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by newsbinator 2636 days ago
I made a 25-hour Spotify playlist for myself of soundtracks, mostly from films:

https://open.spotify.com/user/22p7kffssooevmhucglnnz6ci/play...

(e.g. John Williams, Tyler Bates, Hanz Zimmer, James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, etc).

There is a smattering of video game soundtracks in there (by far my favorite composer is Christopher Tin), but the key is avoiding any 8-bit or classic "beep beep" songs. Those would break my coding flow.

Ironically, as uninspired as modern Marvel movie soundtracks are, they're perfect for concentrating on code, with a random uplifting nudge or a drop into quiet here and there.