Ok, I start: I like synthwave, synthpop and sovietwave. And it’s not as much a question of focus as the fact music energized me, so lyrics are also ok and even welcome and I don’t get distracted at all.
Do you like to have music while coding/studying? If so, what genres?
https://tidal.com/playlist/dbef83d6-5084-4e7f-ad64-5293bb9554d5
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foenix@lemmy.radio · 27 pts · 23d
soma.fm always has great DJs and streams. Definitely a go to for flow state.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 23d
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user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 23d
Groove Salad for me. Unless I'm updating production severs then I put on Drone Zone to lower my heart rate.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 23d
SomaFM really is the best thing on the Internet
dadarobot@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23d
when i really have to focus, i listen to dronezone
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 22d
80s bestof
Feyd@programming.dev · 16 pts · 23d
I mostly listen to videogame soundtracks with no lyrics, or various electronica (also no lyrics). https://rainwave.cc/ocremix/ if I'm not feeling anything in particular
alchemist2023@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 23d
silence so I can concentrate else my brain focuses on the music and I get nothing done and end up dancing around to the music
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 23d
At least you don't start sing. I think singing would be the worst. I'm the same BTW, minus dancing. :D Especially good music, my brain is in a different dimension when I listen to good music I can "vibe" with. (Hey don't judge, this is the first time in my life I used the vibe word appropriate).
SinTan1729@programming.dev · 7 pts · 23d
When coding, I usually listen to Indian classical. It can't have any lyrics, as I get distracted by them.
When studying (it's my actual job, I'm a mathematics researcher), I usually prefer white noise, or just a good pair of noise cancelling headphones without anything actually playing on it. Sound of rain works pretty well too.
FukOui@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 22d
Heavy metal to disassociate myself from the office
litchralee@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 23d
Melodic dubstep when I'm debugging, metalcore when I'm developing new code.
I can't do lyrics when I'm working with GDB, and the gutteral screams help me maintain my composure as I quietly swear at the prior maintainers for leaving me with a poor foundation for my new code.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d
Then you find out you were the prior maintainer...
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 23d
A lot of prog rock, 70's rock, and prog metal. I need long winding and pace changing music to keep from stagnating my train of thought for too long. Synthwave and anything Nobuo Uematsu or Yasushi Ishii makes is good too.
cybervegan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23d
Psytrance or Dubstep. Something without much (or any) lyrics but with a strong bassline, maybe a bit glitchy.
jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 21d
I like -45. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wX2GhQOCO0Y
cybervegan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
After a quick listen and skip, can confirm, that would do the job :-)
N0x0n@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 22d
Psytrance + Glitchy? Kalya Scintilla fan over here 😁👋
cybervegan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
Interestingly, the music I prefer to listen to is more rocky - Punk/Grunge/Ska/Folk/Dub.
I acquired my love of psytrance in the early noughties when I used to do henna art at festivals in the UK. We got friendly with a couple who ran a psytrance CD stall, and were very often pitched right next door, so I spent many a weekend doing henna art with their music blasting out of their PA as a backing track. One CD that was popular at the time was Virtual Memory by Alchemy, but I seldom knew who I was listening to - it never seemed to matter. Worked well for getting into "the zone" though, and it's not distracting because I don't find myself trying to listen to the (usually non-existent) lyrics.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 23d
Synthwave is my jam. But, and this is a big Butt, I'm a person who focuses on one job and get distracted too easily. So having any music in the background will distract me. So mute is it then for me.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 22d
Nice.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 21d
There is tuning involved.
If what i'm working on is repetative and aggrivating, i'll have anything on, up to and including an audio book.
If what i'm working on requires modest brain power, stuff that's calm and ambient.
If what i'm working on is demanding, dead silence.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 22d
Acid Jazz/Funk. No overwhelming lyrics, good background noise.
ViaGetty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 23d
Jungle, dnb, futurecore. 140-180ish BPM is my focus zone
softwarist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 23d
Video game OSTs with some Lo-Fi sprinkled in, sometimes Jazz. More recently I've been having a good time with Bluegrass and Celtic Folk.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 22d
The Doom 2016 soundtrack.
Juice@midwest.social · 3 pts · 23d
For some reason, darkwave. I never listen to it in any other context.
Then there are specific albums that I love but am so familiar with that it just plays in the background if I'm doing something else, like comfort listens. So that's Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come; Gang of Four - Entertainment + Solid Gold; Bloodborne + Old Hunters OST; No New York; James Chance and the Contortions; Shin Joong Hyun
alphabethunter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
These days, I'd usually listen to either a Dungeon Synth playlist (like Mountain Realm, Atrium Carceri, Witch Bolt...) or I'll listen to my doom/stoner/psych playlist (Mars Red Sky, Colour Haze, Earthless, Kikagaku Mori, Youngblood Supercult...).
