Ask HN: Does music increase productivity at work?

I am always against listening to background music. It does not matter if it is during driving, workout, study, sleep, work, bathing or whatever. The music I listen to is the one which I highly respect and it is not in my habit to just play it in background. I consider this to be a disrespect of my favorite artist. Also, I don't like listening to a music if I don't respect and know about the musician and it is a noise to me. I find that more I respect the artist more empowering that music becomes to me. I love Cello and sometimes while between my study session I like to listen to any piece of music by Mstislav Rostropovich.

I know most of the people will differ with my opinion and habit but I just cannot do what is usual.

There is something called binaural beats which has lot of benefits and used for therapeutic cases. I don't know if this should be counted as music. But you can try it. You can look into its physics in Wiki page. It's simple. But I really don't know how does its psychological part works. It's mystery to lot of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

Hope my answer helps.