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Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
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Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
#162Very interesting, but I find I get much the same effect with the right types of music (which are also more aesthetically pleasing, to me). Also, recorded environmental sounds always have a certain degree of annoyance for me. There's nothing on earth I love more than the sound of rain or a crackling fire, but recorded versions just don't cut it (for me). This seems to fall into the same category.
Any recommendations on specific music that helps you (artist/album)? I find that Radiohead/In Rainbows is good for me
Anything by Queen :)
Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
#163I like EDM (Avicii station is a favorite).
I also sometimes like the sound of rain, so picked up a mp3 for a buck off Amazon ('The Sound of Summer Rain').
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on my mood. I find productive music to almost always lack vocals. I will list some artists and their respective albums, of the top of my head. (subgenres) Many of these artists have great discographies. Electronic 1. Glenn Underground - Atmosfear (house) 2. Aphex Twin - Ambient Works 85-92 3. Moby - 18 4. Space Dimension Controller - The Pathway To Tiraquon6 (soul-house) 5. Boards of Canada - Music has the…
"I find productive music to almost always lack vocals." Languages you don't speak also work.
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Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
#165I've always enjoyed the whitenoise of HVAC systems. It was always pleasant in college to find empty classrooms after-hours, with just the whirr of the HVAC.
Spice up your noise a bit:
Re: Show HN: Increase your productivity with ambient noise
#166http://www.rainymood.com is my background noise of choice.
Uh, didnt that site have a volume slider at one point? And shouldn't OP's have one in Firefox?
This is getting quite annoying.
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#167I created a playlist with soundtracks from indie games. Initially it was created as background music for playing StarCraft II, but I use it as background music when working instead.
It includes soundtracks from Bastion, Machinarum, Braid, Dustforce, Dustforce, Fittest, and Limbo.
http://open.spotify.com/user/pkhamre/playlist/53KjzBtdxdGmPZ...
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#168I dunno if anyone recommended this or not, but these days i'm into "Two Steps From Hell", especially their album "Invincible"
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#169For me, I find long periods of time spent working in front of a screen can lead to anxiety. When I start getting distracted in many directions the feeling starts to come on. Listening to this ambient noise for the past half hour has calmed down that anxious feeling and made me feel more focused.
I am however used to spending lots of time working in public spaces in the past, and have spent the past six months in a more isolated work environment. (On an off the grid property 50m up the side of a volcano that you need to take a boat to access)
Maybe this is just putting me back in my comfort zone.
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#170I'm listening to Souxsie and The Banshees right now while I'm trying to work, I can tell you it is not helping my concentration. Though it is very cool.