I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
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.
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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
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...
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.
Very similar. Chilled dubstep, a lot of instrumental hip-hop (anything by Blue Sky Black Death!) ambient tracks. I try to stay away from action movie soundtracks because the turns of pace make me anxious.
It's about a 50/50 split. When I really need to focus, I use songs I know I like from my saved (most of which came from discover). When I can focus a little less, I casually look for new ones.
I recently got into the sound track from The Social Network movie and I find it to be the perfect mix of tempo for me. I definitely recommend it. Great sound track in and of itself, but also reminiscent of a movie all about building a pretty damn popular website.
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brain.fm/
Seriously, within seconds into listening to the focus mode, I get thrice the concentration level. In about 30 minutes I'm almost in a trance. I recommend taking breaks from time to time, though; if I listen to it for too long I feel weird and disconnected from the reality.
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According to last.fm, I mostly listen to Ambient, Electronic & Jazz. Artists like:
Nils Frahm
Ólafur Arnalds
Gustavo Santaolalla
Floating Points
Rival Consoles
Boards of Canada
GoGo Peguin
Bonobo
and many others.
I used brain.fm previously, and while it works it can get tiring after a few weeks of listening to the same drone sounds. Too me what most helps me get into flow is calm, smooth, deep background music.
Metal, 90's rock (nirvana, pearl jam, alice in chains, etc), tons of hip hop (E40, Too $hort, Snoop, Dre, Biggie, etc), Alt rock/Indie (Coheed and cambria, Spoon, Arcade fire, The Shins, etc), and finally sometimes I will put on various forms of electronic music, but I tend not to pay too much attention to who the artist is.
Depends on the day, but I really like those lo-fi hip hop streams on Youtube. You know, the ones with the looped old anime backgrounds? youtube.com/watch?v=h8W73zB4VMM
I also enjoy liquid dubstep/chillstep. Anything that's relatively low tempo and mostly instrumental, really.
I tried listening to the music I usually like while working (mostly rock), but felt I was concentrating on the music instead of my work.
Switch(mood){
case 1:
Atmospheric/ Epic/ Ambient Metal
break;
case 2:
Post Grunge/ Stoner Rock
break;
case 3:
Old School Rap/Hiphop/RnB/Pop/Electro
break;
case 4:
The Weekend haha
break;
default:
Shuffle all
}
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Working in an open office means headsets with noise cancellation is a must. I used to listen to well-known Rock / metal music. I've found more that the more variation there is, the easier it is to et distracted.
After discovering mindfulness I've started enjoying silence, and that's the music of my choice these days: silence (noise cancellation almost works for that)
I've found the TRON / Social Network soundtracks to be quite enjoyable when not doing brain-taxing work.
Oh hey look, my playlists just grew by a couple hundred songs! Thanks a ton!
I actually do have some stuff from John Murphy. I just didn't stick it on the list because the number of songs was so low compared to those other ones.
Sharing my personally curated EDM/Electronic music playlist here (has almost 600 songs and growing. I also update it almost every day). I listen to it everyday and it works well for me!
It totally depends on the situation. When i am in a greenfield project i like to hear some electronic tunes. I like things without lyrics like Jean-Michel Jarre or Rival Consoles. Or on other occasions i really enjoy David Hicken (piano artist which if you did not know him you should definitely check it out ).
If i'll have to bugfix something in a legacy code base (it happens from time to time) i sometimes need some energetic or aggressive tunes. E.g. Carpenter Brut or The Algorithm are quite good for this kind of work. Even though sometimes i hear music with lyrics i find it most of the time distracting while coding.
Noise Cancelling headphones without the music (QC35, previously QC15). I've tried many things like brain.fm, focus zen, simply noise, focusmusic.fm - all of them became boring after 2-3 weeks.
I also have a 'debugging' playlist on spotify - when I need less concentration. 'Fast' music without vocals - liquid Drum 'n' Bass, Daft Punk's TRON: Legacy OST. Sometimes i switch to classical music when I'm working on something frustrating - Tchaikovsky symphony 5, Vivaldi Four Seasons, Camille Saint-Saens or Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet.
I like to thing of myself as die hard death metal fan, but I can't code with this music.
It can be anything really, mostly pop and hip hop; sometimes k-pop, or classic rock or big band. What I tend to do is play the same songs over and over and over again.
Anytime my music starts up after being stopped, I start at the beginning of one giant Spotify playlist I've been adding to over the years. I know how many times I've been interrupted by how often I've heard the first song today, or how deep into the playlist I got.
I love coding in silence, and I do it whenever possible. It can bring my concentration to the levels I will never reach with music: if I listen to some new recommended music, then occasional intrusive and lyrics-rich tracks are inevitable; if I listen to something I already listened to, some tracks distract me with associated memories.
When coding in silence is not possible, I usually turn on some noise or find playlists for coding, depending on current mood.
Sometimes I just want something more like close to white/grey noise, but with a dab of a beat to it so then I'll listen to this, title "CLEANSE Destructive ENERGY From Over-Thinking | Theta Binaural Beats" youtube.com/watch?v=Cpw_Wkm05j8
Both of these channels have other variations on these themes as well.
Depends--monkey work that I don't have to think too much about, Bluegrass and Irish Folk. (I keep it traditional.) If I have to think and problem solve, Space, Drone, Ambient, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Biosphere, Brian Eno, Aes Dana.
Movies : [The fight club, Scott Pilgrim, Matrix],
Series : [GoT, Veep, Silicon Valley,Seinfeld, mr Robot, How I meet your mother]
Sports : [Old sport events, soccer, basketball,baseball],
I dont use music to code, because I cant listen songs I dont like, and it doesnt matter the artist, no all the songs are good, so I need to skip the song, I cant do that each 3 min, movies and series works better for me.
All sorts of music, depending on my mood. Heavy metal, ambient (8bit ambient is pretty cool), classical music...
I find soundtracks to be particularly immersive, especially video game soundtracks - Bastion, Sword and Sworcery and Journey are amongst my favorites.
I recently discovered instrumental hip-hop, and have found it's the perfect music for day-today coding. It's not too distracting if I need to focus, but keeps me in a groove. A couple of my go-tos would be Jaku by DJ Krush or Endtroducing by DJ Shadow. If I don't need to think too much, and just need to bang out some code, I like something more aggressive, like metal or dubstep.
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Depends on the day. Today it's Jimmie Bratcher. :)
Other days it's been some mix of Hendrix, Chickenfoot, Audioslave, Joe Bonnamassa. Some times it's a bit of Ozzy and Metallica. I break out the classical from time to time.
I think the only type of music not represented in my collection is rap. Just doesn't appeal to me.
I am a big fan of LukHash. He's a Polish artist who produces chiptune, fused with electro and dubstep. Everything from his tunes to the album and track names put your brain into coding mode.
It depends, I have 2 programming moods, depending on whether there are strong theoretical background to what I have to code or not (for scientific projects at school), I use classical, or a mix of punk/pop/rock/alternative
Most of the time nothing. You know, you have the headphones on but you forget that for some reason or another you forgot to turn the music on.
A while back I read a post where Oliver Emberton shared his music list on spotify and so I have been using that. The main attraction is they most are instrumentals so they do not distract me
Fleet Foxes radio on Apple Music, something like the Stranger Things soundtrack or a custom Focus playlist that I put together consisting of a lot of film scores (Deathly Hallows, Star Wars, Jane Eyre [Dario Marianelli], Winter's Bone, Doctor Who, etc.)
What music I listen to depends on my mood personally. It could be Grunge, Punk, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Indie, Folk; you name it. Lately, I've been listening to a lot of the comedy playlists on Spotify.
I like to code with rock (heavy metal, power metal, progressive, rock and roll, Psychedelic) but sometimes when the coding session is intense I switch to electronic. I think the difference relies on the tasks and my mood. I'm big fan of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk; and of course good music comes with a nice pair of headphones. I recommend Bose QC25 or QC35
I like to code with rock (heavy metal, power metal, progressive, rock and roll, Psychedelic) but sometimes when the coding session is intense I switch to electronic. I think the difference relies on the tasks and my mood. I'm big fan of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk.
