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This is great, thanks. I'm going to plug Soma FM, since it's been my go-to music provider for studying since University, and carried into work. They have many genres and stations, most of which have no lyrics. No affiliation, I just love what they do. https://somafm.com/
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I tend to always keep a fan running for the same reason. Even when the weather doesn’t make it necessary – I just put in a corner of the room facing against the walls. Its noise helps. With music, instead, the less I know a piece the more attention it draws. I can’t work with background music for this reason. But Brain.fm barely has this effect on me, curiously.
If you like white noise, it might help you to save on electricity turning off the fan and trying one of these two aliases I keep around for noisy places: Pink noise (not sure if it's actually pink noise): play -c 2 -n synth pinknoise band -n 2500 4000 tremolo 0.03 5 reverb 20 gain Ocean: play -n -n --combine merge synth pinknoise band -n 1200 1800 tremolo 50 10 tremolo 0.14 70 tremolo 0.2 50 gain -10 The play binary…
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Hey you coming out w/ an android app any time soon? Would love to try the relax while I sleep. Just bought the pro deal.
Yup! 80% done, sprinting to release it.
I'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
My question is, is the tremolo/pulsating nature of the chords (sort of sounds like a helicopter) on most of the music a side-effect to the AI generated sounds, or is this by-design? If by-design, are there settings I could tinker with? If not, feature request. :)
I'm starting to find this a bit unnerving after extended periods, but it could be a personal preference.
Does 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…
I wish I was like von Neumann sometimes. He was known to do his best work on quantum mechanics in the living room with his whole family sitting around talking and the television blasting.
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Yes, I find the sub-genres hard to describe. Future Sound of London. Burial. Four Tet. Boards of Canada. Some DJ Shadow. Suggestions welcome, actually, it's all a newish field for me...
If you like Burial, you'd do well to explore dubstep further. A good starting point would be the Dubstep Allstars series (especially volumes 2, 6 and 7.2 – they're all on YouTube) and the realdubstep subreddit (they happen to love Burial on there).