+1. I suspect many of the "I could _never_ listen to music while coding! The horror!" people are those who listen to "radio" or "playlists" they are unfamiliar with. While I almost always listen to a full album, start to finish, that I know well.

+1 the part with a full album is also really important. Even better when you get into operas and stuff because then you can have a good few hours in one go.

edit: also if you make a playlist made of a chronological listing of one artists full albums.

And to me, it's the exact opposite. I can't code while listening to well known music with lyrics but I enjoy listening to some electronic house music while coding. Music I usually don't listen to.

Came here to say exactly this! Tried a new album but that overloaded me totally. Then I went for an album I've listened to for a thousand time or so and got into the zone directly.

I've read somewhere that humans language processing centra only can deal with one input source at the time. So reading and talking is more or less impossible to do at the same time.

My experience is different. I'm not a native speaker and if I listen to music in English, usually it just fades into background. I rarely experience it. In that way I feel it does not have any effect on me, but obviously it's anecdotal and I don't have any real data.