I listen to soundtracks for the most part.
Movies: The Lord of The Rings, Unbreakable, Road to Perdition, Ex Machina, Planet Earth Part 2 to name a few.
Games: Journey, Assassin's Creed Revelations and Dead Space 3 are my top choices in this category.
I also use some of Google's Play Music channels like Trappy Instrumentals, Soft Trap Beats, Downtempo Instrumentals and Classic Ambient.
I like to code with rock (heavy metal, power metal, progressive, rock and roll, Psychedelic) but sometimes when the coding session is intense I switch to electronic. I think the difference relies on the tasks and my mood. I'm big fan of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk.
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EDM ..... Daft Punk, Ship Wrek, Tobu, Marshmallow, Jinco, and a ton of other artists. Anything with a dope beat and not too many words to think about. I also have a tendency to listen to the same song on repeat for 12+ hours straight during coding sprints and Hackathons. That’s how I get into a flow state. 💯💯💯
If you want ambient background noise I can't recommend this site enough - dozens of constantly varying soundscape generators... mynoise.net/
All the samples are designed so you never get repetition and you can adjust the frequency balance for optimal distraction blocking (because Janet in Accounts has a voice that occupies 10KHz...)
If you donate a bit of £/$ (no minimum), it helps pay for the bandwidth and support the guy who runs it. He's sourcing sounds in person and everything is top quality.
When I need to focus (designing an algorithm for example) I'll have this on. Otherwise if it's straightforward plugging Bootstrap templates together Chillstep/Chillhop/Vocal Trance makes me code a bit faster :)
I usually listen to Metal: HardCore, MetalCore, Post HardCore, Death Metal, symphonic Metal, you name it. :)
I listen to albums on my phone. I regularly check Apple Music for new releases of bands I know or similar/recommended bands.
It pushes me forward and blocks out the sounds of our office (~25 people).
Generally heavy bleepy-bloops, with a bias towards non-vocal. The Glitch Mob are excellent in this respect, though both Mystery Skulls and Studio Killers do a great job of keeping me focused, despite the vocals.
while coding or writing i find that i can't listen to people saying words; that includes podcasts or new music. but i can listen to music that i've known for a long time -- i can even sing along with stuff i know by heart, while i type new writing or code.
I can mostly be found all over the place. One day it might be the soundtrack of "how to train your dragon", the next it might be ska or electroswing to any electronic one. One golden rule though: if there is a bass involved; deeper means better
I usually search for some keywords like dubstep, glitch, gaming, epic music (yes, you already guess it: I'm not a metal guy). I really like how the violin sounds, so right now I'm listening to Lindsey Stirling
Mostly hans zimmer instrumental. also Braid Soundtrek (Downstream my fav.)
Mainly instrumental only as I don't want to lose my concentration repeating the lyrics.
Different Guitars cover do as well :)
Recently I've been enjoying listening to the FIP Radio: fipradio.fr/player
They mostly play jazz, classical music and melodic rock. I find that very fitting for me when I'm coding.
Although sometimes I enjoy switching to something more fast-paced and/or heavy: Carpenter Brut, Caravan Palace, PUP, Paramore, Astronautalis, Guts.
You want full list or something specific? I'll give you a scoop.
Crapton of synthwave/newwave, jpop+jrock, some vgm osts for good measure.
It really depends on the task and the general mood, but here's a few examples:
"Droid Bishop - lost in symmetry" album
Uplink ost
Various Jpop/Jrock (usually OPs), to example - Slayers Try Ost (treasury vox), or jam project discography
Little big adventure ost
Legend of kyrandia 2 ost
Panorama Cotton Ost
Super Hydelide ost (out of freedom, chaos separator and light metal specifically)
Crusader - No remorse/no regret ost
Big Pharma ost
Theme Hospital ost
Planet mule theme
F.T.L. ost (including extended version with Hacking malfunction and Lost ship)
Raiden 1 ost
Tyrian Ost
And that's to name a few. My collection grows month by month C:
Also no headphones - 5.1 system. Easier on the head.
I just searched on Spotify and found this playlist, which is really cool for now!
I change my preferred playlist/songs/...form time to time so sometimes I hear dubstep, or concentration music and sometimes even no music, but that's not usual
For some reason, if I really need to concentrate and get stuff done, Pink Floyd's "Animals" album is my go-to. I suspect it's some combination of the fact that I like it, but also that it has a bit of a trance-like nature to it that does not pull my attention away from what I'm working on.
If I listen to anything (I work from home pretty much exclusively, so usually not) it has to be something I know so well my brain won’t be distracted. As a former music major, even classical music can distract me if it’s unfamiliar because my brain begins trying to analyze it, understand its structure, etc. So, I have some go-to albums or pieces that I can listen to while coding because I know them so well, mostly from my college years when I still had time to listen to new music. Here are a few:
Understand This Is A Dream by The Juliana Theory
40 Acres by Caedmon’s Call
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite
Speakeasy by Stavesacre
Anthem by Less Than Jake
Slowly Going The Way of the Buffalo by MxPx
Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez
In the absence of this, I will sometimes also put on Coffitivity as a sort of hum of noise if I’m in a noisy environment. coffitivity.com/
For focussed work I prefer Indie-Game-Sountracks (e.g. C418, Austin Wintory, Disasterpiece), mostly easy and silent stuff.
For easier stuff like styling, markup and handling tickets I listen to podcasts or audio-books.
Lots of electronic stuff. EDM, trance, drum'n'bass, dubstep. But also some trip hop, soundtracks, sometimes a bit of metal, even some Americana made in Hamburg!: open.spotify.com/album/6OvZVQQZyW6...
I usually like silence if I can get it. Otherwise if I really need to concentrate I grab coffee and listen to something with bi-neural beats over youtube.
If I'm working on something that doesn't require much concentration or is boring then I listen to "The Magicians" in the background (which I've watched so many times now that it's good background noise.
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Any time need to get work done, I have a couple small playlists I set on shuffle & swap every 30 - 60 minutes. A mix over lively Irish jig & some-what funky smooth (metro?) Jazz. It's a strange combo but they blend surprisingly over long periods of time on repeat.
Frickin' Hands Up and Techno music at the time. Actually, mostly from web radio. Not even sure if I love it or hate it; they don't always play tracks I like. I'll definitely check out your playlist. Thank you!
Trance, primarily from DI.fm. I'm a big fan of their Vocal Trance and Epic Trance channels. I'm usually either streaming one of those two channels, or listening to songs I first heard on those channels and added to my collection.
Progressive metal, usually. Either instrumental or with near-undecipherable growls--lyrics are distracting. Animals as Leaders, Cloudkicker, Fallujah, The Atlas Moth, Opeth, Vektor. The list could go for days. Sometimes I'll switch it up and listen to video game soundtracks, or occasionally, some podcasts if I'm doing something lighter
Instrumental classical and jazz playlists from Google Play Music.
I also don't listen to my own music all the time - we have music playing in the office at low volume and I like the ambient noise. I tend to put my headphones on when I really need to concentrate hard for an extended period of time, or if I find myself getting distracted by what's going on around me.
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I will normally listen to something along the lines of 'chill' music. I find it relaxing and it helps me focus.
I will also occasionally throw in a random song that doesn't fit with the rest of them once in a while, because I just found the song or just remembered it from a while back.
The list that I have is always changing. I find a song, listen to it way too much, and then it gets boring. So I will always go through Spotify's Discover weekly playlist, and that will usually have a good song or two.
Currently, I'm listening to remixes by (DJ) Vanic - Make Me Fade, Can't Sleep & The Cops are my favourites. I have a song or two by K.Flay, a song or two by Lil Dicky, and not too much else. This is sure to be different by this time next week though.
I work out of a home office and tend not to use headphones, maybe I should try that though.
Nonetheless, I usually listen to something in the "Focus" mood of Spotify, trying something new each time that I run through an entire playlist. I do find that I am most focused/productive when listening to songs that do not have lyrics played. One thing that I use to love listening to was the Daft Punk - Tron Legacy album/soundtrack (youtube.com/watch?v=OIM8RxaK5rE)
Heavy Metal!
