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What's playing in your headphones while you code?

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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...

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Ghost

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

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Daniel Mason

Exactly the same here. It works so well.

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TPiddy

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

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Brian Hanna

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

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Samuel

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!

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Andy Johnson

Electronic. Dubstep, Trance, Techno, whatever. Lots of Lindsey Stirling, actually.

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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.

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Ben Halpern

You must not work in an open office!

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Jess Lee

YES. Mogwai all day everyday.

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David Muckle

Prog rock or something along those lines. So lots of Rush, Yes, Pink Floyd, some Queen, maybe some ELP, and everything in between.

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Ben Halpern

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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Tahini

Likewise. Great choice for coding.

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Ashe

Such a great soundtrack, I can never skip it when it comes on!

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Agustín Ventura Carrasco

Great album, as almost any OST by Trent Reznor. I also enjoy listening to Lost Girl and Before the flood ones.

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Phil Thomas

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

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Yerkon

thanks

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James Hood

+1

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niinzir

A mix of rap/hip-hop, heavy metal, and Polish pop music. Not understanding the language help a lot, it's like white noise

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Ryan Blume

Hamilton. It's probably not the best thing for coding, but it's friggin' crack and addiction is a cruel mistress.

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Paulo H. R. Pinheiro

Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Itamar Assumpção.

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Alexander Kashev

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.

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Vicente Jr Yuchitcho

Yes! Love the Shenzhen I/O soundtrack.

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AUTOBOTS

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.

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Mark

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.

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daBOB

I often switch between spotify focus/concentration playlists or listen to 1-2h ambient music videos on YouTube or just using brainfm.

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Charles Reace

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.