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Coding to Music w/pandora: What is your play list?
7 points by Sakes on June 30, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments
I love coding to music, but my pandora channels are feeling stale. I need new musical inspiration. What do you listen to while you code?


I use grooveshark. usually listen to reddit's 90's playlist, or anything with warren haynes and joe bonamassa. If someone integrated a contextual playlist generator into a web-IDE and changed the music based on length of current session, degree of nesting or other complexity values, time of day based on location, etc..., I think it would be a much appreciated feature.

EDIT: Has anyone built this yet?


Thanks for the warren haynes suggestion, nice mellow channel


Here's the click path to the station I listen to most: Genre Stations -> Alternative -> 90s Alternative/Grunge

A problem with pandora is that most stations are too uniform to hold my interest. I like the curation that a real DJ brings to the music stream, so I prefer http://www.kfjc.org/netcast/


I switched to TheSixtyOne a while ago. Put on the 'remix' mood and I'm set.


I stumbled across Florence + the machine on this service, new station, thanks.


First song is good, seems like a cool service.


I wrote a blog post about this a while ago, check it out: http://blog.phaxio.com/our-playlists


Thanks, I grabbed The Raconteurs off of your blog post.


Here are some of my standard channels.

Clap your hands say yeah, cold war kids, deadmau5, deftones, digitalism, dj shadow, drake, dubstep, gorillaz, jack white, jay-z, johny cash, kanye west, kid cudi, korn, lil wayne, massive attack, muse, nine inch nails, norah jones (don't judge!), paper planes, phoenix, radiohead, ratatat, robert plant & alison krauss, system of a down, the offspring, white stripes, tool, trent reznor and atticus ross


Turntable.fm - lots of new music! I have been in it all week.


+1. The "Coding Soundtrack" room seems to be the most popular room on the whole site.


I'm glad Dj Woooo forked Coding Soundtrack; now I'm more likely to get into at least one of those rooms.


smoothjazz = kenny g, peter white, dave koz, michael lington, marc antoine..latin jazz.. Caribbean style

and some blake jazz




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