[HN Gopher] Music for Programming
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Music for Programming
Author : Vaslo
Score : 235 points
Date : 2021-07-05 13:42 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.musicforprogramming.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.musicforprogramming.net)
| NetOpWibby wrote:
| I am a fan of Gaming Ambience's YouTube playlists for Deus Ex:
| Human Revolution and Mankind Divided.
|
| DX:HR ambience:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n61C7mwY_6Y&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...
|
| DX:HR music:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdqbW6MXzsI&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...
|
| DX:MD ambience:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSALBeJY8sA&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...
|
| DX:MD music:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsbvLb58j8&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...
| qwertox wrote:
| I've started listening to those hours long nature sound videos on
| YouTube with a noise cancelling over-ear headset.
|
| Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1y9GAjuSt8&t=10575s or
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm846KdZN_c&t=2604s
|
| Or some minimal techno
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddpRmmAYkg&t=2495s
| cableshaft wrote:
| I do this too periodically. It works for me.
| Darmody wrote:
| World of Warcraft ambient music is just awesome.(Unless you're a
| WoW junkie because it'll make you want to play)
| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPn_Nk_KrM -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeo2VCCtUZQ -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjTe0R2bREY
|
| Skyrim -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkcwy-iWt8 -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgUaZz04bkw
|
| Blade Runner -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3fz6CC45ok
|
| LOTR - Nazgul Ambience -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Wum6hQclU
|
| I don't usually listen to rain because it makes me want to sleep,
| not work, but some ambience videos with rain are pretty nice
| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEfSjTYvDc
|
| And my go-to music for when I'm tired and I need a boost.
| - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RlJig87Px0
| avereveard wrote:
| videogame playlist are such a dopamine boost for players, I've
| a set with pro street, horizon 4 and vampire the masquerade,
| it's great for when I need that extra couple hours of
| concentration
| scns wrote:
| My favourite, repetitive but somehow i don't get bored:
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=-6WNB9JN_2o
| rmist wrote:
| I have been using https://mynoise.net/ to focus during my work.
| BasilPH wrote:
| I use it all the time, my favourite is the white rain:
| https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteRainNoiseGenerator.ph...
|
| You can configure it and even calibrate it to your headphones.
| Igelau wrote:
| I contributed $, which gets me access to the "make your own"
| feature where you can combine their collection of stems any way
| you like. Now I have the problem where I can easily spend an
| hour playing with MyNoise to make the best mix for the work I
| should be doing.
| verisimiliie wrote:
| Mirror's Edge Catalyst (full album) is one of my go-tos. Here's
| some of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PLPfL6Tge4
| throwaway6734 wrote:
| I have a separate mp3 player without internet that I've put all
| these tracks on and it is my go-to focus fuel
| georgestrakhov wrote:
| In the 1970s Brian Eno invented Ambient Music. He wrote: "Ambient
| music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening
| attention without enforcing one in particular, it must be as
| ignorable as it is interesting."
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| (2011)
|
| This is the thing from then right?
|
| has this been updated from the multiple times it's been posted
| the last 2-6 months?
| avereveard wrote:
| 15: Dan Adeyemi
|
| who would be able to concentrate with that one?
| every wrote:
| Assuming you like classical, KMFA[0] is a non-profit, listener-
| supported classical music station that has been broadcasting for
| over 50 years. They also stream their content for the web 24
| hours a day...
|
| [0]: https://www.kmfa.org/
| aasasd wrote:
| As usual, I have to note that this was made by Datashat (aka
| Datassette), who also has these glorious Businessfunk mixes:
| http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
|
| Plus the fourth mix for the Near Mint programme:
| https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/near-mint-8th-march-2016-...
| IndySun wrote:
| I see this posted more often here than on music forums. That
| said, it is a high quality mix selection.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I'm not sure what I mean fully by this yet, but I want adaptive
| music like in video games where it evolves and swells based on
| how much keyboard input is going on.
|
| No input? Im reading or idle, so calm down the music. Lots of
| typing? Im coding or documenting and need the tempo to pick up
| and maybe more instruments to join.
