Music during RPG's

I don't listen to a lot of music except for a few classical and orchestral composers but even I can understand the need for music during gaming. My tabletop group has tried a lot of different approaches. Silence works fine but inevitably this leads to more backround talking from idle players or if there's a laptop in the room it will metaphysically find its speakers honed onto the high concentration needing, visually saturated youtube song such as Supersonic Electronic. I've tried a few tabletop specifics like Midnight Syndicate and the Eberron soundtrack but they're so super specific to the encounters at hand that they didn't work. Yes the Herioc Clash song would work great as encounter music if the encounter only ran 5 min. 46 sec. and not the hour it takes for 5 adventures with their menagerie of companions to heroically pick away at my Cadaver Collector. Sure you could put the album on loop but your casual NPC encounter will randomly get interrupted by the immersion breaking Undead Waketh song. What you need is something that you can leave running in the backround and just forget about. All three LOTR soundtracks are great but be sure to remove the vibe killers. If you're running a long encounter the music can help to keep the mood but dear god take out Gollum's song and Into the West, Pippin's song can stay... Round robin picking works. Pass a laptop around and everyone picks one song. Basic ground rules: check it at backround volume, nothing too rough, and the Ghostbusters theme, Katamari Damacy, and The Entrance of the Gladiators must be played at least once. Or if its easier go into the high hundreds channels and turn on non-stop classic rock or pull the Flob and turn on the endless hours of smooth jazz... Aww yeah....