Anything in a language that I don't personally know. I find that the foreign language lyrics just pass through my brain freely whereas an English or Spanish song will sometimes grab my attentions because my brain is picking up the words. So lately it's been a lot of J-Pop and K-Pop. I used to listen to a bunch of German industrial music, but I've recently been learning German and so that's starting to interfere.
Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#52A little bit of everything...but when I really need to be productive I always put on the 'Tragic Boogie' album by The Life and Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7mReSQ-CZs&list=PLFNYv0PFOF... It's been my go-to for 7 or 8 years now. Something about it just triggers the best of my skills to come out.
When I access that playlist, it shows the video is not available.
Interesting, it still loads when I try.
It's on bandcamp as well, though: https://thelifeandtimes.bandcamp.com/album/tragic-boogie
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#53Depends on what I'm coding.
Sometimes I will put on old episodes of Retronauts (https://retronauts.com). Otherwise I will usually listen to OCRemix Radio / Rainwave (https://rainwave.cc), a SiriusXM station, or an album I'm familiar with.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#54Hans zimmer instrumental.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#55Rarely Heard Ragas by Vilayat Khan (sitar) is very good for listening to while working, IMO. Similarly other mild melodies on stringed instruments. Relaxes you while you work.
https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-video-sitar-vilaya...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayat_Khan
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Vivaldi's Four Seasons is another good one for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)
Barclay James Harvest. The story of how they got their name is interesting :)
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#56cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tcoreaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8
I wanted to check it out. Installed sox on Ubuntu 17.04 and it's not working sox FAIL formats: no handler for given file type `coreaudio'
You need to replace coreaudio with pulseaudio, try this instead:
cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tpulseaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8