My lofi isn’t cutting it today, but my podcast is pulling too much of my attention so I can’t think on my work. I need that sweet spot of interesting enough to quiet my mind but boring enough that I can ignore it and think on my work. Gonna look for a history documentary on Carthage or smth

  • Wheeljack@nerdbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    When I need to focus, I have an entire playlist of Weather Channel type jazz. It’s energetic enough to give me baseline stimulation but not so much to turn on party mode, and being instrumental means it doesn’t steal the attention of the words part of my brain and wreck my ability to actually do work.

  • girl@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    yea it is a constant struggle to walk that line lol. my go to is rewatching tv shows I’ve seen 2+ times, currently listening to my name is earl, usually futurama or the good place

  • Tigwyk@lemmy.vrchat-dev.techEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I often throw on bad horror movies on Shudder or something, basically anything that I know I won’t actually pay attention to but provides just enough extra chaos to take up the ADHD slack. I feel you on this one, haha.

  • niladmirari@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using a generative AI music app called AIMI that essentially creates one giant song that never quits. You can pick from a handful of different genres (all within the electronic type). It’s pretty cool.

  • Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I cant even with lofi, I call it “headache inducing sounds” many games with “relaxing” soundtracks have a similar problem, like Minecraft. theres just so much thyme (without music) for you to accumulate all of your senses and then there comes the music, wich is just a bit of long (boooring) piano plings and then the nightmare continues, i get dehydrated, the game is “”“”““FFFFUN””“”“”“” whith a capital f-u… anyways i dont enjoy listening to samey things…

    I dont wanna go on for hours about this, but maybe I will, at some point.

  • 4onTheFloor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    House music. It’s essentially the same thing over an 8 bar loop. There’s so many variations of house too. Techno, drum and bass, someone else mentioned break beat.

    You can find happy stuff, melodic, deep or dark, etc.

  • Squanchin' it@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using a lot of these too lately,

    White Bat Audio or Karl Casey https://youtu.be/np4WhqkiAGo He has lots of mixes from chill synth to some heavy rockish synth stuff so something for a lot of moods.

    Ill Advised Records https://youtu.be/jELW6YU4o8Y They have lots of mixes with varying levels of chill, the lofi here tends to be a little more hard hitting. They also skew heavily to creepy/Halloween inspired stuff. They have some lofi synth too which is interesting and I’m not sure I’ve seen elsewhere.

    Edit: I’ve also come across some Pop Punk instrumentals playlist if that’s your thing. I like the energy but the lack of words helps not be too distracting. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65kW6wMm74u0b3JXbPkGdFLESFW7XWIV