Do you use music when coding/working with computers?

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If so, what type of music do you listen? If not, why don't you listen to music?For my personal case, music stimulates my creativity, so when I do coding my playlist usually comes from https://www.youtube.com/@cryochamberlabel. For me, ambience music sets my mind away from everything and just focuses on the current task.I've tried to work on a quiet room, no sound at all, but distractions occur more frequently, using music is a matter of vanishing distractions as much as possible.

marssaxman · Accepted Answer

I listened to music constantly while I worked, for decades. I loved music, deeply, so its presence made me happy, and having some intentional sound filling up the air made it easier to tune out the real world and focus on the world inside the machine.
I listened to many kinds of music over the years, though rarely pop music; getting my language-processing faculties too deeply involved drags my attention away from the work.
Goa trance and psychedelic downtempo were the best I ever found. Alas that those eras are over.
I used to find actual silence unbearable, due to the tinnitus I've had virtually all my life, but in recent years the ringing has been just kind of there, not painful; it no longer distracts me.
Heartbreak, and the collapse of a musical community in which I was a DJ, took the joy out of music a few years ago. I don't listen to anything while I work anymore, and rather to my surprise this has been working out fine.

bediger4000 · Answer

I can't listen to popular music and write programs at the same time. Classical or jazz, yes. I don't go out of my way to listen, though.

JoeAltmaier · Answer

No music. Whatever ambient sound is fine.I grew up one of 6 kids. Everything I did was in a chaotic environment. Never mattered.

justrudd · Answer

Helps drown out my tinnitus. But have to be careful because sometimes it can make it worse.

simonblack · Answer

No. It only distracts.When I'm 'in the zone', I wouldn't hear it anyway.

nwellnhof · Answer

I prefer absolute silence. Music always distracts me, no matter what kind.

Do you use music when coding/working with computers?

I can't listen to popular music and write programs at the same time. Classical or jazz, yes. I don't go out of my way to listen, though.

No music. Whatever ambient sound is fine.
I grew up one of 6 kids. Everything I did was in a chaotic environment. Never mattered.

Helps drown out my tinnitus. But have to be careful because sometimes it can make it worse.

No. It only distracts.
When I'm 'in the zone', I wouldn't hear it anyway.

I prefer absolute silence. Music always distracts me, no matter what kind.