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One of the joys of a home office!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I generally don't want to hear your music even less than you wanting to hear mine.
In particular, I very much despise having religious music imposed upon me this time of year.
Earphones would be OK - except then I can't get your attention without a good slap.
So, unless I'm in control of the whole thing, just keep it out.
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Was in a small office that had a big table and a vice (clamp) where mechanical engineers came to grind, weld, saw... all kinds of iron parts...
I was not capable to do anything... but then I started using loud music... that way at least the noise was the one I liked and it was not an unexpected loud noise that crushed completely any possible concentration.
Nowadays I work in a silent office, but I got used to music.
A Couple of KEF loudspeakers with an integrated 24 bit DAC connected via USB with a small remote... which are glorious to listen to all kinds of lossless music (AC/DC, The black keys, The fratellis, Morcheeba...).
And lately, when noises from external sources happen (sources that I can't kill I mean), B&O H9 3rd gen headphones with ANC... which are wonderful... the only thing I must learn now is to avoid dying from a heart attack each time someone comes to tell me something...
So yessss music in the office! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
modified 15-Dec-19 6:30am.
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... It counts to have Speakers and Music System ready to play the music.
However, it's just there as a show-piece and once in a blue moon employer thought to use it to improve the productivity* by playing so-called productivity/concentration improving music but then it was a terrible time when 95% of colleagues prayed not to have a music system.
That was the first and last day we heard any music from the damn expensive music system across the entire office as we believe the employer might have caught many frowning faces while the music was being played.
*We experienced it was inversely proportionate and it negatively affected everyone's(almost) mood/productivity.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Extensive iTunes library on my workstation (that 1TB disk has to be used somehow!), a decent USB DAC and some nice, comfy closed-back headphones mean that I don't have to listen to all the noise in our wonderful open plan office and can concentrate on my work...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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When I work at home I always have music on.
When I'm at the office I usually wear headphones.
I listen to pretty much anything, from black metal to ambient to rap to classical, whatever mood I'm in.
You guys probably know what I listen to from the SOTW 
Back in the day I used to play music through a speaker and my coworkers mostly liked what I was listening to.
If they didn't they make requests, which was usually music they knew because of me.
Back in those days I used to borrow CDs to and from a coworker and we both got some pretty interesting stuff from each other
Until someone who sometimes visited our office decided someone else was bothered by it and management told us we had to quit (the other person didn't mind and always had his headphones on) 
They replaced it with radio that no one really liked... 
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There are days when I sit down at my desk and put on my headphones and a couple of hours later I noticed that I never put on music.
Same days when I make coffee and drink it cold because I forget it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If I didn't plug in my earphones and listen to music (currently Carlos Paredes[^]) the constant prattling of the "youngsters" behind me would drive me mad!
Having said that, someone keeps playing music on their laptop at lunchtime ... not sure what it is, but it's fluffy, poppy, rubbish.
I will find them. I will stop them. 
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I do listen to music while working but:
* I choose the music, which ranges from metal to goth to grunge to folk to whatever I want in that particular moment;
* I choose when I want music;
* I choose when I want silence by keeping headphones unplugged.
And if someone tries to put up Reggaeton, Trap or some other smelly brown music I may answer with extreme violence, or extreme metal at ungodly volume (or ungodly metal at extreme volume, it's the same).
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: metal to goth to grunge to folk
Hell yeah!
den2k88 wrote: Trap
HELL YEAH!
den2k88 wrote: smelly brown music
That's racist
den2k88 wrote: extreme metal at ungodly volume (or ungodly metal at extreme volume, it's the same)
ANGEL OF DEAAAAAAAAAATH!!!! 🤘
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Sander Rossel wrote: That's racist
"smelly brown" as in substitute for s**t. No offense to any "brown" ethnicity.
Sander Rossel wrote: ANGEL OF DEAAAAAAAAAATH!!!! 🤘
I AM THE ONE I AM THE ONE (DO THE DEED) I AM THE ONE I AM THE ONE THAT YOU NEED) I AM THE ONE! The Devil's son has just begun...
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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OH MY,
I started head banging in front of my monitor with any music....!!!!
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Mostly I prefer complete silence as it's a pita to have to pause music when the phone rings. There also seems to be a strange pattern where listening to music causes people to call...or maybe I'm just paranoid!
If I listen to music at all, it's usually late afternoon and it's almost always progressive rock. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Mostly Atmospheric Black Metal.
Or Melodic Death Metal.
I like my colleagues, but no way to concentrate with several of them phoning and talking to each other.
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YEAH!
It's a shame they usually don't like my feet trying to sync the double bass drum....
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Other than the Christmas season, no.
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Normally, Christmas music drives me up the wall but I have found a notable exception. John Fahey has a couple of albums of Christmas music played on guitar and they are really good. I can handle that stuff pretty well.
There is an interesting history to that music for me. In the later phases of his life he lived in Oregon, about an hour away from where I was. I saw the release concerts for two of those albums at a little deli/pub where I lived and managed to talk with Mr. Fahey a little bit. That was really, REALLY weird. Talking to him I mean.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I had a neighbor across the street from me named John Fahey. He moved away, I think to Oregon.
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Another, related piece of trivia. In the movie "A Clockwork Orange", there is a scene where Alex visits a record store. The two albums featured prominently at the counter are the soundtrack from "2001: A Space Odyssey" and one by John Fahey.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Best environment for me to be maximum productive: Absolute silence. No voices (most important), no environmental sounds.
Unfortunately I work in an open space where lots of people are on the phone, talking to each other, etc, which forces me to wear headphones and listen to instrumental music, mostly celtic/irish music style, but without any voices.
That's my only way to get rid of all that nasty noise around me.
And I hate it.
In my next life I get a one-person office with big sound-proof walls, doors and windows.
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Try Noice Cancelling Headphones.
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I did. Maybe I didn't find the right model yet, but my personal experience was "uncomfortable"
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My daughter uses a noise cancelling Sony WH-1000X and "can't live without it".
I personally use a beyerdynamic DT-770 PRO (only closed, not noise cancelling) and have no problem wearing it for hours.
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Bose QC35 II. Very comfortable.
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