Ask HN: Anyone else tired of all your music?

5 points by jonstaab 4y ago ↗ HN

I listen to music 8-10 hours per day while I work (mostly application development). I have about 2,400 songs saved on Spotify which I rotate through regularly, but I've become increasingly bored with my music.

Any suggestions on how to freshen it up? Should I do a music fast? Should I practice more active music appreciation?

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markus_zhang 4y ago ↗

I used to listen to music when I'm working. But I figured it actually doesn't boost productivity so I stopped doing that for a while. I still listen to music when hobby programming.

jonashendel 4y ago ↗

I once did a digital detox which included no music. When I finally listened to music it felt amazing. Way better then before. I would suggest to try it, even if its just for a few days

ogwh 4y ago ↗

Spotify in the early days used to be great for this. Their entire catalogue was browsable with fine grained genres. They ruined it and became useless for music discovery.

If Last.fm is still around that may be useful, they are/were great at finding similar artists so you could go to one artists page, click through similar artists a couple of times and find something fresh that you didn't know you liked.

It was also great because you could hook up your music player of choice via plugins to Last.fm and it would do a damn good job of regularly finding your next favourite artist/track on your profile page.

Like most things tech related the music realm only seems to get worse as time goes by.

_spduchamp 4y ago ↗

Take a break from regular music.

Listening to Eliane Radigue's Trilogie de la Mort was a great departure and opened a whole new world of music for me. It changed the way I listen, not just music, but everything.

I too get bored with music, so now I experiment making my own... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63slAz55V6U https://stefanpowell.bandcamp.com/album/autonomous-drone-lul...

soheilpro 4y ago ↗

You can use https://volt.fm to check out the profiles of people who listen to your favorite artists and genres and see what other music they listen to.

You can even save their top songs as an auto-updating playlist. It's a great way to discover new music.

dangravell 4y ago ↗

Yeah - freshen it up. You might be interested in reading something like Deep Work or https://www.defetter.com/ on the subjects of distraction. Consider having no music at all, or white/pink/brown noise.

Other things to try: - Explore some exotic places with http://radio.garden/ - https://sudo.fm/ - https://musicforprogramming.net/