RadioParadise.com has been my go-to for years.
Link: http://radioparadise.com
Music for Programming
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#242Does anyone know of any actual conclusive studies in this area? Like most here, I have my own rules and preferences. The main rule seems to be it must be familiar, in fact it's best if I've heard it a thousand times already. But there are only three kinds of music that work for me:- 1. Music I first got into during my teenage years when I was sitting up all night coding assembler (OK, I admit it, Pink Floyd) works we…
My go-to programming music is psytrance/goa [1]. It's high energy in the bass drum/bass line category, but the other melodies are often ethereal or even ambient sounding. It's repetitive enough to slot into the background quite easily for me. I found it by accident one night back when radio was still a thing and it took me 10 years to even turn the sound that I was hearing into a genre name. I find it to be as effective as caffeine, which is very interesting to me.
[1] Example: http://streamer.psyradio.org:8030/ And make sure you have headphones with a good bass response or a subwoofer. I find the music loses a lot without its bass line.
Re: Music for Programming
#243Video game soundtracks on spotify. Specifically:
* Bastion * Fez * Assassins Creed
No vocals, just great music designed to keep you focused.
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#244Solar Fields, the group that made the music for the video game Mirror's Edge, is one of my favorite groups for programming.
I've been listening to Mirror's Edge OST while programming for weeks now, never thought to look for who created that sound track. Thanks!
Sure! I found Solar Fields by looking for Mirror's Edge remixes and stumbled onto whole songs. Solar Fields has several albums, it's a massive group and I think it's just one guy.
Also recently found there is a sister group called H.U.V.A. Network that's pretty good too but has a slower and darker feel.
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#245I'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…
Do they have any examples of what it sounds like that I can hear without creating an account?
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#246shameless self promotion
I have created music specifically designed to engage/distract the 5 year-old in my mind so that the adult in my mind can actually get work done.
The tracks introduce elements in a layered presentation that keeps the content the same but creates emergent properties as the already introduced elements interact with the newly introduced ones.
Almost all tracks are at 120 bpm and in the key of C using the pentatonic scale.
I find that the result is enough variance to keep the 5 year-old's attention but enough sameness to not engage the adult.
(and no I do not have a dissociative identity disorder; it's just a metaphor.)
https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/tracks
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edit: I am not smart...
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#247shameless self promotion I have created music specifically designed to engage/distract the 5 year-old in my mind so that the adult in my mind can actually get work done. The tracks introduce elements in a layered presentation that keeps the content the same but creates emergent properties as the already introduced elements interact with the newly introduced ones. Almost all tracks are at 120 bpm and in the key of C u…
You might have meant to link to https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/tracks , as the link you provided takes me to "my" tracks, of which I have none. Unless the idea was that I was the creator all along.
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#248I assume the names on the compilations are the artists/people selecting the music? I love seeing Datasette on there (multiple times in fact). Listened a lot to him.
I think he's the owner of the site
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#249shameless self promotion I have created music specifically designed to engage/distract the 5 year-old in my mind so that the adult in my mind can actually get work done. The tracks introduce elements in a layered presentation that keeps the content the same but creates emergent properties as the already introduced elements interact with the newly introduced ones. Almost all tracks are at 120 bpm and in the key of C u…
You might have meant to link to https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/tracks , as the link you provided takes me to "my" tracks, of which I have none. Unless the idea was that I was the creator all along.
lol; ty
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#250I'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…
I don't hear any music.
I click to start and it pops up a login page.