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Incredibox - Background music for programming.
- n9com 15y agothis is excellent - needs to be an iPad app.
- dlsym 15y agoIMHO I really do not know how this nerve-racking sound can be endured while programming. Besides it basically is just this classic on steroids: http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.sw...
- azelfrath 15y agoThis is terrible. Music should stimulate the mind, not dull it. Creepy little men "singing" is not going to make me more focused, but a nice piece of Baroque will certainly do the trick.
- _hiss 15y agohttp://musicforprogramming.net/ http://musicforprogramming.net/ is much more useful.
- sek 15y agoThanks, exactly what i was looking for.
- amanelis 15y agohave yall seen Console.fm ? Crawls the web to find the most trending electronic music and sorts by genres.
- boulderdash 15y agothis is awesome, thanks!
- Inversechi 15y agoI have now! cheers :)
- SomeCallMeTim 15y agoTried it, but it really didn't work for me. Didn't hate it, but their aesthetic [1] turns out to be totally wrong for me to program to. Instead of droning and textures without rhythm, I need a heavy beat, vocals, and strong melody (or at least prominent and fast arpeggiated synth). Instead of that I tend to listen to di.fm Vocal Trance, if I'm sick of listening to my collection. 90% of coding for me seems to require that I distract most of my brain. When a problem gets really hard I often just turn off the music. I should try listening to MFP under those circumstances and see if it works better then. :) Regardless: Glad it works for you. Not trying to dis MFP. Different people need different soundtracks. [1] http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=aesthetic http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=aesthetic
- option_greek 15y agoI think they really got something right. I tried so many genres but always use their collection when I really need to focus. I especially like the 01(datassette) and 02 (sunjammer) compilations.
- tempire 15y agoExcellent. Love the interface. Very well-thought out.
- jessep 15y agoI think the comments here are responding negatively to the title of the post. True, you're probably not going to spend the rest of the day coding to the music you make in incredibox. But this app is still very cool for what it is: a fun, easily accessible experiment in making music with loops. I put together a couple of little songs that sounded pretty cool, and the experience was simple and enjoyable. I give props to whoever made Incredibox, and think this general direction is promising for casual music making, an activity that could benefit all of us.
- tarr11 15y agoAgree. This app made me smile, a rare thing while coding.
- samwilliams 15y agoThis app also made me smile, but I have to disagree with you - I often can't stop smiling while coding. The feeling of satisfaction when something works out really is unrivalled. Each to thier own though!
- tapvt 15y agoAgreed. I actually laughed out loud when the UI popped up, and again when I dropped a beat on the shirtless skinny white guy. Novel idea, fun UI. If the minor end-of-loop delay (which another commenter mentioned) were eliminated or mitigated, it'd be downright awesome. Nice work. Thanks to the creator(s) for the entertainment.
- liber8 15y agoAgreed. This kind of stuff is going to result in a massive amount of new music in the next few years. Very cool. There's been a slew of these going around lately (I found this cool, simple little one last week: http://www.sembeo.com/media/Matrix.swf http://www.sembeo.com/media/Matrix.swf). Incredibox is the most fun version yet.
- wyck 15y agoSorry I prefer old school dj's, they still exists and I don't have to play with an interface ? I'll stay with http://somafm.com/ http://somafm.com/
- empika 15y agoGreat thing. Although I don't think it is the best music to code by, especially as it just loops and loops! I made a similar 'remixer' in about 2003 for my university dissertation, although mine was networked so you could mix with a friend ;) Love the art style though
- nextstep 15y agoThis is really fun. I like the vocals a lot and I like the interface to control each track. The title is incorrect because I don't think the intent of this app is for programmers to make background music to work to.
- zackzackzack 15y agoEvery once in a while all of them pause in sync. Try using distinct primes for the length of a musical cycle to create a different sound. Not sure how it would for beats, but I know visually this is useful.
- malvim 15y agoGreat and fun application, but these little pauses at the "seams" between the loops are REALLY throwing me off. You can't stomp your feet to this for more then one whole loop. Too bad, I loved the idea and the implementation!
- omarish 15y agoThis is so much fun. Thanks to whomever created this. Will give it a spin starting now.
- laserDinosaur 15y agoReally bad title, really awesome app.
