Recorded Music Of Your Choosing: Where, When, How?
Recorded Music Of Your Choosing: Where, When, How?
When I am home alone, I will often have a CD playing on the living room system (occasionally tape or vinyl). The computer is in another room, where I might spend time listening for learning purposes, or listening to radio or downloads. I prefer to have everything on CD, which I can listen to in the car and sometimes while sailing.
I haven't even looked into the ipod business. I acknowledge that at certain times having a very portable system would be useful, but I am put off by the omnipresence of pedestrians off in their own worlds, apparently unable to tolerate lack of entertainment for more than a minute or two.
Where, when, and how do you listen to music which you have chosen? Please note that I have not asked "what" or "why".
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The bulk of my listening is at home (on the stereo) and in the car--generally on CD.
I occasionally listen to an online mp3 or such. I do have an ipod, which can be handy (while working out, for instance), but I generally don't carry it with me. The random shuffle can be fun, but I generally prefer listening to whole albums.
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Where: I listen to a lot of it on my PC. I turn on the music in the background, which is ripped into the media player from my CDs. I also listen to recordings which I don't have in the Irish Traditional Music Archive. I'll be getting an iPod for Christmas too so that will be used a lot I assure you!
When: Any time I use the PC (for email, homework etc) music is playing, provided someone is not in bed or something like that. I don't really have anything else to listen to music on as I don't drive yet but when the iPod arrives, I'll be listening to a lot more outdoors.
How: All the CDs I buy get ripped onto the computer to save the hassle of fetching CDs every day and also save the music should the CD break.
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I either play it at cd quality through my computer's sound system (a reasonably good external system I might add), or on an mp3 player - but I always set it up there for at least 192 kbps quality (anything less I find is noticeably deficient in some respect or other).
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I listen to music that I have chosen when I am on my way to school early in the morning on my iPod and there is no one about. I also listen to opera on maximum volume when I am alone in the house. I keep most of my music on the computer, but I have CD copies for listening to in my room, which I only do if I'm tidying it. I don't go in cars. If I'm on the bus or tran I listen to my iPod if I'm sitting on my own but not if there's someone next to me. When both my dad and I are at home, we both play our music as loudly as possible in an attempt to drown each others' out.
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I listen to the iPod at work so that it does not bother anyone.
The best thing the iPod does is that I can connect it to this little device that looks like a cassette tape and pop that into my car's tape player (old car) and it's like a never ending tape. Great for a long drive, but you could do that at home, too if you have a tape deck.
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Until recently things were scattered musically. I had the CD player in the car, the MP3's on the computer in the dining room and the stereo in the lounge. Then it was all change as a result of a house move and a stroke! Now I have everything in the lounge (except the car CD player of course, that has now gone). The end product is I tend to alternate between stereo and computer, depending on what I want to listen to. Fortunately there are a host of radio stations providing their shows online and that is wonderful.
As for the iPod? Well I have yet to find a good site where I can download the sort of traditional music I like. Of course there is tradtunes - but I'm intrinsically lazy .. and tight-fisted. Besides Steve Knightley from Show of Hands makes a big thing about encouraging us to share music freely, so who am I to disagree?
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I used to listen to CDs obsessively in the car. I would carry over 100 in the car at any given time.
I found it was 1) hard to organize music that way and
2) A very juicy target for a stupid thief.
So I got an Ipod. I listen to it mostly on the car OR when taking a walk around the neighborhood. It would be better to lose the $250 gizmo than lose $1000's worth of actual disks.
I don;t usually listen to music much at home unless trying to learn a tune or entertaining friends.
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I don't honestly listen to much music at home, other than to learn tunes (which is done almost exclusively from my laptop).
When I do listen to music at home, it is always Irish, and it comes off of a hard drive in the basement that is beamed wirelessly around the house (and there are wireless receivers attached to a couple of stereos that pick it up and can play it through the stereo). But that's usually only for dinner parties and such.
I also have a receiver in one of my cars that picks up that wireless signal, and syncs the hard drive in the trunk, so that I have the same tunes available in my car. Although, the car I drive the most has a PhatNoize mp3 player mounted in the trunk, and I have about 2800 tracks of Irish on it (but it doesn't sync wirelessly). I listen almost exclusively to Irish music while I'm driving (unless I'm listening to sports on the radio, or have someone who hates Irish music in my car...)
I have a couple iPods and an iPhone. I have some Irish music on them, but mostly so that I can show off the cool cover-flow features, I pretty much never listen to them. I do, however, use my new iPod Nano with an iTalk Pro for recording the occasional tune at a session or from a friend. I have the iPhone hacked open, and have a voice notes application running on it, it seems to record the banjo OK, but haven't tried recording a full session yet to see how it sounds. The iTalk pro works great for good stereo recordings of sessions, but you have to manually set the gain to low every time, or it clips something fierce.
