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Re: Music for Programming

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Post by Markoff »

Can't listen anything with words to focus, so it has to be instrumental music in background, so while not programming but doing different work with zero error tolerance I listen to soundtracks or electronic music, often to supress noise from kids playing in other room, if they are at home, so it has to have ideally various frequencies like white noise, I find soundtracks like Prisoners or The Prestige probably the best.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by k_sze »

And here are a few of my sources for music while programming:

- kahvi collective (kahvi.org, kahvicollective.bandcamp.com)

- ocremix.org (they produce some really nice albums, e.g. the gigantic 6-disc Final Fantasy VI remix album, one of my all-time favourites)

- amigaremix.com

- www.dwellingofduels.net

- remix.kwed.org

- lots of other video game original soundtracks that I bought

I have a FiiO X5 DAP, so I download the music and put it on a few microSD cards (the FLACs take up a lot of space).

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by FrankSansC »

Previous discussions :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694 (Feb 3, 2012, 183 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605957 (Feb 18, 2012, 95 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844434 (Nov 1, 2016, 434 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771600 (Dec 12, 2019, 263 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27737887 (July 5, 2021, 147 comments)

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by SyneRyder »

I suppose I should link my own Music For Coding To playlist here, for anyone who might be interested. I've tried to refine it over the last 7 years, removing tracks with vocals & anything that throws me out of the flow state:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YpeoHyEHG7ttNgvzAkW72?si=...

It's intended to be played on shuffle, but I've started my workday with Ulrich Strauss' "I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance" so many times that just hearing the track can trigger me into a working mode.

As for recommendations, I like the album "Aura" by The Alpha Conspiracy. Trackers and demosceners might know him better as Necros from Five Musicians, and he wrote some of the soundtracks used in the Unreal games. His real name is Andrew Sega.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by mox111 »

silisili wrote: post #54

I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…

Same. Also same goes for anything that has a lot of stuff going on in the same frequency register as the human voice (e.g. piano melodies) - I find that distracting too for some reason.

That's why my go-to concentration music is Kryptic Minds - basically just driving bass rhythms without too much melodic content.

Re: Music for Programming

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Post by drorwolmer »

I created https://wfh.dj so I can listen to new music from my subscriptions (>20m) without the youtube procrastination rabbit hole. Mostly House, Electronic, Jazz (Stuff me and the team like to listen to while we work).

I mainly listen to the following channels:

- https://wfh.dj/c/UCJOtExbMu0RqIdiE4nMUPxQ/The-Lot-Radio

- https://wfh.dj/c/UCHdHhZ5o5iaqkHwcKh7_Kgw/Collect-Radio

- https://wfh.dj/c/UC5iaq-e3eigtnXm-x0eU3Mw/Djoon

- https://wfh.dj/c/UCaNd66xUJjX8VZT6AByVpiw/Underrated-Albums

- https://wfh.dj/c/UCal_TyiLk79vN9-OzEzUM6A/Kiosk-Radio

- https://wfh.dj/c/UC8TZwtZ17WKFJSmwTZQpBTA/My-Analog-Journal

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