Coding With Music

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Coding With Music

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December 2, 2010 at 9:18 pm

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dhamilton-905368 Old Hand Points: 383 More actions · Answer 1

In corporate environments, for me, I wasn't allowed to enjoy much in the way of headphone music -- I was mostly a firefighter, and scolded when I ignored things...

Now that I'm more independant, I LOVE to rock out to some classic Mellencamp or other 70's/80's rock (please check out John Mellencamp's next to latest release -- "Life, Death, Love and Freedom" It truly effected me and others he had no sway on!).

Anyway, at this point, though I'm closed into a room in my house, I could get a call at any time (other than [mostly] this hour) and have to work with so many other people that music is generally not on the agenda.

However, thanks to this post, and the lateness of the hour, I'm going to rock to LDLF once more. I truly can't get enough of that stuff.

Sounds like a "bot" posting, but I promise you, I'm a long-time lurker/subscriber, that was just inspired to post, as I am once every few months.

To add to this, there are some other great 70's/80's groups/songs out there that really get my blood flowing and get me "creating" code quickly. Mr. Mellencamp is just first on my list.

Michael Valentine Jones SSC Guru Points: 64818 More actions · Answer 2

I prefer not to have music playing when I work, because it tends to get me working at the pace of the music, and not the pace I should be working at.

If it helps other people work better, that's fine with me, but I don't want to listen to their music while I work.

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95409 More actions · Answer 3

I like to have background classic rock playing softly as white noise.

Occasionally, I'll use classical or upbeat jazz.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

90% of the time I have to have some sort of structured noise. Occasionally that is distracting and I choose silence to bust out of a problem funk that I may be experiencing.

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AndrewJacksonZA SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4143 More actions · Answer 5

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December 3, 2010 at 1:36 am

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I prefer silence. I find music distracting.

Carol Marie Green Newbie Points: 8 More actions · Answer 6

I find music really helps blot out the distractions of working in an open plan office, although music with words doesn't work so well. The best music I have found is jazz-based drum and bass - it chivvies you along nicely and seems to occupy the part of the brain that might wander off or be distracted by conversations...

chris.stuart SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4965 More actions · Answer 7

If i need to do some serious coding, I put on the headphones and some nive heavy metal or something similar.

I'm in a open plan office and there can be a lot off noise in the office and therefore I need to have some white noise to cancell the effects

QmunkE Grasshopper Points: 18 More actions · Answer 8

My MP3 player died earlier this week and I'm finding it so hard to concentrate without it! I tend to listen for a burst, then turn it off for a bit, then a burst, throughout the day.

paul.knibbs SSCoach Points: 15320 More actions · Answer 9

If I'm "in the zone" and really concentrating on something I prefer absolute silence. Music just becomes a distraction, and I really don't like the phone ringing or people talking to me when I'm like that. (I even sometimes find the music stings in Minecraft annoying for the same reason :-D).

Karl Heinz Brehme Valued Member Points: 61 More actions · Answer 10

When there is a TV turned on or something that distracts, I prefere to listen some music, from celtic to heavy metal.

But in general I prefere silence (silence from external noise makers like TV, song, pc coolers etc. Tolerating just air conditioner low noise). When music is playing, specially from headphones, my brain has an automatic listener service who process all music and audio related material....: notes interval of chords and voices, EQ and compression of each channel, kind of timbres, identifying of guitar amplifiers, how the engineer mixed or edited something, and finally, my brain executes a remote control of my voice making myself to sing basses or variants or, specially, inaexistant backing vocals

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That's the cons of being musician, composer and audio engineer with a recording studio at home........

And I have a genetic problem with TV... if it's turned on, It can be playing awful things like mershandising or big brother and there is my body and brain being remote controlled by TV.... and I stop to work and several minutes passed I perceive that I'm looking to TV and not working hehe...

Chris.Bell-574629 SSC Rookie Points: 35 More actions · Answer 11

I work in a large open plan office, with 3 printers very close by. The printers I can ignore quite easily, but the talking all around can be very distracting at times. I’ve always found music helps me concentrate, so rarely leave for work without me mp3 player.

There are also times when I have to spend hours doing something really boring/ repetitive and having music on makes the work go by so much faster.

james.bosson SSChasing Mays Points: 611 More actions · Answer 12

I prefer silence ideally, or failing that any non-intrusive background noise (e.g. the hum of traffic from a busy road is fine, a 'this vehicle is reversing' beeping sound is annoying).

Background chatter is OK, but conversations within comfortable earshot are distracting. If I had to listen to music to drown that out I'd go for pleasing noise rather than pleasing melody, something like Muse maybe.

Jagadeesh Medabalimi SSC Enthusiast Points: 166 More actions · Answer 13

In my case I like it sometimes and don't sometimes. I think it is something to do with the state of the brain. The state can be from the sequences of previous events and responces in the current brain's context.

chrisn-585491 SSCoach Points: 16006 More actions · Answer 14

One of the very few perks of my job is that I have an office with a door. It really helps when you are dealing with code, bad data or documentation.