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I listen to CDs, generally in the car (my wife likes watching the TV in the evenings, which leaves no room for music). I want to do that pod stuff, but all my life, music has come in disk form (first 78rpm, then 45, then 33), or in taped form, but in any event, in the form of a physical object that you stick in a player, and based on what physical object you stuck in, certain music comes out. So this idea of music as streams of electrons is foreign to me, and I may be an old dog that could learn new tricks, but I am not an old dog that will embrace the change!
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So strange to think that anyone would only listen to traditional music strictly for learning purposes. Do people really do that?
I'm all digital now. The cds and stuff I record myself go onto the computer, which is connected to the stereo, which is on most of the time when I'm home. For outside, I've had my iPod earbuds surgically connected to my ears. I even wear them sometimes with no music playing---they work great as earplugs. Besides my fiddle, I think the iPod is the single most amazing material thing I've ever owned.
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Kennedy, I'm not that extreme, but I really don't listen much to recorded music. I'd rather listen to live playing, or be playing it myself. And when I do occasionally listen to a track of Irish trad, I often find myself learning the tunes, whether that was my purpose or not.
But I get sucked into the music, so can't have it on when I'm supposed to be working. And my family hear's more than their share of jigs and reels from me without 10 straight hours of Bobby Casey, Altan, the Wooden Flute Obsession cds, John Carty, the Vallely brothers, and Tommy Peoples.....
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Ah, I guess that makes sense. And I don't have a family who has to suffer through my musical choices. I can't work with music either, for the same reason. Just love recorded music otherwise, though, whether it's Irish or Motown or bluegrass or classical or whatever kind of mood I'm in---maybe I have a low boredom threshold or something.
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In my office, we have about 200GB of music on a dedicated mac that is set to random. The vast majority of it is toss, which is fine, I can get some bloody work done. And when a nice track comes on, I'll sit and listen to it.
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On my iPod while walking to and from campus, and when driving somewhere. On my Mac when sitting here at the desk either online or trying to write a paper.
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I record as much live music as I can. I do it on a minidisc recorder. On the laptop I go for streaming music. We have some good broadcast radio programs. If I get a chance to listen to recordings on the road or at home I will. At the time I do not have an ipod or other small player to carry about. (The minidisc is mainly used for recording rather than playback)
In the past, & I am sure in the future, I have been in my own personal world musically. The original Walkman was great! I am sure everyone else is free as they wish to be regardless of how I choose to receive my own tunes.Cheers!
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I commute two hours a day and I spend the time listening to audio books/courses, NPR news, classical music from the radio and recordings. Lately, I seem to spend about half of that time soaking up tunes. Now I've got a herd of 'em puttering around in my head and I need to transfer them to the fiddle or guitar.
Currently, we don't listen to much recorded music at home, but that pendulum always swings back again.
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I've always looked after my albums and I have a good hifi system and they sound much better than cd.Ipods sound like a tin can,and I've bought some really good albums cheaply in second hand markets since the new technology arrived.Quite a lot of people got rid of their vinyl and then bought the same stuff again on cd.A truimph of marketing over common sense. I recently bought a mint copy of Tommt Potts "The Liffey Banks" for 1 euro!
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All I've found lately was some w*nker singing Robbie Burns songs. I have a big collection of vinyl disks, and listen to them regularly. My kids think they're some kind of giant cd. We should get one of these: http://www.elpj.com/main.html !!! Only $10,000? Apparently it would cost quite a bit to out-geek some of the folks here.
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I like listening to my CDs while I'm reading. My subconscious soaks it all up and alot of it's going thru my head the rest of the day or when I'm learning a new tune from it.
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I always listen to my CDs at home, but ever where else it has to be my MP3 cause it drowns out all the really annoying 'cool' music that the rest of my peers on the bus listen to. Its the only thing that keeps me sane
Recorded Music Of Your Choosing: Where, When, How?
Recorded Music Of Your Choosing: Where, When, How?
When I am home alone, I will often have a CD playing on the living room system (occasionally tape or vinyl). The computer is in another room, where I might spend time listening for learning purposes, or listening to radio or downloads. I prefer to have everything on CD, which I can listen to in the car and sometimes while sailing.
I haven't even looked into the ipod business. I acknowledge that at certain times having a very portable system would be useful, but I am put off by the omnipresence of pedestrians off in their own worlds, apparently unable to tolerate lack of entertainment for more than a minute or two.
Where, when, and how do you listen to music which you have chosen? Please note that I have not asked "what" or "why".
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by oldstrings
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The bulk of my listening is at home (on the stereo) and in the car--generally on CD.