| bsg75 wrote:
| With an option to invert that pattern.
|
| I'd be curious to see if more energetic music when I'm in a
| lull would speed things up. Musical motivation.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| It might be more reflective of the intensity of your coding if
| you could have it go by depth in a syntactic construct; e.g.
| for Lisp, number of currently open parentheses. In fact, I now
| want to implement this -- for Emacs, naturally.
| aasasd wrote:
| I'd say play sombre suspenseful scapes when nothing much's
| going on, since you're likely pondering how to proceed with
| your world domination plans.
|
| Then funky techno action music when the execution phase
| commences.
| Nowado wrote:
| You probably want something slightly different. Fast-slow is
| one dimension, but pretty strong cognitive psychology research
| points at complexity (or even cognitive load more precisely,
| like new genres and off-tempo music). You can mix the two, but
| you can try fast, complex and new music for coding and see how
| it goes. It's easy in video games, since games have all the
| context and 'music too annoying for the fight' gets picked up
| quite easily in testing, even if someone happens to not know
| science behind it.
|
| Check out graph on
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_law What
| you would ideally have is a music adapting to changes in your
| cognitive load - which can be modeled surprisingly easily with
| even the weakest biofeedback tools, like some smart bands. You
| know, how you sometimes have to turn off the radio when looking
| for something while driving, or how stuff is so easy it gets
| boring to the point where you can't work? Yeah, that's Yerkes-
| Dodson.
|
| I bounced off that idea when trying to figure out reasonably
| popular band brand (because they are not trying to help you
| develop for that hardware) - if someone has any experience with
| those and likes the idea, absolutely hit me up.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| Sounds like a good way for me to make a lot of errors because
| I'm trying to write things too fast.
|
| I've found foreign language music and LoFi work fine, I just
| need to skip songs that aren't working.
| erikschoster wrote:
| Bhob Rainey's Peev attempts to do something like that:
| https://github.com/mphonic/peev
| airstrike wrote:
| It's unfortunate there's no way to objectively infer one's mood
| because this would be the perfect use of that info
| mft_ wrote:
| Interesting idea. I sometimes find that when I've been
| concentrating really hard, 'in the zone' (whether that's
| programming or other cognitive work) I can come out it feeling
| quite stressed and drained.
|
| So maybe experimenting with the opposite would be valuable for
| me: pick the tempo up when I'm slow, and then calm me down when
| I get too into it!
| jdefr89 wrote:
| Cool site. Personally, when I am coding, I can't really have
| noise of any kind else I will be distracted and/or irritated. I
| know some people who always need light music in the background
| while they are coding. Just never really worked for me.
| umvi wrote:
| I tried this site but I couldn't find any playlists that didn't
| annoy me after a few minutes. Inevitably I fall back on video
| game (usually indie or rpg) OSTs
| jlmendezbonini wrote:
| Any specific recommendations and where to get the from?
| dmingod666 wrote:
| People should try Hindustani classical. It's my go to when I want
| to escape into work.
|
| Its melodious, but in a very gentle way so you don't get tired of
| it playing in the background for hours.
|
| Ravi Shankar: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tujcCI6MLD0
|
| Philip Glass with Ravi Shankar - just music:
| https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNzIFrLhrcXwltQRyMIifaV...
|
| Spotify: Ragas for Yoga Hindustani classical
| saltyfamiliar wrote:
| This is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
| mandliya wrote:
| I have tried so many music genres and following 2 works for me:
|
| - Film scores (not including the lyrics ones)
|
| - Game music
|
| These I think tries to keep you engaged in the primary action
| (coding, playing game, or engrossed in movie, reading) without
| you noticing it too often.
|
| Some repetitive familiar classical music (e.g. Chopin) also does
| the same to me.
| tiborsaas wrote:
| I like two genres that helps me to focus on problems. None of
| these have vocals and repetitive enough not to derail me :)
|
| Long dubtechno mixes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pDsbHKqFcg
|
| Psychedelic / Stoner Rock:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ors0wpcVDcc
| all2 wrote:
| No mention of vip.aersia.net here; this is a curated collected of
| video game music that's been around for the better part of a
| decade. Well worth a listen if you like video game music.
