How do ya'll listen to music, while on the go, in Q4 2014 (FM, Aux IN, other)

[JectWon]

LoopDreams saiduderonomy said:


WTF is Q4?




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Awww, damn, doods...you haven't heard of Q4? It's only the coolest app to hit the music streaming app'verse...





Just kidding. It's me overthinking a post title because it seems that the options to listen to music change (very conservatively speaking) on a quarterly basis and I think the board has loosely discussed this before so I was trying to put a time frame to it.





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I think I'm going to make a concerted effort to make Soul Strut be the major source of my music listening for the foreseeable future. Between the heat posted from member creations/suggestions and mixes, I don't think one could go wrong.





Thank you to everyone for the input.

 

[johnblack]

I'm a full time dad at the moment, so music wavers between weapon of choice and ultimate luxury depending on what is going on.


day to day it is a smaller local dance radio station (via satellite tv) that hovers around good and utterly terrible, but my daughter (2.5) is loving commercial drum & bass (wilkinson / sigma et al) and all the big 'anthemy' trap (?) tunes going on at the moment.





She also LOVES records, so picking a record from the shelves and putting them on is a thing she really likes doing.


for me as a producer I like to keep an ear on whats going on, so i download a lot of mixes via soundcloud.


outside of that... haven't bought a record in god knows how long, years. more down to location and budgetary restraints than anything else!

 

[EL CHAMACO]

I'll second the mixcloud app.. Love that thing. On the weekends, especially Sunday, I carve out some morning time for records that I can have on in the living room as well as the kitchen. I've got a pretty high-end setup so I make it a point to play records as much as I can. I used to stream music through AirTunes but got sick of the occasional drop-outs and I actually have a nice vintage tube Luxman receiver with aux inputs that I may hook up to the system so I can then just hard wire whatever device I'd like to run through said system. If I'm working in the garden I'll take my jambox and just play mixcloud via bluetooth. Also just replaced my head unit in my '96 BMW so it too now connects via BT and I feel like a rejuvenated baller. This past summer my external TB took a crap and it had my current library, I mean that thing had everything. Sent it out to one of those recovery services and for about 1k they said they could get it back.. Thing is is that I have several externals with pretty much everything that that thing had save for maybe 8 months of a few things that I never bothered to back up. I can't stand having to back up my data, anyways I sorta forgot about it and honestly I don't really miss it.

 

[Okem]

For new music I stream stuff from soundcloud quiet a lot, or listen to recommendation from various forums, which will usually be soundcloud or YouTube.


I still listen to the radio. BBC4 have a couple of comedy shows I like, but i'll generally download them rather than listen live. BBC 6Music is alright sometimes & 1xtra, I try and catch to Benji B's show fairly regularly. Rinse is also good. I have the TuneIn radio app so I can pick up all sorts of Internet radio, from old pirate stations that have now gone fully Internet, to US station like WFMU. I have Bluetooth speakers in the kitchen and the car also connects the same way.





Aside from that I have the standard hard drive full of mp3s. I keep smaller, curated iTunes collection for syncing with various mobile devices. And an usb stick in the car so I never have to put up with what the radio is serving if I don't want to.





My main computer and connected hardrives are linked in my hifi, tv etc, with the library also shared over the network. So it's all pretty connected, although there's room for improvement. For instance, if I'm linked to soundcloud mix whilst connected via the iPad, I don't really want to listen to it on tiny speakers, I want to send it to my hifi speakers. This can be achieved easily enough, but it then renders my iPad less usable. I don't want the candy crush sounds blasting out as well. We can't be far off just being able to tell my PC to play the link instead, I know OSX & iOS type intergration is the next 'thing' in operating system advancement, maybe it's already possible.

 

[dukeofdelridge]

I have a new iPod. Nano I guess. It had 16 gigs of storage, which is insane to me. I have no problem tending to what's on there--I remember tapes and md, I can get in there every couple of weeks.





I wander the neighborhood or sit on the bus with earbuds. Podcasts. On my commute in the car I go iPod USB cable--this shitty JVC deck can read iPod menus. Fifty bucks at Best Buy. Insane to me.





It's better than ever. 16 gigs is so much for that little thing. I can't believe it.





It's plugged into my computer a lot getting podcast updates, so I'd say I manage it a couple times a week.





I don't stream anything but I'm open to it. Just bought a Bluetooth receiver to plug into my shitty home system and shoot music from the couch.