I occasionally listen to an online mp3 or such. I do have an ipod, which can be handy (while working out, for instance), but I generally don't carry it with me. The random shuffle can be fun, but I generally prefer listening to whole albums.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Tintin
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Where: I listen to a lot of it on my PC. I turn on the music in the background, which is ripped into the media player from my CDs. I also listen to recordings which I don't have in the Irish Traditional Music Archive. I'll be getting an iPod for Christmas too so that will be used a lot I assure you!
When: Any time I use the PC (for email, homework etc) music is playing, provided someone is not in bed or something like that. I don't really have anything else to listen to music on as I don't drive yet but when the iPod arrives, I'll be listening to a lot more outdoors.
How: All the CDs I buy get ripped onto the computer to save the hassle of fetching CDs every day and also save the music should the CD break.
I hope that's what you were looking for.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by PaddyCmusic
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I either play it at cd quality through my computer's sound system (a reasonably good external system I might add), or on an mp3 player - but I always set it up there for at least 192 kbps quality (anything less I find is noticeably deficient in some respect or other).
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by lazyhound
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wherever i can, however i can and whenever i can!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by jig
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I listen to music that I have chosen when I am on my way to school early in the morning on my iPod and there is no one about. I also listen to opera on maximum volume when I am alone in the house. I keep most of my music on the computer, but I have CD copies for listening to in my room, which I only do if I'm tidying it. I don't go in cars. If I'm on the bus or tran I listen to my iPod if I'm sitting on my own but not if there's someone next to me. When both my dad and I are at home, we both play our music as loudly as possible in an attempt to drown each others' out.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by mehitabel23
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I listen to the iPod at work so that it does not bother anyone.
The best thing the iPod does is that I can connect it to this little device that looks like a cassette tape and pop that into my car's tape player (old car) and it's like a never ending tape. Great for a long drive, but you could do that at home, too if you have a tape deck.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by sbhikes
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Until recently things were scattered musically. I had the CD player in the car, the MP3's on the computer in the dining room and the stereo in the lounge. Then it was all change as a result of a house move and a stroke! Now I have everything in the lounge (except the car CD player of course, that has now gone). The end product is I tend to alternate between stereo and computer, depending on what I want to listen to. Fortunately there are a host of radio stations providing their shows online and that is wonderful.
As for the iPod? Well I have yet to find a good site where I can download the sort of traditional music I like. Of course there is tradtunes - but I'm intrinsically lazy .. and tight-fisted. Besides Steve Knightley from Show of Hands makes a big thing about encouraging us to share music freely, so who am I to disagree?
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Welshman
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I used to listen to CDs obsessively in the car. I would carry over 100 in the car at any given time.
I found it was 1) hard to organize music that way and
2) A very juicy target for a stupid thief.
So I got an Ipod. I listen to it mostly on the car OR when taking a walk around the neighborhood. It would be better to lose the $250 gizmo than lose $1000's worth of actual disks.
I don;t usually listen to music much at home unless trying to learn a tune or entertaining friends.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by wormdiet
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I don't honestly listen to much music at home, other than to learn tunes (which is done almost exclusively from my laptop).
When I do listen to music at home, it is always Irish, and it comes off of a hard drive in the basement that is beamed wirelessly around the house (and there are wireless receivers attached to a couple of stereos that pick it up and can play it through the stereo). But that's usually only for dinner parties and such.
I also have a receiver in one of my cars that picks up that wireless signal, and syncs the hard drive in the trunk, so that I have the same tunes available in my car. Although, the car I drive the most has a PhatNoize mp3 player mounted in the trunk, and I have about 2800 tracks of Irish on it (but it doesn't sync wirelessly). I listen almost exclusively to Irish music while I'm driving (unless I'm listening to sports on the radio, or have someone who hates Irish music in my car...)
I have a couple iPods and an iPhone. I have some Irish music on them, but mostly so that I can show off the cool cover-flow features, I pretty much never listen to them. I do, however, use my new iPod Nano with an iTalk Pro for recording the occasional tune at a session or from a friend. I have the iPhone hacked open, and have a voice notes application running on it, it seems to record the banjo OK, but haven't tried recording a full session yet to see how it sounds. The iTalk pro works great for good stereo recordings of sessions, but you have to manually set the gain to low every time, or it clips something fierce.
Anyone want to try to out-geek me here?
Pete
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Reverend
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I've discovered Pandora ....
(www.pandora.com)
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Ottery
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I listen to CDs, generally in the car (my wife likes watching the TV in the evenings, which leaves no room for music). I want to do that pod stuff, but all my life, music has come in disk form (first 78rpm, then 45, then 33), or in taped form, but in any event, in the form of a physical object that you stick in a player, and based on what physical object you stuck in, certain music comes out. So this idea of music as streams of electrons is foreign to me, and I may be an old dog that could learn new tricks, but I am not an old dog that will embrace the change!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by AlBrown
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Pete, why would you have someone who doesn't like Irish music in your car?
