For 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
Mission control is my favorite.
Music for Programming
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Re: Music for Programming
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> pick one song and repeat it for the entire day I also do this, one or a very short playlist of very similar stuff. Seems to help keep my mind locked into a particular state all day/work period. Currently long Daft Punk tracks are doing it for me.
I sort of do this, but I pick one CD. Usually it's Keith Jarrett but Bach works as well. Especially the harpsichord concertos.
or Keith Jarrett playing Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues?
Re: Music for Programming
#303Does 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…
Same thing here. I listen to music I listened to when I first started spending 6+ hours after school coding. It's not what you'd guess. I know the music so well it puts me into a comfort zone that always allows me to just get shit done. Brain hacking at it's best.
Bonobo radio on Spotify is a great starting point for laid back EDM that isn't anxiety-inducing but keeps energy up.
I love all forms of jazz too much to listen to it while I work, because I start listening critically and getting into musician mode not coder mode.
Re: Music for Programming
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Some recommendations for you sir. EDM) Menno de Jong https://soundcloud.com/mennodejong/menno-de-jong-live-at-luc... https://soundcloud.com/mennodejong/menno-de-jong-cloudcast-0... Like other continuously mixed, mostly-ambient EDM but favors minor mode and affected arps that keep my brain occupied in it just enough to avoid distraction. Japanese Drums) The Ondekoza, or any competent group https://www.amazon.com/Haru-…
I started my first programming job back in 2000 and was reading Cryptonomicon at the time and came across this little gem in the book: "When Randy gets back to his cell, he sits crosslegged on his bed with the Walkman and begins dealing out the CDs like cards in a solitaire game. The selection is pretty reasonable: a two-disc set of the Brandenburg Concertos, a collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing abou…
I'm not mad, but I just got spoiled that Randy apparently goes to prison. I'm at about chapter 40, finally listening to Cryptonomicon on Audible (thanks Amazon Prime).
On the bright side, I'm now listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and grateful for the explicit choice in music for my afternoon. I'm EDM-d out lately.
Re: Music for Programming
#305My favourite musics are those without human voices as they tend to interfere with my thought processes. These are my top 10 most played pieces in the past 30 days:
* Hand Covers Bruise (Social Network OST)
* 3.14 Every Night (Social Network OST)
* 3.1415... (PoI OST)
* God Mode (PoI OST)
* Watching with Ten Thousand Eyes (PoI OST)
* Listening with A Million Ears (PoI OST)
* The Red Capes are Coming (BvS OST)
* Must There Be A Superman? (BvS OST)
* This is My World (BvS OST)
* Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)
Fascinating pattern there.
Re: Music for Programming
#306Does 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 think I know what you mean by 'Wall-Of-Sound', spent half of my PhD writing with Propellerheads DecksNDrumsNRockNRoll and quite a bit of commercial programming with Ostkreuz 'Motor' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NzkxZfhgHso
Guess I need to lock out the world with some well known(!) and impervious sound.
Re: Music for Programming
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It probably showed up dead because of automated anti-spam tools that pick up on spammy keywords. Naming a scheduled medication by name is probably more than enough to trigger something like that.
I don't think that's quite it. All of the comments in their user profile are marked dead back a few hundred days. I read them over, nothing looked overtly spammy or troll-ey, so I vouched for this comment as it seemed genuine. I do think it's an anti-spam or anti-troll measure, but it looks like it's a mishit in this case. That being said, is there anyone where we read up on what vouching/dead/etc... means on HN? May…
You probably saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512
That doesn't explain exactly how vouching works, and I think the "strength" of a vouch might be changed per-user (it no longer seems to do the same thing it used to, for me, at least).
Re: Music for Programming
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I have also been loving Brain.fm—no other "focus music" I have tried has worked so well. If anyone here tries it and likes it, there is actually a pretty good discount on various subscription types that expires in a few hours: https://shop.theawesomer.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscri... The discounts are not actually as steep as the site claims (for example, lifetime is normally $150, not $200), but they are still…
"Lifetime" subscription? What does that mean? The lifetime of brain.fm?
No. It means if you're the last living customer of brain.fm, they will be forced by the authorities to operate their service till your children decide to take you off of life support.
Re: Music for Programming
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For (a), you say "speech/sounds" but link to a source that only mentions speech. Is the effect definitely there with non-speech sounds. I assume it is, if we include sounds like a jackhammer, but does it apply across the board? Subjectively, I find that instrumental music is much better for me than the alternative.
I grabbed this from the first review article that popped up on google[1], so buyer beware. It says that non-repetitive sounds in general may create the effect: Concerning tasks that do not involve auditory targets, studies with adults have consistently shown that especially short-term memory is sensitive to negative effects of noise. Immediate serial recall of visually presented verbal items is reliably impaired by t…
Thanks.
Re: Music for Programming
#310I'm all about Chillstep. Repetitive beats and sparse lyrics helps me focus like a champ. I've converted several coworkers to it over the years.