Nice.
Has anyone tried the tracks from Music To Code By (http://mtcb.pwop.com/) ?
I bought a few of them and IMO they are nice. The tracks are all 25 minutes in length.
Music for Programming
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#42I have two rules when I’m listening to music while programming: 1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to really put me in the “you’re working now” space (thanks to Julian Shapiro for this tip) 2. I pick one song and repeat it for the entire day, sometimes for several days in a row. I’…
Number 2 sounds like hell
I can’t recall if it was like hell getting into this habit at first. But it’s so ingrained now that it’s kind of like greasing the pan before you start cooking.
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#43I'm currently listening to https://somafm.com/defcon/ and it's doing it for me.
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#44Why specific music for programming? E.g. I mostly listen Caprice (the elvish one) for programming just because I like Caprice.
Lots of people, myself included, find it difficult to program (or concentrate on any mentally challenging task) while listening to certain types of music. Personally I'm partial to Norwegian Black metal for programming.
A second vote for black metal. Great for coding.
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#45You all know that this is the only valid music for programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY
Haha! I thought it was going to be this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5fM6WpC_nE
Same same.
I love this remix of the Voodoo People that's on the b-side by the chemical brothers (who were calling themselves the dust brothers at the time...):
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#46For me I find SomaFM good for working - http://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/missioncontrol - http://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/defcon - http://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/cliqhop
Multiple Soma FM recommendations in the thread. That's great to see. I pay for a monthly "subscription", because it's one of those things that, if it disappeared tomorrow, would be upsetting and impossible to replace. I use it daily.
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#48di.fm, http://www.di.fm 90 different kinds of electronic music, current favorite for programming is:
http://www.di.fm/melodicprogressive
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#49I have two rules when I’m listening to music while programming: 1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to really put me in the “you’re working now” space (thanks to Julian Shapiro for this tip) 2. I pick one song and repeat it for the entire day, sometimes for several days in a row. I’…
> 1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to really put me in the “you’re working now” space (thanks to Julian Shapiro for this tip)
I never consciously did this, other than I obviously went to the music and pressed play, but since about 10 years ago, when I really need to focus on work, I listen to a playlist of what I would call prog trance/house trance, a genre I would absolutely never listen to for the enjoyment of music. It's really weird but it soothes me when working, and it doesn't distract (by me getting too into it), nor distracts me by being annoying.
It reminds me of when I was a teen and I was an extremely tuned night person (still am, but conformed), and was really hard to wake up. Slept through alarm clock at highest setting. I scheduled a playlist on my computer, and allowed it to wake up from hibernation for scheduled events to play through connected speakers. It however ruined any music I used this way, so I had to pick music I didn't like to begin with.
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#50Along with some of the other great suggestions here, soundtracks by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have been mainstays for me. Throw in some Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts and you have a nice dark soundtrack for working to.
that The Social Network soundtrack, oooooh yes