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Music to Let you Concentrate

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Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by jimbosis »

Nzen wrote: post #9

On the advice of coffitivity, I've turned to human environments for ambient noise. I've been blessed with library access to the BBC sound effects library. http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound... Some are the typical sfx fare, but the latter half is of city streets from around the world.

SoundTransit http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html has interesting field recordings all under the CC BY 2.0 license. If you "Book a Transit," it compiles an mp3 of several different field recordings, taking you from city to city. You can also search the database or just browse the collection.

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by sinkensabe »

jwandborg wrote: post #35
rjd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thrash metal for me, no idea why it works for me but it does. Oddly enough I'm not really a fan of it while I'm not working.

I use all songs available on Spotify by In Flames. It's mostly melodic and rhythmic, usually upbeat, and the vocals and the higher spectrum percussion drown out ambient discussions without being very thought-provoking in themselves.

Same here! Dark tranquility and Omnium Gatherum works great for me as well!

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Post by slyall »

rednukleus wrote: post #18
pepr wrote: post #2

"... two out of three of people like to listen to music while they work, study or read but it’s difficult to find and manage music that consistently works well for this purpose." Precisely! I like to listen to ambient music when working and constantly trying to find new music for this purpose is quite a hassle.

Can you recommend a Top 5 ambient albums for working? EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions!

Try Ambient Nights - http://www.ambient-nights.org/

About 60 album length mixes

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by brusch »

I think this is one of the few perks not beeing a English native speaker: I do understand lyrics if I concentrate but otherwise I hear the voice just as another instrument.

So I can listen to nearly any music for progrmaming. One of my favourites is Origin - Antithesis. But really everything works.

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by cfolgar »

Interesting. I've seen a few similar submissions here that play ambient/focus music. To me, a product or service like this has to provide enough goodies to sway me from the convenience of a simple Spotify playlist, seeing as that is the go-to choice for many.

If you can strike a balance between creating helpful productivity customization and keeping it simple, something like this could really takeoff.

Re: Music to Let you Concentrate

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Post by limmeau »

jimbosis wrote: post #41
Nzen wrote: post #9

On the advice of coffitivity, I've turned to human environments for ambient noise. I've been blessed with library access to the BBC sound effects library. http://www.sound-ideas.com/sound-effects/bbc-41-60-cds-sound... Some are the typical sfx fare, but the latter half is of city streets from around the world.

SoundTransit http://turbulence.org/soundtransit/index.html has interesting field recordings all under the CC BY 2.0 license. If you "Book a Transit," it compiles an mp3 of several different field recordings, taking you from city to city. You can also search the database or just browse the collection.

The flight booking metaphor makes it very inviting to play around. Thanks for sharing.

(Now if I could get Firefox for Android to download a .mp3 link to local SD card...)

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