| sorokod wrote:
| If you find police or air traffic control Comms calming there is
| http://youarelistening.to/
| machinehermiter wrote:
| I am experimenting with trying to go in the opposite direction
| and not listen to music at all. I mean this in the sense of
| actively trying to get music out of my life completely.
|
| I can't listen to music and sleep or do anything even vaguely
| productive. It just takes over. It feels more like an addiction
| to music than something that adds value to my life.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| I never listen to music while I code.
|
| I've tried it, many times, but it never works.
|
| I don't even like sound-masking headphones.
| elwell wrote:
| As a hobbyist musician, music is often too distracting while
| I'm coding because I am actively enjoying the nuances of the
| song. Though, if it's a song I've heard several times already,
| that can work.
| nnvxsrgb wrote:
| I think I would rather die than stop listening to music in any
| context
| contingencies wrote:
| I've never been a passive music listener. As a child I found
| muzak in supermarkets and lifts and radio stations in people's
| cars to be borderline insane. Why would you permit your mind to
| be occupied by such noise? I found it troubling that nobody
| shared my perspective.
|
| Later I read in to Buddhism and IIRC it has the same take,
| essentially if you allow yourself to be subsumed by senses you
| are displaying laziness. Not denying the aesthetics, these days
| I am less intellectual and can tolerate some music but it's
| still pretty grating. I find I can listen to a given piece of
| music with lyrics precisely once or twice, after which it is
| intolerable. Music without lyrics or with foreign language
| lyrics have better staying power, but it's still weak.
|
| I explained to my child this week (while putting on some lute
| music as a contrast to Chinese string instruments) that in the
| past there was no recorded music and all music was experienced
| live. This is often forgotten.
|
| Now as ever, I tend to program in silence.
| notapenny wrote:
| I mostly just listen to rain sounds, its super relaxing and it
| doesn't distract me as much as when "a good song" comes along.
| Though its a bit odd when its sunny, but it works.
| elwell wrote:
| mynoise.net is amazing
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| The iPhone app just led to me catching up on a lot of sleep
| despite being in a noisy hotel room. Being able to EQ the
| white noise to fine tune it to block specific ambient
| noises is a game-changing feature.
| tester756 wrote:
| I noticed that when I play league of legends [very competitive
| game]
|
| I play way worse when I listen to music than when I turn this
| off
|
| unfortunely this thing is so addictive that I struggle to not
| listen to anything when working
|
| Impact of music on people is interesting topic I guess
|
| e.g how it affects risk taking - like you know, when there's
| some more "spiky" "crazier" song like from Disturbed, then I'd
| say it increases the likehood of taking risk
| deeblering4 wrote:
| Not every moment of life needs to be productive.
| qwertox wrote:
| What kind of music?
| 37ef_ced3 wrote:
| Try dark ambient, e.g., the Lustmord station on Pandora
|
| Fills the silence, stimulates, but can't hold your attention
| permo-w wrote:
| I definitely have a similar thing. Often I'll listen to music,
| and then it sort of replaces my usual thought stream, so
| instead of thinking clearly and consciously, I'm just sort of
| on autopilot singing a song to myself in my head. I don't mind
| that sometimes, but it's not productive.
| daviddaviddavid wrote:
| I'm a big advocate of what might be called mindful or active
| music listening. Listen to music in the same way that you would
| watch an interesting movie or read a novel. It's actually kind
| of bizarre that such a rich artform is so often relegated to
| background accompaniment for some other task. At first it might
| feel as though you're wasting time if you're 'only' listening
| to music without your eyes/hands engaged in something, but I
| find that goes away if you are actively engaged in the musical
| narrative.
| xtracto wrote:
| I have been like this all my life (39 years). When I was a
| kid my dad used to play us some children LPs. My brother and
| I sat down to listen to those stories.
|
| As I grew up, I kept actively listening to music, (both
| classica/baroque that my dad played on CDs or heavy metal
| music I loved). Same thing happened with TV/movies.
