Just curious. I personally dont because it distracts me. But i see a lot of people do
Do you find it helps? what kind of music do you listen to when coding?
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
Morgan Wallen. There's nothing more encouraging than some slow, sad country music.
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 🔁
Dang, listening to 1 song over and over is kinda unhinged behavior ngl, but I've done it a lot too LOL
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.
I find music generally distracting, although some brain.fm playlists have helped my concentration rather than detracting from it.
I use brain.fm too. I have been experimenting with Binaural Beats for a decade now and it does help in high concentration and creative tasks like coding and making art.