Cds at home, mp3 compilations on dvd at work, mp3 player for the bus and catching random tunes out of my head.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Gzeg
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LOL Gzeg, that's a good point! It doesn't happen to often, honestly, but I do have some other music on the mp3 player for that eventuality...
Pete
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Reverend
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So strange to think that anyone would only listen to traditional music strictly for learning purposes. Do people really do that?
I'm all digital now. The cds and stuff I record myself go onto the computer, which is connected to the stereo, which is on most of the time when I'm home. For outside, I've had my iPod earbuds surgically connected to my ears. I even wear them sometimes with no music playing---they work great as earplugs. Besides my fiddle, I think the iPod is the single most amazing material thing I've ever owned.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by kennedy
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Kennedy, I'm not that extreme, but I really don't listen much to recorded music. I'd rather listen to live playing, or be playing it myself. And when I do occasionally listen to a track of Irish trad, I often find myself learning the tunes, whether that was my purpose or not.
But I get sucked into the music, so can't have it on when I'm supposed to be working. And my family hear's more than their share of jigs and reels from me without 10 straight hours of Bobby Casey, Altan, the Wooden Flute Obsession cds, John Carty, the Vallely brothers, and Tommy Peoples.....
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Will CPT
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Ah, I guess that makes sense. And I don't have a family who has to suffer through my musical choices. I can't work with music either, for the same reason. Just love recorded music otherwise, though, whether it's Irish or Motown or bluegrass or classical or whatever kind of mood I'm in---maybe I have a low boredom threshold or something.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by kennedy
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Am I the only one who still listens to vinyl albums?
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by dafydd
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In my office, we have about 200GB of music on a dedicated mac that is set to random. The vast majority of it is toss, which is fine, I can get some bloody work done. And when a nice track comes on, I'll sit and listen to it.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by llig leahcim
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On my iPod while walking to and from campus, and when driving somewhere. On my Mac when sitting here at the desk either online or trying to write a paper.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by seisflutes
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I still buy CDs. But as soon as I get them I put them on our network drive and then load them into my iTunes library and then put them into my iPod.
It's the only way I'll ever be able to listen to them in my car (cassette deck) or in my house (no stereo system.)
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by sbhikes
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Vinyl, Dafydd? come off it, acetate is the way to go..
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by lazyhound
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Oops! I meant to type "wax", not acetate.
Ah well, it's getting late and I've got a cold in the head.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by lazyhound
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I record as much live music as I can. I do it on a minidisc recorder. On the laptop I go for streaming music. We have some good broadcast radio programs. If I get a chance to listen to recordings on the road or at home I will. At the time I do not have an ipod or other small player to carry about. (The minidisc is mainly used for recording rather than playback)
In the past, & I am sure in the future, I have been in my own personal world musically. The original Walkman was great! I am sure everyone else is free as they wish to be regardless of how I choose to receive my own tunes.Cheers!
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Random_notes
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*Gulp* OK, Reverend, you win. No contest.
AlBrown, I feel your pain concerning "streams of electrons".
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by oldstrings
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I commute two hours a day and I spend the time listening to audio books/courses, NPR news, classical music from the radio and recordings. Lately, I seem to spend about half of that time soaking up tunes. Now I've got a herd of 'em puttering around in my head and I need to transfer them to the fiddle or guitar.
Currently, we don't listen to much recorded music at home, but that pendulum always swings back again.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Bob himself
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I've always looked after my albums and I have a good hifi system and they sound much better than cd.Ipods sound like a tin can,and I've bought some really good albums cheaply in second hand markets since the new technology arrived.Quite a lot of people got rid of their vinyl and then bought the same stuff again on cd.A truimph of marketing over common sense. I recently bought a mint copy of Tommt Potts "The Liffey Banks" for 1 euro!
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by dafydd
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Tommy.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by dafydd
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We are going, We are going,
Where streams of electrons are flowing .....
I'll get my hat!
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Ottery
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All I've found lately was some w*nker singing Robbie Burns songs. I have a big collection of vinyl disks, and listen to them regularly. My kids think they're some kind of giant cd. We should get one of these: http://www.elpj.com/main.html !!! Only $10,000? Apparently it would cost quite a bit to out-geek some of the folks here.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Gzeg
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Now this is state of the art.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/exhibitions/treasures/assets/edison_phonograph.jpg
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by dafydd
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I like listening to my CDs while I'm reading. My subconscious soaks it all up and alot of it's going thru my head the rest of the day or when I'm learning a new tune from it.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by morning star
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I always listen to my CDs at home, but ever where else it has to be my MP3 cause it drowns out all the really annoying 'cool' music that the rest of my peers on the bus listen to. Its the only thing that keeps me sane
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Nicky.B