Not always, but when doing routine and/or boring things that just need to be done: http://i.imgur.com/BEglNuP.gif http://i.imgur.com/BEglNuP.gif As to what ki

Not always, but when doing routine and/or boring things that just need to be done: http://i.imgur.com/BEglNuP.gif http://i.imgur.com/BEglNuP.gif As to what kind of music, some tunes by Calyx & Teebee or Ed Rush & Optical seem to do the trick for me, and other music "in that style"... hard for me to answer precisely without spamming youtube links, since I like individual songs, never artists or genres as a whole. Well, except just about anything by Skeewiff that doesn't have lyrics, which is an entirely different mood, but works great for pretending I'm an Austin Powers style secret agent :D When trying to solve a problem that's new to me, I usually do best in silence, and if that fails I need a shower or a walk. So yes, for me music (or movies, radio, anything really) is a distraction, but sometimes I find that distraction from "chores" while doing them very helpful indeed. I'm not a great and never a groundbreaking coder, so such chores seem to make up the majority of my coding time.