What do you listen to in the car? (radio, CDs, etc.)

[Music Chart Fan 819]

What do you listen to while driving in your car?

 

Radio? Terrestrial, satellite, internet? What station formats?

 

CDs? Albums which you've purchased or mix CDs you've burned?

 

Does your car have a USB or audio input so you can listen to a portable music player?

 

I end up listening to terrestrial radio most of the time. My car is not fancy, so it doesn't have satellite or internet radio and has no USB/audio input. I would be willing to listen to satellite radio if I had it, but I don't know if I could justify the recurring price for it. I can burn and play data CDs, and I do that for long trips so I can listen to an audiobook or my own music, but I am bad at picking songs that I am willing to listen to over and over again in the car, so I basically let the radio do that for me. I can manage to avoid commercials most of the time by just switching among my preset stations.

 

The terrestrial radio stations on my presets include:

 

a "we play anything" station ('80s pop/rock with some '70s and '90s-present)

an oldies station ('60s-early '80s pop/rock)

a classic rock station ('60s-'80s rock hits)

a hot adult contemporary station (mostly adult top 40 from the past 20 years or so)

an adult contemporary station ('70s-present soft pop/rock)

[Dusty Soul 2,611]

I listen to albums usually... Either that or I blast songs from my iPod in my car. I recently bought a Black Sabbath album... That's what I do...

[Nightfall 3,950]

My iPad. I can't drive yet, so when I can, I bring my iPad.

 

If I could, again, my iPad. I'd plug it in if I could... But that depends. We might get a new car in a couple of years, and it also depends: do semi-trucks have iPod connectivity?

Working on getting a CDL so I can drive big trucks, and eventually drive one for a race team.

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

I listen to my ipod when im in the car me and my parents are into the same kind of music (Only they hate dubstep so I skip that.)

and when im not listening to my ipod my dad has a whole bunch of CD's like the Beatles, Enya, Abba. but I rarely forget my ipod so we end up listening to Two Steps From Hell, and lots of songs from movies and stuff.

[Guest]

I plug my ipod in and blast this sort of stuff! :3

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsDct1dqaHU

 

I almost never listen to the radio, I listen to whatever is on my ipod at the time.

[Red Brick 37]

I usually listen to FM radio while driving a car (sometimes I listen to my brother's iPhone everytime he joins my ride).

 

PS; my stupid computer does not recognize my iPhone for BS reasons!

Edited September 3, 2012 by RahkshiPinkerton

[Twiliscael 3,960]

I usually listen to my Ipod connected to the USB port in my car. Otherwise, I'll bring one of my albums that will always entertain me like Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park or The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance.

 

If I'm with my dad, he'll usually turn on 105.5 WDHA, the local rock station. It has everything from the 70s to present, spanning almost all kinds of rock. It's one of the only radio stations I listen to.

 

PS; my stupid computer does not recognize my iPhone for BS reasons!

 

That happened to me on my old computer

I don't know if there's any way to fix it.

Edited September 3, 2012 by Twilie'Zorah

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

Because my parents have terrible taste in most music, we usually leave it on some crummy easy rock channel (the disco weekend nights are pretty sweet though). Whenever I get the chance though, it's either switched to a Jazz radio station, or I just pop in a CD and listen to that instead.

[morethanicecream 116]

I listen to dubstep, sometimes scremo. Occasionally i'll listen to MLP songs in the car. I try to avoid that though, cause I sit in the front. I don't want someone to look at my phone (I watch the videos) and be confused. Then I have to explain things. I sort of a mixed music guy. I also listen to rap music. Eminem, 50 Cent, Dr Dre. But, my parents really don't like the language of the song. I mainly stick to youtube. Youtube is my home. I haven't gone a day without it. What am I doing now, on YT uploading a video.

[RippedOffMattress 314]

I can't drive yet, but whenever I am in the car, I always listen to my Android and go on trips in my mind. It's pretty fun too! Too bad I'm going to have to cut that out when I start driving soon.

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

CD's or my Ipod on shuffle

 

Ton's of CD's

AC/DC

Airbourne

Live Stones album

Sabbath

Foo Fighters

GNR

Iron Maiden

Zeppelin

The list would be to long if I went any longer.

You get the gist! Rock n' Roll/Heavy Metal all the way.

[Crutch 898]

Most of the time when I drive, I'll either listen to music from my iPod, or some varitey FM station. I do have a MLP playlist (everything from Dubstep remixes to rock cover to 8-bit versions) that I will listen to once and a while if I'm in the mood.

[Lunar Guardian 80]

My car stereo has an SD card slot to play music, so I load whatever I want on the SD card and play it in the car. Naturally, I listen to the songs from MLP and some pony-related fan-made songs.

[Homura Akemi 974]

I don't listen to music in the car. I have a issue of being distracted with music, so it would be very bad for me to do that out on the road.

[Music Chart Fan 819]

Because my parents have terrible taste in most music, we usually leave it on some crummy easy rock channel (the disco weekend nights are pretty sweet though).

Funnily enough, most if not all of the music my parents like, I like also (or I find at least tolerable). My parents like the music they grew up with from the '60s-'80s, and I like it, too. My taste in music might be a bit wider than my parents', but it includes nearly everything they like.

[NeverNeverland 1,940]

My parents like the music they grew up with from the '60s-'80s, and I like it, too. My taste in music might be a bit wider than my parents', but it includes nearly everything they like.

 

Generally, the only thing we can mutually agree on is Disco, some traditional Abesha music from the home country, and some good singer from in between the 60's and 80's.

