saved. Under each name is a short summary of what is in it, so you can tell them apart at a glance. Tap the name and the player rebuilds that mix immediately — the right sounds on, at the right levels.

Saving the sound to your device

Both My Favourites and My Mixes have a small download arrow on each row. Tap it and the audio is copied onto your device.

• Download arrow — not saved yet, tap to save
• Spinning circle — saving now, with a small counter
• Green tick — saved. Tap it again to remove and free up space

Underneath the list, a line tells you roughly how much space your downloads are using, so nothing is happening behind your back.