Re: HowTo: Run a hook when a buffer becomes "current"

[T.V Raman]

In general, soft nature sounds eg light-rain, soft waves, wind -- that
repeat  in a pseudo-random pattern appear to work well in this regard
-- the repetition actually appears to aid in concentration. Anyway,
try out boodler.org -- it's a python package and is fun to play with.

Marcin Borkowski writes:
 > 
 > 
 > On 2015-12-18, at 18:06, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
 > 
 > > raman <address@hidden> writes:
 > >
 > >> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
 > >> Re installing emms playlists as soundscapes -- I dont see why not --
 > >> take a look at the code -- should be easy to do.
 > >>
 > >> One reason I eventually landed on randomly repeating nature sounds: With
 > >> music playlists, streaming radio etc -- the media that is playing
 > >> changes  without being in lock-step with what you're doing.
 > >>
 > >> My intuition (completely unproven at this point) is that such switches
 > >> were actually preventing me from focusing fully on my current
 > >> activity -- and where I was fully focused, the change in music as the
 > >> result of one track ending and another starting actually took my focus
 > >> away.
 > >
 > > Well, I'm a musician in some reasonable sense of the word.  Any music is
 > > distracting me from programming.  And the better, the worse.
 > 
 > Interesting.
 > 
 > My subjective feeling is that some music distracts me more: namely,
 > vocal more than instrumental, and unknown more than known.
 > 
 > I also did some measurements (a long time ago), and it turned out that
 > music and learning did not go well together.
 > 
 > Best,
 > 
 > -- 
 > Marcin Borkowski
 > http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
 > Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
 > Adam Mickiewicz University

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