What's playing in your headphones while you code?

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[Ryan Norton]

A mix of ambient, electronic and jazz. Disparition, explosions in the sky, Adam Young, Miles Davis and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

[Eduardo Gómez Vásquez]

• Black Metal
• Trash Metal
• Folk Metal
• Power Metal
• Heavy Metal
• Nu Metal
• Symphonic Metal
• Death Metal

There is another kind of music?

[Ben Sinclair]

Pirate Metal?

[Vicus]

Prog Metal. Otherwise you are missing Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Leprous, Haken. And what kind of life is that?

[Eduardo Gómez Vásquez]

You're right!

[Adnan Kičin]

Mostly instrumentals because the lyrics can sometimes distract me and lead to a solo performance that no one needs or wants to hear.

Here are some of those:

• Max Richter
• Cristobal Tapia de Veer
• Ludovico Einaudi

[Jacob Tan 🤓]

This 😄

soundcloud.com/epicmountain

[Luis Ventura]

Almost anything from Beatles to Taylor Swift to Daft Punk to Rachmaninoff when writing boilerplate code or simple stuff, but I need total silence when writing complex algorithms or debugging, so I always carry a couple of rubber ear plugs from hardware stores.

[Jessica Lam]

open.spotify.com/user/122241197/pl...

And
open.spotify.com/user/122241197/pl...

[Fanny]

open.spotify.com/user/anotherfanny...

[Aarøπ Dayalaπ]

My current head space
open.spotify.com/user/darthgoon/pl...

[Paul Frame]

The Dark Knight’s soundtrack

[Ben Halpern]

Oh that sounds great

[Chris Pahla]

Jay Z 4:44

[Madzz Srestha]

Right now Lost on You by LP. What I listen to varies with my mood and what I am working on.

[Billy]

musicforprogramming.net/

[Yerkon]

thanks

[Phil Thomas]

Thanks! I'm going to give this a listen this morning.

[James Hood]

+1

[Mike 🤘]

Usually heavy and high-energy. Usually metal. I put together some of my favorites albums and removed anything that wasn't high-tempo: open.spotify.com/user/mikengarrett...

If you're looking for somethign new, here's the best metal releases from 2016: open.spotify.com/user/mikengarrett...

[Ghost]

Oh yes, metal, dubstep or anything high energy. An absolute must!

[Daniel Mason]

Exactly the same here. It works so well.

[Brian Hanna]

Same here, preferably with harsh, mostly indecipherable vocals. Prevents me from getting distracted by the lyrics.

[TPiddy]

Agreed.... metal of all kinds, though I tend to shy away from doom/black/death...

[Callum Messiter]

The entire soundtrack to the Lord of the Rings trilogy is great. A day of writing code can sometimes feel like a bare-footed journey from the comfort of the Shire to an ork-surrounded volcano via the lair of a giant man-eating spider, so it's really quite thematically appropriate: youtu.be/_SBQvd6vY9s

[Daniel Waller (he/him)]

Yes! Bit too dark sometimes but works great anytime after lunch

[Carlton Hanna]

I usually forget to put headphones on. Once I start coding time flies and I forget about music. When I do remember, I find music without too much lyrics does the trick. Mogwai is a good band to listen to.

[Ben Halpern]

You must not work in an open office!

[Jess Lee]

YES. Mogwai all day everyday.