Also, there are a few Diablo Lo-fi mixes made by blizzard that really get me in the mood of writing. Tristram theme Lo-fi is also sick.
communism@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 23d
Normally no because music distracts me, but sometimes I want to feel a bit more chilled out so I put my entire music library on shuffle and just skip songs I don't want to listen to. So ends up with all sorts of genres.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 23d
Slayer 🤘
ace@lemmy.ananace.dev · 3 pts · 23d
I tend to go for House, DnB, or Electro Swing when coding. Something upbeat and with a steady rhythm.
foxymulder@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 22d
neurofunk/techstep
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 22d
What do you mean by neurofunk? Is related to baile funk (Brazilian genre)?
foxymulder@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 18d
sorry for the late response - neurofunk is a subgenre of drum & bass, I'm not sure where the "funk" part comes from but the "neuro" part is definitely how it makes your brain react when you hear it. its very synth-heavy, dark, fast, bassy music. if you arent into d&b at all it will probably just sound like a hot mess, but to some it's very good at getting you up and going/concentrating/energised =]
user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 23d
My go-to's, with no real rhyme or reason..
Nightride FM - Chillsynth Venice Classical Radio Lofi 24/7 Soma.fm Groove Salad and Drone Zone
QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 23d
Deep, minimal, liquid drum and bass. Nothing gets me into flow better.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
I enjoy non-AI generated music.
hard to come by after YT took away the ability to filter search results by age.
luckily I had ripped a bunch of music from YT before AI was a thing.
mostly around 80s jpop, synth, wave.
ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
The soundtrack for Virgo Versus The Zodiac. It's the only video game soundtrack I ever bought.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 22d
Never saw this game before...ooooo that soundtrack is silky. Keeping an eye on this one!
softwarist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 21d
I started listening this morning and the soundtrack indeed slaps. Thanks for the rec!
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 22d
Anything pretty laid back and lyric free is good coding music for me. At the moment, Solar Fields and Tangerine Dream are my faves.
spartanatreyu@programming.dev · 3 pts · 22d
Make sure you check out the Mirror's Edge soundtracks, they were produced by Solar Fields.
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 21d
Thanks for that. I'm enjoying it now!
TomMasz@piefed.social · 2 pts · 22d
Jam bands like Phish or Goose. Lots of instrumentals, unfamiliar lyrics, nothing to sing along to.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 23d
The soundtrack to Tron legacy
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 22d
"The Grid. A digital frontier.
I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer.
What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?
I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day...
... I got in! "
🎶[Sickest synth drop that is part of my core memories forever]🎶
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 23d
I do but once I'm concentrating I have to pause it
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 23d
Sometimes while studying. I have studied in a library but when I don't have a music player I can't keep at it for very long unless im studying in a group. For long sessions I need something.
alxdre301@lemmy.4d2.org · 2 pts · 22d
I would prefer VGM (video game music), I like its wide range of genre and it's not repetitive or ALI PROJECT's albums :\
bignose@programming.dev · 2 pts · 22d
Most of the music I enjoy listening to, has good singing and/or lyrics that I want to hear. But this is exactly what I don't need while attempting to concentrate on another task!
When I need to focus on something, the music needs to be motivating, blocking out any ambient noise, but not distracting. I find trance and other techno to be best for this.
Mihies@programming.dev · 2 pts · 23d
Either metal/Tidal or bicycling on GCN.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 1 pts · 23d
Disco from the '80s or soft rock from the '70s. Best music ever.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 22d
Latincore, boltcore, baile funk, bounce, bubbling.
Usually play the daily mix for SoundCloud and the sets from DJs of parties I plan to go in the near future.
SnerkRabbledauber@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 22d
Mostly instrumentals. Either acid jazz type stuff or hard trance-like things like Bardo Pond or Isis. It can be other things like System 7, but only if I am really familiar with it. Otherwise I get distracted by the lyrics.
__hetz@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 22d
Prefacing with my usual "I'm not a dev, just a tinkerer" disclaimer: new wave, goth rock, industrial and EBM are my gaming/coding gotos (my musical tastes go far beyond that but I definitely never "outgrew" my angsty, anti authoritarian tatses). I've been a big fan of Nine Inch Nails and Reznor's work, and his influences and collaborators. New Order, Gary Numen/Tubeway Army, Bauhaus, Thomas Dolby, Peter Schilling.
I lean more towards industrial while scripting, messing with my self hosted stuff, wrenching on my truck or mower or whatever. 16volt, Sister Machine Gun, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, ...
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fruitcantfly@programming.dev · 1 pts · 23d
https://mynoise.net/ is great if you want something non-verbal. I'm particularly fond of Dreaming Nautilus and Sleeping Dragon. They do have a paid tier with more soundscapes, but most of the time I just listen to stuff that's in the free tier
Kissaki@programming.dev · 1 pts · 23d
I always have music running when I'm not in meetings. Genres and platforms change, in phases. I listen to diverse genres.
I'm not sure listing genres even makes sense for me. Deep house, chillhop, synthwave, hiphop, pop, classics, japanese, …
theherk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
Sometimes, but generally not. If I listen to anything, it'll often be something that has no lyrics or is just ambiance, like Enterprise engineering or warp core background. But I ALWAYS wear earphones, just so people know I'm not taking walk-ups at the moment.
quixaq@programming.dev · 1 pts · 23d
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1fT77vKwEnmDv4frL8t7j2mMJJbd7HDz
fartographer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
When my coworkers are in the office: night drive vibes, 90s house dance, 80s pop, Post Modern Jukebox, 8-bit covers, scary pockets, bardcore covers, puddles pity party, Zheng covers
When I'm alone at the office: ethereal and creepy haunting music with the lights low, alt metal, metal covers, Gaylord (anti-Nazi black metal), Kiss From a Rose