Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 9:34 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by joshmn » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 9:34 PM UTC

TheAlchemist wrote: post #10

This one works really well for me, when working (discovered thanks to HN !): https://www.brain.fm

Seconded. Love it.

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by olingern » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 9:51 PM UTC

Pinback has recently helped me write a ton of code.

Tool, A Perfect Circle, Ashes Divide for a mellow, metal mood.

Vitamin String Quartet when I want something familiar, but classical in taste

Nicklecreek, Chris Thile, Old Crow Medicine Show, Punch Brothers for a folk fix.

Kid Ory when a need a New Orleans Jazz pick-me-up

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by cm2012 » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 10:31 PM UTC

Songs similar to the soundtrack from RWBY

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Post by scottwernervt » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 11:09 PM UTC

Podcasts in the morning and http://www.di.fm/ in the afternoon.

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Post by jabwork » Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 11:30 PM UTC

Music with minimal words (which I find distracting) but often with vocals. Usually an album at a time e.g.,

Ibiza chill sessions (annual albums) Melody AM The altogether Little dragon (NPR remix)

a lot of electric guitar - Steve Vai, joe satriani

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Post by MithrilTuxedo » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 12:01 AM UTC

cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tcoreaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8

Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?

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Post by BooneJS » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 12:11 AM UTC

Anything without lyrics. Classical music is my normal target, but some of Reznor's electronic soundtracks for movies works well too.

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Post by wristmittens » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 1:03 AM UTC

Digitally Imported has a very wide range of, well, digital music.

They have some free ad supported streams but the annual cost of ad-free $70 is totally worth it in my opinion.

My current favorite channels are Chillstep, Liquid DnB, Nu Disco, Chill & Tropical House. Various levels of repetitive bass to keep your leg and fingers twitching, and differing tempos to either raise or lower your heart rate, depending on what you need in the moment.

Web Browser Flash or mobile apps. http://www.di.fm

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Post by vcanales » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 1:10 AM UTC

Deep house, or other kinds of repetitive electronic music. Even though I'm usually a rock/jazz person, this music is perfect some times: very chill parties, dancing alone but surrounded by people, programming. Sometimes commuting.

It's relaxing, rather dronic but with enough variation to not be boring.