Music While Working?

[GregFreeman]

Just curious, do any of you listen to music while working, or find it distracting? If so, what do you listen to?

I do and it ranges from classical and baroque to rap ! Sometimes no music is better though, I guess it depends on my mood.

[elset191]

Hmm, this has come up before, but I can't seem to find the thread.

Anyway, I usually listen to Detroit sports talk radio.  I'm not great at multitasking, so my productivity goes down unless I'm listening to something with no words.  I typically prefer movie soundtracks or classical for good working music.

[SnowMule]

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@for(imstuck) wrote:

I do and it ranges from classical and baroque to rap ! Sometimes no music is better though, I guess it depends on my mood.

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:nod  Glad i'm not the only one with wide musical tastes... not uncommon to go between 80's pop, dubstep, turkish rock, trance, reggae, and j-pop in the same day.  Depends on what I feel like.

di.fm, sky.fm for streaming stuff, got a few gigs locally on droid too. 

[Henrik_Volkers]

Just made a crop selction of my desktop...

I have currently 12 player running feeding 12 (piezo) speaker all with different sources

(Using two SB audigy 2 value , up to 8 channels output each, not counting the 6 channels from the build in)

Doesn't sound nice...

Why?  We have a public day next month and I want to demonstrate how to pick up one source over some meters distance via a scanning vibrometer 🙂

Just wrote a script to start up the 12 instances of the WinAmp  ..

EUREKA ! (Ups that was another thread ) ASIO4ALL driver and  JACK allow me to feed each speaker 🙂

[GregFreeman]

Kudos, because I love winamp.

[tst]

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@elset191 wrote:

Hmm, this has come up before, but I can't seem to find the thread.

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Well, there was one on LAVA a few years ago - http://lavag.org/topic/8201-what-music-do-you-code-to/ 

My answers are there.

[Wayne.C]

I find music and good headphones a great way to drown out all the background noise at work. Ear plugs alone don't work with severe tinnitus. Ranges from Louis Armstrong, AC/DC, Queen, early Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Roy Orbison, Billy Joel and many others.

[JW-JnJ]

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@Henrik Volkers wrote:

Why?  We have a public day next month and I want to demonstrate how to pick up one source over some meters distance via a scanning vibrometer 🙂

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That is incredibly cool. Just for my engineering curiosity, is it something like a phase array?

On topic: Music may be distracting, but I find it essential. For one, people near my cube are LOUD and random noise is more distracting. Plus, I think doing and thinking one thing for long periods of time kills creative thinking (same reason I have my Eureka moments at home).

[PaulG.]

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@Wayne.C wrote:

I find music and good headphones a great way to drown out all the background noise at work. Ear plugs alone don't work with severe tinnitus. Ranges from Louis Armstrong, AC/DC, Queen, early Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Roy Orbison, Billy Joel and many others.

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Alas there is never silence to someone with tinnitus. I've had mine for over 20 years and I live with it with no trouble. But once in a while a little voice inside my head wants to rise up and scream: "I JUST WANT ONE MINUTE OF COMPLETE SILENCE! JUST ONE!" (sigh)

[Darin.K]

Nothing wrong with a little Allman Brothers Band, not hard to guess which song in particular. 

The group du jour is Clutch, probably a bit harder to guess which song in particular.