Maybe just not audio fan

[shootingstar]

Wandered over to Blog Radio website. It's like a whole world I just don't get into hardly at all: listening to talk radio.

I don't even throw on music from our own home collection. Honest, I forget. (We still have our CD collection. ) We don't have an iPod or any portable audio-disc player. I don't listen to audio-books.

But then I'm the person who doesn't always watch plane movies with dialogue during a flight.
I just don't like audio headsets and earbuds.

Several other reasons for all this. But am I rare? Seems like most people I know do something audio-oriented --listen to music often, etc.

NB: I enjoy sounds of nature, I tolerate alot of low murmur dialogue around me at different workplaces unless it's a critical report that I'm writing, etc.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

You are not alone.
In addition to my regular day job, I am a musician who performs in paying gigs on a fairly regular basis. My husband is as well, and we play music often with other musician friends.
However, when I'm not actually playing music, I prefer to not hear background noise/music/talk etc. I detest being forced to listen to other people's choices of music wherever I go.
We very seldom even play cds at home, unless we are trying to learn a new tune or something. We don't watch tv.

I like to hear the quiet and the naturally occurring sounds around me. It's becoming harder and harder to have that choice in our world.

I like to hear a cricket, the breeze, the pretty clink of silverware and low discussion in a restaurant, cat paws trotting across the wood floor, a blue jay in the yard, the clicking of my bike gears and the zing of changing my gear rings. The sound of my tires on asphalt or sand.
I find these subtle unpredictable environmental sounds to be very pleasing and they don't distract me from my own thoughts.

[SadieKate]

There's a time and place. When I used to drive a 52 mile commute, talk radio was fabulous. On long distance drives, you bet.

NPR Science Friday, Rachel Maddow, Fresh Air, etc. I miss the information I gained from those now that I work at home.

But I won't turn them on at home unless I'm cleaning house and need to entertain both sides of my brain. The vacuum alone isn't enough.

[kiwibug]

I love talk radio. I know there's not that many Canadians on here, but I absolutely love CBC radio one. I grew up listening to that or classical music. My mom is a total news junkie so we always had the radio on, at all times.

That said, I really really enjoy cycling on rural roads and hearing the wind, and the birds, and my own breath. Even if I thought it were safe, I don't think I'd listen to music while riding. And I also really love the quiet that I get when hiking or camping.

[shootingstar]

I love talk radio. I know there's not that many Canadians on here, but I absolutely love CBC radio one. I grew up listening to that or classical music. My mom is a total news junkie so we always had the radio on, at all times.

That said, I really really enjoy cycling on rural roads and hearing the wind, and the birds, and my own breath. Even if I thought it were safe, I don't think I'd listen to music while riding. And I also really love the quiet that I get when hiking or camping.

Not to suggest at all that those who love to listen to talk radio, music, don't like quiet /peace/stillness either. The only time I liked CBC radio, was whenever I heard snippets of classical music. The last time I heard CBC radio was listening to a radio audio clip of my partner being interviewed on cycling matters. That was over 8 months ago!

I seem to lack patience to listen to radio talk shows. But I can "look" at something for hrs....and get lost in thoughts. I actually get a headache when I listen to music for hrs. and hrs. It's like chewing gum for hrs. and hrs.....it actually wears me out, it doesn't soothe nor motivate me.

Bleeckergirl

I like to hear the quiet and the naturally occurring sounds around me. It's becoming harder and harder to have that choice in our world.

Interesting for you since you are musically inclined. (I'm not nor is my partner. Neither of us can play an instrument.) But yes, I do prefer naturally occurring sounds. And not hearing other people's music selections.

Sure the vaccum cleaner isn't harmonious , but it's not a jack-hammer. I don't need to have ear-bud music when I'm vaccuming or doing any household chore.

As for screaming kids...I dunno. I'm not about to test this, but for reasons of child's safety , I probably still wouldn't play music. I did grow up in a large family. As the eldest, hearing baby siblings scream away and often, wasn't foreign. Flipping on music for me, heightens stress in that type of environment.

I'm actually accustomed to hearing alot of human beings around me engaging in low noise activity the whole day. Moving away from home for first year, I realized how QUIET it was...and how noisy a large family was. THat noise was actually comforting to me. So I tried radio music, etc. to cover up the silence. I got a headache, couldn't concentrate on my studies, etc. Forget it.

Only exception is when I get around to painting, I may occasionally put on instrumental music. No lyrics. Music to pique my Muse, stay focused.

