What provides the background music to your code?

5 points by septerr 14y ago ↗ HN

What do you listen to while furiously hacking away? Talk shows? Podcasts? Techno? Trance? Particular song(s) on repeat? Pop? Sports? A Prairie Home Companion(!!!)?

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joslin01 14y ago ↗

RainyMood -- http://www.rainymood.com/ Electronic techno (The Field), dubstep (Burial), ambient or solo piano (Pandora is good for these)

Combining rain with any of those goes very well together actually.

septerr 14y ago ↗

The rain thing is cool! (although the website sucks :-|)

tnorthcutt 14y ago ↗

Lots of different music. Preferably something with a strong beat, and not something with overly strong vocals. I've been listening to the TRON Legacy soundtrack lately.

gregorym 14y ago ↗

http://stereomood.com/

septerr 14y ago ↗

That's kinda neat. Music for any occasion!

traxtech 14y ago ↗

Sadly, music keeps me unfocused; so the silence it is.

septerr 14y ago ↗

Radical~

ammmir 14y ago ↗

mostly trance podcasts or live streams.

~130 bpm seems like a good work groove for me during the day. solarstone's solaris international podcast is more chilled, perfect for late-night coding, so i try to save them up.

i actually enjoy a little bit of commentary between tracks in a podcast, since it's usually a continuous mix anyway.

septerr 14y ago ↗

Trance seems to be the developers' music of choice. Solarstone is nice. Have you listened to Trance Around the World - http://www.trancearoundtheworld.com/ ? Discovered them tx to another hacker.

bcn 14y ago ↗

Music: Soundcloud FTW! http://soundcloud.com/dj-robert-rankin & http://soundcloud.com/mungoshifi

Talk: www.youtube.com/show/thisweekinstartups

septerr 14y ago ↗

Thisweekinstartups sounds interesting!

dirkdeman 14y ago ↗

Anything from Armin van Buren, Deadmau5 and David Guetta to Heart, CCR, Led Zep or Mike Snow. As long as I keep the volume down I'm OK.

shortfold 14y ago ↗

progressive psytrance, ranging from 135-140bpm depending on my mood / time of day

ohashi 14y ago ↗

lots of electronic music - I find I don't listen to the words (if there are any) and just enjoy the noise in the background.

Classical music also works well for the same reasons.

septerr 14y ago ↗

Are podcasts dead? I wonder. I haven't subscribed to one in couple years.