- dvee81 15y agoThis is freakin' awesome guys! Android/IOS app and maybe facebook will buy you for 1B ;)
- siavosh 15y agoI think it's funny how [negative] some of these comments are. I think the negative reactions here are a perfect example of Louis C.K.'s joke/rant: [1] "Today's Tech is Wasted on the Crappiest Generation" [1] http://videosift.com/video/Louie-CK-on-Conan-Oct-1st-2008?fromdupe=We-live-in-an-amazing-amazing-world-and-we-complain http://videosift.com/video/Louie-CK-on-Conan-Oct-1st-2008?fr... Edit: angry -> negative
- sek 15y agoWhich angry comments?
- heyitsnick 15y agoIt's funny, i'm 2/3 of the way down this thread and so far most comments have been of the "i can't believe all these negative comments" ilk. I haven't seen one negative one yet. I guess they're lower down... i think HNers should have more faith in the upvote/downvote process.
- rpwverheij 15y agotrue, same experience here often. I'm often reading things here after they've been on for a while, and I often have to read over comments complaining about other people being negative... I would probably agree with them, if only I would have seen any negativity besides the comments about negativity ..
- darkstar999 15y agoSome of us don't have the privilege of downvoting :-(
- maz29 15y agopeople still use flash?
- novalis 15y agoYou do now there is a place for rich media on the web and it is very popular. Don't you?
- richardlblair 15y agoProps. This is a very cool project.
- whalesalad 15y agoI can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set out to run 10k I'll listen to this and it will help me get there more than anything else. Or if I wanna kill a new comp or a handful of bugs, [PLAY] and it sucks me in like a vortex.
- holic 15y agoI LOVE driving to Featurecast: http://soundcloud.com/featurecast http://soundcloud.com/featurecast
- AnthonyJoseph 15y agoLove this, any more recco's?
- mikek 15y agoGirl Talk: http://illegal-art.net/allday/ http://illegal-art.net/allday/
- dantheman 15y agoHere's recent mix I really enjoy: http://www.mixcloud.com/alec_empire/alec-empire-atari-teenage-riot-collapse-of-history-dj-mix-pirates-vs-the-copyright-cartels/ http://www.mixcloud.com/alec_empire/alec-empire-atari-teenag...
- fourk 15y agoIf you're looking for more mashups, check out Girl Talk, Milkman, and Super Mash Bros. If you're looking for similar electronic music sets, here are a couple I've been digging lately: Kaskade's set from Coachella, soundboard recording. http://www.themusicninja.com/live-set-full-kaskade-coachella-free-download/ http://www.themusicninja.com/live-set-full-kaskade-coachella... Porter Robinson's BBC Essential Mix - http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/porter-robinson-essential-mix-live-from-hull-bbc-radio1-01-28-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/porter-robinson-essential-m... Knife Party's BBC Essential Mix - http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/knife-party-essential-mix-live-from-hull-bbc-radio1-01-28-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/knife-party-essential-mix-l... Luvstep 2.5 (There are several other mixes in this series, though this one is my favorite) - http://soundcloud.com/dirtysouthjoe/luvstep-2-5 http://soundcloud.com/dirtysouthjoe/luvstep-2-5 Straight Bass to the Dome - Coletrain http://soundcloud.com/cberra88/straight-bass-to-the-dome http://soundcloud.com/cberra88/straight-bass-to-the-dome
- donum 15y agoI really like the interface. It's a joy to click around and building little songs! But if you record a composition and instantly stop the recording, it will delete your whole composition. I think this isn't intentional.
- spjwebster 15y agoThis (or at least the shuffle mode) reminds me of AlgoMusic, a music generator for the Amiga that, back in the day, provided me many hours of coding music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUnXjVgx44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUnXjVgx44 I'm going to throw Incredibox into shuffle mode for a while to see how long it takes me to switch back to Daft Punk.
- courtewing 15y agoI think this is a mighty clever app; I'm not really sure why there are so many negative comments. It would be nice if the url changed with the sample combinations though. It looks like you can record a chunk of the sound and share that, but I'm far more interested in sharing the exact combination that I come up with than I am the sound itself. I'd love to just send a link to a friend so that they could not only see the combination in action but also dive in and make it their own.
- fady 15y agoyeah, i found this to be super fun and i felt like a dj for about 10 mins while i made my beats. job well done.