|
| Nowadays, my wife loves to turn on the TV when we are eating
| just as "background noise" but darn I find it difficult to
| focus on eaeting/table-conversation vs whatever is in the TV.
| For me music and TV have always been _mindful_ activities.
|
| >It's actually kind of bizarre that such a rich artform is so
| often relegated to background accompaniment for some other
| task
|
| This is so true, and also sad. I used to go to the Gewandhaus
| Leipzig in Germany to listen to live classical music concert.
| The appreciation of richness of a lot of music is being lost.
| paxcoder wrote:
| Music with purpose:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7byVGuWwxIU (remember to turn
| on captions!)
| cmehdy wrote:
| We tend to go more and more towards the opposite though, as
| it's common to watch netflix and do something else, or listen
| to a podcast or an audiobook while doing pretty engaging
| activities like driving or sports. So I don't think it's
| solely a music thing, it's perhaps just a bit older because
| the radio has been around for longer than podcasts or
| youtube. And I can't do most of that myself.
|
| I'm mostly like you in that I prefer actively listening to
| things (especially when searching for new things). But
| revisiting known things without searching for more can also
| offer different feelings, like a sense of comfort or some
| mental priming for a mood while you're doing something else.
| It's two different ways to listen to music for two different
| kinds of experiences.
| Cancan82 wrote:
| For me, if I cut out music with words, it's useful; music with
| words destroys my productivity
| notapenny wrote:
| One thing that works for me there is music in a language I
| don't speak. Sure I'll recognise words and will sing along,
| but I have no idea what I'm saying anyway so its actually not
| that distracting.
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| Yes. Foreign language is great for this.
|
| MC Solaar, Amadou and Mariam, some k-pop (last played was
| (G)I-DLE), Onda Vaga... that's all I can think off off the
| top of my head.
| s_dev wrote:
| Soundtrack music that you get in movies is designed not to
| compete with whatever is on screen. I would drop anything with
| lyrics as that will demand attention from your brain.
| robbiex88 wrote:
| Video game soundtracks are much the same. I code to the final
| fantasy soundtracks
| bostonsre wrote:
| Yep, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have a lot of good albums
| that were used for soundtracks that are great for coding.
| anoplus wrote:
| I don't believe Music really aids concentration. Maybe it
| encourages the worker to stay in the office and work, because
| it makes the environment more enjoyable overall, and at the
| cost of less concentration - in my opinion. It is like adding
| sugar to swallow a bitter medicine
|
| I love Music and art, while I realize it doesn't contribute
| anything practical to my life. Rather, it is the very thing I
| live _for_.
| NetOpWibby wrote:
| Wow, I haven't checked this out since the Com Truise release.
| Good to see it's still going.
| teeray wrote:
| Don't miss the three hidden tracks under "Enterprise Mode." Those
| are actually some of my fav's
| orf wrote:
| I found this about 6 years ago and it has genuinely changed the
| way I work. I can't listen to music that has any "real" vocals
| (i.e the vocals are the focus, unlike a lot of electronic music)
| while programming as it distracts me.
|
| But these compilations are perfect - it lets me slip into a state
| of flow quicker than anything I've listened to before or since.
| It's not particularly enjoyable in and of itself, but if I'm in a
| situation where I really need to get something done and focus
| then it's my go-to.
| whartung wrote:
| I trend towards "progressive" rock music, which is "more music
| than vocals", but not purely either. As a rule, I don't
| "listen" to the lyrics, I've never been much for what the songs
| "mean". I treat the vocals as just yet another instrument in
| the package.
|
| Prog rock songs also tend to be long, as well as the albums.
| It's not untoward for me to put an album in the background and
| have it playing for an entire week. Sometimes I'll stream
| morow.com, an online prog streaming station.
|
| Currently, I'm hooked on two Genesis concerts, from '87 and '92
| at Wembley, that I can't seem to get enough of. I've been
| playing them solid for over a month off of YouTube. Abacab from
| the '87 concert is particularly good.
| Igelau wrote:
| Lately I've found that music by the band KISS is great for
| coding. The songs are energetic enough to keep me focused and
| awake, but not so deeply rich in composition or lyrical content
| that I'm going to get distracted.
