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whatusername
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada1181 Posts
April 26 2009 13:59 GMT
#1
I've realized I've gotten pretty bored of the default starcraft music so i want try listening to something else while playing for a change.

I've found that metal and rock kind of distracts me while playing so can anyone recommend me what kind of music works well while playing?

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FirstBorn
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Romania3955 Posts
April 26 2009 14:06 GMT
#2
You could try this thread to pick some music, but it most cases depends on the person.

Some people listen to heavy metal, others to piano, others to korean pop or some don't listen to anything at all. Personally, I found out that listening to music is a little distracting and annoying once you're 20+ mins into a game and you need to rely more and more on your decision making.
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51416 Posts
April 26 2009 14:06 GMT
#3
Find Godskitchen: Worldwide, pheer recommended it to me and it is a really good trance set.

If trance sucks... then... I don't know... this?

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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51416 Posts
April 26 2009 14:07 GMT
#4
but FirstBorn is right, in the end, if you are laddering on ICCUP or whatever, no music is the best solution at all. But if you're just dicking around BGHing or something then music is fine.
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mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
April 26 2009 14:13 GMT
#5
I like to play banjo on my unicycle while starcrafting.
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MasterReY
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Germany2708 Posts
April 26 2009 14:15 GMT
#6
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and similar music
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anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
April 26 2009 14:18 GMT
#7
i never liked trance, but in Ret's live stream yesterday he had trance playing and I idn't mind it that much
so even if you don't like trance you might want to give it a try while you play, just as background noise. i find regular ambiance music doesn't do much for me
unknown.sam
Profile Joined May 2007
Philippines2701 Posts
April 26 2009 14:19 GMT
#8
wow you have some skills
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GoShox
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States1836 Posts
April 26 2009 14:22 GMT
#9
Haha, I find this thread funny cause I was thinking a lot about it yesterday after watching Chill / Ret play on their streams.

I've decided to download a lot of trance, I'm probably gonna play with that for a while. I listen to rock and stuff but I have a lot of slower songs on my playlist, I think it would be better for me overall to listen to upbeat stuff as I play
Typho0n
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada276 Posts
April 26 2009 14:22 GMT
#10
i don't play any music if i'm playing ladder (I turn off in game music and dont play regular music), I just let the sweet noises of my zerg units entertain me.
whatusername
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada1181 Posts
April 26 2009 14:27 GMT
#11
On April 26 2009 23:07 GTR wrote:
but FirstBorn is right, in the end, if you are laddering on ICCUP or whatever, no music is the best solution at all. But if you're just dicking around BGHing or something then music is fine.


i dunno sometimes when i've practically won the game and its just the other person not gging, i get really bored and start fucking around and end up losing the game because of something impossibly stupid i've done.
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anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
April 26 2009 14:28 GMT
#12
also even if you don't want to use it for playing, some awesome people from teamliquid are seeding that all-time pro SC music torrent like motherfuckers.
500kb down and 0.5 kb up? holy shit
Xusneb
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada612 Posts
April 26 2009 15:00 GMT
#13
"Everyday I'm Hustlin" on infinite loop. DAMN THAT PUMPS ME UP... altho my apm takes a hit cause I sing along to it.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24645 Posts
April 26 2009 15:25 GMT
#14
I play my full winamp playlist randomized (about 1200 songs), and invariably the sc music from a different race comes on and confuses the hell out of me.
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d(O.o)a
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada5066 Posts
April 26 2009 15:34 GMT
#15
Yeah play trance music it goes so well with the starcraft unit sounds. Not to mention it's just plain nice to keep focus.
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Hammy
Profile Joined January 2009
France828 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-26 15:45:10
April 26 2009 15:42 GMT
#16
On April 27 2009 00:25 micronesia wrote:
I play my full winamp playlist randomized (about 1200 songs), and invariably the sc music from a different race comes on and confuses the hell out of me.

I don't know how you do that. I can't possibly listen to a wide array of music without getting completely distracted. Like going from frank sinatra to rhapsody would make my macro go haywire .

On April 27 2009 00:34 iCCup.d(O.o)a wrote:
Yeah play trance music it goes so well with the starcraft unit sounds. Not to mention it's just plain nice to keep focus.

If i didn't hate stuff like trance so much i'd consider it to be a pretty good choice to remain focused. Since I can't stand it, or anything like it, I usually stick to Starcraft music or just cut everything out. I think the fact that I listen to the SC music also has a bit of an impact on my affinity to the three races. I just can't get enough of Zerg and Terran music and units responses, while the Protoss' don't really keep me entertained. Though of course it could be going the other way around, and I don't like their music because I didn't like the race to begin with, it's kind of hard to tell.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
April 26 2009 16:41 GMT
#17
play some lady gaga. LOL IM JOKING. i listen to indie when im gaming, sometimes.
TommyG
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States102 Posts
April 26 2009 17:01 GMT
#18
On April 26 2009 23:06 GTR wrote:
Find Godskitchen: Worldwide, pheer recommended it to me and it is a really good trance set.

If trance sucks... then... I don't know... this?

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definitely this.

ever since i watched the korean streams on afreeca, i had my buddy give me hundreds of kpop songs. that's all i listen to when i starcraft, as well as some c-pop.
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
April 26 2009 17:16 GMT
#19
Punk rock, sometimes techno, sometimes Epik High/Big Bang.
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Biff The Understudy
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
France7875 Posts
April 26 2009 17:17 GMT
#20
I play Ravel, Beethoven and Sibelius, mainly.
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