Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or do you not?)

Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or ... by mod on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:33AM (#15450059)

I usually have no music or distractions, but sometimes I like music.

I tend to need music without lyrics, or in a foreign language, or sometimes that is so familiar to me that I don't pay attention to the words.

Usually I can't have music for high-focus tasks. Talking, either, so I use a linux shell command to generate whitenoise sometimes, it sounds a bit like ocean waves:

alias whitenoise='play -q -c 2 -n synth brownnoise band -n 1600 1500 tremolo .1 30'

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Re:Ask HN: What music do you listen to when programming?(or ... by fuwaishi on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#15451452)

I also don't like music or distractions when coding, maybe unless it's "mechanical" like another user commented. I didn't know about the play command and generating noise though, that's really cool! Saving that command for sure.

Thanks!

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