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| > not so deeply rich in composition or lyrical content
|
| KISS and rich lyrical content would be like sunshine in the
| shade
| parenthesis wrote:
| There is a Kiss album called _Hot in the Shade_.
| fibonachos wrote:
| I have had a similar experience with the band Ministry. High
| energy, drowns out any background chatter, gets me into a
| flow state, somehow. I think it is partially because they are
| not a band I really listen to for pleasure so I don't know
| any of the songs particularly well, and there is a high
| amount of distortion in the vocals so I don't even feel the
| need to try and understand. Seems counterintuitive but it
| works for me.
| cableshaft wrote:
| If you like Ministry, I'm guessing you probably also like
| Gravity Kills, Prong, KMFDM, and Pitchshifter (amongst
| others). Kind of similar. Used to listen to them a bunch
| back in the day. Should probably try giving them another
| go.
| adamauckland wrote:
| Ministry is awesome for coding.
| psyc wrote:
| It's pleasantly surprising that Ministry is specifically
| mentioned here! I haven't always listened to music while
| working, but when I did, it was almost all Ministry. Very
| rhythmically mechanical (even for industrial), and
| driving. I found it great for powering through something
| I didn't want to do, or when I was tired. Worked better
| than caffeine.
| cableshaft wrote:
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
|
| (Actual lyrics)
| billfruit wrote:
| I find that Grateful Dead works for me for this purpose, and
| they have enough material, one wont run out of it in a long
| long time.
| philip-b wrote:
| You might also like the Groove Salad channel on
| https://somafm.com. At least, for me music with vocals
| distracts, while both musicforprogramming and Groove Salad work
| great.
| birriel wrote:
| SomaFM also has a station called DEF CON Radio, described as
| "Music for Hacking."
| cableshaft wrote:
| Man, I used to listen to that a bunch back in the day but
| forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!
| vitro wrote:
| Their Black Rock FM is also nice. What I get a kick from is
| when I suddenly know how to solve the problem and music
| changes accordingly, gives you a hacker-movie-like feel :)
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| As long as the vocals are not in a language I speak, they're
| fine by me. I think not understanding the vocals frees our mind
| to concentrate in text-based tasks.
|
| Ironically, I hate electronic and techno pump-pump-pump music,
| but I enjoy chiptunes, specially classic videogame soundtracks.
| I have to listen to them with earphones, otherwise my
| colleagues will think I'm playing games instead of working.
| SavantIdiot wrote:
| I've encountered programmers who listed to wildly different types
| of music.
|
| However, what we all had in common is that we felt like the part
| of our brain that is easily distracted is occupied with the
| music, leaving the compute brain able to focus more precisely.
| vitro wrote:
| There is also Brain.fm: https://www.brain.fm/ which should use a
| generated music to help you focus, they also have some research
| behind it. I listen to it here and there and it seems to work for
| me.
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| I eagerly checked it out and then realized that they pay model
| is Subscription - the latest plague of the internet. There are
| very few things where subscription is appropriate and this is
| not one of them.
| marpstar wrote:
| I'll second this. I've been a subscriber for a couple years
| now. What I like specifically is that they allow you to select
| a context ("Focus", "Relax", "Sleep", or "Meditate") each with
| several sub-contexts (e.g. "Focus" has "Deep Work", "Creative
| Flow", "Study & Read", or "Light Work").
|
| It has helped me overcome a lot of distraction in order to get
| me started on work and keeping me focused once I've gotten
| started. It's worth the money, in my opinion.
| jamespo wrote:
| This is great, I also like the Flow State Podcast on Spotify
| gmfawcett wrote:
| Brian Eno's stuff ("New space music", "Neroli / Thinking music
| IV", "Compact forest proposal") is sometimes good for getting
| focused.