- guelo 15y agoMy go-to for programming music is Groove Salad on SomaFM, a San Francisco institution going on 12 years. http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad http://somafm.com/play/groovesalad
- EvilTerran 15y agoI'm also a big fan of SomaFM for background music, although which stream I go for varies depending on my mood. I've found Cliqhop better when feeling tired, and Beat Blender more suitable when feeling fidgety. Another favourite of mine is [http://kohina.com/ http://kohina.com/] -- I definitely find old-school game music helps me focus. Perhaps it's conditioning from the hours on end spent sat in front of an Atari ST in my youth...
- eli 15y agoI was all about Groove Salad until I found http://di.fm/ http://di.fm/
- calebmpeterson 15y agoDI and The Crystal Method were my gateway into electronic music. Over a decade later and I haven't looked back.
- Florin_Andrei 15y agoSounds like you may enjoy http://epiphanyradio.org/ http://epiphanyradio.org/
- bits 15y agoHooking into Groove Salad or Deepvibes Radio http://deepvibes.co.uk/ http://deepvibes.co.uk/ [320 Kbps] nearly always creates an environment to get lost in the code flow. Assign a hotkey to each of your favorite stations and jump around without losing your flow. One way to do this is to trigger the launch of a .pls file. Save the following as deepvibes_320.pls without leading spaces [playlist] NumberOfEntries=1 File1=http://deepvibes.co.uk:9106/ groove_salad_130aac.pls [playlist] numberofentries=1 File1=http://voxsc1.somafm.com:3000
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- ilaksh 15y agoSomething happened on my computer where it took like 3 minutes to load. May be an issue with Flash. Also wasn't able to drop anything. Using Chrome on Ubuntu.
- dlf 15y agoThis is fun. I want to be able to share my mixes though.
- sasha-dv 15y agoHow about this? http://www.incredibox.com/?music=4F9C15381AD42 http://www.incredibox.com/?music=4F9C15381AD42
- jbverschoor 15y agoHow can I get at star 3?
- psyklic 15y agoComplete star 2 and remove all singers. Then add the first in each category, left to right. (How do I know this? Luck!)
- bedspax 15y agospettacolare
- Inversechi 15y agoI've recently been digging Weird Ribs - Frontiers album which can be obtained free from his bandcamp. http://weirdribs.bandcamp.com/track/space-tourist http://weirdribs.bandcamp.com/track/space-tourist If your into minimal/ambient/experimental.
- abs_farah 15y agoI absolutely love it! I don't know what else to say. I'm guessing there are plans to increase the number of different sound types?
- kin 15y agothat was fun
- mratzloff 15y agoThis many replies and no one has mentioned how creepy their hipster mutation mascot is?!
- yblokhin 15y agoI am officially addicted. One can't make anything that sounds bad with it! So badass.
- ahsanhilal 15y agoTrying to be not petty but I posted this weeks ago and nobody really cared: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804637 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804637 In any case, I really like how they explain how to user can actually use it. I dont know what everyone else thinks, but I feel like everyone in the age braket 18-30 wants to be a dj at a party.
- eli 15y agoYour headline is more accurate and descriptive, but this headline knows its audience a lot better. This a lesson about marketing in there somewhere.
- ahsanhilal 15y agoYea I know. Apparently I should be adding hacker, programming, Ask PG, ycombinator application etc to everything I post :) I think though I did just get a lesson in what makes people click. Kinda like when I see "Kardashian's body and photoshop" headlines in my FB feed...
- ahsanhilal 15y agoAlso dont you think this headline is a bit misleading?
- MysticFear 15y agoShould be a lesson for you, marketing matters. Your title didn't get people to click and enjoy.
- ahsanhilal 15y agoOne caveat, my headline can only ask people to click, though enjoyment/fulfillment is mostly dependent on individual preferences, right?
- creamyhorror 15y agoAfter coming across Incredibox recently, I saw your post and decided not to repost. Guess I should've thrown my hat into the marketing ring... There's a viral barrier that needs to be breached for things to hit the front page, and then the views shoot up from there.
- dudurocha 15y agoThis is amazing, man. But it actually made me stopped coding, instead, I'm enjoying all the combinations.
- Achshar 15y agoI would like to take this opportunity to make this shameless plug. I use it to play background music while programming. An app that is a full music player but in your browser and 100% html5. It plays local music like vlc or windows media player. It also runs entirely offline and in background (close the tab or browser and music still plays). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fddboknafkepdchidokknkeidnaejnkh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fddboknafkepdchido...
- tagawa 15y agoLooks interesting. Do you have the original URL for those of us not on Chrome?
