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Before lockdown, I used earphone to escape from others & distraction. My music player has around 600+ songs.
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Been a long time since I saw you post, but then, I myself haven't been very active.
How are you doing, all good?
Cheers,
Vikram.
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I'm OK. Past bunch of years, I was having hard time with few things. That's why I was inactive here too.
Hope you're doing great!
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Thanks, I'm fine too.
Stay safe!
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Music - at the moment mostly ambient/depressive black metal (of the non-trve variety, I guess) like Ghost Bath, Wolves in the Throne Room, Unreqvited, Harakiri for the Sky, Bosse-de-Nage or the like.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I like lyrics when I'm not coding. Aesop Rock's poetry (it almost can't be called rap but def hip hop) is mind bending, and I love him for it.
Otherwise while I'm coding I need quiet or something instrumental. Beats I can handle, but usually I'll listen to Tobacco/Black Moth Super Rainbow, or El-P and his dad Harry Keys, or otherwise something abstract like that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Thanks. I'll check these out.
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InstruMENTAL Jazz aka smoothJazz
examples are:
fattburger, Spyro gyra, Ronny Jordan, Euge Groove, Kim Waters,Joyce Cooling, Craig Chaquico, Peter White, Larry Carlton, 3rd Force,acoustic alchemy,four play,four80East, Paul Hardcastle, The Rippingtons, Konstantin Klashtorni, Vincent Ingala and many more.
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I do love jazz. We used to play it in our coffee shop and back in the day I had a favorite local jazz band I'd go listen to at the Pig & Whistle in Ft. Worth.
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The sound of my hoarse breathing from screaming at the computer?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There are lots of great suggestion throughout this thread ... 
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The first mental image I received from your message was :
a horse screaming at a computer.
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The sound of my hoarse breathing from screaming at the computer IT?
Fixed that for you. Corporate IT has turned on things for the corporate firewall that causes 99.9% of the worlds websites to fail to load. CP's servers seem to have their #$%%^ together. I suspect this is why I cannot obtain a network license key to build some code my boss needs....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Well now that the #$%#^%^ dogs have shut up (they aren't my dogs, but somehow I have to walk and feed them) I finally put on my QC15s and am listening to the beach boys. Came across some other folders full of music from bad times, so that got parked elsewhere.
If I really get into a deep spot, then it's be a soundtrack - Hunt for Red October is excellent.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I enjoy soundtracks too, but I usually listen to a re-mixed version like what I find on Ambient Worlds yt channel. I especially enjoy the ones with seaside sounds added - Pirates of the Caribbean and HP Shell Cottage.
I'll look for the Red October - there might be some ocean noises in that ...
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Jethro Tull - A Song For Jeffrey
(1969)
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There is absolutely nothing like Jethro Tull. Very nice!
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During work, I prefer melodic electronic music with no substantial lyrics.
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Internet radio. I have two stations I've listened to for years: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio and Morow.com.
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What do you use to access them?
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On my Windows 10 laptop I use my own VB net player based on VLC. On my Android devices I use a very basic URL based player called 'CustomRadioPlayer RadioStream App'. It's very, very simple but works!
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Don't you just love this community where "I use my own ..." isn't unusual, but so, so satisfying? 
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Even more so when I'm only a 71 year old 'hobbyist' programmer swiming with the big fish!
I love programming and I'm always trying to write 'difficult' (to me) programs. It keeps the brain healthy (I hope!).
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Usually prefer silence but, paradoxically, when I need a music break, it's often something like Jesus and Mary Chain or Pixies or Rammstein or something equally raucous.
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Only the hot and the cold. No lukewarm for you. 
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