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Recomeded music to listen to while programming?

Alex Gwartney on June 07, 2018

Hey guys I was wanting to know if you have any music playlists. That you guys can recommend. That you listen to while programming?

Valentin Baca • Jun 7 '18

I've been listening to this Programming Music playlist for years. Seriously, years. By this point the very first few notes of the first song instantly put me into "the zone." This playlist and I have spent hundreds of hours together in crunch times and late nights up (and browsing dev.to and reddit lol).

I think, like most people, I end up in this loop though:

do {
  if (quiet || noisy) headphones.play();
  code(); // can easily throw InterruptionException usually caused by a tap on the shoulder #FIXME
  if (code == hard) headphones.pause(); // to think...
} while (true) // inf loop

Alex Gwartney • Jun 7 '18

Yep lol. I had to laugh at the part that said pause to think lol. Its like a meme I saw a while ago. That says turns down the radio when driving to be able to read the address of a house better. Also I added the playlist to my spottily will check it out.

rhymes • Jun 7 '18

This might help

What kind of music do you listen to while working?

Robert Newton

#discuss

I don't have a specific type of music for programming, tough if I'm reading something really complicated I tend to turn it off for a while :D

Alex Gwartney • Jun 7 '18

Thanks for that link will have to take a look at all the others posts. And yea lol i do the same thing. It becomes a distraction at some point when you cant figure something out.

hackherlin • Jun 7 '18

I have three favorites when it comes to music while coding:

LoFi HipHop (mostly YouTube Streams)
Jazz Vibes Playlist on Spotify
Atmospheric / Dark / Experimental / Post Metal

It depends on how I feel and what type of issue I have.

Divyesh Parmar • Jun 7 '18 • Edited

I mostly use FreeCodeCamp's 24x7 live music on their YouTube channel. Its really soothing and helps focus.

I've tried other EDMs, Rock stuff but I felt distracted with those.

Hope to see others sharing too

Alex Gwartney • Jun 7 '18

Oh ok cool will have to check that one out. And yea will be intresting to see what others have as well.

Vincent Grovestine • Jun 7 '18

Digitally Imported channels are my default go-to whether building, debugging or absorbing:

Liquid DnB, Melodic Progressive = energy to straight-up write code, build and achieve flow.
Atmospheric Breaks = distract from a noisy office to remain productive.
Deep Nu Disco, Indie Dance = mid-energy, general purpose work tunes.
Downtempo Lounge, Chillout Dreams = slower paced, deliberate thought tasks like planning, troubleshooting, documentation, etc.
Ambient, Space Dreams = reading and comprehension.

Frank Carr • Jun 8 '18

Time for this topic again?

I listen to music I like depending on my mood although it's usually guitar oriented, usually in the alternative realm. This week I mostly listened to Johnny Marr, Sarah Shook, Starcrawler, Larkin Poe, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile and Janiva Magness.

Casey Brooks • Jun 7 '18

I tend to get really distracted by music so I don't listen to a ton during work, but my two favorite stations on Google Play Music are:

Quentin Sonrel • Jun 7 '18

Mostly (all sorts of) Metal, Synthwave and Jazz for me, which is really just my usual music. I don't have a specific style of music or playlists for when I code, although I prefer something with high BPM when I work (more stimulating).

Right now I'm listening to Tokyo Rose.

Spotify's daily mixes are my go to when I lack inspiration though.

Sean Killeen • Sep 16 '18

Hey! I've noticed that in this post you use "guys" as a reference to the entire community, which is not made up of only guys but a variety of community members.

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