- isurfbecause 15y agoI also like turn http://turntable.fm/ambient_chillout_trip_hop2 http://turntable.fm/ambient_chillout_trip_hop2
- petercooper 15y agoSince people are suggesting online stations here, Notch (he of Minecraft fame) often listens to http://www.di.fm/electro/ http://www.di.fm/electro/ and somehow I got addicted to it as well while watching him code his Ludum Dare entry. Kinda high energy though.
- anthonyb 15y agoThere are a bunch of channels on there though. Some sort of trance might be more your thing: http://www.di.fm/classictrance http://www.di.fm/classictrance
- eli 15y agoI've been a paying subscriber to di.fm for years. It's great. Honestly, I barely know what the different station names mean; I just flip through the stations until I find one that has a beat/sound that matches what I'm looking for at that moment.
- joshmlewis 15y agoI've wondered for awhile what some good programming music is. I know this could vary but what do some of your playlists consist of? Or even link up good Spotify playlists.
- bane 15y ago1) Go to pandora 2) Start a new channel 3) Type "abakus" 4) vote up/down as desired 5) go on and be productive with an awesome, low-key background soundtrack
- dkulchenko 15y agoWow. Thank you sir/ma'am.
- zalyh 15y agoAlternatively, grooveshark.com for people currently outside of the U.S.
- fragsworth 15y agoWhy outside the U.S.? I'm in the U.S. and it seems to work fine.
- hebejebelus 15y agoPandora doesn't work outside the US because of copyright difficulties. However, grooveshark doesn't seem to worry too much about this, and as such it's available outside the US.
- brodieface 15y agoAlternative to Pandora for people outside the US.
- donniezazen 15y agoMy favorite is http://somafm.com/play/suburbsofgoa http://somafm.com/play/suburbsofgoa
- eli 15y agoI'm surprised no one mentioned the Buddha Machine -- a physical box that loops sounds and beats to make a similar sort of music: http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/v2/ http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/v2/ This site reminds me a bit of the iPad app, which lets you work half a dozen virtual machines.
- ralphsaunders 15y agoFun to have a little play around in, although I'm not sure how much programming I'd get done playing with this ;). http://www.incredibox.com/?music=4F9B48F2E5B02 http://www.incredibox.com/?music=4F9B48F2E5B02
- lifeinafolder 15y agomind=blown.
- jscheel 15y agoI'm partial to http://8tracks.com http://8tracks.com. Users have posted a ton of "study" mixes and "workout" mixes that I find perfect for when I an designing or coding.
- robotment 15y agoreally good
- booleanbetrayal 15y agogreat job ... beautiful interface!
- xtc 15y agoSomaFM is the key. Cliqhop + Groovesalad. http://somafm.com/ http://somafm.com/
- iosctr 15y agoThere's some really nice links here. Thanks everyone! I'm old school :) http://livephish.com/radio/listen.m3u http://livephish.com/radio/listen.m3u Some good stuff here as well. http://www.radioio.com/genre/eclectic-specialty/ http://www.radioio.com/genre/eclectic-specialty/
- sebilasse 15y agoI enjoy listening to live streams from clubs around the world thanks to time difference and http://www.awdio.com http://www.awdio.com . On friday afternoons (in Europe) I ended the working week with electro/house from http://www.awdio.com/yumla http://www.awdio.com/yumla. Now i'm in Asia myself and this doesnt work anymore :(
- sherlocked 15y agoMy go-to coding music is the TRON: Legacy soundtrack, but this is turning out to be a pretty awesome alternative so far.
- hendi_ 15y agoI really like listening to online streams like soma.fm or di.fm when coding. Not just because their sounds are great (they are!) and put me into the zone (they do!), but because it keeps me motivated when I get the inner urge to click around the interwebs. Why? Because I know that while I'm listening and trying to stay focused on my coding, somebody else somewhere in the world is listening to exactly the same tunes at the same moment and is being productive. That really keeps my motivation to produce stuff high!
- mbenjaminsmith 15y agoI like to listen to my turntable while coding. Getting up every ~15 minutes to flip/change a record actually helps me focus because it gives me constant tiny breaks. The mindless nature of the task also doesn't interrupt my thoughts but does give me a change to stretch my legs.
- myspy 15y agoWow, this application has gone even further. I saw it I think two years ago (or last year?) and you couldn't do that much with it. It's very enjoyable because the loops are great. Nothing to program to, as I enjoy alternative music (Limp Bizkit anyone?) and playing my playlists in iTunes while coding.
