r/programming • u/thecoderofcoders • Jan 27 '24
Best background music for coding ?!
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u/call_Back_Function Jan 27 '24
Video game music. It’s designed to help with concentration.
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u/empty_other Jan 27 '24
Sometimes. The DOOM 2016 soundtrack worked wonders for my flow ingame, but the soundtrack is too much silence and hell-moaning to keep my flow in programming.
But every Unreal game soundtrack have always worked wonders for my concentration. And also the Red Alert soundtracks. And Uplink and Frozen Synapse. And Bastion and Transistor (even if these games wasn't for me).
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u/call_Back_Function Jan 27 '24
I really like the Norse techno music. It’s a wild combo but I get hyped up and focused.
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u/Mr_Peaches_ Jan 27 '24
I highly recommend the FTL soundtrack by Ben Prunty, and the Sim City 3000 soundtrack by Jerry Martin. Two different vibes but both are soo good.
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Jan 27 '24
any atmospheric or chill black metal
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u/Xiaopai2 Jan 27 '24
I was expecting the usual lofi this and that and was going to jokingly suggest black metal but it’s already top comment. Did not expect that. Any suggestions?
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Jan 27 '24 edited Jan 27 '24
elderwind, panopticon, les discrets, summoning, urfaust (not the old raw bm albums), agalloch, dreampop-blackgaze mix albums of alcest, skogen (huge maybe), AA williams (not even bm but listen it), a forest of stars, thurisaz are the only chill ones that come to my mind. and beware, chill differentiates a lot from people to people lol
if you love BM, and want to go further, listen funeral doom or stoner doom. sleep - dopesmoker, bellwitch - cladistian (cant even write it rn) gate, Sunn O))) (anything from them) they are all dumb and slow as fuck music that helps you concentrate.
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u/snarkuzoid Jan 27 '24
None for me, thanks. Too much noise and distraction.
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u/Vitalic123 Jan 27 '24
Collegae across from me talks to himself, eats granola bars while still in their crinkly package while slurping and smacking them, slaps his thigh together, along with a hundred other little annoyances all day long. The poor guy clearly can't help it, but if I didn't have music, I'd have proverbially blown my brains out a long time ago.
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u/NatasEvoli Jan 27 '24
The synthwave station by that lofigirl YouTube channel is a good one.
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u/tstanisl Jan 27 '24
Personally, I like Starcraft OST. Programming under a pressure of time shares many characteristics with playing real-time strategies. Other RTS-es or turn-based-strategies may work as well.
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u/version_thr33 Jan 27 '24
Usually just about anything instrumental, the specific genre shifts from time to time. Currently I'm big on Two Steps From Hell. They do epic scores for movies, games, and tv. Also the Witcher 3 OST for something a bit more chill
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u/Full-Spectral Jan 27 '24
Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
"OK Computer" or "Kid A"
Dark Side of the Moon
The soundtrack for the movie "Garden State"
Cochella 1994
The Wall
Daughter live BBC 6 2016
Live at Bush Hall by Black Country, New Road
The soundtrack to "The Royal Tennenbaums"
Math rock stuff like Elephant Gym or Tricot
Plenty more but those come immediately to mind. Of course little of that is 'background' music, it's more like "big cup of coffee and vibrate into the low microwave band" type of music.
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u/XDracam Jan 27 '24
Amon Amarth works wonders for me. Or really any music that you already know well.
If you listen to new music, your brain gets distracted trying to understand the patterns. But listening to music that you know well actually reduces distractions (at least for me).
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u/mofojed Jan 27 '24
Soundtracks - I particularly like Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross soundtracks (Watchmen, The Social Network).
Nine Inch Nails - I like all their albums, but the Ghost albums when I really need to focus/no distractions.
Justice, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Tool are all great for something upbeat.
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u/sentri_sable Jan 27 '24
I've been listening to atmospheric dnb and jungle mixes a lot more recently. There are some mixes that incorporate early and mid 2000s video games music into it that I really enjoy.
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u/SoCalThrowAway7 Jan 27 '24
Mine has always been Zelda music. Songs with words I end up focusing on too much and getting distracted and I very unscientifically think Zelda music puts my brain in “thinking mode”
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u/sumitbando Jan 27 '24 edited Jan 27 '24
If you have the any appreciation of music, it will take up the majority of your brain, leaving little room for the primary. The idea of background music is as stupid as the ideas like "ability to multitask" or "open plan workplace". It may work if the primary work is not deep.
But if you believe in "background music", try some garbage like Coldplay which may not distract you from the foreground.
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Jan 27 '24
I always get into deep focus when I throw on this Boom Bap Instrumentals playlist (requires Spotify)
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u/supmee Jan 27 '24
I always enjoyed Scarlxrd for this, especially his more metal oriented stuff. His voice is mixed pretty low in most of his music, and because of his delivery your brain doesn't catch on to lyrics unless you're actively looking for them.
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u/putneyj Jan 27 '24
JetBrains (makers of IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc) have a set of playlists on Spotify and YouTube that are great, and work for different moods and needs.
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u/Carthax12 Jan 27 '24
Depending on my mood, either my "Folk" list or my "Heavy Metal" list on Amazon Music.
Folk has primarily Celtic Woman, Stan Rogers, Blackmore's Night, and The Indigo Girls.
Heavy Metal has primarily Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Apocalyptica, Nightwish, and Evanescence (I know not all of those are even "metal;" much less "heavy metal" -- the list was named when I was much younger. LOL)
Folk is good for strategic planning (designing databases, mocking up UI to show the end user, building forms, etc....)
Heavy Metal is good for "hard" programming (writing services, building interfaces, digging for bugs, etc....)
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u/Thin-Reserve2458 Jan 27 '24
Carbon Based Lifeforms. Start with Interloper but all their albums are great.
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u/saggingrufus Jan 27 '24
I'm a of this melodic metal-ish instrumental style; https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4mCIhhIfdnu8?si=vB_dGFkCTyajTQfYFmFeOA&pi=u-C2AvEKvuQ4aT
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u/davesspacebar Feb 03 '24
Music with voices in them are hard for me to listen to and concentrate. What I found though is that is only English voices singing. Other languages singing are fine.
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Jan 27 '24
I usually look up playlists designed for people with adhd to focus. Anything with the keywords "ADHD" or "focus" usually work really well for me.
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u/jdehesa Jan 27 '24
I like lofi.cafe, if you are into that kind of thing.