I do listen to a "now playing" stack of about twenty records on weekends. I think the expedit looks good full of records--relating to that other sad thread. Shits cool looking and a good place to lean bikes.

 

[BassGuyGG]

I have an "all of the above" approach to listening. I have my trusty MP3 player at work, on its own (computers are set up not to accept them at work). In the car I have listen to both FM and Sirius radio. I have a CD player (mostly for my own music and mixes) and also a USB port. I can plug in my MP3 player or sometimes I download music/podcasts off my computer and play it from a thumb drive. I have an aux in plug too but I never use it.

 

[ppadilha]

CBear said:Airport Expresses




is yours as wonky as mine? I have one that's pretty old, maybe 1st or 2nd generation, and I'm always annoyed at the drop outs. Can't figure out what causes them either, but I wouldn't mind finding an alternative that's more reliable. I do like being able to stream only the itunes though, I get most of the new music via mp3 and I like listening to it on the stereo while I read things on my laptop, just wish it fucked up less often than it does.





For music on the go I have some things on my iphone, but I kinda miss the old ipod I had that died. The iphone doesn't have enough room and I'm not good at rotating what's on there, so I eventually get tired of it. I don't even listen to music on it that often - only via aux on the car, but I'm not in the car that much. If I have a commute I sometimes listen to it on the bus, but right now I'm working on a project at home, so it's mostly records I listen to and some stuff off youtube when I take a break from work.

 

[CBear]

ppadilha said:CBear said:Airport Expresses




is yours as wonky as mine? I have one that's pretty old, maybe 1st or 2nd generation, and I'm always annoyed at the drop outs. Can't figure out what causes them either, but I wouldn't mind finding an alternative that's more reliable. I do like being able to stream only the itunes though, I get most of the new music via mp3 and I like listening to it on the stereo while I read things on my laptop, just wish it fucked up less often than it does.





For music on the go I have some things on my iphone, but I kinda miss the old ipod I had that died. The iphone doesn't have enough room and I'm not good at rotating what's on there, so I eventually get tired of it. I don't even listen to music on it that often - only via aux on the car, but I'm not in the car that much. If I have a commute I sometimes listen to it on the bus, but right now I'm working on a project at home, so it's mostly records I listen to and some stuff off youtube when I take a break from work.




If I'm physically close to the airport express, it's near flawless. When I get too far away, it does drop out. I would also like to find a good alternative. The newer generations are dual-channel and better than the older ones. I've had a gen 1 since new and it's still kicking but does drop out more than the newer ones. They are usually findable on CL for $40-60.





For rotating music on the iPhone, I keep a smart playlist that's called "iphone filler" and it's "random; everything that's over 128kb". I usually keep it at about 1800 songs (for a 32 gig). Any time I want to randomize the music on my phone I edit the playlist down to one song and then back to 1800. When I sync my phone it updates all the songs. Anything I'm tired of hearing or don't like gets a 1-star rating and then deleted from itunes altogether.

 

[TDLT02]

At home on a good Hi-Fi set up mostly vinyl, along with some CDs, as well as Soundcloud / Mixcloud, Blogpages mixes when sitting at the computer.


On the move I use a A&K 120 WAV player (186g) with either a pair of Sennheiser HD25 - II modified phones (Stefan AudioArt cable and filters in cans removed), or a pair of Fostex TH600 cans.


Looking forward in a couple of weeks (6th December) to getting to spin on this system that is around only for three months!


It has a wonderful warm clear sound, though at £50,000 it should sound ok. LOL!


http://www.merchantstavern.co.uk/spiritland/

 

[Jonny_Paycheck]

I plug my 5 into the car via a territorial usb adapter specific to the car brand and it syncs the music and podcasts and directions from Siri. does not handle phone calls which is a pain but I'm adding a bluetooth speaker for that. Car has a cd player but I never use it. FM it's WBGO, WKCR, WBAI, WBLS, WNYC (NPR), Hot97. More or less in that order





Speaking of which I realized yesterday that I'm utterly bored with the music on my phone and need to wipe it and start over. Does that ever happen to you guys?

 

[discos_alma]

Pandora and Spotify in the car, along with CDs (yeah, those) and then iPhone shuffle or albums for longer trips. Sometimes I'll play a track on the Soundcloud app while riding my bike and then just let it go wherever it goes or until it finally gets to some dubstep remix.





