I built an App with similar sound effects for iOS which help me to get relaxed and think in different solutions
Music for Programming
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#172I really, really recommend https://mynoise.net/ instead of music. They repertoire of sounds is amazing. You can even customize every soundscape to your liking.
One of my coworker has a real bassy voice that overlaps over music in my headphones. With that website I can easily create a soundscape that cover his voice and all the surrounding noises.
It's free too!
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#173Does anyone know of any actual conclusive studies in this area? Like most here, I have my own rules and preferences. The main rule seems to be it must be familiar, in fact it's best if I've heard it a thousand times already. But there are only three kinds of music that work for me:- 1. Music I first got into during my teenage years when I was sitting up all night coding assembler (OK, I admit it, Pink Floyd) works we…
One key search term to look is "“Irrelevant Sound Effect”" . I forgot the details, but here's one very interesting study to start:
http://webistem.com/acoustics2008/acoustics2008/cd1/data/art...
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also try psychill / psybient if you want a calm, ambient soundscape. Good for deep concentration.
I listen a lot to ambient as well, but I liken it to drinking tea, which I normally do, and save coffee (the bpm stuff) for crunchtime. My ambient go-to:s are (in no particular order): Roedelius Harold Budd Tim Story Brian Eno Roger Eno Hannu Offthesky Deaf Center Message To Bears Pjusk Everything Is diatonis Build Buildings The Echelon Effect
Not sure if that counts, but I really like Bohren & Der Club of Gore. It's not Ambient per se, but super-downtempo jazz-ish music. I highly recommend Sunset Mission!
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#175I've been listening to autechre for the last 20 years. Great programming music.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
is there a way to see the list without logging in to spotify? Non-vocal electronic seems like my cup of tea for when I'm working.
CSV of all the tracks: https://fzak.pl/FILEZ/codersplaylist.csv Youtube playlist of some of the tracks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOEg5uEc0bD0wwIEEKTNc...
This is awesome! thanks for doing this!
Also I should note that because it's an open playlist sometimes some music gets in that I personally don't agree should be on there but I can see why maybe someone else would put it there. I don't aggressively police it the list but once in a while I'll remove something that obviously doesn't fit
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#177I highly recommend openlab (1) as an alternative to soma. http://openlab.fm http://ice04.fluidstream.net/openlab.mp3 (1 - Interestingly, started by Robert Miles, the producer responsible for the 90s pop-trance classic 'Children'. His musical sophistication has advanced quite significantly since then.)
Thanks!
To try to repay - if you're not already aware of it - perhaps you'll enjoy http://www.berlincommunityradio.com/
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#178After years of visiting this website to listen to good remixes while I write code I feared the day when someone would link it to HN because I knew before hand that it would make it inaccessible. Go damn it people! Y U Do Dis ಠ_ಠ
I think it was posted on HN before. I think I recall that was how I first found it.
Just a few times:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=musicforprogramming.n...
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#179Does anyone know of any actual conclusive studies in this area? Like most here, I have my own rules and preferences. The main rule seems to be it must be familiar, in fact it's best if I've heard it a thousand times already. But there are only three kinds of music that work for me:- 1. Music I first got into during my teenage years when I was sitting up all night coding assembler (OK, I admit it, Pink Floyd) works we…
Personally, it doesn't really matter what the music is, but it's best if I'm already familiar with it, otherwise I get distracted investigating new artists.
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#180Does anyone know of any actual conclusive studies in this area? Like most here, I have my own rules and preferences. The main rule seems to be it must be familiar, in fact it's best if I've heard it a thousand times already. But there are only three kinds of music that work for me:- 1. Music I first got into during my teenage years when I was sitting up all night coding assembler (OK, I admit it, Pink Floyd) works we…
I have made a strange observation. Okay, "strange" is relative, so maybe I should say "interesting" to be as fuzzy and generic as possible.
When I program in my favorite roastery and coffee shop (http://www.roesttrommel.de/info/laufer-gasse.html) I want people, noise and background music. I can concentrate on my my code very well.
However, when I'm at home and I have to concentrate - on the exact same code - I need complete silence. If I leave music running or anything else I can't concentrate.
So there seems to be higher-level processing involved in the brain so that the complete context matters, and not just something as simple as "music/no music" (medium level processing).