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Re:Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep by zwayhowder on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:58PM (#18499637)
I also have a lifetime subscription through some deal years ago, I find the most benefit is the music doesn't catch my attention. I can't listen to classical, traditional or other instrumental music without getting caught in the tune. (Music with lyrics is right out for me when I need to concentrate).

I regularly have problems with the ios and Android apps not downloading or connecting, and generally just work with them "offline" with my few successful downloads.

I use the sleep music whenever I travel, combined with my Bose QC20s it's great for blocking out aircraft noise or even as I discovered on a boy's weekend the snoring off my bunkmate who people in other rooms complained about.

I don't know about their scientific claims, but for me it does what I want, which is distraction free blocking of the (audible) world around me.

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Re:Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep by dan_brainfm on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:16PM (#18506537)
Hey sorry for slow reply - rate limited with the new account. Thanks for the feedback. In January we are relaunching all our platforms account for music playback improvements. We have large files / long songs and ios and android get a little funky for streaming songs over 5 minutes we find. We are working our best to fix it! Ps. I love my QC20s too.
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Re:Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep by billfruit on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:37PM (#18499787)
You can try some video game music, esp from strategy games like Age of Empires/total war/endless legend etc, they seemed to me, created in such way as to blend into the background without drawing player attention away from gameplay.
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Re:Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep by jackthetab on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:12PM (#18499896)
> You can try some video game music

Everytime I read this, I think back to the Quake soundtrack by Trent Reznor, especially the opening track, and think "That's not what I want to listen to when I'm coding." (Awesome as it is. :-)

I'll have to look into these strategy games you mention.

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