Music Listening Question

I don't use any physical media (my husband is a different store - he has an enormous CD and LP collection).

I use Apple Music for all my music listening - I mostly listen to full albums (this is where my Gen X comes out, the sequencing intended by the artist is important to me) but I also create my own playlists, and listen to some Apple-created thematic playlists. I don't buy any songs or albums - just have my monthly streaming subscription to Apple Music.

Apple Music via CarPlay in the car too. 

I buy songs via itunes now apple music.
I have my songs synced, so they are on my desktop computer and on my iphone.

On my phone, I know how to make playlists. I have a playlist that has my top ten favorites and a walking on the treadmill playlist. Otherwise, if I am listening all my songs......it's alphabetical order by song or random rotation.

In the car, I am a radio channel surfer. If I want to hear a specific song...then I play it on my phone.

At home, I occasionally have music on. I usually prefer the quiet.
In the car, I usually listen when I am on the way somewhere. More often , than not.....after I've been somewhere (work, out and about, etc...) I drive home in silence, because I am on or nearing >> sensory overload.

This. My car doesn't have a CD player ave I don't have one inside anymore. I let Spotify choose or I make a playlist. I have premium and listen to it every single day, well worth the money.

Often in the car I listen to local radio though.

Spotify also has podcasts ave now audio books as well, which I can't pay attention to well enough so I don't listen to them anymore, but it's nice to have the option.

Another Spotify premium user. I listen at home and in my car -- and take a bluetooth speaker to the beach sometimes!

I don't miss the CD days at all. This is so much easier. I surely don't miss burning CDs. And making cassette tapes from the radio many years before that was truly a painful process.

I do enjoy being in someone's home that still plays vinyl records. There's just something about that sound that can't be replicated.

Radio or Spotify.

When new CDs come out, I get them from the library and burn them to my computer. Add to my ITunes library and then to my playlist on my phone.

When we go on road trips I load music up on a USB. We tried Spotify for our last trip and when the GPS sent us to BFE and we lost phone service, we also lost our jams. It was a long 40+ minutes and side swiping a tractor did not help the mood. /snort

DH is pretty much radio only so he will tell me if a new song is out that he likes. My teens tell me new stuff from social media.

I still mostly listen to CDs at home. I have Spotify premium and I got it for the podcasts. But I do have two playlists there and I do stream music in my car from Spotify. I do buy CDs when my favorite artists release them mostly because I do not believe they get properly compensated from streaming services. And I hate the clutter but I can't seem to reconcile the environmental impact of having to buy physical media with the ethical concerns about paying appropriately for art.

Just FYI I download some of the Spotify playlists so you can play them offline (I do that for flying in airplane mode).

I mostly listen to the radio when in the car, iHeart radio on my computer, or iTunes on my iPod.

I have an iTunes account that I cannot access and it pisses me off. LOL! My fault for not updating my email and/or phone. The account is connected to an old email that I no longer use and has been deleted by Yahoo, and a phone number that I cannot recognize at all. I have nothing associated with it. I only see the last 2 numbers through the account. I thought just knowing my password and my "secret questions" was enough. Nope. My last laptop bit the dust all of a sudden. Bought a new one a few years ago, and tried to bring my account to that one. I needed either access to my old email or my old phone number. Or I needed to know what my old phone number was.  I tried to resign back onto the old Yahoo email, it wouldn't let me. I searched everywhere, asked everyone if they have anything with my old phone number that ends in those 2 numbers. I checked my credit report, signed up on 2 sites that finds people and their info, and that phone number did not show up anywhere.

So I'm screwed. I can still listen to my songs (I have a lot!) on my iPod, but cannot purchase anymore songs. I could start over with Apple Music, but I guess I refuse because I had spent so much money in iTunes, and if my iPod dies, I will have lost my entire song list.

I use Spotify in the car and just ask Siri to play certain songs, or singers. Although Siri and I have been feuding lately. Here's a recent conversation between us.

Me: Hey Siri, play Allison Krauss from Spotify.
Siri: I'm sorry, I can't find that.
Me: Hey Siri, play I'll Fly Away by Allison Krauss from Spotify. [thinking that once I got one song going she could just carry on with whatever came randomly after that]
Siri: [plays some random song with the word "fly" in it]
Me: [growl] Hey Siri, play I'll Fly Away. !!!!  
Siri: Now playing I'll Fly Away by Allison Krause from Spotify. 


  

monklady123 I feel your frustration with Siri! I think she hates me and does stuff like that just to mess with me.
My DHs name is John. He's like that in my contact list. I've asked Siri to call him before. One day while driving I told her to call John. She said that she couldn't find Jon. I glanced at my screen and she had spelled it without the H. Okay, first I said his name, not spelled it for her, second there is NO difference in how you pronounce JOHN and JON!
I repeated the request and she repeated the answer. I gave up. The next time, and every time after that, she's done it correctly.

I’m 51 so solid Gen X

I do not use Apple Music- refuse to pay for it.

I have SXM for my car and listen to that in my classroom and car and in the house via our Denon receiver/HEOS.

When I’m on my phone, I listen to SXM or Spotify (I only use the free) if I want a playlist or specific artist.

I used to LOVE iTunes- then my iPod got lost (found 2 years later in DD’s gymnastics team bag) and my MacBook crashed and I lost it all. I have shelves of CD’s that I don’t listen to. At one time they were all ripped into iTunes. Current computer doesn’t have a cd/dvd slot. I don’t think we even have a CD player in the house other than DD’s kareoke machine. DD (13) purchases select CD’s but mostly uses pandora or Spotify. She doesn’t like SXM because you can’t build playlists like you can on Spotify and pandora.

Spotify.

I haven't had a cd player in a vehicle in years. And many more years since I had one in the house.

Spotify has podcasts, you can make all kinds of playlists, they even have audiobooks now (for an extra fee). I download my stuff so I never lose it when driving or can put my phone on airplane mode when traveling and still have access. I can play it through my phone or bluetooth it to a speaker at home. It meets all my needs.

Gen Jones. I listen to Radio Paradise, a satellite station in California that plays eclectic music or Spotify Premium when I to hear something specific. When I get a wild hair, I sometimes tune in to WWOZ New Orleans for jazz and SoCal 88.5 when I want to hear some modern stuff that isn't pop, and Mixcloud for a show created by a former Sirius/XM DJ when it had curated music playlists.

Apple Music subscription/streaming here. I just ask Siri to play the song, artist, album or playlist I want to listen too. Sometimes I pick on of their existing playlists or sometimes my own or one someone else in our family has made (we share our subscription).

I usually just say something like Siri play disco or play music by xx and let her pick. I’m not into listening to full albums.

Dh does the same, but he’s into full albums and he also has a vinyl collection and record player in his office.