You might want to look at [focus@will](https://www.focusatwill.com/app/pages/v3oi) which worked pretty well for me in the past (and still is).
Music for Programming
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#342Not enough True Black Metal. Fail.
Seriously, all these things end up as personal preferences and whatever fad is in now. Techno? Whatev. When I was in school, it was industrial.
All this talk about how it helps "focus" or "brain" or whatever is just scam babble.
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#343It seems that no one has mentioned this so I'll add.
There was a study back in the 1960s which has shown that listening to music was actually detrimental to programmers' productivity. The results were kind of popularized in the book Peopleware and by Joel Spolsky (see e.g. here: https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-is-Joel-Spolskys-assertio...).
My personal experience confirms this. While I can successfully fix things or TDD something I already have a good reasoning about while listening to music, more difficult programming tasks require more focus which I can get only in silent conditions (which may be hard to find, alas).
The most important thing with music to me is that it shouldn't capture my mind. In other words, I shouldn't be noticing it.
There is a nice tool I've successfully been using for years: https://www.focusatwill.com/, it looks like no one has mentioned it yet also. It is paid (though cheap) and it helps me tremendously, especially in noisy environments (office). They are marketing themselves as science-based, has a few channels, including the ones aimed specifically for those who suffer from ADHD. Their music selection is quite nice and they also take the idea of distractions seriously: if you find a track is distracting you (basically, if you catch yourself actually listening to it instead of focusing on work), you click "Next" and this track will never be played again.
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#344I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing. They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like this steady stream of some kind of electronically generated music that changes each 30 minutes. I set it to 2 hours, and then I usually take a small break when it ends. I'll turn it on and literally get into the zone immediately; writing line after line of cod…
Co-founder of brain.fm here. Thanks for the love!
Here's an exclusive deal on the lifetime membership for the next 24 hours.
It's a $29 deal (or 80% off) for the lifetime membership. Our best offer :)
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Re: Music for Programming
#345I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing. They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like this steady stream of some kind of electronically generated music that changes each 30 minutes. I set it to 2 hours, and then I usually take a small break when it ends. I'll turn it on and literally get into the zone immediately; writing line after line of cod…
Co-founder of brain.fm here. Thanks for the love!
Here's an exclusive deal on the lifetime membership for the next 24 hours.
It's a $29 deal (or 80% off) for the lifetime membership. Our best offer :)
Link: http://brain.fm/HN
Re: Music for Programming
#346I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing. They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like this steady stream of some kind of electronically generated music that changes each 30 minutes. I set it to 2 hours, and then I usually take a small break when it ends. I'll turn it on and literally get into the zone immediately; writing line after line of cod…
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…
Well I'm trying to love it but it just sits on Loading Brainwave audio whilst Stephen Hawkings @ Cambridge Uni reads the email.
Cant handle hacker news bandwidth requirements?
Seems to like any email address I give it, perhaps Bill Gates might like some brain.fm instead... as if..
Re: Music for Programming
#347I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing. They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like this steady stream of some kind of electronically generated music that changes each 30 minutes. I set it to 2 hours, and then I usually take a small break when it ends. I'll turn it on and literally get into the zone immediately; writing line after line of cod…
Co-founder of brain.fm here. Thanks for the love! Here's an exclusive deal on the lifetime membership for the next 24 hours. It's a $29 deal (or 80% off) for the lifetime membership. Our best offer :) Link: http://brain.fm/HN
That coupon code shows a negative price for the lower level memberships, not sure if that means you will be paying us for it :)
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only speak from the angle of memory/attention research, but a couple lines of study struck me. 1. Irrelevant speech / sounds tends to reduce memory capacity for the task at hand[a]. 2. People with ADHD self-stimulate by, e.g, squirming. Music can help them with attentional tasks by providing stimulation [b]. Overall, I'm not that familiar with studies specifically on music, but I'd guess that it's a trade-off b…
I have ADHD, and it's really difficult to describe to people how the "self stimulation" works. It's almost like I need to keep part of my brain busy so the other "quieter" part can work. Music, driving, pacing around, and to a lesser extent fidgeting or tapping can all "placate" that part of my brain so the other can actually do work. I'll even do things like play music while listening to a talk or presentation while…
I have not been diagnosed with ADHD, nor do I think I have all the symptoms of it (the way I see people on ADHD subreddit talk about), but I totally understand the thing you're describing.
I do have a problem with focus while working. One thing which really helps me is if I put on some audiobook I don't really care to focus on too much about, or some podcast or lecture, but it helps me focus. Not all the time, but say I am working on solving a coding challenge, then the part where I figure out which solution would work, I can't listen to anything and I need to focus, but the part where I actually implement the solution(especially if I have implemented something like that many times) then I can only do it if there is something else to distract other parts of my mind.
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#349Does 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…
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-…
spotify link to the Japanese Drums Track above : https://open.spotify.com/track/3nrOApaAfsD61XYZ2T4zX6