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What music, soundtracks, podcasts, etc do you listen to and is there something different for a different type of task?
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I can’t focus on work when the music is too good. So back in the day, the dumber the better 😄 Ideally Polish hip-hop, or even better — Polish reggae xDDDD
These days I’ve mellowed out a bit and listen to 80s Japanese pop instead. Highly recommended! 🎶
I think I’ve heard Polish hip-hop, but Polish reggae?? Now I’m curious 😄🤣
You don't know Polish reggae? You know nothing about life! 🤣 (I hope I won't get banned for sharing this xDDD)
I just play whitenoise 🤣 its a the only way to focus its not distracting plus now silent
Ambient electronic for thinking, Daft Punk for shipping, and existential silence for debugging. The playlist practically writes itself. 🤖
Recently started listening to Djo and I'm close to being addicted. Somehow it pairs perfectly with coding.
Markus Alexei - Burn and learn.
Monotonous music helps to focus.
Lo-fi when I'm writing code. Silence when I'm debugging. Metal when I'm fighting a merge conflict.
Although I mostly listen to the Daft Punk legend, sometimes I prefer the music from tv show intros 🫠
For me lately I've been trending away from the "intense focus" type music and more to more melo and relaxed... I've been really into Noah Kahan as my background music lately.
Curious what other people are listening to!
I tend to listen to the same music for 5+ hours straight. However, I have two soundtrack I listen to most often on different occasions.
If I am coding like working on Forem or other projects, I listen to "UNDERTALE - Hopes and Dreams / SAVE the World". It gets me moving, especially at a point where you feel like you almost "fix the bug" or "finishing the project". There are remixes out there but I preferred to listening to this specifically:
Other occasions (Like going on Dev.to, homework, or other things) I listen to "Nine Sols: The Path for Us All (Yi's Theme)":
Not the best songs to listen to when you are in intense focus, but it does get me moving.
Yiruma, Mozart or beethoven depending on the time of the day.
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For me, it's 100% task-dependent. If I'm doing routine work (bug fixes, documentation, minor tweaks), I need instrumental music usually Lo-Fi or movie soundtracks. But when I'm deep in problem solving mode or designing architecture, it has to be complete silence. No lyrics, no rhythm, nothing. Just me and the mental model I'm building. Anyone else have different modes for different types of work?
Silksong ost, Hollow Knight ost, Witcher ost, Ori ost, Alan Walker. 🙄
However, after 10 minutes, it becomes like a swarm of flies buzzing around you. Music and code have a high compatibility threshold.
Depends on the task and mood But mostly soundtracks (Hans Zimmer, LOTR, WoW) and also retro electronic music (Timecop1983). In the last few months, I discovered Nordic Viking Music 😅 Keeps me focused surprisingly well.
Lot of musics - from Goran Bregovic to Gabry Ponte… Electro, Dance, Italo Dance… Lively, expressive music, almost "dirty" in the best sense of the word — but always driven by a strong melody
As long as the Lyrics aren't German - (can't focus since it is my native language), I listen to basically anything with electric guitars, electronic and some neo-classic.
I put my record-player near my desk. Records play for about 20min per side - this is my pomodoro timer.
Recently I listened to (stream and record):
It depends so much on my mood and the time of day. Honestly my genre of music is all over the place. Sometimes it's house, indie folk, techno, classical etc.
I never listen to podcasts when working, it's too much cognitive load for me. I keep podcasts for my workouts and runs.
I like soft music and relaxing when I am working.
alot of sabrina carpenter's
Lyrical songs are strictly prohibited when I am reading or working (focusing).
Words in a song are powerful expressions and they grab attention. But that causes distraction. So the best option is instrumentals or songs with a language I don't understand or just energetic songs.
Hope you will love them...
I am listening to the KPOP Demon Hunters soundtrack. They released the instrumental version of all the songs back in September and I've been listening to that as I code.
I also like listening to ambiance music and sounds. During the holidays I like listening to the yule log videos because it is so relaxing hear the crackling sound.
The sound of plane mid-air. Anything else it's too distracting
Braziian coutry music
Modern popular artists include: Fernando & Sorocaba, Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano, Gusttavo Lima, Jorge e Matheus, Bruno & Marrone.
Classic/Roots: Tonico & Tinoco, Trio Parada Dura, Almir Sater.
Romantic/Modern: Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano, Chitãozinho & Xororó, Leandro & Leonardo.
Brown noise- yep it totally works!
I can't focus when the music has lyrics or good instrumental solos. I'm a fan of rock and jazz so if I listen to it when working, i just focus on the music. Lo-Fi is my go to 90% of the time, and when i need a burst of energy i go for a more intense eletronic.
I just listen to my liked songs playlist on Spotify. But lately I've been listening to Sleep Token heavily.
Music. I became a bit of an audiophile a few years ago, so I'm super interested in what people are sharing here!
My go-to is deathcore and deathstep, but I listen to just about anything (even some country). I love to hear new stuff, so I'm always throwing on various mixes. I like sharing the really good stuff I find, too. If I need to really buckle down I'll dive into stuff like vocal trance - basically instant flow state there.