| 37ef_ced3 wrote:
| Or his evil brother, Lustmord ("The Place Where the Black Stars
| Hang")
| gmfawcett wrote:
| hahah, thanks, I hadn't heard about his evil brother. :)
| jedberg wrote:
| I only played a few samples but it felt more like music to
| meditate to. Which is great if that's the headspace you like to
| program in, but I need something with a much faster tempo to keep
| me engaged in programming.
| scythmic_waves wrote:
| Same. I've found trailer music [1] works well for me while
| programming (needs to be relatively upbeat and without words,
| which I find distracting). You can find a lot of it on spotify.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_music
| mrweasel wrote:
| I also just played a few samles, and it's not for me. It found
| the few I tried to be noisy and distracting.
| stresi wrote:
| I love programming to dark prog (~135bpm) or forest (~150bpm).
|
| A good friend of mine and one of my favorite DJ artist has a
| nice selection of sets [1] to get you started, let me know if
| you want more.
|
| [1] https://soundcloud.com/jorineke
| systematical wrote:
| Some of it sounds like the old ambient genre people were
| experimenting with in the late 90s early 2ks (perhaps before
| but thats when i become aware of it). For faster tempo, go dnb.
| nacnud wrote:
| You might enjoy DI FM [1] which I've found has an excellent
| range of faster and slower tempo music for programming.
|
| [1] https://www.di.fm
| quercusa wrote:
| You might like DJ Bolivia's _Music to Code By_ , which seems to
| run about 132 bpm:
|
| http://djbolivia.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-to-code-by-volum...
| meiji163 wrote:
| Tim Hecker!!
| dang wrote:
| Past related threads:
|
| _Music for Programming_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448249 - June 2021 (1
| comment)
|
| _Music for Programming_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184183 - Jan 2020 (1
| comment)
|
| _Music for Programming (2011)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771600 - Dec 2019 (261
| comments)
|
| _Why black metal is great music for programming (but doom metal
| isn't)_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20152923 - June
| 2019 (1 comment)
|
| _Function musicForProgramming(task) {}_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17573053 - July 2018 (5
| comments)
|
| _Music for Programming_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844434 - Nov 2016 (427
| comments)
|
| _Ask HN: Ultimate Music Playlists for Programming_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761453 - Oct 2016 (5
| comments)
|
| _Music for programming :)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037320 - July 2016 (1
| comment)
|
| _Show HN: I 've made a music [remix] to help me concentrate
| while programming_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8767695
| - Dec 2014 (8 comments)
|
| _Incredibox - Background music for programming._ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900711 - April 2012 (167
| comments)
|
| _MusicForProgramming();_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605957 - Feb 2012 (95
| comments)
|
| _MusicForProgramming();_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694 - Feb 2012 (180
| comments)
|
| _Music for Programming_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024117 - Dec 2010 (1
| comment)
| 11235813213455 wrote:
| function musicForProgramming(task='programming') { }
|
| c'mon use default args, and template literals
| blowski wrote:
| Working from home, I've started singing along to pop music I've
| heard so many times I no longer think about the lyrics. Stuff
| like Billy Joel, Oasis, The Killers.
| namelosw wrote:
| I tried a lot of "Music for programming" but found out I'm not a
| fan at all.
|
| My favorite music for programming is the soundtrack from the
| video game Stellaris[0]. It has the "Interstellar" vibe but less
| dramatic and more tranquil, making it perfect for programming
| IMO.
|
| [0]
| https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyH4vonV9j1vPfAgU6wUZ_7A5...
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| If you want to feel like a 1337 hax0r while coding, try out the
| Bourne movie soundtracks:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx4Gb5TK0qw
| mannylopez wrote:
| My go to music is the band Kiasmos. They're an Icelandic duo that
| plays atmospheric/minimal techno music. They're on hiatus now, so
| if anyone has any music that's like this, I'd love to hear your
| recommendation.
|
| Kiasmos - Full Performance (Live on KEXP):
| https://youtu.be/liGXsloELpk?t=155
| gota wrote:
| This sounds great. I've been listening to Komiku's "It's time for
| Adventure" album(s):
|
| https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku/Its_time_for_adven...
