User blog comment:Themguyman/The effect of music on play/@comment-4861674-20130106053621

All anecdotal and fairly "common sense-y". By that I mean I can say exercise has greatly improved my performance, but that may not apply to everyone else (In general improving well-being makes you 'better' at everything). Plus there's the fact that there are a myriad of other factors at play. Perhaps you are simply getting better because you've played more by the time you started adding music, as an example. Take some psychology courses if you want more details on perfomance studies.

...Anyways, personally I've noticed no change. I've played with no music for a very long time and when I do put on music it doesn't affect me anyways, as it's just background noise to me. I really only notice the music when the game is heavily one-sided in our favour and I have time to relax and actually "hear" the music, if you know what I mean.