Good Thinking Music

Preachifying moved to ThinkingMusicConsideredHarmful. Testimonials moved to GoodThinkingMusicTestimonials. Idea that music makes you smarter / plants hear music deleted because outrageously false and completely irrelevant.

I don't give a good goddamn whether music prevents creative thinking because I know it does. And when I get down to coding the system I've designed up, that's precisely what I want.

Requirements for non-distraction

• nothing intense
• nothing with recognizable vocals; foreign languages don't work too well because you start to pick them up
• anything you're so familiar with that you've grown thoroughly sick of it

MP3 and streaming Sources that were recommended by wikizens:

• http://di.fm has a whole list of channels -- chillout trance and goapsy are recommended. "progressive" works well, has occasional vocals
• http://netcast.kfjc.org:27080/
• http://kuci.org:8000
• http://www.luxuriamusic.com
• http://www.shpongle.com/
• http://www.mp3dreaming.net/ always has some good mixes
• http://somafm.com/ (The Groove Salad channel at soma works well if you've overdone it and you're tweaking from too much caffeine.)
• http://shesa.flightrisk.org/ -- see flight risk radio; good mixes, good story too
• http://pandora.com -- good to make your own music station (with a flash webapp)
• http://www.edgen.com/music/
• http://www.radioparadise.com
• http://grooveshark.com
• http://www.steveroach.com/ -- ambient music with tracks lasting up to one hour, will put you in the MentalStateCalledFlow, guaranteed.
• http://www.shoutcast.com/ - digital trance,

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