I was helping someone test a more flexible Spotify Jam app for a bit, but that seems to have stalled out. That was awesome, just letting people join in my sessions. Showing all of the artists/songs I've found so far. I treated it like a legitimate radio broadcast - just letting it play for hours.
If I'm not busy with architecture and complex implementations I usually listen to:
I’ve tried a lot, but I keep coming back to low-distraction stuff like ambient or lo-fi. Lyrics completely break my focus.
For deep work I sometimes even go full silence.
Feels like the more complex the problem, the less noise I can tolerate. Anyone else?
When I code - or learn to code I have
youtube.com/@AllanArizaMusic
regardless of the video-track - All of them I feel that are soooo good for my tastes.
Although sometimes that the music is really good I lose my focus due to sentiment💘
brain.fm deep work playlist, this is what I listen to when I need to lock in, with tasks like :
Otherwise, for :
Lately, it has been : James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, Yebba, Roc Marciano, GENA, Jill Scott, Larry June x Curren$y x The Alchemist, Choker, Sean Léon, etc...
For podcasts, It could be : Joe Rogan, HubermanLab, Diary of a CEO, Joe Budden Podcast.
It depends on what I'm doing. If it's just general dev room BS, it's usually something along the lines of "classic" rock (quotes because there's things that are in that bucket that should not be there...I'm not old enough for Guns & Roses to be classic rock! 🤣). If I'm deep in the weeds and need to focus, as odd as it sounds, I reach for Euro/Nordic power or symphonic metal (Nightwish, Sabaton, etc). The speed, the beat, it just puts me in the zone and drowns out the external nonsense.
If you want a real treat, check out this video for an absolute banger...it has a real Tim Burton vibe...
Normally I listen to a lot of Dubstep or Metalstep, but my latest obsession is Ado's Best Adobum which is just constantly on repeat.
I don’t listen to music while coding because it distracts me and makes it hard for me to focus. However, when I start to feel tired or exhausted from coding, I enjoy listening to synthwave, ambient, and Arabic music to help recharge. Sometimes, after I finish coding, I listen to the soundtracks from movies like Interstellar or Inception.
I listen to Vivaldi when I code mostly. But vibe-coding, it's anything from Queens of the Stoneage to Bjork to early 2000s Ministry of Sound...
nice mate
Totally task dependent! When something's urgent or needs full focus, I actually need complete silence. But for regular coding or refactoring I just need something running through my ears honestly doesn't even matter what, just something to keep me going 😄
I started making my own loops in Logic Pro while I'm working. For the past couple of weeks I've been playing with synthesis and sampling, so I pick a couple of samples, write a simple melody and start with a blank synth preset, leaving it on loop. I tweak something every half an hour, on average, when I'm switching between two tasks :D When I'm not doing that, it's mostly Black/Death metal.
I like that japanese song called "kawaberi no ie" by Nao Matsuzaki
Thousand Years
A lot of Nuvo-Disco lately. Chiptuney, Rally House, funky vibes. Keeps the blood pumping while you slap that keyboard.
I'm enjoying listening to music from the game Zelda, some beautiful pieces in there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z05oSP7ISLY&list=RDZ05oSP7ISLY&start_radio=1&t=2278s
Movie soundtracks ftw
Slow dirty delta blues. The type of music that can mystically make the room smell like bourbon and cigarettes.
better for listening NCS,
Usually Pagini or Vivaldi Four Seasons
nice
Liquify
https://youtu.be/9-dF24zvVYc?si=w4P5Zsu83t3SFXpG&t=182
I use Endel or I created a retro wave playlist for developers 😀
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7f3kE1C4yNOtQ4WjNkLdk2?si=zBcq8Q23Rs6XkBrVUkqoTA&pi=9XjT7wWITlq4m
If I not what to write: Montagem musics
If I do not, then silence or soft background musics
Silence
Speed Metal helps.
I usually listen to "Stary Olsa"- Belarusian folk, ethno, and medieval music. Some of their songs are so soothing.
It varies a lot. It can range from 80s pop, to EDM, Rondò Veneziano, Nanowar of steel, country music, "liscio" (roughly, Italian ballroom music), few Romanian pop artists.
90% of the time it's lofi beats of various sorts.
The other 10% is classical, or some kind of ambient like Hello Meteor:
youtube.com/watch?v=fNJrRaRInjk
Pure white noise, not loud not low.
Youtube Podcasts mostly 😄
When I need to focus, I listen lo-fi music, but when the work don't have total focus, I listen hip hop, pop and some of all 🎊😁
lots of chill and deep house
I use Lofi Hip Hop radio integrated directly inside Pomodoro Timer, take a look kitmul.com/en/agile-project-manage...
I use "go to radio" features on spotify from F1 - Hans Zimmer, an then I have my playlist
Einstein on the Beach
Polo & Pan!
St Vincent, chappel Roan, Mazy Star :-)
Ilayaraja
War on Drugs, Loyle Carner, Amy Winehouse techno... bit of everything!
Japanese City POP 80s or 90s as well😉
I normally play the punk and remix while finding vulnerabilities
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I like to listen to DJs while coding and experience that exhilarating feeling.