Heave metal with earbuds (usually from computer instead of smartphone).
I play selected playlist and usually like last.fm for music discovery.
For the heavy metal theme spotify, deezer none satisfy my taste so I build my own playlists..
Well... There's a bit of everything. It's usually fast instrumental music from many artists on the Internet, like F-777 or Waterflame (just to name a few). And there are some musics on Soundtrack that are great too.
Also listening to a bit of Undertale soundtrack (it's a great one) and remixes of it.
On Todo list: make a proper playlist or some kind of album of coding music
Vitamin string quartet is my go-to when programming. They do instrumental covers of popular songs. You get all of the catchy beats/rhythms without any of the distracting words.
I also try to have Coffitivity running as well just to give that ambient noise creative boost.
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Gazelle Twin, Disasterpeace, Andy Stott, Headless Horseman, soundtracks that fall into the "weird electronica/ambient" category (e.g. Arrival, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, We Know the Devil)—I figured out a while back that I do best working to music that's like... slightly jarring white noise that's minimally distracting but not too soothing.
Either that or really bright upbeat K-pop. I don't really have an in-between, ha ha.
It depends. There are days, where I listen to Deep House / Tropical House Mixes and on other days I need something that pushes me more, then it'll be Drum and Bass or some Hardrock.
From my experience, songs without vocals - or songs with vocals that are harder to understand work better for me, since I find it very distracting if I subconsciously listen to the lyrics :)
Onda Vaga, Manu Chao, Inti Illimani, Chico Trujillo, Tiro de Gracia, Makiza, Subverso, Jorge Drexler, Churupaca, Yemen Blues, Gepe, Manuel Garcia, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Los Jaivas, Illapu or even Lucho Barrios.
random japanese shit (lotta Vocaloid, espec. ナナホシ管弦楽団, and ShibayanRecords), jazz, video game OSTs, Foo Fighters, PROTODOME. mostly stuff I bought/DLed 3-4 yrs ago 'cause I'm laaaaaaaazy
I generally stick to one song on repeat for an entire day. It gives me that repetitive backdrop to direct my attention in my code. open.spotify.com/user/1245984811/p...
I actually play ambient sounds like rain and thunderstorms using an app called "Noizio"! It's a software that allows you to mix different sounds like rain, thunderstorms, wind breeze etc. Relaxing, but helps me focus.
Usually I listen to one album on loop. The album depends on the mood. The point is to use music to give your brain a hint that you’d like to be in a focus mode.
To train your brain you need to spend some time putting effort not to do “not-coding” stuff while this particular music is playing. If you need to check email, messages, switch focus — you just put the music on pause.
It has to be familiar enough piece of music so you won’t find yourself wondering in the lyrics. Also familiarity gives you awareness of time.
I love music and that's basically a great part of what I appreciate in living but I cannot listen it anymore while I develop: too much information. Silence.
mostly melodic proggressive or lounge on di.fm or mix of retrowave music, preferably from perturbator, lazerhawk, myrone, VHS Dreams and similar artists. Also metal, mostly heavy, sometimes power or melodic death.
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Loads of different genres and mostly listening one per time. Chiptunes, liquid dnb, metal, 70s rock, modern classical music like Einaudi or Agnes Obel.
It's depend. If I'll have that me concentration, for example, some function in backend, I listen electronic or Pink Floyd. If the task is more easy or manual, I listen rock or jazz or blues.
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Lately, I've been listening to Alan Walker Radio on Google Play Music. But when I really need to focus, I listen to Epic Soundtracks which is lyricless.
I have a lot of playlist for this purposes. Mainly metal (power metal, trash metal) but soundtracks too! I also like to listen to Discover Weekly plsylist on spotify
Usually Heavy Metal. Sometimes I listen to game songs, it's really good to concentrate into work. This is a good one open.spotify.com/album/0EZu1jyeMC9...
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When I need focus: Lord of the Rings Soundtrack or Beethoven 5th, 7th or 8th symphony.
When I just need to drown out office noise EDM or Rock heavy playlists
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After reading most of your post no one mention my music lol :)
Any electronic playlist is ok
Party music
Latin music reggeaton and stuff like that
It seems I'm the only Latin guy here LOL
I have a few white noise tracks I like to listen too. Or sometimes I'll pick a jazz song and listen to it on repeat. Charles Mingus Pork Pie Hat usually if not the white noise. Or Ryu Fukui
Often Hans Zimmer or other film-score type music. I find music with lyrics a bit too distracting, but film music tends to still be interesting, but not too interesting!
Mainly video game music. Lately I've been having Ryan Burger's music on loop. If you're into orchestral video game inspired music check it out: [m.soundcloud.com/ryanburgermusic]
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I listen mostly to latin reggaeton, bachata and hip hop. Sometimes classic english songs from the 70's to the 90's, and sometimes instrumental music like Secret Garden.
There's this channel on youtube that streams lofi hiphop/chillpop 24/7. I Found out that because most of it doesn't have lyrics, it helps me to stay focused.
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youtu.be/fd2tIudSyR8 very obvious answer. It has the added value of taking into account that you might not finish your work in 8 hours. Remember: Guile’s theme goes with everything.
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Hans Zimmer, OSTs(from Chappie, Man Of Steel, Inception, BvS, Interstellar etc)
Moby
Tiesto
Stromae sometimes
Antonio Vivaldi
Mozart
Beethoven
Noisli Sounds
When I want to focus: faux 80's music and synthpop, with little or no lyrics. When I'm on autopilot; hiphop and neo-soul(Alex Wiley, Syd, the internet, RtJ)
Few last weeks - asoftmurmur.com : Rain and Thunder and Fire settings.
Before that - various game soundtracks available on Spotify - usually easy gets me into a zone
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Sometimes the bug its me, i'm junior dev who wants to work with js and .net , love games and in my free times read about game design and development , hope some day thats gonna be my main work. GLHF
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Trance. I mostly listen to Di.fm's "Vocal Trance" and "Epic Trance" channels, or songs I heard there first and picked up for myself later. On occasion, classic 70's/80's rock.
Toe. I started with "For Long Tomorrow" and when I got used I added "Hear You".Whole CDs, no skipping, no shuffling. Just put it on the background and let the work flow.
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A mix of ambient, electronic and jazz. Disparition, explosions in the sky, Adam Young, Miles Davis and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
This 😄
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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:
There is another kind of music?
Pirate Metal?
Prog Metal. Otherwise you are missing Dream Theater, Devin Townsend, Leprous, Haken. And what kind of life is that?
You're right!
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.
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And
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open.spotify.com/user/anotherfanny...
Jay Z 4:44
The Dark Knight’s soundtrack
Oh that sounds great
My current head space
open.spotify.com/user/darthgoon/pl...
Right now Lost on You by LP. What I listen to varies with my mood and what I am working on.
musicforprogramming.net/
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Thanks! I'm going to give this a listen this morning.
thanks
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
Yes! Bit too dark sometimes but works great anytime after lunch
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...
Oh yes, metal, dubstep or anything high energy. An absolute must!
Exactly the same here. It works so well.
Same here, preferably with harsh, mostly indecipherable vocals. Prevents me from getting distracted by the lyrics.
Agreed.... metal of all kinds, though I tend to shy away from doom/black/death...
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.
You must not work in an open office!
YES. Mogwai all day everyday.
I'm usually creeping my spotify discover playlist for Liquid / DnB tracks, and chill EDM. Nice, ethereal background.
Very similar. Chilled dubstep, a lot of instrumental hip-hop (anything by Blue Sky Black Death!) ambient tracks. I try to stay away from action movie soundtracks because the turns of pace make me anxious.
Try Aso on soundcloud real cool
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So you're usually looking for new tracks, or do you listen to the same ones a lot?
It's about a 50/50 split. When I really need to focus, I use songs I know I like from my saved (most of which came from discover). When I can focus a little less, I casually look for new ones.
That's pretty much what I'll do.
Love the range there. Add the Atmospheric Black Metal playlist from Spotify and Netsky dnb stuff. Mood dependant always.
