I've always dreamed of having a lot of likes and photos that I posted on Spotify. I found a reliable and usable tool there and I sell all I need. I buy some listeners on this site that help me reach a target audience, so I'm sure I'll also try to see the practical options.

Actually I hardly listen to music when coding but I often play guitar when I am not coding. The mind needs a break from the rigors of coding :)

Uh, EDM, Bluegrass, and Epic Power Metal didn't make the cut I guess? ;)

I have very broad and shifting musical tastes, so I don't recommend trying to follow me there. Haha. But yeah - it just depends on mood. I love hip hop also, but the rapid lyrics can often be a bit too distracting for coding. Interestingly, a lot of Classical falls into that problem also. It's just too complicated to kinda half-listen to.

Anthematic EDM (I know, not a word, but like soaring House / Chill-step, etc) is my go to because you hear it...but don't really have to "listen" if you get what I'm trying to say.

Anything non-vocal or with non-distracting vocals

1. Classical music
2. Techno, Trance
3. Search Youtube for "epic music"

Sometimes music in a language I can't understand.

This is mostly to block out colleagues, if the room is silent, often I don't listen to music.

Silence is best music.

Whenever i want to listen music. that is the my choice.

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I flip between Metal, IDM, Uplifting Trance and Psytrance. Office radio is repetitive and annoying.

I selected metal, but itʼs only partially true. I listen to anything fast paced.

If you add me on Spotify, you will quickly notice Iʼm almost always listening to something. Itʼs not always the case, but usually you can make a good guess on what Iʼm doing by looking at my currently playing song (unless itʼs from Discover Weekly).

When in the flow, I listen to power metal, or some fast chiptune. When planning, I like psychedelic, or sometimes chill out. When travelling, I usually listen to something more lightweight; I donʼt even refrain from pop songs. It all depends on my mood.

I constantly listen to music for about 20 years now. Itʼs not something I do “sometimes”. My friends know that whenever we meet, there will be a pair of earphones/headphones with me. It wasnʼt rare that I slept with my radio or CD player on. Music helped me through the uneasy years of teenagership (is that a word?) and adolescence. It still helps me a lot when I have to organise my thoughts, be it professional or some private stuff.

“Thank you for the music, the songs Iʼm singing.” — ABBA

That's the weirdest combination of genres to have in a four choice poll :P ;)

I myself prefer to listen to dance, trance, reggaeton, moombahton, hardstyle, UK hardcore... Everything dancable...

I often start my weeks with the latest edition of the A State Of Trance radio show (Spotify). Then there's probably a new edition of Kutskis Keeping The Rave Alive podcast (Link). After that it's mostly Spotify, although I also subscribe to

• Corstens Countdown (Ferry Corsten)
• Group Therapy (Above and Beyond)
• Future Sound of Egypt (Aly & Fila)
• Hardwell On Air (Hardwell)
• Clublife (Tiesto)

Mainly electronic music. Great for writing, coding, and great for thinking :)

Wow, I'm surprised how many people chose metal. Metal heads unite!

I was surprised to not see any electronic genres on the poll. But here is some artists. I use for learning/debugging/fast coding

Tron Legacy soundtrack/Deadmou5/daft punk/glitch mob/Cazzette/Efence/Tycho/KidKavevil/Ginger Runner/cocainejesus/DROELOE/Klaypex/Mitis/Sub Focus/Rameses B/Secede

I have a pretty extensive Spotify public playlist profile if you find me share music I work with headphones in all day.

Being a huge fan of Dave Matthews, I tend to go with jam band type of music, as it gets me into the zone w/out distraction. Throw in some classic rock, funk/soul, or rock in general, and you have a happy coder (in me)!

I found that the best options in my case are techno music or classic music, the lack of lyrics helps me to concentrate in the code. Particularly I love 'Techno Bunker' and 'Peaceful Piano' playlists from Spotify.

The most important part is: "instrumental", I listen to music to get in the zone because the sound of a distant talk really catches my attention. Hence the same goes with music ;-) Most of the time jazz or neo-classical, but when the open office becomes noisy then it's metal (djent, black, ... )

Over time, I set up a playlist (as of now, 64h long) to not spend too long choosing something. open.spotify.com/user/sebportebois/playlist/3eKkI…

Play it in random mode, and enjoy ;-)

Hip Hop. Too bad it is'nt among the options.

Bit of everything. But usually it's psytrance for deep dive coding, metal for bugfixing ;)

I listen to very heavy

spiritual music and deep meditation stuff which steals my soul and locks it in another universe and dimension putting my mind into enlightenment OD unlocking my super power of a rockstar and making me feel good without a weed and making me see a light at the end with handsome blue guy with many arms sending me Unicorn is undefined, opening gates of the infinite wisdom, heavily slapping my face with every arm and saying

"Wake up butthole and get back to work"

but mostly I prefer silentium.

I listen to a lot of R&B, Soul, Funk, Rap, and Dance music :D

To hear the sound of Toronto right now (where I'm living), check out DVSN or Roy Woods — both are artists signed to Drake's music label, OVO Sound :D

It's hard to have a bad day while listening to good music!

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Sound track from Watch Dogs 2, Watch Dogs 1, Chill step collections, Collection from Mr. Suicide Sheep and anything that doesn't get in the middle of my train of thoughts.

Anything from Pink Floyd to Anne Murray to Grateful Dead to Mozart to Jim Croce to Journey to The Temptations to Radiohead to Ella Fitzgerald...

On and on it goes, where it stops - I don't care because I like it all. lol