Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)

by andr • 18 years ago

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a-priori• 18 years ago

Good music is important for me to get into "deep hack mode". Usually, it's house, trance or something like that. One day last week though, though I had David Wilcox's "Do the Bearcat" on repeat for about 2 hours. It was the most productive 2 hours I've had in a month.

Who would have thought?

imsteve3• 18 years ago

The internet radio stations I listen to for programming music require each mix (song) to be between 45 and 90 minutes, not fade or do other distracting effects, and a couple other basic rules that make it quite good for programming.

foonamefoo• 18 years ago

Sounds interesting, which stations?

edw519• 18 years ago

"deep hack mode" I love it!

Thanks for the David Wilcox reference, but no thanks.

Just the other day I cranked Gershwin's Rapsody in Blue and had the most productive 17 minute in a month. Who would have thought?

rtf• 18 years ago

When I want "coder background music" I just listen to a psytrance onine radio station.

andr2• 18 years ago

trance is good, but for work? maybe that's why your coding isn't going so well :)

kingnothing• 18 years ago

Trance can get me in to the zone faster than anything else out there, music or otherwise. Granted, I prefer progressive to psy, but everyone has his own preference.

imsteve3• 18 years ago

Seconded.

amohr• 18 years ago

some good music there - although I prefer albums when I'm coding. I think it provides good quantized units of time to work on things

tjr• 18 years ago

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pepeto• 18 years ago

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codesurgeon• 18 years ago

I agree with the title of this post, but don't really get what the referenced post is supposed to do in order to help. I think the topic is really interesting and I'd like to know what other hacks are listening to.

I posted "Coding In Flow - Does Music Get You Higher?" on my blog in 2006 on the very same topic listing my favorite music for certain development tasks.

http://codesurgeonblog.com/2006/08/coding-in-flow-does-music...

ardit33• 18 years ago

musicovery.com is good. I usually listen to electronica, down tempo, negative mood.

The key is listening to music that has vocals and that are more monotonous. Vocals can get distracting.

alexsolo• 18 years ago

pandora.com is really good. When coding, I alternate between trance http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh11364865758277320 and mellow hip-hop http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh236914974523469512

mosburger• 18 years ago

I've discovered a lot of "programming music" using last.fm, and I totally agree on elecronic/trance for background. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Boards of Canada. I can't recommend them enough.

gscott• 18 years ago

You could make it so that if you are not coding fast enough it stops the music.

simianstyle• 18 years ago

daft punk

andr2• 18 years ago

doubletrue.

nose• 18 years ago

What do you think of an app that analyzes text on your screen and plays appropriate music.

pchristensen• 18 years ago

Another music sharing service:

http://www.jukefly.com/

Everyone needs good music for coding (a little side project of ours)

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