What sources of music do use to listen to music. To date myself the primary choices I had when I was in my 20’s were records and cassette tape. CD’s came out in the 80’s and pretty much replaced records on that decade. Currently we have streaming devices and have access to just about any music imaginable. I recently replaced my turntable as my old one while functioning wasn’t that great. It’s amazing to me how good these records sound. I listen to music over the radio, streamed and on CDs but mostly for background music or casual listening. My records are listened to when I have time to be engaged while listening. What are sources are people listening to?
My records and CD’s have all been digitized. That’s how I listen. I’m one of those fossils who still uses an Ipod! Plugs into car’s USB port for long drives.
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Only streaming services and satellite radio at this point.
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Streaming only. We have thousands of CDs, tapes, and records collecting dust in the basement. It will be time to purge them very soon.
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Streaming only. Have a double sized carton of CDs that himself can’t bear to part with yet. We do pay for one of the main streaming services, and supplement it with 2 others in their ‘free’ (aka ad supported) mode.
Satellite in the car. I’m also an IPod dinosaur and use mine when I’m walking/exercising.
All of my CD’s are digitized so I mostly listen on the computer during my workday/evenings
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Spotify and Pandora.
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Streaming only and only for cocktail hour ambience in the PMs (mostly piano jazz). We don’t listen to music otherwise.
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Streaming only - Spotify. Pay for premium. Also SoundCloud a bit
I wish I could get back all the $ spent on iTunes in the last. Never use it now.
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I have satellite radio in the car and frequently switch to my CD du jour. I prefer CDs to streaming. I’ve never had an iPod or similar and I’ve only ever used iTunes to burn practice CDs to listen to in the car. We have Pandora at work and I have grown to loathe it, mainly because no one curates it (thumbs up/down) so it plays the same songs over and over. It’s kind of a problem because apparently music takes up a much bigger part of my brain than it does my coworkers’ and whereas they can ignore something playing in the background, I can’t.
My husband doesn’t care for music so since he retired and is home I don’t play much in the house. I hate headphones or ear things. My car is my music listening place.
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I recently signed up for the free version of Spotify. I have been building my “liked” songs and the app made a playlist with other suggestions. i have learned how to eliminate the ones that don’t click with me and build my list.
As with so many technologies and other adventures, I figure better late than never! And it can be amazing to play my list (shuffled by the app) and remind myself of whatever associations I have with 62 years worth of songs.
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I would love to be a house where music is played for enjoyment aloud and not the television! Husband and I do not share the same taste.
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My husband has digitized many of our older formats and we have purchased digital downloads of many albums and we have Apple Music streaming. We listen to one of those in the house. In the car we have Sirius XM and I listen to that unless I get fed up and switch to NPR. I will also listen to local radio and have some apps for good non-comm radio stations like WXPN, KEXP, WFMU, WUNC and others. Mostly I just use the radio in the car.
I would encourage everyone to BUY stuff from independent artists that you like. If you’re not listening to Beyonce or one of the other megastars chances are they could really use your $10. Streaming rips off the artist big time. It is appalling how little they get paid for streams like $0.0015 for a stream on YouTube. A million streams of a song might only earn the artist $1500. If you sell a million singles, that’s a gold record right there, but stream it and it’s paltry.
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We play music at home through Alexa/Spotify. In the car, we are an old fashioned radio family. For running, I wear an iPod shuffle. I am very bummed that they don’t make them anymore. I go through them every 3 years or so. My last one, H found a refurbished one on eBay, but now that one is on the fritz. I’m not sure what I’ll do after that! I sweat so much, I keep my new iPhone in a plastic bag (waterproof cases aren’t enough for me), so headphones won’t be great with that. I short out earbuds in a couple of months and tend to lose things, so I’m not paying for expensive airpods.
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I never understood earbud running. It’s not safe. Every year or so there’s at least one death in our area of a runner wearing earbuds. I just play my music through the speaker so I can stay alert.
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Mr.’s Tesla. 
I prefer the sound of silence in the house, but when we are on the road, that thing has a decent music selection.
I dislike when people blast music from portable speakers while hiking. Can’t you enjoy the sounds and sights of nature without all this sound pollution?
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I listen mostly via CDs on a nice stereo. I’m one of that increasingly rare breed of people who still enjoys listening to music as a primary activity, rather than as something to do while ironing or exercising. (Though I often do have music playing during those activities.) I even pull out the CD booklets and read along with the lyrics sometimes, as if I’m still a teenager and it’s 1978… 
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Growing up, our TV was ALWAYS on. Always. We took trips every summer. And Dad turned on the hotel room TV as soon as we checked in. I didn’t think anything of it until I met my husband and he pointed out the TV didn’t need to be on constantly! We decided not to buy a TV for the first year we were married. It was wonderful. 
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I’m looking for some good mellow piano music to stream in our speakers at home at dinner or when sitting around having a glass of wine with DH. Any particular playlist/artist you recommend?
In answer to the OP, now mostly streaming (Spotify or the tunes I downloaded on my phone thru I-tunes).
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Try putting on some “Piano Jazz” either on Pandora or YouTube. It’s usually relaxing.