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Mostly classical music. Nothing in particular, I'll usually look up spotify-curated playlists like "Baroque classics" or "French Composers" etc.

Music with singing is too distracting when I'm working, and so is music that I'm overly attached to or get excited by - for instance jazz.

Spotify has a ton of ambient playlists too. I feel like ambient tracks strike a good balance for me when working.

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>Music with singing is too distracting when I'm working,

Same here.

>and so is music that I'm overly attached to or get excited by - for instance jazz.

Same again, for jazz. A friend who invited me to a jazz concert years ago, and talked a bit about it, said that jazz kind of "makes you listen to it", IIRC. I don't know why it is so, but it seems he was right.

I usually find anything that overly activates my language centers to be a problem. So singing in English? no way. Singing in a language I don't know? Could work depending.

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