Hours of music listened to daily on average?

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as there are people here with more than 1000 albums i just wondered whats your average time daily...not radio at work..your personal collection. as for me..around 2 hours a day with the headphones on.

― Kevin Enas, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I don't listen to the radio at work, I listen to my own personal collection at work, so wouldn't that count? The thing is this, define listen. I mean, if having the music on counts as listening, then it's nearly non-stop for me. SOMEONE's always playing music at work, if it's not me, then I get home and immediately throw on the stereo, taking a break only to work out (because I have to have the vcr on for that, you see) or to watch the occasional tv program. I mean, obviously if I'm not home which is often, I'm not listening, but then again a good 75% of the places I go play music, so there's more listening time for you. I mean, I could say virtually my ever waking hour is marked with music.

― Ally, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ok..not background music. for me i do nothing but listen but i suppose you could walk around and not do anything. maybe it's me but i listen to music just to listen..all the way through an album..then go back to life. ok, im not clear..yeah.

― Kevin Enas, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I work to music, write to music, and walk to music. I'm concentrating on the music a lot when I'm walking, some when I'm writing (depending what it's about), and some when I'm working though in a different way. Hm. I mean I wonder about this too - some of the people here have simply towering numbers of records and you wonder how much play some of them get. I know I ignore records for long times.

― Tom, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have no idea what my average would work out to. Probably something on the order of six hours a day, as I frequently play my own music while at work.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Around what Dan said -- I usually add another two hours at least at home.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm always amazed to hear that folks can listen to music at work. I'm obviously in the wrong industry, as in every job I've had that kind activity rates only a few rungs below 'downloading pornography' in a table of sackable offences. Er, indiscriminate web browsing is probably up there too...

Let's see: I've got a three-stage journey to/from work: bus (30 mins listening time; 60 mins if I'm on my own in the mornings), tube (zero; just *how* loud do you have to have your Walkman to hear anything on the Victoria Line? How do people do it? I said: HOW DO PEOPLE DO IT?), train (another hour). An hour in the evening with the stereo, so typical weekday = 2 1/2 - 3hr. Fridays I have off: four hours or so then. Weekends = 90min/day.

So that's around 18 hours a week. 20+ CDs? A year to listen to everything in the house without buying anything new... And then start on the vinyl.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found myself getting way behind, listening-wise, when I was working full-time at a job I couldn't bring CDs into. Now, working primarily from home, I'm catching up. One thing I've noticed is the amount of avant-garde material I listen to seems to increase tenfold for every extra hour of the day spent listening to music. If you only have time to listen to a couple records a day, you're not gonna have much patience for that 2-CD set of electroacoustic improv.

― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Average, maybe three or four hours a day. I live with someone and have to share the stereo space, or it would probably be more. If I'm home alone, the stereo is always on, likewise if I'm walking somewhere or driving. For whatever reason, I'm not into listening to CDs while on the computer. Maybe I need better speakers or something, but it doesn't sound good enough to draw m

― Mark Richardson, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark, have you started working for the Guardian newspaper?

― Tom, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think usually about 3-4 hours a day. But at any one time I'm only rotating about 25 CDs, which means I have way too much stuff gathering dust. It was my new years resolution to buy less albums and to not watch daytime TV! Oh well!

― jel, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably one whole cd on the stereo so that's about one hour. Then I listen to mp3's almost constantly while I'm using the computer so that's maybe 1 to 2 more hours.

― John Smith, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd say between 6 and 8 hours. About 4-5 at work (yeah, brilliant listening to Mingus with headphones), then 1-2 hours at home, not as much as I used to, my girlfriend isn't that much into noisy electronics and now that she's carrying a baby it's strictly Dub and Kraftwerk. I must say there's a downside to working with music in that after a while the music just becomes wallpaper and therefor meaningless (unless it's good wallpaper music).

― Omar, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh my god, you're all insane. I listen to maybe an hour a day, two if you incluse radio. Maybe I don't love music after all.

Tom, I think it's maybe Mac IE users.

― Nick, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

24.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music at work - generally at least 4 hours of an 8 hour day (and it's my own personal collection. I keep forgetting to take my CDs home before I bring more in, so I now have 30 CDs at work. Oops). Music at home - most evenings in are music and computer rather than TV. Sundays are fast becoming sit-at-home-and-dig-out-all-those-old- cassettes days, which is a bit tragic. I don't have music on while travelling to work, but that's only because my tube journey is a mere 8 minutes. I would if I could. So - total, ooh, about 8 hours a day, and more on Sundays.

― Vaughan, Sunday, 25 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

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― di, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Today: 6 hours at work 3 hours at home _

9 hours

if i am not working it is alot more then that. about 25 % of that is CD about 50 % MP3s about 10 % is radio and the rest is a mishmash of formats ( vinyl, cassette etc). i do temp work and am allowed to bring my own Discman which is a god send because they play the local Ez rock station anywhere there is an office.

― anthony, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The sad thing is I haven't listened to music properly for ages, I've been too busy on here threatening Ally with cyborg koala bears.

― DG, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven months pass...

1 1/2 hours on the bus, 1 hour or more at home - and some days I shove my walkman in my pocket, thread the earphones up my sleeve and lean on the desk, listening to music all day long.

― Anna Rose, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess my weekday average would be about 4-6 hours. Once in a while I'll have a phase where it's more, because I take CDs to work and sit at the computer with headphones on. Weekends, more - maybe 7-10 hours a day.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I listen to music about 8-12 hours a day (7 or so at work, 1-4 at home before I go to work) during the week. Weekends vary a great deal. I found that working at a job where I can't listen to music (for whatever reason) my music listening at home increases very little and my music purchases begin to drop dramatically (even though I tend to bring my discman everywhere) for whatever that's worth.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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