Do you listen to music when you code?

Morgan Wallen. There's nothing more encouraging than some slow, sad country music.

When I'm coding, I am always listening to something. I listen to anime music if I'm looking to get hyped (I'm a sucker for traditional Shonen animes with an underdog story) or lofi if I'm looking to be more chill.

For anime, I'm listening to a lot of Demon Slayer stuff to get inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapg2-AwZjk

Before Demon Slayer, I would listen to a lot of My Hero Academia stuff. "You Say Run" is peak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SDBTVcBUVs

Frieren isn't exactly hype, but I've been listening to a lot of Frieren OST because I like the anime a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOn0pDmrGco&list=PLRW80bBvVD3XSBlbe3M0dkxpD0QkCTe8a

For lofi, I love Ghibli mixes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhDwjnYZiCo

I also recently found this cool channel that puts together inspirational mixes from movie soundtracks. Here's a very fitting one for us as engineers (The Social Network): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvv8bU3pKA

Currently have this on repeat and have been fairly productive in the past 2 days: Looking Too Closely (Official Music Video)

What has worked for me is to pick one song and just play it on repeat 🔁

Yes. Depends on the mood: sometimes I go for more fast-paced music when I need to spam code, but usually I do a mix of city pop & random youtuber drama videos.

Spotify had a coding mode Playlist, I played it every time and since it's been repeated over and over. I knew I was in the zone by the 3rd or 4th song on the Playlist. It helps me because putting on headphones also signals my brain to sit longer. Sometimes I would repeat a song.