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... no problem with all this, as long as I'm not on the phone with my terrible bad headset 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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once I am in the zone I plug in my headphones and play music that I like but turned up enough to turn the outside world off completely.
I have tried noise cancelling headphones and just used silence but I found that still lead to me being easily interrupted by other thoughts. maybe there is some scientific study that explains why the music playing loud enough permits me to concentrate on other tasks more easily?
Now if I could just get some people to understand when the headphones are on and music is playing do not tap me on the shoulder or wave a hand near me.
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Although I have the ability to tune out even loud conversations near me, I find that music and hiding behind my screens cuts me off from the world. I can't have my back to a walkway as I react each time someone walks behind me.
Some prefer music without words (instrumental) but I can listen to heavy metal or 80's pop equally well -- I tune out the voices -- I'm aware of them but don't "hear" them. But I will find myself tapping or bouncing to the music.
YouTube is less useful for this due to the interruptions. I've been using MusicBee as I can set a playlist and it will run for hours.
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More as ambient background noise than anything else. Just loud enough to discern the words if I want to.
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This is what I use most of the time.
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I like a little ambient noise in the background. I work from home, and in my office I like it silent. But I run the TV (usually a news channel such as CNN) in the living room as a bit of "ambient" noise. If it was absolutely quiet, then every little bird tweet, horn honk, etc. becomes a distraction. Having that bit of continuous sound helps to blend it all together, and I don't notice anything...
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I voted (5 points !) - but the reality is that when I'm 'in the zone' I don't really notice the background. At least if no one assaults me. I don't notice time or hunger, either. I'm not alone in this.[^]
Now, it could be that certain horrors (such as rap, country, religious music) could distract and goad me into shouting obscenities - those hateful sounds fall into the class of assault.
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Nailed it.
The only drawback is the spike in adrenaline when someone abruptly snaps you out of your trance.
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it doesn't matter if people voices or lyrics of the songs.
I don't care about some sounds, and I like instrumental music in a low volume. But... No voices, please
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Depends on... when I switch my brain to English Mode (which includes programming: One of the things that frustrates me is program code in (quasi)English with comments in another language. I can't understand comments even in my native language, Norwegian, when I am reading English source code. Switching brain mode back and forth for every line takes too much mental effort), I cannot listen to vocal music or vocal background sounds in English. Any other language is fine.
Similarly the other way around: If I am writing something in Norwegian, there may very well be English vocals in the background. Or German. Or Spanish. Or Hindi or whatever.
Somtimes, it is an advantage not having English as one's native language: We know that there are other languages. If you suggest to a USAnian to select vocal music in other languages than English, he might give you a quizzingly look: Other languages? Where do you find that? I never heard of any!
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In our market, you do have to look a little. Spanish / Spanglish isn't that hard to find.
I need something in-novel or I will pick at the thread - and there goes the zone.
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I have a quiet office, but I hear the voices all the time. 
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Nothing like it in the world for meditative concentration when I m in the zone at work. Never in a million years did I think it would work. It is also the only time I listen to it - at work.
I usually select the tracks that are instrumental only.
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I've done sitar track - usually they're like 20-30 minutes each. No vocals - but the sound almost demands thinking continue. Even old Ravi Shankar tracks (when he's not explaining things) can do the deed. Or Jefferson Airplane.
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When I'm thinking hard, all I need is a gentle background of keystrokes, and the occasional cat / delivery / vehicle passing the window.
Loud is bad - it can break your concentration.
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...no external stimuli has any affect on me.
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That explains oh so very much . . . . !
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...the office won't be quiet.
So home office as often as allowed.
And the other days music.
Atmospheric black metal is wonderful, mostly long tracks and no distracting clear voices.
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Someone in our "leadership" thinks that if we are not in the office, that we are not working.
And, it is semi-open, so everyone thinks it is a conversation pit.
So, louder noise to mask.
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I took that as LOUD music 
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nono... it means you (down)load music. but you don't listen to it. 
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No, it's that screechy noise you used to get out of a Spectrum.
Couldn't code without it ...
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I think it refers to Load[^] by Metallica, though why that would get a specific choice I have no idea. 
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yeah, I say for ONE, KILL 'EM ALL that would be (...And) JUSTICE FOR ALL.... 
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