The Evolution of Your Media Consumption

Phonograph

my newest car is a 2012 with a cd player (that i still use sometimes) and bluetooth connection with my older iphone. and i actually still listen to the radio half the time.

These days when I'm in the car 90% of the time I'm listening to talk shows whether they're on my local news radio stations or sports radio stations - the other 10% of the time I'm listening to my local 80s-music FM station or scanning thru the various local FM music stations scanning for 70s to 90s songs but mostly 80s.

FM radio stations. I had XM Satleite Radio for a while but discontinued it. Didn't like the choices. My son has Pandora. I think I may have him set that up for me. The way I understand it, you basically create your own radio station.

@Papi I thought you were still listening to that old player piano 😷😷

Most of the time I drive in silence. Especially long trips. Gives my brain a chance to process original thoughts.

Warrior 15: Pandora (Free or Subscription) is an excellent way to stream what you like and bump into some music that you didn't know about. And yes it can be set up just like your own radio station.

I have 5,581 music files on my hard drive. I burn my own CDs and that is all I listen to in my car when driving alone. My son says I should convert all my CDs onto USB sticks. I have outlets for them in my car. I may do that some day.

I also have a lot of movies including porn that I have put on USB sticks to plug into my blu ray player but it won't play all of them. Different formats.

Shadow: I've set some friends up in that way, with a blu ray player and files that are compatible. You could convert the non compliance files into conformance, stream from your PC to the TV, or set up a Nvidia Shield to do what your Blu Ray Player does for you now, but with 100% effectiveness. The Nvidia Shield is not a plug and play easy option in my world, but if you are up to the techno challenge (it's a great media player).

The functionality of a cellphone and it's interaction with a vehicles audio system is the best advancement I've seen in my lifetime. I enjoy the phone interactivity daily in my vehicle. I prefer the post 2015 but pre 2020 vehicle version, where you could load a hard drive of large size to some vehicle setups. Beyond music, I enjoy audiobooks on long trips (some Grisham books, Michael Connelly books, Lee Childs, Robbie Robertson's autobiography, come to mind).

Podcasts have pretty much taken over my car ride time. I do a lot of midwest driving for work, so music won't keep me awake.
They're nice and free and you can load hours of content offline on your phone so you're not fucked by lack of coverage.

D&D podcasts are especially effective because it's like listening jank Lord of the Rings.

I'm all YouTube when I'm at home, though I'll rip songs to play offline.

In the car, it's occasional sports radio, usually nothing while I savor the sounds of the road.

My answer is the exact same as JASCOI's. A 2012 car with a CD player. I have given up attempting to make my iPhone 6S play through the speakers with an aux cable attached. That functionality worked briefly but now seems to be outside of my limited tech skills. I prefer to listen to terrestrial radio, but I will open up Spotify on the phone and listen through the phone speaker if I'm desperate.

In the car, I listen to SiriusXM. Lithium is killer and they have a Pearl Jam station. There are other stations for 90s hard rock, 90s hip hop, 90s overall (but censored). It's got a 40s station, Barstool Sports, ESPN, and a million other stations. Love it.

Unfortunately I've got a million CDs and realized this year the only way I have to play them is through a Blue Ray player.

I don't like buying digital music. My first cassette tape was Michael Jackson "Bad." Got my first CDs in the early 90s. I used to like coming home from the store, popping the CD in, and listening to the whole album while thumbing through the booklet, looking at the artwork and reading the lyrics.

I get the ease and convenience of digital music, I'd just rather have the physical copy. Going out Monday night to get the Tuesday releases at 12am was an event. I've started to pick up some vinyl, but nothing major. Got my grandfather's old records from the 40s and 50s (lots of big bang), picked up Bing and Nat Christmas records, Thriller, Nirvana Unplugged, and plan to get more... it's just a pain in the ass having to get up and go to the record player to flip the damn thing.

And now for your listening pleasure...a song about vinyl records:

https://youtu.be/T3oMcrqDn_4

Lots of big band* not big bang...he wasn't watching Penny and Sheldon 80 years ago

Ripped all my CD's on to a USB and listen to that about 50/50 with the XM channels.. mostly Octane, Turbo and Lithium.

Lithium and Turbo...well done, sir!

The car links to Spotify, and that gives me music and podcasts. I can also connect via Bluetooth to the phone if I need to.

In my car My phone or some radio stations

At home youtube or my iPad

I should do the USB stick for my car. I hadn’t thought of that. I have a bunch of those ports.

I’ve been just running through my iTunes stuff through Bluetooth. The selection isn’t the best.

I may also try pandora or Spotify - as my tastes in music are a bit odd.

ElD: I use Plex to consume my physical media at home and on the road. I've tossed all the jewel case/containers and store my CD's in 2 Carousel CD Players. The CD inserts are in CD storage Booklets and numbered the same sequence as found in each player. I use the same kind of booklet for my dvd's (without inserts), as Plex provides all the media information and more that the inserts do. MKV and Wav files at full resolution are equal to the physical media, unlike files that one generally purchases. The other benefit to having burned my media is that I have a catalog on my phone to reference when purchasing something on sale. There have been (at least) 12 duplicate purchases due to my lack of clarity on certain cd/dvd's I've owned. The original mp3 files continue to be used by me, due to mp3's ease of play everywhere.