I just copped one of these for playing music out at the beach or at BBQs. Can't recommend it enough. Bluetooth from whoever's phone wants to play DJ.


http://www.ultimateears.com/en-us/boom

 

[EL CHAMACO]

TDLT02 said:At home on a good Hi-Fi set up mostly vinyl, along with some CDs, as well as Soundcloud / Mixcloud, Blogpages mixes when sitting at the computer.


On the move I use a A&K 120 WAV player (186g) with either a pair of Sennheiser HD25 - II modified phones (Stefan AudioArt cable and filters in cans removed), or a pair of Fostex TH600 cans.


Looking forward in a couple of weeks (6th December) to getting to spin on this system that is around only for three months!


It has a wonderful warm clear sound, though at £50,000 it should sound ok. LOL!


http://www.merchantstavern.co.uk/spiritland/




Nice! Those Tannoy's are legit..! Do you happen to know what amp they use to drive those? Have fun at that gig.

 

[EL CHAMACO]

Speaking of which I realized yesterday that I'm utterly bored with the music on my phone and need to wipe it and start over. Does that ever happen to you guys?




Yeah.. and just never understood why iTunes Match is so limiting. My library goes well beyond the capabilities of the Match so I was content (for awhile) with just keeping my 160G Classic as my weapon of choice but then dropped it in water and poof! Gone. So yeah, the iPhone is fine and all, but between apps and vids of the kids there's not much room left for music that I have to keep syncing because of the friggin Match cap. I'll probably just buy another classic at some point but that also sux as Apple said sayonara to those too.

 

[PrimeCutsLtd]

Ipod shuffle for the ride. Either that or some podcasts. Ipod on the crappiest ipod player around, at work. That way I don't have to worry about sticky mitts. For some reason I don't have any music on my phone.

 

[PrimeCutsLtd]

Ipod shuffle for the ride. Either that or some podcasts. Ipod on the crappiest ipod player around, at work. That way I don't have to worry about sticky mitts. For some reason I don't have any music on my phone.

 

[Okem]

JonnyPaycheck said:Speaking of which I realized yesterday that I'm utterly bored with the music on my phone and need to wipe it and start over. Does that ever happen to you guys?

This is pretty standard I'm guessing considering how spoilt and adhd everyone is these days. Although it may be part of getting older because I remember having maybe a dozen cassettes on rotation in my first car, which most MP3 devices could accommodate easily, but I don't remember ever being 'bored' of any of the music.





I think if you've got a fairly small capacity device you need to be rotating and changing what's on it regularly. Or stump up the cash for the 64gb or higher, that way you can practically put a library of music on and just hit shuffle, which shouldn't least guarantee not hearing the same song twice for a long while, although digital randomisers aren't that great.





I guess such services exist in some way already, but a regularly updated & curated iPod library service would be pretty good. Maybe you could go bespoke and upmarket to be successful.

 

[TDLT02]

Very Good Plus Plus:





The amps are Canary M500 Mono Blocks with 300B Triode Tubes. Cost around £15,000 for the pair.





http://spiritland.club/









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[EL CHAMACO]

TDLT02 said:Very Good Plus Plus:





The amps are Canary M500 Mono Blocks with 300B Triode Tubes. Cost around £15,000 for the pair.





http://spiritland.club/










How did your gig go btw and just how blazing was that system?

 

[pickwick33]

Last month, Frank said:

Actually I try and avoid having to listen to any sort of background music at any time. First thing I do when entering a cab is to ask the driver to turn off the radio. I can't even count the restaurants that I stopped visiting because I was tired listening to their music.

Background music seldom affects me to that extent.





Hearing music in the background that I don't care for is just a fact of life. I can tune it out if I had to. If it bothered me that much, I wouldn't go to record stores.





The only time "other people's music" really got on my nerves was during a recent trip to Barnes & Noble.


They were going in hard on the Christmas sounds. It wasn't mellow, piano-trio versions of Xmas carols, either. It was straight-up kitsch with the sappy children's choirs, chimes, the whole bit. When I left, I plugged in the iPod headphones with the quickness.

 

[silent majority]

My most recent project is setting up a media server that I can stream to my phone / computer / whatever wherever there is a data connection in the air.


The thing I've noticed is how it's changed my listening habits. Before I had different collections in different places and I made sure I made the most of them when they were to hand.


Now I have everything centralised its forced me to organise my digital collection. Being able to listen to something and pick it up elsewhere is a definate boon, I'm listening to more albums from start to finish recently.