[mjsir911]

I basically have to constantly rotate through new music, once I get used to songs I start being able to predict them and they take up mental energy. Doubly so if they have lyrics.

I've found SiIvagunner works well for this, they release like ~10 new song mashups a day and maybe half of them are good. Just load up some random youtube playlist consisting of thousands of songs and I won't recognize a single one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ecwl3FTG66jIKA9JRDtmg

[cowvin]

Hah, I'm the opposite. I listen to music that I'm very familiar with because I already know what's coming next. New music distracts me more because I end up paying attention to it to see if I like it, etc.