Ask HN: What are your working tunes?

Re:Ask HN: What are your working tunes? by rrrrrraul on Thursday October 23, 2014 @01:43PM (#8499554)

I tend to gravitate to music without lyrics.

I've been listening to a playlist I found on Spotify - "Beats to think to"

Also, if you like the sounds of a coffee shop, checkout coffitivity.com (no affiliation). If I'm in the right mood, gets me in the zone.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your working tunes? by jevin on Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:25PM (#8499819)

I think no lyrics is key! Instrumental tracks are less intrusive and have a lot of repeating patterns.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your working tunes? by krylon on Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:29PM (#8499845)

I completely agree!

I think it is the acoustic equivalent to the Clippy effect: Human voices tend to take up a substantial portion of our mental bandwidth, because it is not just a sound our brain has to recognize, but then it has to go and actually understand the words being said or sung.

Instrumental music tends to have - at least on me - the opposite effect, it occupies the parts of my mind that otherwise might distract me, leaving the parts doing the hard work alone.

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