Ludovico Einaudi! I love Divenire, especially when I'm frustrated by something. I haven't tried Lindsey Stirling while working, but I'll have to now!
I recently got into the sound track from The Social Network movie and I find it to be the perfect mix of tempo for me. I definitely recommend it. Great sound track in and of itself, but also reminiscent of a movie all about building a pretty damn popular website.
Such a great soundtrack, I can never skip it when it comes on!
Likewise. Great choice for coding.
Great album, as almost any OST by Trent Reznor. I also enjoy listening to Lost Girl and Before the flood ones.
brain.fm/
Seriously, within seconds into listening to the focus mode, I get thrice the concentration level. In about 30 minutes I'm almost in a trance. I recommend taking breaks from time to time, though; if I listen to it for too long I feel weird and disconnected from the reality.
The Skyrim soundtrack (or any Elder Scrolls ones) as well as electronic or ambient music usually.
This! Spotify has a good collection.
Anything by Jeremy Soule is good.
Hans Zimmer Always!
According to last.fm, I mostly listen to Ambient, Electronic & Jazz. Artists like:
and many others.
I used brain.fm previously, and while it works it can get tiring after a few weeks of listening to the same drone sounds. Too me what most helps me get into flow is calm, smooth, deep background music.
BoC is perfect
I mostly find any music with lyrics, etc. is sometimes too distracting.
So ambient / electronic is always nice.
Also, I've always found SomaFM Defcon music - is always good.
somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/de...
I like SomaFM. I made a simple page for me to listen Groove Salad :)
wildauer.io/somafm/
Depend on the mood but here's my overall genres
== Geek Stuff Incoming ==
Am I the only one listening to Interstellar OST? It's pure bliss, it takes us to whole new dimension.
Metal, 90's rock (nirvana, pearl jam, alice in chains, etc), tons of hip hop (E40, Too $hort, Snoop, Dre, Biggie, etc), Alt rock/Indie (Coheed and cambria, Spoon, Arcade fire, The Shins, etc), and finally sometimes I will put on various forms of electronic music, but I tend not to pay too much attention to who the artist is.
Depends on the day, but I really like those lo-fi hip hop streams on Youtube. You know, the ones with the looped old anime backgrounds? youtube.com/watch?v=h8W73zB4VMM
I also enjoy liquid dubstep/chillstep. Anything that's relatively low tempo and mostly instrumental, really.
I tried listening to the music I usually like while working (mostly rock), but felt I was concentrating on the music instead of my work.
Switch(mood){
case 1:
Atmospheric/ Epic/ Ambient Metal
break;
case 2:
Post Grunge/ Stoner Rock
break;
case 3:
Old School Rap/Hiphop/RnB/Pop/Electro
break;
case 4:
The Weekend haha
break;
default:
Shuffle all
}
Working in an open office means headsets with noise cancellation is a must. I used to listen to well-known Rock / metal music. I've found more that the more variation there is, the easier it is to et distracted.
After discovering mindfulness I've started enjoying silence, and that's the music of my choice these days: silence (noise cancellation almost works for that)
I've found the TRON / Social Network soundtracks to be quite enjoyable when not doing brain-taxing work.
Zachtronics' games soundtracks, e.g. SHENZHEN I/O OST: zachtronics.bandcamp.com/album/she...
Some Ben Prunty, e.g. Cipher: benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ciphe...
In general, preference for electronica.
Yes! Love the Shenzhen I/O soundtrack.
Yes, I like obscure instrumental artists. Any more anyone can recommend?
You don't have Max Richter or Yann Tiersen on this list? I'm surprised. Also: Johann Johannsson, Nathan Barr and the Sunshine OST (John Murphy!)
Oh hey look, my playlists just grew by a couple hundred songs! Thanks a ton!
I actually do have some stuff from John Murphy. I just didn't stick it on the list because the number of songs was so low compared to those other ones.
Sharing my personally curated EDM/Electronic music playlist here (has almost 600 songs and growing. I also update it almost every day). I listen to it everyday and it works well for me!
open.spotify.com/user/complexchris...
It totally depends on the situation. When i am in a greenfield project i like to hear some electronic tunes. I like things without lyrics like Jean-Michel Jarre or Rival Consoles. Or on other occasions i really enjoy David Hicken (piano artist which if you did not know him you should definitely check it out ).
If i'll have to bugfix something in a legacy code base (it happens from time to time) i sometimes need some energetic or aggressive tunes. E.g. Carpenter Brut or The Algorithm are quite good for this kind of work. Even though sometimes i hear music with lyrics i find it most of the time distracting while coding.
Noise Cancelling headphones without the music (QC35, previously QC15). I've tried many things like brain.fm, focus zen, simply noise, focusmusic.fm - all of them became boring after 2-3 weeks.
I also have a 'debugging' playlist on spotify - when I need less concentration. 'Fast' music without vocals - liquid Drum 'n' Bass, Daft Punk's TRON: Legacy OST. Sometimes i switch to classical music when I'm working on something frustrating - Tchaikovsky symphony 5, Vivaldi Four Seasons, Camille Saint-Saens or Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet.
I like to thing of myself as die hard death metal fan, but I can't code with this music.
It can be anything really, mostly pop and hip hop; sometimes k-pop, or classic rock or big band. What I tend to do is play the same songs over and over and over again.
Anytime my music starts up after being stopped, I start at the beginning of one giant Spotify playlist I've been adding to over the years. I know how many times I've been interrupted by how often I've heard the first song today, or how deep into the playlist I got.
I love coding in silence, and I do it whenever possible. It can bring my concentration to the levels I will never reach with music: if I listen to some new recommended music, then occasional intrusive and lyrics-rich tracks are inevitable; if I listen to something I already listened to, some tracks distract me with associated memories.
When coding in silence is not possible, I usually turn on some noise or find playlists for coding, depending on current mood.
Electronic. Dubstep, Trance, Techno, whatever. Lots of Lindsey Stirling, actually.
If I'm looking for variety, I'll usually listen to Programming Music Mix for Dark Minds: youtube.com/watch?v=KGH26RaM0M4
Sometimes I just want something more like close to white/grey noise, but with a dab of a beat to it so then I'll listen to this, title "CLEANSE Destructive ENERGY From Over-Thinking | Theta Binaural Beats" youtube.com/watch?v=Cpw_Wkm05j8
Both of these channels have other variations on these themes as well.
In order from most focus needed to least.
Depends--monkey work that I don't have to think too much about, Bluegrass and Irish Folk. (I keep it traditional.) If I have to think and problem solve, Space, Drone, Ambient, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Biosphere, Brian Eno, Aes Dana.
On any given day, a few things may be playing:
Movies : [The fight club, Scott Pilgrim, Matrix],
Series : [GoT, Veep, Silicon Valley,Seinfeld, mr Robot, How I meet your mother]
Sports : [Old sport events, soccer, basketball,baseball],
I dont use music to code, because I cant listen songs I dont like, and it doesnt matter the artist, no all the songs are good, so I need to skip the song, I cant do that each 3 min, movies and series works better for me.
All sorts of music, depending on my mood. Heavy metal, ambient (8bit ambient is pretty cool), classical music...
I find soundtracks to be particularly immersive, especially video game soundtracks - Bastion, Sword and Sworcery and Journey are amongst my favorites.
I recently discovered instrumental hip-hop, and have found it's the perfect music for day-today coding. It's not too distracting if I need to focus, but keeps me in a groove. A couple of my go-tos would be Jaku by DJ Krush or Endtroducing by DJ Shadow. If I don't need to think too much, and just need to bang out some code, I like something more aggressive, like metal or dubstep.
I've created several playlists, divided by genre, that I listen according to the mood:
Sometimes I also listen to noisli, or genre playlists (liked electroswing recently). I like to vary a lot, I just don't like rap/hip hop and dubstep.
Depends on the day. Today it's Jimmie Bratcher. :)
Other days it's been some mix of Hendrix, Chickenfoot, Audioslave, Joe Bonnamassa. Some times it's a bit of Ozzy and Metallica. I break out the classical from time to time.
