How do you listen to your music?

[cinnabubbles]

Both though mostly passively, I don't like silence so a low-volumed Pandora or Rythmn Box does the trick!

[SadisticCheeto]

It's mostly done passively. The only time where I'm only listening to music is when I'm taking the shuttle from one campus of the university I attend to the other, but I'm really just trying to pass the time.

[sandyd]

The sound waves transmit your brain from your eardrums?

You are listening to some freaky stuff........ Hawkwind?

I loled for 30 seconds

[Schrute Farms]

I still do that. I find that sometimes you can be a bit out of it, playing a track you've played lots before, and hear something you've never heard on that track in the past.

That is so true. Music sounds so amazing in that state of mind.

I wish I could find a job, so I could do that again...

[imnotjack]

I voted actively but I think I misunderstood so I'll explain. I listen in instances like Going to bed. I can listen to the words then. in the car, aside from driving my mind is pretty idle. again I can listen to the words. I also listen to it while working. most of my work is manual labor (which means I'm separated from my Linux . ) I guess at that time I'm listening at a more passive level and at the same time I struggle unconsciously to listen to the words. Words mean a lot to me. a song just doesn't feel right if the words are unkind. with some co-workers one day a song was played and it offended my so seriously that I did the one thing I don't usually do, (but this was an exception) I asked if we could change the song and they couldn't understand why I was offended by the words but they only cared about the beat. Not that its bad but..... yeah. Thats a little more than I meant to say but I think it contributed to the conversation. Thanks averyone for the posts, it was fun reading them.

Bye y'all
John
(yes I'm southern)

[lisati]

Most of the time, it's passively for me, but occasionally the MP3 player comes out.

I gave up regularly taking my MP3 player with me when I go somewhere with Mrs Lisati: she has the gift of waiting until I'm listening to a track I particularly like and then trying to engage me in conversation.

[BlazeFire247]

I listen passively, because most of the time I listen while I'm on the computer (since all my music are there). I sometimes find myself to listen actively though, when I like the song.

[rogprov]

I ticked "other" as I NEVER listen to music on a computer or whilst I'm using a computer. I don't like music as wallpaper. I do have a fairly decent collection on vinyl and cd that I listen to on an elderly Hi-Fi in another, computer-less, room

[BenAshton24]

I, also, hate the top 40 stuff. Lady GaGa is the personification of everything that is wrong with the world.

That being said I love listening to amateur covers of top 40 songs.

I tend to listen to music whilst doing things that require only moderate attention. If I need to focus on something then I prefer silence.

I can't listen to music without doing anything. Mainly because I hate sitting around, doing nothing.

[nothingspecial]

I gave up regularly taking my MP3 player with me when I go somewhere with Mrs Lisati: she has the gift of waiting until I'm listening to a track I particularly like and then trying to engage me in conversation.

That talent is not exclusive to Mrs Lisati