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My current, not very imaginative solution is to use headphones and listen to heavy metal music. I use regular, closed back, circumaural headphones. IEMs aren't
by Paul_S 14y ago
My current, not very imaginative solution is to use headphones and listen to heavy metal music. I use regular, closed back, circumaural headphones. IEMs aren't comfortable enough to use all day, and noise cancelling headphones don't work on office noise. I'm worried I'm getting "addicted" and can no longer concentrate without listening to metal. I'm not even a metal-head, it's just that it provides constant sound that Bach simply cannot (maybe except some of his organ works). When I was younger I wondered why so many coders listened to metal at work. Could this be it?
- viraptor 14y agoIt doesn't need to be metal probably. Anything that provides constant sound is fine with me. That means anything from random metal to Deep Purple to Porcupine Tree to Air to Radio Head is on my "work" playlist. Singers / song writers don't give the same result to me since there are many breaks where I can hear office sounds shortly and it ruins the mood :( I'm sure everyone can find something they like that contains fairly continuous stream of music with lyrics that don't force you to listen.
- Paul_S 14y agoHmmm, gives me an idea. Maybe if I ran all the songs through sox to create a spectrogram for each and then use graphicsmagick on the spectrograms to count up the black pixels (silence or quiet sound) I could create a playlist of solid and continuous sound songs... or I could just stick to Helloween.
- achompas 14y agoWhy not white (or pink or brown) noise?