What do you listen to most often in the car?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:50 pm

If I forget any major categories, I'll fix it!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:52 pm

When I say "my own", I mean, you know, I brought them with me, not "music or talk shows that I personally created."

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:05 pm

Podcasts if I'm in the car alone. Music on my phone if I'm not. I voted for podcasts because I'm in the car alone more than I'm in the car with other people.

Jizaboz · Post by **Jizaboz** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:36 am

Podcasts for long distances. Radio for a few minutes sometimes for short.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:28 am

Absolute silence. Or as much as there is inside a moving car

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:40 am

When I drove, I routinely listened to music almost exclusively. I never owned any cassettes, and CD and MP3 playing in cars would be model years in the future of any cars i drove.

When I lived in Southern California, there were primarily two choices for contemporary/MOR rock music. KHJ-AM 930 out of Los Angeles (1960s, 1970s) And during the 1980s, XETRA "The Mighty 690" a Border Blaster out of Tijuana directed at Southern California operating exclusively in English, except for station identification ("Eckees ay tah ray ah, Teewanna, Mehico",)

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:56 am

AArdvark wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:28 am Absolute silence. Or as much as there is inside a moving car

There's an option for this, but it has no votes. What's the deal, Vark?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:21 am

I have a USB disk with music. But I also listen to music I have made myself. I think just about everyone here with any sort of creativity has made music at one point. I count at least six others who have posted recently. Ya listen to the stuff you made, fellas??

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:41 pm

There is not an option for "I don't listen to anything while in my car".

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:44 pm

AArdvark wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:41 pm There is not an option for "I don't listen to anything while in my car".

That's what the second-to-last option was for ("https://bit.ly/3nGtG58").

I was hoping people would understand that. It's okay, I got your vote.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:51 pm

That was a Battlestar Galactica reference link, And I was being too TDarcos-ish when I didn't click that option because there are days when I am in the car and it doesn't rain.

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Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:57 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:21 am I have a USB disk with music.

When you say "USB disk" I presume you mean a USB drive, like a thumb drive. Or you could actually mean a USB powered portable hard disk, in which case it would be a USB disk, although i think that might be overkill. At an average of, say, 10M per song for MP3 files, a 16GB jump drive can hold 1,600 songs. A 4Tb drive could hold 400,000.

If someone says "USB disk" I get the image of a USB-powered CD or DVD drive.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:21 am But I also listen to music I have made myself. I think just about everyone here with any sort of creativity has made music at one point.

|I have lots of creativity, but I've directed it to (1) Programming (2) Tech support; (3) Creating videos and (4) Writing stories. I never learned to write or play music. Except maybe Chopsticks. But I couldn't write the musical notation for it to save my life.

The Happiness Engine · Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:38 pm

My car had exactly ONE option package. It was never sold without this as far as I can tell. You got a sun-roof and a six-disc CD changer mounted in the trunk. In 2002 I put some Techno back there and in the intervening time, CDs have ceased to exist and I have nothing to replace them with anymore.

It also has perhaps one of the earlier 1/8" aux jacks so I can just toss whatever in from the passenger seat but that's not as dramatic.

FWIW 6 CDs is just enough music to drive across NY state, depending on how fast you go.