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Re: Music for Programming

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Post by smoldesu »

Jagerbizzle wrote: post #16

As a massive house-head and someone who's been involved in the electronic music scene to varying degrees for two decades, I actually find it extremely difficult to listen to music while writing code, because all I actually do is listen to the music, rather than work. As such, when I feel the need to put my headphones on to drown out external noise, I prefer listening to musique d'ameublement ( https://en.wikipedia.or…

Hah, I feel like I'm kinda in the same boat. As a result, I've got a playlist full of "broken in" songs that I've heard 25+ times and sound boring to me. I still find it a little distracting with songs that have vocal tracks, but for the most part it has brought Squarepusher and Venetian Snares back to my active rotation, which makes me a happy camper (coder?)

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by Jagerbizzle »

smoldesu wrote: post #21
Jagerbizzle wrote: post #16

As a massive house-head and someone who's been involved in the electronic music scene to varying degrees for two decades, I actually find it extremely difficult to listen to music while writing code, because all I actually do is listen to the music, rather than work. As such, when I feel the need to put my headphones on to drown out external noise, I prefer listening to musique d'ameublement ( https://en.wikipedia.or…

Hah, I feel like I'm kinda in the same boat. As a result, I've got a playlist full of "broken in" songs that I've heard 25+ times and sound boring to me. I still find it a little distracting with songs that have vocal tracks, but for the most part it has brought Squarepusher and Venetian Snares back to my active rotation, which makes me a happy camper (coder?)

Lol, it's nice to find like-minded people out there. While my initial post commented on electronic music in particular, I feel the need to re-iterate my point with respect to other genres. I'm a huge fan of Romantic-era piano (Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Säens, etc.), and would find it impossible to do basically anything other than listen should I hear these pieces.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by wfriesen »

1253 wrote: post #8

I switch between doom metal albums like Bongripper’s Satan Worshiping Doom and random YouTube videos with titles along the lines of “mind numbing adhd focus music 10hrs”

Other than doom I like some fuzzy raw black metal to drown out noise, like Paysage d'hiver. Thankfully they have quite a large discography.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by NobodyNada »

colpabar wrote: post #11

I went through a period of listening to zelda soundtracks + rain/storm sounds for hours every day at work. It was very calming and there wasn't much to focus on, which let me focus on my work. Video game soundtracks in general can be excellent programming music because they can be looped infinitely and are designed to be in the background of some other task.

My goto right now is https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk, which streams video game OSTs from the 80's and 90's -- mostly relatively obscure games, including a lot of music from consoles/home computers that used Yamaha's FM chips.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by jjulius »

The tracklist for the latest mix (episode 64 by Strepsil @ time of post) is packed with some absolutely fantastic music. Thank you for sharing, I can't wait to dive into more of this.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by dmcginty »

#55 is 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and I thought it was suggesting that (industrial noise group) Throbbing Gristle would be good programming music. However, it just looks like that's just the name of a blog that they used to find the music.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by abledon »

I believe that, Depending on our mood, and thus, the things we eat that change our mood, we prefer different stimuli, like music for example:

If i drink coffee, I like listening to psytrance while programming.

If I'm sober (no coffee/caffeine), i like psychadelic/prog rock.

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