I think the only type of music not represented in my collection is rap. Just doesn't appeal to me.
It varies for me. Most anything can work, as long as:
And for your extreme focus needs - Terraforming by Wide Eyes looping over and over and over.
I am a big fan of LukHash. He's a Polish artist who produces chiptune, fused with electro and dubstep. Everything from his tunes to the album and track names put your brain into coding mode.
Have a look at his site: lukhash.com
You can download his discography at jamendo.com/artist/353807/lukhash
It depends, I have 2 programming moods, depending on whether there are strong theoretical background to what I have to code or not (for scientific projects at school), I use classical, or a mix of punk/pop/rock/alternative
Edm keeps me in the zone been switching between two Spotify playlists:
open.spotify.com/user/hurtmeplease...
open.spotify.com/user/akhilsagar/p...
Most of the time nothing. You know, you have the headphones on but you forget that for some reason or another you forgot to turn the music on.
A while back I read a post where Oliver Emberton shared his music list on spotify and so I have been using that. The main attraction is they most are instrumentals so they do not distract me
I like Orbital. If it has a decent beat and I can ignore what few vocals there are, it'll work. Metal is great, esp Dio-era Sabbath.
I like jazz IRL, but while coding, it demands your attention in ways that just don't work.
Fleet Foxes radio on Apple Music, something like the Stranger Things soundtrack or a custom Focus playlist that I put together consisting of a lot of film scores (Deathly Hallows, Star Wars, Jane Eyre [Dario Marianelli], Winter's Bone, Doctor Who, etc.)
What music I listen to depends on my mood personally. It could be Grunge, Punk, Hard Rock, Classic Rock, Indie, Folk; you name it. Lately, I've been listening to a lot of the comedy playlists on Spotify.
I like to code with rock (heavy metal, power metal, progressive, rock and roll, Psychedelic) but sometimes when the coding session is intense I switch to electronic. I think the difference relies on the tasks and my mood. I'm big fan of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk; and of course good music comes with a nice pair of headphones. I recommend Bose QC25 or QC35
I like to code with rock (heavy metal, power metal, progressive, rock and roll, Psychedelic) but sometimes when the coding session is intense I switch to electronic. I think the difference relies on the tasks and my mood. I'm big fan of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk.
Brain Fm
Brain.fm - it really gets me in the zone.
For intense focus, this is my go-to website. Best because I don't have to think about what to listen to. Their focus selections REALLY work.
Video game music
To get pumped (aka wake up): Mega Man X - Stage Select
Any Mega Man X series songs.
Or Mega Man series songs
Chiptunes!
I listen to soundtracks for the most part.
Movies: The Lord of The Rings, Unbreakable, Road to Perdition, Ex Machina, Planet Earth Part 2 to name a few.
Games: Journey, Assassin's Creed Revelations and Dead Space 3 are my top choices in this category.
I also use some of Google's Play Music channels like Trappy Instrumentals, Soft Trap Beats, Downtempo Instrumentals and Classic Ambient.
I like to code with rock (heavy metal, power metal, progressive, rock and roll, Psychedelic) but sometimes when the coding session is intense I switch to electronic. I think the difference relies on the tasks and my mood. I'm big fan of Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk.
EDM ..... Daft Punk, Ship Wrek, Tobu, Marshmallow, Jinco, and a ton of other artists. Anything with a dope beat and not too many words to think about. I also have a tendency to listen to the same song on repeat for 12+ hours straight during coding sprints and Hackathons. That’s how I get into a flow state. 💯💯💯
If you want ambient background noise I can't recommend this site enough - dozens of constantly varying soundscape generators...
mynoise.net/
All the samples are designed so you never get repetition and you can adjust the frequency balance for optimal distraction blocking (because Janet in Accounts has a voice that occupies 10KHz...)
If you donate a bit of £/$ (no minimum), it helps pay for the bandwidth and support the guy who runs it. He's sourcing sounds in person and everything is top quality.
When I need to focus (designing an algorithm for example) I'll have this on. Otherwise if it's straightforward plugging Bootstrap templates together Chillstep/Chillhop/Vocal Trance makes me code a bit faster :)
Mostly the playlist I've created over two years ago and kept updating ever since - open.spotify.com/user/d4rkypl/play...
It's a mix of dnb, dubstep, hardstyle and other brain sledgehammers to keep you from feeling tired and sleepy :)
I usually listen to Metal: HardCore, MetalCore, Post HardCore, Death Metal, symphonic Metal, you name it. :)
I listen to albums on my phone. I regularly check Apple Music for new releases of bands I know or similar/recommended bands.
It pushes me forward and blocks out the sounds of our office (~25 people).
Generally heavy bleepy-bloops, with a bias towards non-vocal. The Glitch Mob are excellent in this respect, though both Mystery Skulls and Studio Killers do a great job of keeping me focused, despite the vocals.
while coding or writing i find that i can't listen to people saying words; that includes podcasts or new music. but i can listen to music that i've known for a long time -- i can even sing along with stuff i know by heart, while i type new writing or code.
I can mostly be found all over the place. One day it might be the soundtrack of "how to train your dragon", the next it might be ska or electroswing to any electronic one. One golden rule though: if there is a bass involved; deeper means better
I usually search for some keywords like dubstep, glitch, gaming, epic music (yes, you already guess it: I'm not a metal guy). I really like how the violin sounds, so right now I'm listening to Lindsey Stirling
Tycho. Always, Tycho.
I listen to instrumentals of christian music especially: youtube.com/watch?v=rvo4P0SfBOw&li...
Recently I'm hooked to some Nigerian gospel mix: youtube.com/watch?v=fHWCE054TEM
Mostly hans zimmer instrumental. also Braid Soundtrek (Downstream my fav.)
Mainly instrumental only as I don't want to lose my concentration repeating the lyrics.
Different Guitars cover do as well :)
Recently I've been enjoying listening to the FIP Radio: fipradio.fr/player
They mostly play jazz, classical music and melodic rock. I find that very fitting for me when I'm coding.
Although sometimes I enjoy switching to something more fast-paced and/or heavy: Carpenter Brut, Caravan Palace, PUP, Paramore, Astronautalis, Guts.
You want full list or something specific? I'll give you a scoop.
Crapton of synthwave/newwave, jpop+jrock, some vgm osts for good measure.
It really depends on the task and the general mood, but here's a few examples:
"Droid Bishop - lost in symmetry" album
Uplink ost
Various Jpop/Jrock (usually OPs), to example - Slayers Try Ost (treasury vox), or jam project discography
Little big adventure ost
Legend of kyrandia 2 ost
Panorama Cotton Ost
Super Hydelide ost (out of freedom, chaos separator and light metal specifically)
Crusader - No remorse/no regret ost
Big Pharma ost
Theme Hospital ost
Planet mule theme
F.T.L. ost (including extended version with Hacking malfunction and Lost ship)
Raiden 1 ost
Tyrian Ost
And that's to name a few. My collection grows month by month C:
Also no headphones - 5.1 system. Easier on the head.
I just searched on Spotify and found this playlist, which is really cool for now!
I change my preferred playlist/songs/...form time to time so sometimes I hear dubstep, or concentration music and sometimes even no music, but that's not usual
Video games soundtracks, currently Broken Age's, but these are cool too:
For some reason, if I really need to concentrate and get stuff done, Pink Floyd's "Animals" album is my go-to. I suspect it's some combination of the fact that I like it, but also that it has a bit of a trance-like nature to it that does not pull my attention away from what I'm working on.
If I listen to anything (I work from home pretty much exclusively, so usually not) it has to be something I know so well my brain won’t be distracted. As a former music major, even classical music can distract me if it’s unfamiliar because my brain begins trying to analyze it, understand its structure, etc. So, I have some go-to albums or pieces that I can listen to while coding because I know them so well, mostly from my college years when I still had time to listen to new music. Here are a few:
In the absence of this, I will sometimes also put on Coffitivity as a sort of hum of noise if I’m in a noisy environment. coffitivity.com/
For focussed work I prefer Indie-Game-Sountracks (e.g. C418, Austin Wintory, Disasterpiece), mostly easy and silent stuff.