[Pedal Wench]

I'm a recording/sound engineer, and was a music major (Music Engineering, within the School of Music) in college. I can't imagine a life without music.

[Mr. Bloom]

Ironically, I almost never listen to music at home although I own a rather large collection! But music when driving or exercising is a necessity for me.

That said, I really really enjoy cycling on rural roads and hearing the wind, and the birds, and my own breath. Even if I thought it were safe, I don't think I'd listen to music while riding. And I also really love the quiet that I get when hiking or camping.

Amen - even riding the same route, the sounds and conditions always make it different!

I had a friend in college that would put on music whenever she was doing anything that required brain power or else she couldn't think.

I used the classical theme soundtrack from Conan the Barabarian!

There's a time and place. When I used to drive a 52 mile commute, talk radio was fabulous. On long distance drives, you bet.

NPR Science Friday, Rachel Maddow, Fresh Air, etc. I miss the information I gained from those now that I work at home.

Ahhhh! NPR Podcasts - "Car Talk" and "Wait, Wait Don't Tell" make any long drive short for me!

[Catrin]

Ironically, I almost never listen to music at home although I own a rather large collection! But music when driving or exercising is a necessity for me.

I love music - and have a lot of it - but I only listen to it when driving, exercising, or doing intense data manipulation at work. I am glad to see that I am not the only one I can't see listening to music when I ride

Talk radio is another thing - I just don't care for it. Of course I don't like talk shows on television either...

[PamNY]

I can't imagine life without music; few thing bring me such joy and such an opportunity for lifelong learning, emotional rescue and bonds with other people.

Earlier today I was listening to the first "Will the Circle be Unbroken Album" and enjoyed remembering my grandma (to my 19-year-old surprise) singing along with some of the songs (on a Dirt Band album!?!). After my mom had a stroke, her speech was limited but she could still sing, which led to some precious moments during a nightmare period of life.

I admit I'm puzzled by the original question -- what on earth does watching a movie on a plane have to do with, say, Jessye Norman singing Mahler's Second Symphony? And ditto for talk radio? Ick, ick, ick.

Lumping anything "audio" into a single category -- as this discussion seems to be doing -- is so weird I have trouble responding to it.

I hate the sounds of other people in the house with me, but I have yet to find a way to stop that.

[shootingstar]

Earlier today I was listening to the first "Will the Circle be Unbroken Album" and enjoyed remembering my grandma (to my 19-year-old surprise) singing along with some of the songs (on a Dirt Band album!?!). After my mom had a stroke, her speech was limited but she could still sing, which led to some precious moments during a nightmare period of life.

I admit I'm puzzled by the original question -- what on earth does watching a movie on a plane have to do with, say, Jessye Norman singing Mahler's Second Symphony? And ditto for talk radio? Ick, ick, ick.

Lumping anything "audio" into a single category -- as this discussion seems to be doing -- is so weird I have trouble responding to it.

I hate the sounds of other people in the house with me, but I have yet to find a way to stop that.

Maybe the topic has evolved into discovering our preferences for type of background sounds over a sustained time period and our level of concentration on whatever task at hand vs. listening for pure pleasure.

What started me on this topic..is there is a audio clip of an interview for a person I know who gave his spin on effect of Olympics on Vancouver's transportation plans then and now and public perception. I wanted to listen to it but it meant hearing other previous speakers. Audio clip doesn't provide any screen ability to fast forward to desired clip.

I have no patience to slog through half hr. or more of other people's radio dialogue on topics that don't interest me.

What would be more drastic to me..is life without colour, without sight.

[ny biker]

Music is wonderful and my life is better for it.

As a control freak, I do not listen to the radio. I only listen to cds or music copied to my mp3 player.

[PamNY]

As a control freak, I do not listen to the radio. I only listen to cds or music copied to my mp3 player.

That's interesting. I find with some types of music I like radio surprises (satellite radio, that is) and others I don't.

[OakLeaf]

Music takes nearly all my attention.

I can't listen to music and read or work. I won't listen to music and run, bicycle, or drive except for long freeway stretches with low traffic, good road conditions and good weather. Too distracting.

I like to have music when I cook, but I don't have speakers that can be heard over the kitchen exhaust fan, and I don't like having earbuds in and not being able to hear other things.

I like to have music in airports, on planes or long train trips, or if I have to wait in a waiting room.

I really enjoy concerts.