I don't do this as a living, and after working a laborious job all day, knowing I have a goal and a kind-of deadline for myself, I have to put myself in the mood to code. Once I'm there, I go at it. And that takes music. Wordless, electronic music that I purposely don't listen to at any other time.
So I usually play C64/Amiga chiptunes in the Droidsound app.
How about you?
same
Chiptunes, game music in general (especially final fantasy music). I use grooveshark.com. Good stuff.
Grooveshark, nice.
I check on ocremix as well, but I think my favorite tune to come from ocremix was a few years ago, called "The Beat Have Started to Move." It's a Metal Gear remix, freaking spectacular.
I don't have any specific coding music, I listen to whatever I'd otherwise listen to, and very often simply nothing.
Imperial wrote:
I don't do this as a living, and after working a laborious job all day, knowing I have a goal and a kind-of deadline for myself, I have to put myself in the mood to code. Once I'm there, I go at it. And that takes music. Wordless, electronic music that I purposely don't listen to at any other time.
So I usually play C64/Amiga chiptunes in the Droidsound app.
How about you?
OMG chiptunes all the way! I listen to chiptunes even while at work. Have since my first job as a dishwasher at a pizza place. I'd blast Shadow of the Beast, Leander, Agony, Killing Gameshow, cracktro tunes, NES tunes, anything I'd managed to record onto a cassette. Some of my all-time favorites are crack intro or demo musics! I still fire up the Amiga in the basement and turn up the speakers! Kids love it...
Nothing, as I now prefer to focus better, while music only distracts me. Used to listen various stuff, often rock and heavy metal.
I code in silence as well. I used to think certain types of music (things without lyrics etc.) did not distract me, but I've found I work 50% if not 100% faster with no music.
I can only code at certain hours because my roommate insists on playing oldies at high volume.
thefox wrote:
I don't have any specific coding music, I listen to whatever I'd otherwise listen to, and very often simply nothing.
Same to me.
Shiru wrote:
Nothing, as I now prefer to focus better, while music only distracts me.
Same here. Music distracts me a lot.
Music distracts me to the point I can't think clear enough to listen to it and code usually, although I do keep the TV on. I HAVE found that ASMR videos, since you're not supposed to focus on the sounds, I can listen to those! Which ASMR is 1000x better than any music.
I can code while listening any type of music, but said music cannot have any lirycs. If it's just music, then I can have a boost in coding power
If music have lirycs, then it is very distracting, and I usually do not code while my brother (with who I share my room) listens to music with lirycs.
I prefer ambient electronic music, not necessarily always chiptunes, but stuff like Aphex twin, The Shamen, The Prodigy or some assorted demo scene stuff. It puts me in a zone that is this perfect blend of tranquility, creativity and nostalgia.
Denine wrote:
If music have lirycs, then it is very distracting, and I usually do not code while my brother (with who I share my room) listens to music with lirycs.
True, but it's less distracting if the lyrics are in a language you don't understand.
Online streams I tend to listen to in general (coding or otherwise):
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SomaFM - Drone Zone 56k*
SomaFM - Groove Salad 64k AAC*
SomaFM - Secret Agent 64k AAC*
SomaFM - Mission Control 64k AAC*
SomaFM - cliqhop idm 128k*
DI - Ambient 40k AAC*
DI - Chillout Dreams 40k AAC*
Nectarine Radio 80k AACMy actual music collection (including SIDs and NSFs) is... well, I would say immense and very diverse (you'll find Iron Maiden crammed between classical harpsichord and Andres Segovia on my shelf)... but I think most people have bigger music/MP3/etc. collections than I do. I own (on CD) most of what I have in MP3 as well. I like most all genres except for most rap and country (though I do own one or two very specific country albums). I'm not particularly fond of dubstep, come to think of it. These days I tend to listen to mostly ambient things (trying to keep stress/anxiety very low).
Language-wise, most music I have (with lyrics) is in either English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, or Swedish. I do tend to look up lyrics (in any language) if I hear something I like, just to get a better understanding of the language if possible.
Bregalad wrote:
it's less distracting if the lyrics are in a language you don't understand.
If I like music in a language I don't understand, I will at least once listen to it while reading a translation of it, so that I have at least a vague idea of what it's about (and by doing that I will inevitably learn some new words). And then, when I listen to it again, I'll keep trying to remember what each part said, and trying to identify/remember the words I learned... so in my case that's actually MORE distracting than listening to a song in a language I do understand! =)
I do find myself eventually turning the music off, and then I just code in silence, but lyrics definitely affect me. Perhaps it wouldn't be so distracting in another language. (I like Mana, for example.)
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anything I'd managed to record onto a cassette
You old-timer.
Krautrock (Amon Duul 2, Neu!, Ashra, Kraftwerk, Can, etc).
Space Rock - Ozric Tentacles, Hidria Spacefolk, Pink Floyd
Demoscene music - SceneSat / Nectarine, CVGM
I find music with singing distracting when I'm trying to write code.