What do you listen to while programming?

I either listen to nothing, or I put some dubstep on. Anything with words is completely lost on me while I'm "in the zone".

Curious what other people listen to while programming? I've known people to have YouTube videos on, but I just can't understand how they concentrate on it.

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[Savy]

I like to play a movie series in background , it is not that much attention-grabbing, entertains me and prevent loneliness when I'm alnoe.
Other options like music or youtube usually make me 'Think' or "Feel" and I think these are counter productive.

[Dennis Mathenge]

Reggae music gets me in my coding zone.

[Si]

That's an interesting one!

[MiAn]

traditional chinese.
selected 80's rock ( I used to be an FM station manager, so my 60's - 90's library is enormous
some light classical
some light jazz

most important of all the same songs for weeks on end, so it's "mindless". Only adding and subtracting a few songs at a time every month.

[Desi]

Inspired by @ben , I've been listening to the Social Network score a lot.

[Si]

What's the Social Network score?

[Desi]

Oh it's so good! It's the score for the movie The Social Network (which I haven't seen, hah):

[Si]

Ahh! Soundtrack! I'll give this a listen, thanks!

[Vincent Grovestine]

Digitally Imported is great for EDM/electronic music streaming:

• Ambient, Space Dreams = Deep reading and other tasks that require "mental absorption"
• Indie Dance, Deep Nu-Disco = Where most work gets accomplished
• Liquid DnB, Atmospheric Breaks = In the zone, but needing a little more oomph (or trying to block outside distractions)

[Si]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Robin Kretzschmar]

I have a great variation in my taste of music and for the last couple of months I listen to liquid drum and bass. I listened to that kind of music some years ago but lost the interest in it. After encountering it again I feel like it makes me more productive during work.
I'd say I am the kind of person that can't listen to slow / chilled music while working. I need either something "aggressive" or something with higher bpm 😊

[Si]

I'm very much the same - Drum & Bass and Dubstep at the moment. Just putting together a programming playlist of all the good suggestions in here.

[Robin Kretzschmar]

I really like to listen to the playlist once you finished putting it together!
Where do you gather the tracks? Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud?

[Si]

Of course - there's currently 104 hours worth of music, so it's definitely shareable.

Here's the Spotify link: open.spotify.com/user/aai8abzll2j8...

If you have any suggestions, let me know!

[Robin Kretzschmar]

Thanks! :)

[Si]

You are more than welcome.

[Djordje Bajic]

Usually metal, rock, punk.. but i also like good blues, synthpop (royksopp ❤) and rap.

[Evan Oman]

I usually listen to a mix of instrumental music, especially Jazz.

Then I found the album Voice by Hiromi which is great mix of jazz piano. I've been listing to this on repeat 8 hrs a day for several months now and I love it. It is nice to not need to think about music during work.

[Harry Bellamy]

Synthwave and Vaporwave mainly. Tend to favour songs without vocals, less distracting.