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Poll: Your preferred music for working?
What's your preferred music for working? (whatever you class as 'doing work', be that hacking or designing or just normal office/bureaucratic stuff)
This poll is entirely to judge opinions, not to find the 'best' music for working.
(Feel free to vote for more than one if you work with more then one kind of music.)
- technoslut 15y agoI listen to all those genres but it's always classical and at a relatively low volume. I never play Beethoven as his music is too emotional.
- hamidpalo 15y agoNo EDM option?
- electrichead 15y agoDubstep - just try it
- kittxkat 15y agoI once read on the web (I think on HN?) that Dubstep was made for programmers. I agree.
- rmccue 15y agoPersonally, it's whatever I can listen to that I can't sing along to. That can either be something purely instrumental (most of Pendulum's songs, e.g.), something in a different language (Sigur Ros), or mashups (Girl Talk).
- billybob 15y agoThis. I program, which means using words (naming variables and methods, etc). If a song has words I can understand, it seems to distract the language part of my brain too much. So instrumental music works best for me. Silence is the very best thing, but music is better than background conversation.
- kittxkat 15y agoAgreed. That's why electronical music works best for me. It's music (with some kind of a beat), but mostly without big vocal parts.
- loup-vaillant 15y agoCompletely off topic. I wanted to contact you about USSM (see your comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3025521 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3025521 ). Could you please send me an e-mail (pick it from my web site), I'd like to know if you still have that compilation error with the latest USSM. Wild guess about the cause: I forgot to include some dependencies in the makefile. In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce the problem.
- pigoz 15y agoI generally work in silence. If there is chaos in the office I plug in my noise canceling earbuds and listen to soundtracks.
- DieBuche 15y agoNothing electronic to choose from?
- cao825 15y agoCome on man - Electronica
- toyg 15y agoI subscribe to the view that music hinders concentration more than it favours it. Your brain is forced to multitask, which is inherently more difficult than concentrating on one line of thought. However, I have seen it working in a pavlovian way, signaling to the brain that "it's time to work". This can be useful when conditioning people who struggle to concentrate for long periods.
- technoslut 15y agoIt has been shown that at the very least music can actually help you concentrate such as the 'Mozart effect'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect It's certainly not for everyone nor do I believe music should be played like you're having a party in your office for it to be effective.
- wladimir 15y agoThe problem is that in many cases you have to choose between assorted office/home background noises or music. In which case music (at least, known and predictable music) probably hinders concentration least.
- toyg 15y agoI agree. I'm lucky enough to work in silent surroundings.
- fratido 15y agoMinimal Techno. It is really weird that you ignored all electronical music styles.
- fotbr 15y agoAnother vote for EDM
- mva 15y agohaha, no eletronic music in the list? Silly Americans ;-) I vote for minimal techno
- mauro_oto 15y agoElectronica, Trip-hop
- Valdemar 15y agoNo electronic music, what? I'd think programmers would listen to electronic music more than the average person... Kraftwerk, anyone? (in my ears right now)
- mynegation 15y agoLike others pointed out - glaring omission of electronic music. I am a death metal fan, but for coding I prefer uplifiting trance.
- fsvehla 15y agoThere should be an option for White Noise.
- peterhi 15y agoElectronica, drones and anime soundtracks
- charlesdm 15y agoElectronic music; mostly trance.
- iloveponies 15y agosoma.fm - Secret Agent, Groove Salad, Space Station.
- rrival 15y ago+1 for Techno / Electronica (Chemical Brothers - Further, for example)
- Havoc 15y agoFor working (finance) - no music. For coding (casual) - Trance. Something like AvB. It helps me get into that flow state & when I'm there I block it out completely anyway.
- manuscreationis 15y agoA mix of different types - anything with a fast beat and hard sounds
- sjs382 15y agoFunk and Blues
- Amaan 15y agoWhere's Alternative Rock? That's what I'm listening to most of the time. Sometimes it's Metal or just Rock. Sometimes it's nothing.
- kittxkat 15y agoI LOVE to work with some light/easy on the ears electronical music in the background (mostly remixes and some dubstep tracks). I recently discovered tammyszu's Youtube Channel[1] and usually kick some of her playlists on when I arrive at work. She has over 500 videos, so every time it's something new... And almost every video is just amazing and refreshingly different and works super-well for me for programming. [1] http://www.youtube.com/user/tammyszu http://www.youtube.com/user/tammyszu
- dpkendal 15y agoSorry to all who wanted to say Electronica. That option is now available. I knew I'd forget a genre.
- garethsprice 15y agoElectronic - huge fan of http://www.di.fm http://www.di.fm as it lets me skip around different styles depending on what I'm working on (deep concentration: trance/minimal techno. 2am hackfests where I need to stay awake: drum and bass. 4am hackfests where I'm going slightly insane: happy hardcore).
- ard0r 15y agoRecently I've been tuning in to rainymood.com for some background noise to drown out the chaos where I work. It's about a 45 minute track of a thunderstorm. Edit: fixed link, thanks for the correction.
- fratido 15y agoThe correct domain is rainymood.com. Thanks for that, it's lovely.
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- baseh 15y agoNo Ambient/Lounge so +1 to Electronic
- solidgumby 15y agopost-dubstep, UK-funky and some synthpop ( Don't ask me why but I love Freezepop)