For easier stuff like styling, markup and handling tickets I listen to podcasts or audio-books.
Lots of electronic stuff. EDM, trance, drum'n'bass, dubstep. But also some trip hop, soundtracks, sometimes a bit of metal, even some Americana made in Hamburg!: open.spotify.com/album/6OvZVQQZyW6...
Current favourite: open.spotify.com/track/6hYyiunELXz...
Mixed fav playlist
open.spotify.com/user/1128664007/p...
I usually like silence if I can get it. Otherwise if I really need to concentrate I grab coffee and listen to something with bi-neural beats over youtube.
If I'm working on something that doesn't require much concentration or is boring then I listen to "The Magicians" in the background (which I've watched so many times now that it's good background noise.
Any time need to get work done, I have a couple small playlists I set on shuffle & swap every 30 - 60 minutes. A mix over lively Irish jig & some-what funky smooth (metro?) Jazz. It's a strange combo but they blend surprisingly over long periods of time on repeat.
play.google.com/music/playlist/AMa...
Frickin' Hands Up and Techno music at the time. Actually, mostly from web radio. Not even sure if I love it or hate it; they don't always play tracks I like. I'll definitely check out your playlist. Thank you!
Dragonforce, Helion Prime, Halestorm, Rise Against, if I want something hard-hitting with guitar and drums.
Danny Baranovsky, MDK if I feel a need for an electronic beat.
Or soundtracks from any number of movies and games (seriously, check out the Horizon Zero Dawn OST, it's gorgeous).
Occasionally some Simple Plan, a bit of J-pop, Tokelauan band Te Vaka comes up, and a weird, eclectic mixture of things.
Trance, primarily from DI.fm. I'm a big fan of their Vocal Trance and Epic Trance channels. I'm usually either streaming one of those two channels, or listening to songs I first heard on those channels and added to my collection.
Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Itamar Assumpção.
Progressive metal, usually. Either instrumental or with near-undecipherable growls--lyrics are distracting. Animals as Leaders, Cloudkicker, Fallujah, The Atlas Moth, Opeth, Vektor. The list could go for days. Sometimes I'll switch it up and listen to video game soundtracks, or occasionally, some podcasts if I'm doing something lighter
Instrumental classical and jazz playlists from Google Play Music.
I also don't listen to my own music all the time - we have music playing in the office at low volume and I like the ambient noise. I tend to put my headphones on when I really need to concentrate hard for an extended period of time, or if I find myself getting distracted by what's going on around me.
Either soma.fm or /r/listentothis.
On soma.fm I usually listen to sf1033 at work, which is ambient electronic music mixed with public service (read: police) radio chatter.
I will normally listen to something along the lines of 'chill' music. I find it relaxing and it helps me focus.
I will also occasionally throw in a random song that doesn't fit with the rest of them once in a while, because I just found the song or just remembered it from a while back.
The list that I have is always changing. I find a song, listen to it way too much, and then it gets boring. So I will always go through Spotify's Discover weekly playlist, and that will usually have a good song or two.
Currently, I'm listening to remixes by (DJ) Vanic - Make Me Fade, Can't Sleep & The Cops are my favourites. I have a song or two by K.Flay, a song or two by Lil Dicky, and not too much else. This is sure to be different by this time next week though.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Bach yet. Beethoven. Mozart.
Also a big fan of Radio Dismuke -- davidgagne.net/2017/02/27/radio-di...
And, yes, the Social Network soundtrack is great.
I work out of a home office and tend not to use headphones, maybe I should try that though.
Nonetheless, I usually listen to something in the "Focus" mood of Spotify, trying something new each time that I run through an entire playlist. I do find that I am most focused/productive when listening to songs that do not have lyrics played. One thing that I use to love listening to was the Daft Punk - Tron Legacy album/soundtrack (youtube.com/watch?v=OIM8RxaK5rE)
Heavy Metal!
Heave metal with earbuds (usually from computer instead of smartphone).
I play selected playlist and usually like last.fm for music discovery.
For the heavy metal theme spotify, deezer none satisfy my taste so I build my own playlists..
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7goQ0B...
last.fm/user/habibcs
Hate Nu metal
Doom metal
Doom death metal (FAV)
Melodic death metal (FAV)
Death metal
Deathcore
Hardcore
Black metal
Power/War/Thrash metal
Well... There's a bit of everything. It's usually fast instrumental music from many artists on the Internet, like F-777 or Waterflame (just to name a few). And there are some musics on Soundtrack that are great too.
Also listening to a bit of Undertale soundtrack (it's a great one) and remixes of it.
On Todo list: make a proper playlist or some kind of album of coding music
Vitamin string quartet is my go-to when programming. They do instrumental covers of popular songs. You get all of the catchy beats/rhythms without any of the distracting words.
I also try to have Coffitivity running as well just to give that ambient noise creative boost.
i like a variety of things classical or choir music, acoustic guitar tunes, classic rock, taylor swift, 80s...
but only if i'm coding. if i'm reading up on something, then i need silence. even violins are distracting. :)
Gazelle Twin, Disasterpeace, Andy Stott, Headless Horseman, soundtracks that fall into the "weird electronica/ambient" category (e.g. Arrival, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, We Know the Devil)—I figured out a while back that I do best working to music that's like... slightly jarring white noise that's minimally distracting but not too soothing.
Either that or really bright upbeat K-pop. I don't really have an in-between, ha ha.
It depends. There are days, where I listen to Deep House / Tropical House Mixes and on other days I need something that pushes me more, then it'll be Drum and Bass or some Hardrock.
From my experience, songs without vocals - or songs with vocals that are harder to understand work better for me, since I find it very distracting if I subconsciously listen to the lyrics :)
Currently, I like this playlists:
AR Rahman <3
Onda Vaga, Manu Chao, Inti Illimani, Chico Trujillo, Tiro de Gracia, Makiza, Subverso, Jorge Drexler, Churupaca, Yemen Blues, Gepe, Manuel Garcia, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Los Jaivas, Illapu or even Lucho Barrios.
random japanese shit (lotta Vocaloid, espec. ナナホシ管弦楽団, and ShibayanRecords), jazz, video game OSTs, Foo Fighters, PROTODOME. mostly stuff I bought/DLed 3-4 yrs ago 'cause I'm laaaaaaaazy
Same here :P
Flying Lotus and similar abstract hip-hop, old school drum and bass jungle
I've been listening to "Chill Hop" music, really nice for programming
open.spotify.com/user/chillhopmusi...
Orchestral videogame music such as Theophany (youtube.com/user/TheophanyRemix) and Project Destati (youtube.com/user/ProjectDestati), also OSTs from Zeldas and recently, Wintergatan: (youtube.com/watch?v=SBK2AF-NdVA)
Carl Cox, Deadmau5, Gesaffelstein, Westworld OST, Sim City OST, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 & 3
Nothing at work since I'm (almost) always pairing. At home, usually 60's and 70's rock n roll.
Wow! How do you enjoy pairing?
Mr. Bill is awesome for coding. Electronic music, very cool, glitchy style. Has loads of free/pwyw on Bandcamp!
I often switch between spotify focus/concentration playlists or listen to 1-2h ambient music videos on YouTube or just using brainfm.
ATC all around the world lalalala
I generally stick to one song on repeat for an entire day. It gives me that repetitive backdrop to direct my attention in my code.
open.spotify.com/user/1245984811/p...
The World of Warcraft Vanilla OST mostly.
Rain sound
I actually play ambient sounds like rain and thunderstorms using an app called "Noizio"! It's a software that allows you to mix different sounds like rain, thunderstorms, wind breeze etc. Relaxing, but helps me focus.
Women with accents whispering towel folding advice.
the best!
Usually I listen to one album on loop. The album depends on the mood. The point is to use music to give your brain a hint that you’d like to be in a focus mode.
To train your brain you need to spend some time putting effort not to do “not-coding” stuff while this particular music is playing. If you need to check email, messages, switch focus — you just put the music on pause.
