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Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#2It varies. Sometimes I listen to my "stock" music - hard rock and heavy metal of all varieties, with a special focus on 80's era glam metal, speed metal, and thrash metal.
Other times it's various forms of electronic music. House, trance, europop, Hi-NRG, synthwave/darkwave, etc.
And then sometimes I go with classical music. Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Orff, etc.
As far as specifics go, here's some stuff I've listened to lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8OELzmpgZo&list=PL7F37BB1A6...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9oTQzwXYXk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hd8Or1RrYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4oZZhpMXP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyfL9LC1DC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajF2NOuYkjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGMJ2b-3eCk
One other thing I'll sometimes do is put on a movie in the background, with the volume turned down fairly low... just enough that I hear some babble and noise, but not enough that I get caught up in what's going on. This only works if I use a movie I've seen / heard many times, so I already know what's happening and won't get drawn into the story. So, something like The Matrix, Antitrust, Tron:Legacy, Hackers, Sneakers, The Social Network, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#3Mostly various forms of jazz--lately I've been on a roll with Pharaoh Sanders and Sun Ra. But the key thing is I find it distracting to hear voices while I'm trying to work. So mostly music with no vocals.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#4I like synthwave stuff when I'm programming.
favorites:
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#5death metal
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#6Chicago's 911. http://youarelistening.to/chicago For some reason and in my timezone difference to Chicago it puts my brain into coding mode, sometimes hours. I doubt anybody else around me would enjoy that.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#7I mostly listen to these sets:
https://musicforprogramming.net/
I also like these SomaFM stations:
https://somafm.com/deepspaceone/
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#8I generally listen to heavy metal, classic and hard rock that tends a bit towards prog with long sections and a bit of classical, epic feel to them. Something like Dio-era Rainbow, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden.
A few favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CjO0H2j0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYrW3yONR44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVid_fLzN5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#9I don't listen to anything when coding. I need the silence, and deep thought. However, when I'm doing trivial things, I listen to classical music. Usually "Essential Classical", or something similar, on Google Music.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#10This one works really well for me, when working (discovered thanks to HN !):
https://www.brain.fm