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>>notkai+(OP)
Am I the only person who can't listen to anything while coding? My attention goes straight to the music, and I can't concentrate on the task at hand!

When I was in high school, my math teacher would play Mozart during tests, claiming it would help us. It would drive me crazy, and I doubt that my grades improved as a result of the distraction.

For what it's worth, I have a BMus in Piano Performance. I love music... but never as "background noise"!

>>coreyp+0i
No, me neither. Unless I'm working on something brainless and repetitive (I'm currently doing formatting for a book I'm writing, and using my old version of Indesign which means a lot of repetition of the same thing as it doesn't have the ability to set sane defaults!), I can't listen to any music - either the music gets my mind, or the job does and then I'm not listening.

FTR I partially make a living as a musician, so maybe that's why?