Techno and deep house are my go tos. Generally, listening via soundcloud.
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#42Generally power metal here - Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Angra, Edguy, HammerFall, Manowar, Kamelot, older Sonata Arctica, Demons & Wizards, etc. Sometimes I'll venture into some female-fronted metal bands like Within Temptation or Delain too. Regular heavy metal also is always fine - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, some Dio. Dream Theater is also quite a great progressive metal band, as well as their…
Wes? ;)
Also, ditto - Prog and power metal seems to kickstart my brain and has often helped me out of nonproductive slumps.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#43When I want to be super productive I'm listening to The Lord of The Rings Soundtrack. It feels like I'm doing some epic coding things. Just imagine when you are doing git push while there is Themes Of The Rohirrim playing.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#44A little bit of everything...but when I really need to be productive I always put on the 'Tragic Boogie' album by The Life and Times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7mReSQ-CZs&list=PLFNYv0PFOF... It's been my go-to for 7 or 8 years now. Something about it just triggers the best of my skills to come out.
When I access that playlist, it shows the video is not available.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#45Generally power metal here - Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Gamma Ray, Angra, Edguy, HammerFall, Manowar, Kamelot, older Sonata Arctica, Demons & Wizards, etc. Sometimes I'll venture into some female-fronted metal bands like Within Temptation or Delain too. Regular heavy metal also is always fine - Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, some Dio. Dream Theater is also quite a great progressive metal band, as well as their…
All of the above plus System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and various other nu metal bands.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#46cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tcoreaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8
I wanted to check it out. Installed sox on Ubuntu 17.04 and it's not working
sox FAIL formats: no handler for given file type `coreaudio'Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#47Chill stuff/Wave music
https://soundcloud.com/dvrksea/youre-in-my-life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4w7vgHnrYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1yBhxn7H5o
Can't listen if I'm venturing into new territory; learning requires quiet. Otherwise it's Wave music. eg wave, vaporwave, synthwave, witch house, future funk, future beats etc
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#48I love this Spotify list: https://open.spotify.com/user/ruhin94/playlist/0bG1EMQkukEeO...
Over 22 hours of powerful movie, game soundtracks.
Gets updated with new songs all the time.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#49Any sound my colleagues make.
Re: Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code?
#50Classical chamber music, white noise, YouTube videos of people playing video games, the customer service people on the phone sitting 5 feet away from me.