I'm always on the lookout for music to listen to while I code. Finding the right album or playlist can help me sink into deep work and I get lost in code for hours (in a good way, with deep focus I mean).
Here's one from Spotify that I'm loving right now. Really gets me in the zone. Would love to hear suggestions for other good ones though.
Playlist link: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0r3x8OtiwEM?si=f8MXDYSxQ_6-xE4-OPF67w
Eager to hear other's suggestions too - I find discovering music difficult nowadays that I don't listen to radio at all.
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Yeeessss! thank you for this! This is why I wrote the post!
Funny how brains differ in these. If I'm not listening to a podcast or even news on TV - not for the content but merely for the cadence of speech - it's hard to get work done at all. I have no explanation for this except that as an undergraduate I wrote my thesis while listening to (then) all 12 years worth of This American Life.
But for side-project tinkering, this just scrapes from hypem.net and works quite well for me. Might be a little different from what you're used to, but there's not a single genre or anything and so it can get interesting.
This is nice I like this so far, thanks for the recommendation!
It might not be the best coding playlist, but I have three methods for discovering new music.
Method 1 : listen to the discover weekly playlist every monday, sometimes it's great, sometimes it's terrible and sometimes it's decent
Method 2 : listen to a random playlist on spotify
Method 3 : find a song I like on youtube and fall into the music recommendation rabbit hole.
Yep the discover weekly playlist is good! I find some gems in there sometimes. And yeah that's a good tip for Youtube, I used to use that a lot years ago but not recently, thanks for reminding me :)
Try this out its my go to work playlist inspired by 80s video game bgm and the steven universe ost: It's called chiptune chill
open.spotify.com/user/12167856216/...
Right now, I'm listening to this playlist:
(Somehow, Spotify Embed didn't work for this playlist...)
open.spotify.com/playlist/4KQAsa7I...
In this playlist is a lot of good music to get "lost in code for hours" (in a good way π)
open.spotify.com/playlist/7imK0xPJ...
I see you are a man of culture as well. I can recommend the Deep House Relax and Music for Concentration playlists!
My go-to is usually video game soundtracks. Most of the songs are designed to be non-intrusive and without lyrics (I simply cannot read or write when there are words).
If I'm trying to wind down and read I'll listen to the ~45 minute Skyrim atmospheres track on repeat.
The Grand Sound on YouTube has many several hour playlists of varying styles of House. Deep House, Future House, Progressive Trance, etc.
Highly recommend it.
haha, I'm listening to the same lowkey tech playlist the last weeks :)
It's good right!? :)
So funny, I literally was googling to see if I happened to be the only one who found this playlist to be the best playlist for focusing while coding. HUGE drum and bass guy personally but just too taxing on the ears for long code sessions, this has good steady energy without breaking your focus.