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Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)
- a-priori 19y agoGood music is important for me to get into "deep hack mode". Usually, it's house, trance or something like that. One day last week though, though I had David Wilcox's "Do the Bearcat" on repeat for about 2 hours. It was the most productive 2 hours I've had in a month. Who would have thought?
- imsteve 19y agoThe internet radio stations I listen to for programming music require each mix (song) to be between 45 and 90 minutes, not fade or do other distracting effects, and a couple other basic rules that make it quite good for programming.
- foonamefoo 19y agoSounds interesting, which stations?
- imsteve 19y agoI'm actually trying to make lists of the best programming music now. First, I'm collecting databases of all the music I can find. The electronic genres are the most elusive... I have a database listing about 16MM tracks and mixes now. Once I get all that I'll finish making those lists. I have found some decent web stations, but for the most part I just rip hundreds of tracks from dozens of stations at a time and pluck out the couple good songs and then repeat. I'll get back to you on that.
- edw519 19y ago"deep hack mode" I love it! Thanks for the David Wilcox reference, but no thanks. Just the other day I cranked Gershwin's Rapsody in Blue and had the most productive 17 minute in a month. Who would have thought?
- rtf 19y agoWhen I want "coder background music" I just listen to a psytrance onine radio station.
- andr 19y agotrance is good, but for work? maybe that's why your coding isn't going so well :)
- kingnothing 19y agoTrance can get me in to the zone faster than anything else out there, music or otherwise. Granted, I prefer progressive to psy, but everyone has his own preference.
- imsteve 19y agoSeconded.
- amohr 19y agosome good music there - although I prefer albums when I'm coding. I think it provides good quantized units of time to work on things
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- pepeto 19y agocough cough ..yc is for programmers and sit...cough sites...
- codesurgeon 19y agoI agree with the title of this post, but don't really get what the referenced post is supposed to do in order to help. I think the topic is really interesting and I'd like to know what other hacks are listening to. I posted "Coding In Flow - Does Music Get You Higher?" on my blog in 2006 on the very same topic listing my favorite music for certain development tasks. http://codesurgeonblog.com/2006/08/coding-in-flow-does-music-get-you.html http://codesurgeonblog.com/2006/08/coding-in-flow-does-music...
- ardit33 19y agomusicovery.com is good. I usually listen to electronica, down tempo, negative mood. The key is listening to music that has vocals and that are more monotonous. Vocals can get distracting.
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- alexsolo 19y agopandora.com is really good. When coding, I alternate between trance http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh11364865758277320 http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh11364865758277320 and mellow hip-hop http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh236914974523469512 http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh236914974523469512
- mosburger 19y agoI've discovered a lot of "programming music" using last.fm, and I totally agree on elecronic/trance for background. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Boards of Canada. I can't recommend them enough.
- gscott 19y agoYou could make it so that if you are not coding fast enough it stops the music.
- simianstyle 19y agodaft punk
- andr 19y agodoubletrue.
- nose 19y agoWhat do you think of an app that analyzes text on your screen and plays appropriate music.
- pchristensen 19y agoAnother music sharing service: http://www.jukefly.com/ http://www.jukefly.com/