It has to be familiar enough piece of music so you won’t find yourself wondering in the lyrics. Also familiarity gives you awareness of time.
Other references:
Music to Code By: mtcb.pwop.com/
Yeah. Music to code by is great. No lyrics and a smooth sound. It's great to keep focus.
Spotify playlists, chillout mixes and sometimes EVE Online soundtrack :)
My weekly discover usually help me out, if not, some Movie Themes from Hans Zimmer
Music. Mostly. Sometimes people talking.
I love music and that's basically a great part of what I appreciate in living but I cannot listen it anymore while I develop: too much information. Silence.
slipknot....
What songs?
eyeless, circle, snuff, duality, wait and bleed, devil in I
classic answer - it depends! XD
mostly melodic proggressive or lounge on di.fm or mix of retrowave music, preferably from perturbator, lazerhawk, myrone, VHS Dreams and similar artists. Also metal, mostly heavy, sometimes power or melodic death.
noisli.com
A combination of
Fan+Brown Noise. It effectively cuts out outside disturbances while not being distracting on it's own. Do try.Oddly satisfying
youtu.be/mg7netw1JuM
open.spotify.com/user/prsdthkr/pla...
Krautrock (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze etc) or Classic (Vivaldi, Mozart etc)
Oh, and my Apple Music playlist of about 600 songs.
white noise or old school jungle
This
youtube.com/watch?v=tfIH0KDk6M8
Mostly FlumeAUS and Adriatique
Trance/techno/deep house podcasts/shows (~1hr) or long sets (~6hrs)
soundcloud.com/acl777
Usually some hair metal. Amazon Music's 100 Greatest Hair Metal Songs. It's my happy place. :)
Anything slowwwwwww
Mostly this youtube.com/watch?v=h8W73zB4VMM and also the youtube recomendation playlist for blood red shoes
Trance music.
Mostly Hardcore and metalcore, but some days I just feel like some lo-fi hip hop.
Psytrance or Dubstep
some Ben Webster's, and ambient.
Loads of different genres and mostly listening one per time. Chiptunes, liquid dnb, metal, 70s rock, modern classical music like Einaudi or Agnes Obel.
Armin van Burren or some other trance artist. Usually Armin's show (ASOT)
Usually podcasts or random gameplay videos... I like to laugh while I code... Also, I like funny things, not just laughing at my own terrible job
Some cool webradios -> github.com/db0sch/awesome_webradios
Random
Silence Marshmello
Skrillex, Martin Garrix, Alan Walker.. A little of Stromae..
Eletronic music in general.
Soundtracks - mainly from films and video games, sometimes from TV shows
Interstellar OST
open.spotify.com/user/casassaez/pl... A mix with EDM, house and more
It's depend. If I'll have that me concentration, for example, some function in backend, I listen electronic or Pink Floyd. If the task is more easy or manual, I listen rock or jazz or blues.
Twenty One Pilots, Illenium, Leonell Cassio, Blackmill, Gemini, anything chillstep, really.
Snarky Puppy
Lately? Anything composed by The Dream :D
Basically anything, from rap to techno to blues etc...
Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. Mostly Metal and post-hardcore stuff.
trap.fm
Dawn of Midi
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Jazz ooh
Tom Day, Daughter, Bon Iver!
Just try this :
open.spotify.com/user/111268827/pl...
Nuthin' fancy, just fuzzfm.com :)
Sometimes it's classical, most of the time progressive, tech or deep house, sometimes dnb, sometimes indie.
Retrowave/Synthwave, Classical and Jazz
itunes.apple.com/in/playlist/just-...
open.spotify.com/user/edilsonpecan...
The Queen, all day long!
playlists like this: open.spotify.com/user/johanbrook/p...
and some own playlists
Anime music. Specifically, OSTs from Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Attack on Titan.
My ADHD mellow-energy track:
open.spotify.com/user/1262343124/p...
Música Metal en general, aunque hay días en que va variando a otras cosas menos distorsionadas... supongo que depende del estado de ánimo
This. youtube.com/watch?v=YQwYNca4iog
What else but Hamilton? Is there any other way?
Rock and heavy metal 🤘🏾
Mostly Hotline Miami's OST, and Jake Kauffman(Virt)'s chiptune albums
Jazz, electronic, Metal
All depends on the time of the day
Varies greatly, but most commonly, RED.
Lately, I've been listening to Alan Walker Radio on Google Play Music. But when I really need to focus, I listen to Epic Soundtracks which is lyricless.
I like to hear futuristics genres like Vaporwave, Electropunk and chill out. These kind of music really got me into technological meaning of my work.
I have a lot of playlist for this purposes. Mainly metal (power metal, trash metal) but soundtracks too! I also like to listen to Discover Weekly plsylist on spotify
A mix of (mostly) metal and rock with rain sounds playing in the background!
I listen to star trek movies and tab over to my favorite scenes when they show up.
almost all the time metal, folk metal and melodic death metal, but latelly just steampunk and space unicorns
brain.fm for a shot of Focus, then high energy EDM of various kinds.
Deep house mixes c:
Usually Heavy Metal. Sometimes I listen to game songs, it's really good to concentrate into work. This is a good one open.spotify.com/album/0EZu1jyeMC9...
Video game soundtracks:
Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
Final Fantasy VIII
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I feel so comfortable with these tunes on :)
Lofi Hip Hop station on YouTube, electro jazz/blues, monstercat live radio stream on youtube.
Listening to this playlist
open.spotify.com/user/newtron54/pl...
I need absolute silence to code. :(
I listen to Vocaloid songs while I program stuff :P
Lost Frequencies all the way. <3
It’s normally a playlist of Mayday Parade and My Chemical Romance.
Afrobeat all the way -> Spotify Playlist
These days : Anderson .Paak ( Malibu ), Earth Wind And Fire ( All'N All) and Radiohead ( The bends ).
Primus,mostly. Some Pearl Jam, STP, Tool and Soen also appear from time to time
Infected Mushroom. Or Bach.
Nothing...music doesn't work for me at anything that requires concentration
When I need focus: Lord of the Rings Soundtrack or Beethoven 5th, 7th or 8th symphony.
When I just need to drown out office noise EDM or Rock heavy playlists
Country Music
Justice, preferably live versions.
This
soundcloud.com/alexandru-loghin-37...
A mix of jazz, swing, blues and indie folk pop.
tech house!
Progressive Metal!!!
Lately: The Neal Morse Band, Transatlantic and Periphery.
A State of Trance, a radio show by Armin Van Buuren
Mac demarco, the beatles, hozier, elo, coconut records, queen
Here are two of my lists
soundcloud.com/cdnsteve/sets/mind-...
soundcloud.com/cdnsteve/sets/give-...
I just open YouTube, search for "meditation music", click on the first result. 8 hours of noise cancellation and good focus guaranteed!
I always listen to the Monstercat podcast: live.monstercat.com .
Prog rock or something along those lines. So lots of Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, some Queen, maybe some ELP, and everything in between.
it depends, but Orlando Di Lasso is recommended for deep concentration.
Typically NightCore. High engery, high tempo, repetitive beat. youtube.com/user/NighTcoreFC, youtube.com/user/nyuualiaslucy, youtube.com/user/DiavelNN, et al.
C418. It helps filter out noice from outside but doesn't distract me from what I'm working on.
After reading most of your post no one mention my music lol :)
Any electronic playlist is ok
Party music
Latin music reggeaton and stuff like that
It seems I'm the only Latin guy here LOL
I have a few white noise tracks I like to listen too. Or sometimes I'll pick a jazz song and listen to it on repeat. Charles Mingus Pork Pie Hat usually if not the white noise. Or Ryu Fukui
Anything with a strong driving beat or melody works wonders for powering you though coding sessions.
Mellow Beats or Blue Notes Most Sampled.. playlists on Spotify.
Intense Studying playlist on Spotify too
echoesofbluemars.org/
Chilltrax radio or some deep house mix from Spotify or YouTube.
Anything off this list of delicious trance / house / drum n bass podcasts :)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17A...