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

I plug in my phone and use that for everything. There's plenty of music on it of several genres: a little metal, some "nerdcore rap;" Christmas music, and plenty of pony songs and remixes thereof. Pandora provides me with some industrial/EDM (in which I only recently took interest), Big Band, Swing, Classical, Celtic, Jazz, and Blues. Most of the time I just listen to the pony stuff.

Edited September 4, 2012 by Artemis

[Music Chart Fan 819]

Generally, the only thing we can mutually agree on is Disco, some traditional Abesha music from the home country, and some good singer from in between the 60's and 80's.

I think there is some good disco music out there, and I enjoy some disco music mixed in with other hits from the time period. I think part of the backlash against disco in the late '70s/early '80s was that it became TOO popular, dominating the Top 40 and, because of its popularity, leading to inferior disco knockoffs being made in order to cash in on the fad.

 

One of the charts which I am working on making a database for is the Disco/Dance Charts, started in 1974 and continuing to the present. I am still working on it, but I find it interesting to see which disco songs were big hits on both the pop and disco charts, as well as songs which were big hits at the discotheques without crossing over to the pop charts.

[Evilshy 5,090]

So am I the only one who listens to talk radio/the news while driving?

Coast to Coast AM is hilarious to listen to on the way home from a late shift at work XD

 

If there's no news or interesting talk show, I have a cassette tape that attaches to my iPod so I can listen through the archaic tape player in my ~18 year old car

[A Blithering Div 247]

MP3 player through the auxilary as I both actively avoid listening to the radio and I would probably hit something trying to change the station on my radio as there are no buttons to do so. When I do have to listen to the radio, its a local FM classic rock station that really likes playing bad classic rock with the occasional good tune.

[Haven Celestii 9,385]

I normally listen to CD's of either Rap/Hip-Hop, Dubstep, or Rock/Metal.

 

Im still trying to get me a device that will allow me to play my ipod through the radio, my old Focus doesn't have anything that allows MP3 players

[spas-ticShotty 3,584]

Whatever 96.1 and 95.1 throw at me and I remotely like . Unfortunately, they like to do a lot of commercial breaks, but all I really want to hear is music.

[Music Chart Fan 819]

Im still trying to get me a device that will allow me to play my ipod through the radio, my old Focus doesn't have anything that allows MP3 players

I know what you mean, I drive a Ford Focus too, a 2003 ZX5 hatchback. My younger brother got a device that would plug into the cigarette lighter in which you plug an audio jack into your portable music player (it could also charge your player with a USB port) and it would broadcast the music being played on it as radio waves. So you would try to pick a frequency which does not have a radio station broadcasting on it and have the device broadcast your music on that frequency to be picked up by your radio tuner.

 

It was somewhat effective, but using it required me to crank the volume up to max on both my mp3 player and the radio tuner, which created a lot of static in the sound, and I would have to change frequencies whenever a radio station on the frequency I picked came into range.

[Haven Celestii 9,385]

I know what you mean, I drive a Ford Focus too, a 2003 ZX5 hatchback. My younger brother got a device that would plug into the cigarette lighter in which you plug an audio jack into your portable music player (it could also charge your player with a USB port) and it would broadcast the music being played on it as radio waves. So you would try to pick a frequency which does not have a radio station broadcasting on it and have the device broadcast your music on that frequency to be picked up by your radio tuner.

 

It was somewhat effective, but using it required me to crank the volume up to max on both my mp3 player and the radio tuner, which created a lot of static in the sound, and I would have to change frequencies whenever a radio station on the frequency I picked came into range.

 

Not sure what year mine is, but its a Focus SE. My sister had some kind of device that would just plug straight into my Ipod and send it off as waves as well, but it was usually pretty static-y and you often had to hold it in just the right position for it to work. The slightest bump and it would cause it to lose signal. Ugh, and during all of my favorite songs too.

[Abstract 832]

So am I the only one who listens to talk radio/the news while driving?

Coast to Coast AM is hilarious to listen to on the way home from a late shift at work XD

 

If there's no news or interesting talk show, I have a cassette tape that attaches to my iPod so I can listen through the archaic tape player in my ~18 year old car

 

You have no idea the magnitude of respect I just gained for you.

 

I've been listening to Coast to Coast AM since I was 12, I've never heard of anyone else who also listened. It's obviously mostly crackpots and conspiracy theorists that are fun to laugh at, but man, sometimes that stuff will make you think.

 

Even if that show isn't on, I still mainly listen to AM talk radio in my truck. Usually it's political shows of some sort, and even though they're of the conservative viewpoint, which I am most certainly not, they're still fun and interesting to listen to. (Although I listen to Rush Limbaugh just so I can laugh my ass off. The guy is a nut.)

 

But most of the time when I'm not listening to AM, I've got a few mix CD's I keep in the truck. I usually only listen to these when I don't have my girlfriend or passengers with me, because the opportunity to turn the volume way up and sing along (A lot of it is death metal and variants, and nopony wants to hear me attempting to sing to that. ) is just way too tempting.

 

I used to listen to FM radio when I was younger, but all the stations where I live have not changed from the same sets of songs in years, so I hardly ever turn the dial that direction.

 

Every once in a blue moon, I bring my iPod along. I've got one of those FM transmitters that plugs into the DC power port. I don't usually do this for two reasons; it's near impossible to find a good empty frequency that will stay that way while driving around. I don't like messing with finding a new one every couple of miles. Two, it's too hard for me to choose what to listen to in a reasonable amount of time when I have my entire music collection with me; It's dangerous to get that distracted from the road.