Ask HN: What do you listen to while coding?

<a href="http://musicforprogramming.net/" rel="nofollow">http://musicforprogramming.net/</a><p><a href="http://simplynoise.com/" rel="nofollow">http://simplynoise.com/</a><p>Groove Salad from SomaFM<p>And often, simply quiet. Quiet is underrated in my opinion.

I created a Programming Music playlist and started out with very mellow, non-lyrical music from Tycho. From there, I kept following the Related Artists feature (I'm using rdio) and added a number of other artists including Ulrich Schnauss, Isan, and others. It's taken some time, but I'm able to concentrate on my work without being distracted, while the music tends to keep me upbeat and focused.

Depends. I have a whole pile of various Pandora stations I've created, that I listen to sometimes. Most of those are rock/metal centric, but there is one focused on gangster rap stuff.<p>Other times, I like to listen to trance / electronic music / europop stuff, and for that I tend to just find a shoutcast station and tune into that. Same for the times when I'm in the mood for classical music.<p>Always, however, the Prime Directive remains "ABC" - Anything But Country.

The best offices I've worked in have always had a Spotify account set up, so anyone can remotely connect to the machine running Spotify and put whatever they want on.<p>It's good because we always get a mix when people get past letting others know how bad their taste in music goes. We've gone from Paramore to Jurassic 5 to John Mayer in the space of an afternoon before, and the mix tends to help everyone relax.

I search YouTube for the term "Full Album" and am surprised each day about the full albums that got uploaded there.<p>I also listen to soundtrack mega mixes(songs of 4 hours+ that mix various soundtracks).

God is an Astronaut (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEGJ-Jk58Q&#38;playnext=1&#38;list=AL94UKMTqg-9BO0mvKQHXXSc9l00s2uKN7" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEGJ-Jk58Q&#38;playnext=1&#3...</a>), when there is a lot of noise around else <i>Quiet</i> . Also, sometimes I listen to: <a href="http://www.rainymood.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rainymood.com/</a> . I read somewhere that hearing the sound of rain makes us Happy subconsciously (Humans depending on Agriculture for a long time etc,.)

SomaFM. Makes me feel like I'm in a science fiction epic.

BBC1 Essential Mixes. It's a great way to discover new styles of music while listening to the (hopefully) best, curated tracks of each genre.

Mostly music without words as I find it less distracting. Usually Electronic stuff, Classical or some Jazz.

<a href="http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.getworkdonemusic.com/</a> mostly

shortwave recordings of numbers stations from across the globe. (The Conet project - <a href="http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/" rel="nofollow">http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/</a>)<p>Also, lush from Soma.fm

Lots of turntable.fm's "Ambient Chillout &#38; Trip Hop" channel.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela: <a href="http://open.spotify.com/artist/7vX3cMVyW8gtDA4y855ynF" rel="nofollow">http://open.spotify.com/artist/7vX3cMVyW8gtDA4y855ynF</a>

Anything I've heard 10+ times before. If I try to listen to a new song or album while I'm concentrating I'll lose focus too often.

I listen to anything electronic or just nature sounds. Neither have that much structure, and they definitely do not have vocals.

quiet, post rock, or noise (think 65 days of static) when it's really time to get something done. pop trash when it's just time to do whatever else:<p><a href="http://www.codercowboy.com/2012/12/19/music-to-code-by-2012/" rel="nofollow">http://www.codercowboy.com/2012/12/19/music-to-code-by-2012/</a>

8tracks, and usually whatever I'm feeling at the time (Reggae, Blues, Indie Electronica, or Hip Hop).

In work: Nothing<p>At home: I normally have a TV show playing in another tab

I switch it up. Sometimes I use my phone's static noise generator (Ambiance on iOS and Android) and set a timer for 50 minutes.<p>If static noise is causing my mind to go numb, I'll switch to classical...well-known pieces that I've listend to hundreds of times. When I'm not doing anything particularly mindbending, I'll put on alt-rock...Lana Del Ray and Florence + The Machine have been my go-tos recently.

Mainly rock (Guns n' roses, ACDC) and pop (MJ,Maroon 5).

... the sound of silence (not the song)

Pink Floyd, RHCP :)

My office I don't have the "quiet" option. Specially because we don't have money for some equipment, I and my associate sit next to the other, and we are near a very noisy road with lots of trucks and buses.<p>So, to code, music is needed!<p>sometimes I hear demoscene music, be it from a radio (like nectarine: <a href="https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/</a> ) or from musicdisk (specially BitFellas bitjam vol 1.1: <a href="http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31658" rel="nofollow">http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31658</a> )<p>That is, it is already some good time that I don't stick with trackermusic, I am mostly using youtube.<p>For that I have:<p>Programmers rock: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8&#38;list=PLBB8AAF63722EEEE5" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8&#38;list=PLBB8AAF...</a> Programmers zone: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrsNIHssTU&#38;list=PLCC8F930EC4692DA7" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrsNIHssTU&#38;list=PLCC8F93...</a> and this list of metal touhou remixes: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8y1IbbMno&#38;list=PL8736B2E1102136CA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8y1IbbMno&#38;list=PL8736B2...</a><p>Sometimes I go with OCRemix lists too.

Silence.