Most makers here live on Lo-fi beats or "Ambient Noise" to get through their backlog. As a SaaS architect, I ve spent months analyzing the spectral impact of these loops.
The hard truth: Standard streaming audio (MP3/AAC) is compressed garbage that strips away the very frequencies required for neural synchronization. Your brain isn't focusing; it s working overtime to "fill in the gaps" of missing audio data.
We need to stop treating audio as "background" and start treating it as bio-engineering.
I ve been experimenting with Euclidean-based procedural synthesis to bypass the "Habituation Filter" (the reason why you stop 'hearing' a song after 10 minutes).