> I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code
Same here. Med to high pitch does the same effect as words for me. But undecipherable words or ambients does not have the same paralyzing effect as words, things like metal growl, mumble rap, or ambient acapella. My goto music would be extreme polymetric metal music with dark tone (bright guitar tone doesn't work for me. Check out my fav band Meshuggah), noir jazz (jazz which accompany noir detective/mystery film), or muted song whose mid-to-high pitched instruments arent quite prominent.
And then there is a friend of mine who can program while listening to podcast. A mad lad he is I say.
A substantial chunk of code I've written in the last decade has been written to a Meshuggah soundtrack. I love the music, and find the more complicated time signatures (well, more complicated than 4/4, at least) interesting enough to keep me plugging away, while not getting tired of the songs the way I do when listening to more "traditional" time signature music. With any given 4/4 based song, while coding, I can handle maybe 10-16 bars of it before I'm hitting "next track". This, of course, means that every 20 seconds I'm not coding, and instead interacting with the music player, which is obviously suboptimal.
Their songs speak controlled chaos. I've known them only for 4 years and I have been captivated with how meditative their songs sound, inspite of the genre.
Same here. Med to high pitch does the same effect as words for me. But undecipherable words or ambients does not have the same paralyzing effect as words, things like metal growl, mumble rap, or ambient acapella. My goto music would be extreme polymetric metal music with dark tone (bright guitar tone doesn't work for me. Check out my fav band Meshuggah), noir jazz (jazz which accompany noir detective/mystery film), or muted song whose mid-to-high pitched instruments arent quite prominent.
And then there is a friend of mine who can program while listening to podcast. A mad lad he is I say.