at work, I generally don't. It's more important for me to know what's being discussed around me.
At home, I don't either, though I generally have some sort of nonsense tv on.
Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
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Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#12I like music with hymns or mellow tones. Music I've been listening to a lot lately:
Moby Lindsey Stirling Solar Fields Imagine Dragons M83 The War on Drugs Gorkem Han Jr Tony Anderson Simon & Garfunkel
Definitely helps block out noise and gets me to focus.
Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#13at work, I generally don't. It's more important for me to know what's being discussed around me. At home, I don't either, though I generally have some sort of nonsense tv on.
>at work, I generally don't. It's more important for me to know what's being discussed around me.
I would like to that do. But open office and continuous chatting make it kinda impossible.
Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#14I usually listen to music i already know well and like. It seems less distracting than discovering new tunes.
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#15For high-focus I reccomend rain.today (great site, btw).
Great with noise isolation headphones.
For "mechanical" work, I prefer Metal: the faster, the better.
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#16at work, I generally don't. It's more important for me to know what's being discussed around me. At home, I don't either, though I generally have some sort of nonsense tv on.
>at work, I generally don't. It's more important for me to know what's being discussed around me. I would like to that do. But open office and continuous chatting make it kinda impossible.
I also work in an open office environment, with all the associated chatting, and general office noise.
I just ignore everything that isn't important to me.
Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#17The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis, of course.
"Track 45 left ... stop - enhance 15 to 23 bip bip bip"
Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#18Spotify sometimes but I usually fall back to https://musicforprogramming.net when I really need to focus.
Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#19Re: Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)
#20I usually have no music or distractions, but sometimes I like music.
I tend to need music without lyrics, or in a foreign language, or sometimes that is so familiar to me that I don't pay attention to the words.
Usually I can't have music for high-focus tasks. Talking, either, so I use a linux shell command to generate whitenoise sometimes, it sounds a bit like ocean waves:
alias whitenoise='play -q -c 2 -n synth brownnoise band -n 1600 1500 tremolo .1 30'