Re^2: Music Soothes the Savage. . . code?

what kind of music one likes to listen to during "crunch time" depends highly on ... what kind of music one likes to listen to.

Strangely enough, I find that the opposite is true for me. I very seldom listen to trance (I don't have any trance on cds or mp3), but when I'm coding, there's no substitute for it. Might be the repetetiveness, the fast beat or the (usually at least) lack of lyrics, but it sure makes me code faster and better.

There's a very nice shoutcast called Tag's Trance Trip that I recommend if you'd like to try if it works for you too.

jobi

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Re^3: Music Soothes the Savage. . . code? by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Nov 17, 2004 at 22:00 UTC
SomaFM has some killer grooves, as well. Their Groove Salad is a great trance station, and Drone Zone is lo-beat ambient. Both make for excellent background music. Personally, what I listen to depends on what kind of code I'm writing. If I have the algorithm all figured out and I'm just slapping down reference code, I'll go for harder tunes and trance. When doing work that requires deep concentration, like detailed refactors or complicated debugging sessions, Ambient is the way to go. radiantmatrix `require General::Disclaimer;` Perl is	[reply]

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Re^3: Music Soothes the Savage. . . code?
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Nov 17, 2004 at 22:00 UTC

SomaFM has some killer grooves, as well. Their Groove Salad is a great trance station, and Drone Zone is lo-beat ambient. Both make for excellent background music.

Personally, what I listen to depends on what kind of code I'm writing. If I have the algorithm all figured out and I'm just slapping down reference code, I'll go for harder tunes and trance. When doing work that requires deep concentration, like detailed refactors or complicated debugging sessions, Ambient is the way to go.

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