With the luxury of working from home during the pandemic, I've much preferred using the opportunity to discover <i>new</i> music during the day, rather than listening to nondescript ambient music on the loop.<p>I suggest others give it a try. It's not like the two are mutually exclusive. You could give Robert Fripp's discography a try for ambient/electronic, for instance:<p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3gHpX5wJn0kzAXJvwORG6u" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/album/3gHpX5wJn0kzAXJvwORG6u</a>
Even if you’re not programming, this is great as background music that helps focus without distractions : <a href="https://www.musicforprogramming.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.musicforprogramming.net/</a><p>(I learned about this from hacker news :)
I've spent hours listening to this kind of ambience while working, but for me it's a little too bland. Video game music on the other hand is <i>perfect</i> for working. I've had this one on repeat for the past 10 days.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lERcfsqJSk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lERcfsqJSk</a>
What is with audio apps on web refusing to add volume sliders? I see it on instagram, tiktok, podcast sites, this site, etc. I genuinely don't understand why I would want to manage the volume of one app with my system volume. Do people actually want everything to be the same volume?
For quality ambient electronica I highly recommend select works on the Mysteries of the Deep label, as well as Auxiliary - all on Bandcamp. Especially love Bandcamp as you can listen to full tracks before making a purchase decision.<p><a href="https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://auxiliary.bandcamp.com/</a><p><a href="https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com/music" rel="nofollow">https://mysteriesofthedeep.bandcamp.com/music</a>
I really like that the default first song is Solar Fields. (at least for me)<p>He makes some really great coding albums, notably the Mirror Edge Catalyst soundtrack cannot be missed.<p><i>It is over FIVE hours long.</i>
Also it is on Spotify so you can easily offline it.
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2wy9EzWP9NuyVt4TSCz3qs?si=UNxtJR7HSjSTiNcaqiwMeA&dl_branch=1" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/album/2wy9EzWP9NuyVt4TSCz3qs?si=UNx...</a>
While difficuelt to have, I prefer a eerie silence when working. I do wonder how many actually uses sites like this, but it’s nice that people have the option.
Another pretty wonderful option, both for focus and for other uses of background sound is <a href="https://mynoise.net" rel="nofollow">https://mynoise.net</a><p>It's very customizable at a level that most tools aren't, making it easy to (for example) pare back low bass or high treble if one or the other grates on your ears whilst working -- or amp up or down background conversation depending on your taste.
Really like it. The issue I've had with these products in the past (I've paid for an app or two on Google Play) is that they can't afford the bandwidth once the popularity increases, or, they just can't get new music, since this type of royalty free stuff usually requires artists to submit it themselves.<p>How is this one going to be different? I'd love to find something I can stick with.
I wear noise-cancelling headphones with background music for focus during a majority of my working hours. I have a "flowstate" playlist on Spotify which I've curated for a few years, from which I've more recently carefully extracted only those tracks which I can happily put on individual repeat for a particular flavor of focus. None have words to distract, nor sudden changes; all have enough of a beat or groove to help boost my energy. I made this "Flowstate: Repeatable FTW" playlist publicly readable:<p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=eyI5Ye0CS2qI1MtCkAdQhQ&dl_branch=1" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=...</a><p>Enjoy! :)
Okay I’m going to be honest I loved it and especially the coffee house background with some music really makes me feel like I’m in a coffee house and with some light rain In the background is really soothing<p>Thank you for making this
I love this. What would be amazing is if there was a command line program that would download a playlist like this and push it to my iPhone (sync to Music app) so when I'm driving or traveling on an airplane I can simply ask Siri to play these songs without touching my phone or worrying about internet connectivity.<p>I currently do this with youtube-dl, I can download a playlist on youtube with it (best audio format) and then use Music to sync to my iPhone which involves 2 more steps than I'd like it to.
This is pretty cool! Pretty pretty, too.<p>I know this makes me sound kind of old, but this reminds me how much I miss GrooveShark. Their Ambient stream/channel (whatever they called it) was awesome. Spotify has vaguely similar function, but it is nowhere near the sophistication and convenience GrooveShark offered.
Can you lower the volume of the music? I couldn't seem to find a way to do it. Being able to change the relative volumes of the ambient sounds is great, but putting the music in the low background is vital. I just ended up turning music off...
We have an macOS version here if you guys wanna try. And feel free to contribute, its open. <a href="https://github.com/dwarvesf/sudo-fm-macos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dwarvesf/sudo-fm-macos</a>
Does music helps you concentrate when you need to think hard on a problem? For example, trying to visualize the workings of an algorithm, or other complicated concept?<p>I personally like music in background maybe for monotonic or dull kind of work
I find that I respond much better to music with fewer instruments, but a stronger percussion beat. I don't like too much noise in my ears. None of these options listed here seem to appeal to that genre.