Office noise bothers some people more than others

Re:Office noise bothers some people more than others by airstrike on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:27PM (#21569232)

Consider connecting wireless headphones to your laptop instead of to your phone

I suggest listening to one of the following:

1. Music you don't already know because you can't hum along to them and won't get distracted by the lyrics (Spotify radios can be great, though they get repetitive if you listen to them a lot)

2. Classical music is great if not too tired otherwise it puts you to sleep

3. Deep / underground house like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz26ohrCNIY&t=2s great if you're cranking at a quantitative problem or coding

4. Instrumental jazz to me is the midpoint between the intensity of listening to house and the absolute serenity of classical music, but ymmv

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Re:Office noise bothers some people more than others by gvurrdon on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:54AM (#21571954)

I have found Soma FM to be excellent for the purpose of masking annoying noises at work, and pay them a small subscription. They have various channels with a variety of useful genres.

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Re:Office noise bothers some people more than others by teunispeters on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:42AM (#21573247)

To some extent particularly screamy metal has so much noise it works pretty well too. On particularly bad days, Taake was probably the most effective - not only lyrics in an unknown language but a sound level that felt more like ocean waves, completely washing out the surrounding sound landscape.

(of course it helps if one likes this kind of thing, which I do)

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