- Hervetar 15y agoFlash Blocked!
- Benjojo 15y ago:( You guys put us to 300MB/s
- driverdan 15y agoThat would explain why it was transferring <100kB/sec.
- yankcrime 15y agoLate to the party on this, but I highly recommend the imaginatively titled musicForProgramming(); over here: http://musicforprogramming.net/ http://musicforprogramming.net/
- drostie 15y agoAchievement 3 is awarded for "find the right combination," but there are 137980 combinations (assuming order doesn't matter) and I'm not that patient. :x
- scotty79 15y agoAre you not a hacker?
- drostie 15y agoNot in Flash. If it were an HTML5 application I'd have been breaking it apart.
- spz 15y agoTLDR: The combination is using the first of each sound type Method: 1. grabbed the .swf file (Chrome Developer Tools -> Network -> one of the 6 .swf files) 2. used the incredible tools to extract and disassemble from https://github.com/CyberShadow/RABCDAsm https://github.com/CyberShadow/RABCDAsm 3. with luck came across \incredibox-0\incredibox_fla\MainTimeline.class.asasm lines 24827-24840 Took me longer to write this post than to figure it out, but, I am guessing I got lucky. I only decided to attempt checking this out as I started playing around with the RABCDAsm couple hours ago. I've little to no idea how to read those .asasm files yet, but I'm learning more about them. Edit: extra spacing
- pepijndevos 15y ago"Find the right combination" huh? Kind of subjective, right? How do you do this? [edit]: http://www.howtocircle.com/2012/04/incredibox-find-right-combination.html http://www.howtocircle.com/2012/04/incredibox-find-right-com...
- shakesbeard 15y agothe greatest thing about this app is the shuffle mode.
- dayvid 15y agoBBC Radio 1 Essential Mix does it for me: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkfp http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkfp The best DJs from around the world produce mixes every week. Pretty much always top notch stuff that usually doesn't have a lot of lyrics.
- ZanderEarth32 15y agoThis is incredibly cool. Having a blast messing with it.
- umjames 15y agoOK, so no one's going to mention Above & Beyond's Group Therapy Miami set for this year's Winter Music Conference? http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/above-and-beyond-live-group-therapy-miami-wmc-22-03-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/above-and-beyond-live-group... http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/mat-zo-live-group-therapy-miami-wmc-22-03-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/mat-zo-live-group-therapy-m... http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/arty-group-therapy-miami-wmc-22-03-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/arty-group-therapy-miami-wm... http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/andrew-bayer-live-group-therapy-miami-wmc-22-03-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/andrew-bayer-live-group-the... http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/boom-jinx-live-group-therapy-miami-wmc-22-03-2012 http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/boom-jinx-live-group-therap... Or Pretty Lights' The Hot Shit radio show? http://soundcloud.com/prettylights/pretty-lights-the-hot-sh-t-16 http://soundcloud.com/prettylights/pretty-lights-the-hot-sh-... You're welcome.
- umjames 15y agoWith all the dubstep links here, I'd be remiss if I didn't include Philly's own Dubsef: http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-filthwater-mix-www http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-filthwater-mix-www http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-broverload-vol-2 http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-broverload-vol-2 http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-all-your-bass-are http://soundcloud.com/dubsef/dubsef-all-your-bass-are
- savagejen 15y agoThis is what it sounds like if you follow all three incredibox steps in a row: http://t.co/VzxMu577 http://t.co/VzxMu577 (note: this is kind of like a spoiler)
- wicknicks 15y agoVery cool! Next thing: randomly change the tunes every 3-4 mins :)
- fadelakin 15y agoI love it.
- bceagle 15y agoWow, incredibly addicting. I don't think it is something I would play around with every day, but I spent about an hour trying out different combinations.
- dobalina 15y ago128 bpm just ain't enough these days. ;) Coding at 150 bpm always helps with some electronic music (eg. hardstyle) http://gaming.operationreality.org/groups/music/forum/topic/what-song-are-you-listening-to-right-now/?topic_page=7&num=15 http://gaming.operationreality.org/groups/music/forum/topic/...
- pjmlp 15y agoHackers soundtrack :)
- coldarchon 15y agothis is my background music. http://youarelistening.to/chicago http://youarelistening.to/chicago police radio with ambient music.