Cumbia papa olvidate!! El pepo, la base, etc, etc
Often Hans Zimmer or other film-score type music. I find music with lyrics a bit too distracting, but film music tends to still be interesting, but not too interesting!
Varies a lot - from soothing moods to metal. Lately, I've been listening to a lot of Two Steps From Hell and other epic music bands.
dub-techno/minimal techno is ideal background for coding. Pretty much anything from here: m.mixcloud.com/jjsauma/
This 80s retro playlist: open.spotify.com/user/b488050/play...
Linkin Park, Green Day, The Offspring, Ashes Remain, Three Days Grace...
Video games tracks, game of thrones tracks, not too quick of a pace electronic. Sometimes, but rarely, high energy/tempo :)
Nothing! I just put the headphones to cut out the ambient noise of the open office.
Brain.FM! Instead of looking for new tracks every few days, I just listen to AI-made music 🙏
Astropilot - God's Channel(Boom 2012 Live Edit)
I very few times have music playing, and I very few times have headphones. So I can easily say... None
The art rock stylings of Queens of the Stone Age
K-pop and k-hiphop mostly – chill and powerful songs on shuffle. Sometimes I also like to put synthwave on.
Mainly video game music. Lately I've been having Ryan Burger's music on loop. If you're into orchestral video game inspired music check it out: [m.soundcloud.com/ryanburgermusic]
Usually includes lots of Deadmau5, Daft Punk, Porter Robinson, Madeon, and a few others.
open.spotify.com/user/12130861890/...
brain.fm and musicforprogramming.net - both are great at getting me in the zone.
+1
Anything by:
Two Cow Garage
Bad Religion
John Moreland
JKutchma
Descendents
Bruce Springsteen
Hellmouth
Dave Hause
Austin Lucas
A lot of bachata and John Legend. It's great to get me started and then it just turns into background music for me. 😊
Anything with lyrics gets too distracting too quickly. I usually just play Ronald Jenkees Radio on Pandora. Lot of good instrumental for coding there.
Halo OST. I imagine every green test as a triumphant swell from an orchestra.
I listen mostly to latin reggaeton, bachata and hip hop. Sometimes classic english songs from the 70's to the 90's, and sometimes instrumental music like Secret Garden.
Bassdrive.com or Apple Music radio
There's this channel on youtube that streams lofi hiphop/chillpop 24/7. I Found out that because most of it doesn't have lyrics, it helps me to stay focused.
musicforprogramming.net
3 1/2 hours of pure concentration youtube.com/watch?v=50TCDj-g8U8
Contemporary classical music, the ones that Spotify queue when I go to Ryuichi Sakamoto artist page and select "Go to Artist Radio".
Most often smooth jazz. Acoustic Alchemy is a great band in that category.
Music with prominent lyrics bothers my concentraction a bit, so I avoid those when coding.
musicforprogramming.net/?one
focus playlist on brain.fm
youtu.be/fd2tIudSyR8 very obvious answer. It has the added value of taking into account that you might not finish your work in 8 hours. Remember: Guile’s theme goes with everything.
I just found a cool playlist with rock and pop songs that got recomposed into 8-bit music. I just roll with it while coding :)
itunes.apple.com/fj/playlist/2pac-...
I like Michael McCann for coding as well (Deus Ex, XCOM)
Spirogyra sets me in the mood, but a fine blend of jazz, rap and other voiceless music (if you know what I mean 😀)
I listen to the Moana soundtrack.
I almost exclusively listen to:
StreamingSoundtracks.com
Electronic music, mostly progressive house and techno! Some trance, as well
Hans Zimmer (open.spotify.com/user/spotify/play...)
open.spotify.com/album/5pwdeiIEpfn...
madonna, tears for fears, george michael, REM and Frank Zappa
Eläkeläiset. High-Tempo polka covers of popular music, in a language that I don't understand. It's perfect.
Progressive house, future bass, chill. ABGT for the win!
Usually Melodic Death Metal. Also sometimes Monstercat.
Either Metal or some type of awesome video game OST. Really helps me focus.
Sometimes fast music, sometimes slow, depends on the mood.
...and sometimes nothing, just a ploy to not respond to whoever is talking to me.
Chiptunes, VG sundtracks, Dark Knight OST, Oblivion OST, or Secret Life of Walter Mitty OST.
Usually chiptunes.
Classical sonatas or techno trance, anything without lyrics
Dubstep,electronics,metalrock
Music for Code by nervous_testpilot nervoustestpilot.co.uk/album/music...
A lot of Atmospheric Black Metal and Synthwave too.
KMFDM
Hans Zimmer, OSTs(from Chappie, Man Of Steel, Inception, BvS, Interstellar etc)
Moby
Tiesto
Stromae sometimes
Antonio Vivaldi
Mozart
Beethoven
Noisli Sounds
Notorious B.I.G., right now. youtube.com/watch?v=_JZom_gVfuw
When I want to focus: faux 80's music and synthpop, with little or no lyrics. When I'm on autopilot; hiphop and neo-soul(Alex Wiley, Syd, the internet, RtJ)
Above and Beyond EDM Podcast. Every friday, new 2 hour mix.
Minimal lyrics and DJ intervention and mostly just a constant beat while I find my groove.
aboveandbeyond.nu/
Hamilton. It's probably not the best thing for coding, but it's friggin' crack and addiction is a cruel mistress.
open.spotify.com/user/spotify/play...
Instrumental music
Onise Iyanu
flextream.com/#/track_detail/-Kazk...
Few last weeks - asoftmurmur.com : Rain and Thunder and Fire settings.
Before that - various game soundtracks available on Spotify - usually easy gets me into a zone
Deep house, my own playlist: open.spotify.com/user/117296380/pl...
open.spotify.com/user/emmapj18/pla...
My personal playlist. Rock, Metal, Regueton, Trap, Rap, Pop, Salsa, ect xdd
I like all sorts of music, depends on the day (but every Monday I play some Mastadon).
Bonus points for working from home where no headphones are required!
I often put my headphones on... and forget to start the music!
same!
The Mumford & Sons albums Sign No More then Babel. Repeat.
I usually play anything in metal, more often than not heavy things with breakdowns (deathcore for example). It just kinda gets me pumped up and going.
Retro game songs ❤
metal, hardcore, william basinski - disintegration loops and many more...
A mix of rap/hip-hop, heavy metal, and Polish pop music. Not understanding the language help a lot, it's like white noise
Latin Rap
80's retro music / Synthwave open.spotify.com/user/dewanderer/p...
Listeners Playlist -> lp.anzi.kr/
Michael Bake -> youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURSpIA...
Mikky Ekko - Time Album
i listen gorillaz , damon albarn , and energic electronic music
Metallica, pinkfloyd, cokestudio Pakistan, instrumenal music, hans zimmer master pieces, linkin park. And so much awesomeness!
Oldies or rock Czech band - Kabát!
Almost always a podcast: EconTalk, ATP, Back To Work, Canvas, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Do By Friday, The Grey NATO, Lehto's Law, The Libertarian Podcast, Reply All, Reason
Progressive House/Chill. It's up-beat enough to keep me going, but not fast enough to burn me out before noon.
open.spotify.com/user/1232486816/p...
Trance. I mostly listen to Di.fm's "Vocal Trance" and "Epic Trance" channels, or songs I heard there first and picked up for myself later. On occasion, classic 70's/80's rock.
Downtempo, Trip hop, lounge, silence (using headphones like a shield)
somafm.com/defcon/ DefCon Radio
open.spotify.com/user/spotify/play...
Rock heavy/alternate/grunge
But when I need more concentration, I have a habit of listening to symphonies
Usually melodies.
Hans Zimmer's Instrumental. Pure music without any distracting words.<3 <3
soundcloud.com/hanszimmer
Alternative rock or trance music. 😁
Burial's great - play.spotify.com/album/35c1EaK1UIz...
Just techno...
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY7Vpno...
open.spotify.com/user/dexterbrylle...
House, Trap, Metal
musicforprogramming.net
Toe. I started with "For Long Tomorrow" and when I got used I added "Hear You".Whole CDs, no skipping, no shuffling. Just put it on the background and let the work flow.