This is the playlist I've been using https://open.spotify.com/user/128017147/playlist/45LpllYld7S...
Music for Programming
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You can give it a try with the amazing Infinite Jukebox! Here's a perennial favourite, "Call Me Maybe": http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRORQWV137... (I will not be held accountable for your resulting lapse into total insanity after 20 minutes or so.)
Omfg is that awesome! °-° Can i also Upload or use my own Files? Or is this somewhere Open sourced?
You used to be able to upload your own tracks on the front page, but you really need lots of similar sections for it to skip around - Gotye someone that I used to know also worked well.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can give it a try with the amazing Infinite Jukebox! Here's a perennial favourite, "Call Me Maybe": http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRORQWV137... (I will not be held accountable for your resulting lapse into total insanity after 20 minutes or so.)
Omfg is that awesome! °-° Can i also Upload or use my own Files? Or is this somewhere Open sourced?
Looks like they removed the "upload" button: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/faq.html
And it doesn't appear to be open source, sadly.
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#194This is the playlist I've been using https://open.spotify.com/user/128017147/playlist/45LpllYld7S...
Emancipator, Tycho, Bonobo. Good stuff!
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I can only speak from the angle of memory/attention research, but a couple lines of study struck me. 1. Irrelevant speech / sounds tends to reduce memory capacity for the task at hand[a]. 2. People with ADHD self-stimulate by, e.g, squirming. Music can help them with attentional tasks by providing stimulation [b]. Overall, I'm not that familiar with studies specifically on music, but I'd guess that it's a trade-off b…
Thanks for the info. Sounds like I might have some level of ADHD based on those symptoms, esp. the squirming, which I've never been able to explain before!
No problem! I can stay still for hours on difficult tasks, but am all over the place for mundane things. Just considering the spectrum of things people use for ADHD (accountability w/others -> stimulating music -> caffeine -> prescription drugs) has been helpful for figuring out ways to power through boring things.
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#196I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing. They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like this steady stream of some kind of electronically generated music that changes each 30 minutes. I set it to 2 hours, and then I usually take a small break when it ends. I'll turn it on and literally get into the zone immediately; writing line after line of cod…
Is the website generally slow OR it's getting hammered with HN traffic?
I love brain.fm as well. Use the focus music. I have hearing aids and a wireless transmitter so people don't even know I am listening to anything.
When I do mindless stuff I put on google play and listen to whatever I feel like. Might be Buffet, Hot Tuna or even just environmental music.
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#197http://www.concertzender.nl/en/
One of my favs, for any task or absence of.
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#198After years of visiting this website to listen to good remixes while I write code I feared the day when someone would link it to HN because I knew before hand that it would make it inaccessible. Go damn it people! Y U Do Dis ಠ_ಠ
If there's something on the internet you love, you should make a (local) copy of it. Online content can disappear anytime.
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Also try psychill / psybient if you want a calm, ambient soundscape. Good for deep concentration.
I listen a lot to ambient as well, but I liken it to drinking tea, which I normally do, and save coffee (the bpm stuff) for crunchtime. My ambient go-to:s are (in no particular order): Roedelius Harold Budd Tim Story Brian Eno Roger Eno Hannu Offthesky Deaf Center Message To Bears Pjusk Everything Is diatonis Build Buildings The Echelon Effect
Have you tried ambient techno?
Boards of Canada
Tycho
Ulrich Schnauss
Fisk Industries
Re: Music for Programming
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only speak from the angle of memory/attention research, but a couple lines of study struck me. 1. Irrelevant speech / sounds tends to reduce memory capacity for the task at hand[a]. 2. People with ADHD self-stimulate by, e.g, squirming. Music can help them with attentional tasks by providing stimulation [b]. Overall, I'm not that familiar with studies specifically on music, but I'd guess that it's a trade-off b…
I have ADHD, and it's really difficult to describe to people how the "self stimulation" works. It's almost like I need to keep part of my brain busy so the other "quieter" part can work. Music, driving, pacing around, and to a lesser extent fidgeting or tapping can all "placate" that part of my brain so the other can actually do work. I'll even do things like play music while listening to a talk or presentation while…
Those things really resonate with me. In some ways it feels like a person riding an slightly unruly elephant, and the music is to appease it.