| systematical wrote:
| I love this ui, even if it took me a few extra seconds to figure
| out. I prefer Drum and Bass for programming.
| rgrau wrote:
| What I miss most about those collections is that they are browser
| based, and when I'm programming, if I need the music to stop, or
| I get a call, or something, I have to go find the tab and
| manually stop it.
|
| I'm trying to maintain a list of radios in .pls/.m3u format [1],
| so I can choose how I play them (emacs+mplayer).
|
| - Don't like the current song? m-x kill-radio RET
|
| - Want to store the current name of the song? m-x hit RET
|
| Making the interface as painless as possible is part of what
| makes music for programming more relaxing to me. I find strange
| there are not more of those kinds of repos around (I haven't
| found them)
|
| 1. https://github.com/kidd/radios
| remedan wrote:
| Sounds like you might be interested in playerctl [0]. I use
| global shortcuts for its play, pause, next, and previous
| actions. It has the ability to control Spotify, Firefox and
| other players. And Firefox media controls work for YouTube,
| SoundCloud, and even the site this post is about.
|
| 0: https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl
| ThibJP wrote:
| I can confirm, I integrated playerctl with my i3 environment,
| very pleased by it! Especially binding pause with locking my
| screen, it prevent me to loose track of my current podcast.
|
| The only limitation that I found : if you have multiples
| media playing, playerctl will interact only with the lastest
| used one. So when you are running multiples one, you can't
| stop them all at once.
| rgrau wrote:
| yes! that looks super useful indeed. Thanks!
| gmfawcett wrote:
| > What I miss most about those collections is that they are
| browser based
|
| No, they're not... there's an MP3 download link for each of the
| titles on that page.
| rgrau wrote:
| Yep, sorry about that, I meant in general. This particular
| case is fine, and I am grateful for that.
| wintermutestwin wrote:
| The latest Mac OS has a Status Menu bar icon that gives you
| play/pause for all playing items, including specific browser
| tabs.
| egypturnash wrote:
| fwiw there's an MP3 link at the top of each episode's
| description, and a link to a torrent of episodes 1-52 at the
| bottom.
| aasasd wrote:
| BTW, since there are links to mp3s here, you could probably
| dump them into a playlist like the radios.
|
| Browsers do support media controls these days, but that likely
| excludes the prev/next buttons on most sites--like in this
| case.
|
| My personal gripe with online music players is that they often
| don't have volume control and play at ludicrous loudness
| (ahem), whereas everything audio-playing on my system is
| adjusted to a certain average volume, and I only make small
| nudges now and then since we still haven't learned to
| normalize.
| wcarss wrote:
| I'm not a big fan of chrome for a lot of reasons these days,
| but recent-ish chrome got a feature of a button in the top-
| right that's present whenever audio is playing _somewhere_ in
| the browser, that shows all media playing, and that lets you
| pause /play or move through playlists regardless of the tab
| you're on.
|
| Using it, I can see what's playing in a youtube tab and pause
| it while I type this without leaving the tab. If you leave
| audio paused/stopped long enough though (~a few minutes), it'll
| stop being accessible through that control and you have to go
| to the tab you started it in.
|
| I use this a lot when I have 1-2 talks and 2-3 music tabs open,
| sometimes scattered among 50-80 other tabs.
|
| edit: and I've just confirmed for myself that this control
| works for content on musicforprogramming.net :)
| arduinomancer wrote:
| If you're not a fan of instrumental music try listening to music
| that is not in English.
|
| I find it has the same non-distracting effect
| rahimiali wrote:
| This makes sense if you only speak English, but a lot of people
| in this forum speak at least two languages.
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| The principle is the same, just find music in languages your
| brain doesn't understand.
| rahimiali wrote:
| Obviously the principle is the same. I'm calling out a bias
| in the phrasing, which has the unintended side effect of
| ostracizing a group.
| [deleted]
| smegcicle wrote:
| While the phrasing may make some feel ostracized, it
| would appear to also make some feel selfrighteous, so
| maybe it evens out?
| [deleted]
| dontbeabill wrote:
| cannonball
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