What music do you listen to while you code?

[Winehell]

old green day

[BrassApparatus]

I can't listen while I code but I can while I research and read. I mostly listen to Ska or Dubstep while reading or working on resources.

[Lamargo]

Not sure if this was mentioned earlier in the thread, I didn't find the link to it when I searched through:

http://musicforprogramming.net/

I especially like the tracks from the first two "episodes".

Other than this, it's deadmau5, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan or classical; pretty much anything non-lyrical or I tend to focus on the songs words instead of reading, which gets frustrating!   

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[greenOwl]

Tech/Deep House like
https://soundcloud.com/chlaurien/mix-april-2013 

Nothing with too dominant vocals or complex rhythms because that distracts me!

[alaslipknot]

Approaching Nirvana 
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YUkLfVj4pB8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YUkLfVj4pB8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

[princec]

The Ultratron OST!

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Cas

[ags1]

Dead silence.

[kpars]

I normally like something REALLY soothing, and then when I get tired, I listen to some old fasioned boogie woogie stuff!

Here's some great programming music:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RI9Jo6dBFMY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RI9Jo6dBFMY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

Fun fact, the gamecube menu music is actually the famicom start-up sound slowed down 16x!
This music haunted me as a kid, but is still really amazing to listen to 

[relminator]

I am usually watching the tv when I code so not a lot of music here.

[Sammidysam]

I am usually watching the tv when I code so not a lot of music here.

How does that work?  It sounds incredibly distracting.

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[Phibedy]

Mostly I am listening to MrSuicideSheep: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrSuicideSheep?feature=watch
Just press play and enjoy a lot of music 

[relminator]

I am usually watching the tv when I code so not a lot of music here.

How does that work?  It sounds incredibly distracting.

Coding is usually done during commercials until I get into a groove then forget about the tv.  Goes back to watching tv again when I can't solve a particular paroblem.

[Sammidysam]

When I can't solve a problem I stick at it and can't leave the computer until it's either solved or I am pulled away from it.

It gets annoying.

[ReBirth]

When hit a problem, I will silence the music and go out walk for little. I am listening while doing obvious things.

[CommanderKeith]

The Ultratron OST!

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Cas

This is actually really good stuff! Hard to find good trance these days, everything's dub step.
I like 'terminal technicality' the best so far...

[mrdeathjockey]

I tend to listen to non-lyrical upbeat music, or ambient ones depending on my mood...

For upbeat ones I listen to:

• Rez (High Contrast Mix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRLNyyD0sf8
• MitiS - Endeavours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgokaw2ZOoA
• MitiS - Written Emotions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEsV2z1ymh8
• Deadmau5 - Veldt (Ok there are lyrics but its still livable): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiUAq4aVTjY
• Deadmau5 - Some Chords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__2ABJjxzNo

For ambient ones I love microscopic music

• Gas - Microscopic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvTe1-a6Pdo
• High Skies - The Shape of Things to Come (Osmos music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uy5gQ9Y1Xo
• High Skies - Earth at Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2HbLk116m0
• High Skies - Sounds of Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNBg7S8DCYw

These are just some of the ones I enjoyed the most.

[princec]

I listen to High Skies all the time! It's just wonderful.

Cas

[mrdeathjockey]

I listen to High Skies all the time! It's just wonderful.

Cas

Yep indeed, the composer is indeed prodigious!

[heisenbergman]

When I'm coding and I have a relatively clear idea of what I want to do and how to do it, I listen to post-rock or ambient or some instrumental metal genre like atmospheric sludge metal or progressive metal without vocals. I don't like hearing songs with vocals when working on something. It distracts me.

But when I have a bug/problem to solve/fix, I prefer dead silence.

[badlogicgames]

Reggae.

confirmed. nothibg worse than hraring bob marley first thing in the morning

[ags1]

When I'm coding and I have a relatively clear idea of what I want to do and how to do it, I listen to post-rock or ambient or some instrumental metal genre like atmospheric sludge metal or progressive metal without vocals. I don't like hearing songs with vocals when working on something. It distracts me.

But when I have a bug/problem to solve/fix, I prefer dead silence.

Maybe I prefer dead silence because my code is all bug :-(

[kpars]

You need some great boogie woogie when coding!

Old fasioned boogie woogie and r&b music is great when coding, constant foot tapping!
Look up some BW and R&B on youtube, you'll find some really good music.

[ItzKR15]

Mostly classic, or obviously THE MATRIX THEME TUNE!   

[kpars]

The music that instantly makes you feel like a hacker who knows everything about programming 

[DazKins]

http://www.di.fm/liquiddnb

Can't get enough of this when i code 

[deepthought]

Matrix freeway chase song

[zngga]

I add another holy flying poop for Infected Mushroom

I also like Ronald Jenkees

[MatthewNicholls]

Two Steps from hell

[SwampChicken]

A developer colleague has put me onto 'Front Line Assembly' and their album 'Airmech' has been on heavy rotation of late.

[philfrei]

This might work as a nice aural space for programming: peaceful brook (fountain?) and windchimes (music?).

http://hexara.com/peaceful.jar

There is NO visual interface yet, no GUI. To stop it, you have to kill the process.

It wouldn't be too hard to make an interface to allow settings for volumes, chime activity level and even picking the notes for the chimes.

[EDIT: now has simple GUI]

The non-looping brook uses a granular process, stringing together 1/4 second fragments from a 4.5 second source recording of a nearby stream in El Cerrito, recorded two nights ago at midnight. The bells are FM synthesis done on the fly, the randomization provided by moving through Perlin/Simplex space.

Almost all the cpu overhead comes from the FM synthesis (allowing up to 20 chimes to be sounding at the same time). The brook running on its own registers 0% cpu on my Windows Task Manager.