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I have two rules when I’m listening to music while programming: 1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic ge
by eswat 10y ago
I have two rules when I’m listening to music while programming:
1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to really put me in the “you’re working now” space (thanks to Julian Shapiro for this tip)
2. I pick one song and repeat it for the entire day, sometimes for several days in a row. I’ve listened songs in the above genres so much that the lyrics don’t become much of a distraction, including new ones.
- stevetrewick 10y ago>pick one song and repeat it for the entire day I also do this, one or a very short playlist of very similar stuff. Seems to help keep my mind locked into a particular state all day/work period. Currently long Daft Punk tracks are doing it for me.
- Klathmon 10y agoThe Alive '97 album is perfect for that if you like Daft Punk.
- aleksei 10y agoHey, way too good an album to listen to while coding :)
- scholia 10y agoI sort of do this, but I pick one CD. Usually it's Keith Jarrett but Bach works as well. Especially the harpsichord concertos.
- none_for_me_thx 10y agoor Keith Jarrett playing Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues?
- scholia 10y agoOddly enough, I don't own that. I must have about 30 Jarrett CDs, and quite a lot of Shostakovich (all the symphonies and string quartets), so there's really no excuse ;-)
- merrvk 10y agoNumber 2 sounds like hell
- verytrivial 10y agoI think it more about placating part of your brain so the other bits can get on with the task at hand.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoNumber 2 is the default way I listen to music - I put a song on a loop and change it when I grow tired of hearing it. For new songs this means couple of hours to couple of days; for the ones I'm familiar with it's usually something around an hour.
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- eswat 10y agoI can’t recall if it was like hell getting into this habit at first. But it’s so ingrained now that it’s kind of like greasing the pan before you start cooking.
- bshimmin 10y agoYou 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=TRORQWV13762CDDF4C 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.)
- darfs 10y agoOmfg is that awesome! °-° Can i also Upload or use my own Files? Or is this somewhere Open sourced?
- Ntrails 10y agoYou 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.
- croon 10y ago> 1. My favourite genres are K-Pop and Industrial – it helps that they are also very energetic genres — and my rule is that I can only listen to them while programming. Helps to really put me in the “you’re working now” space (thanks to Julian Shapiro for this tip) I never consciously did this, other than I obviously went to the music and pressed play, but since about 10 years ago, when I really need to focus on work, I listen to a playlist of what I would call prog trance/house trance, a genre I would absolutely never listen to for the enjoyment of music. It's really weird but it soothes me when working, and it doesn't distract (by me getting too into it), nor distracts me by being annoying. It reminds me of when I was a teen and I was an extremely tuned night person (still am, but conformed), and was really hard to wake up. Slept through alarm clock at highest setting. I scheduled a playlist on my computer, and allowed it to wake up from hibernation for scheduled events to play through connected speakers. It however ruined any music I used this way, so I had to pick music I didn't like to begin with.
- delegate 10y agoAlso try psychill / psybient if you want a calm, ambient soundscape. Good for deep concentration.
- croon 10y agoI 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
- krylon 10y agoNot sure if that counts, but I really like Bohren & Der Club of Gore. It's not Ambient per se, but super-downtempo jazz-ish music. I highly recommend Sunset Mission!
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- suby 10y agoDo you have any recommendations on some high-energetic k-pop?
- eswat 10y agoProbably these ones I’ve been listening to lately 치타(Cheetah) - Crazy Diamond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWtu72LaBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnWtu72LaBg HyunA(현아) - '어때? (How's this?)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y882AFjrSOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y882AFjrSOM 4MINUTE - 미쳐(Crazy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nCLBTmjJBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nCLBTmjJBY The pace isn’t quite as energetic as you’d find in EDM or Industrial, but it’s enough for me to get into flow easily.
- FunnyLookinHat 10y agoI've been doing the same for a long time - J-Pop / K-Pop is the way to go. This is a great way to listen online: http://www.japanaradio.com/ http://www.japanaradio.com/
- iamatworknow 10y agoMan, Japanaradio is still around? I remember listening to those shoutcast streams back in like 2003 or something (RIP Winamp). I've actually found that when I get an itch for J-Pop I will scour TuneIn for a "real" radio feed from Japan. Japanaradio was always just a playlist on shuffle (or so it seemed), and there's something about listening to an actual radio station (with commercials and interstitials) that makes it feel less cold and automatic.
- FunnyLookinHat 10y agoOh - I haven't heard of TuneIn. Any recommended stations that you've found there for J-Pop?
- iamatworknow 10y agoI don't have any particular station recommendations, unfortunately. It usually takes a bit of hunting around for a station that's playing music (though sometimes the talk radio stuff is fun as well, at least for the tiny parts of it I can understand based on my rudimentary Japanese knowledge). I usually just go here[0] and start trying out different stuff. [0] http://tunein.com/radio/Japan-r101255/ http://tunein.com/radio/Japan-r101255/
- sogen 10y agomy wife finds it odd I listen to 90's Ministry/Nine Inch Nails to focus :) also Underworld's Second Toughest on the Infants album is always my go to music.
- sonnyg 10y agoI recently discovered Second Toughest via a colleague and it has become one of my favourite programming music album too. And yes, I have also listened to NIN/Ministry to focus in the past. Not so much any more though.
- sogen 10y agoCool! If you liked that one, get the one called NUXX, very long mixes of that album.
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- bertiewhykovich 10y ago"My rule is that I can only listen to [my favorite genres] while programming. Helps to really put me in the 'you’re working now' space." This sounds insanely unpleasant. Why would you do this to yourself?