Ask HN: What do you listen to while coding?

Depends. I have a whole pile of various Pandora stations I've created, that I listen to sometimes. Most of those are rock/metal centric, but there is one focused on gangster rap stuff.

Other times, I like to listen to trance / electronic music / europop stuff, and for that I tend to just find a shoutcast station and tune into that. Same for the times when I'm in the mood for classical music.

Always, however, the Prime Directive remains "ABC" - Anything But Country.

http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/ mostly

thanks for sharing those links, awesome stuff.

I created a Programming Music playlist and started out with very mellow, non-lyrical music from Tycho. From there, I kept following the Related Artists feature (I'm using rdio) and added a number of other artists including Ulrich Schnauss, Isan, and others. It's taken some time, but I'm able to concentrate on my work without being distracted, while the music tends to keep me upbeat and focused.

Lots of turntable.fm's "Ambient Chillout & Trip Hop" channel.