Help me solve a tech dilemma - ds listening to music at night

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I have a teen DS who likes listening to music as he drops off to sleep. This is fine by me. However, he has put together various playlists on Spotify (he has the free version) and seems to be able to access them only on his laptop or phone. He's currently going to sleep with headphones plugged into his laptop.

Officially we have a rule of no laptops/ phones overnight in bedrooms but I've been allowing it while we try and find a solution. I'm keen to return to this rule ASAP.

Any tips??!! I think an MP3 player would have fitted the bill but understand these are about as obsolete as cassette players nowadays..!

It's probably obvious given all of the above but I am a total dinosaur when it comes to these things.

Help for this middle aged CD listener (apparently further evidence of my ancientness) gratefully received...

I'd use Amazon echo without headphones. It would worry me that he could have them turned too high and damage his hearing.

I think the PP means earphones with a cable between them, not plugged into anything. Not all bluetooth sets are cordless.

If you sleep on your side, it's usually too uncomfortable to have an earphone/bud in the side resting on the pillow, so the bands are better - or just have one bud in the upper ear.

My 10 yr old plugs her headphones into an Alexa Dot in her room (or plays at v low volume), which is linked to a family Spotify account on which she has her own playlists.

She doesn't have a phone or ipad yet and I'd feel the same about screens in her room - its too much of a temptation to stay up late Whatsapping etc and is bad for sleep generally. We put our own screens out of reach in the bedroom too.

Alexa or Google home device. We use it for our 11 year old who listens to audiobooks as she's dropping off to sleep.

My kids are a lot younger but each have an alexa echo dot, they were pretty cheap and link to Spotify, no need for a phone ir other device and you can set sleep timers etc.

Wirless headphone, and a paid for Spotify account. Also Spotify have a sleep timer.

Also at 14, maybe it's time for him to learn to regulate his own screen time.

Mighty music player works well for this for us

I was going to suggest an Alexa/similar device. I genuinely think a teenager would view this as a bonus rather than a restriction iyswim.

We have 3 echo dots in our house. They're brilliant. One downstairs and one each in dc room. Youngest dc has a sleep playlist. It's great.

Not always - I have a set for running which have a wire connecting the ear buds - they can be quite long on some versions.

my over head commuting style ones have no wire though…

That was to whoever said “Bluetooth headphones are wireless”

We have one of these. They look nice and come in lots of different colours. You can just move them around the house so very useful!

www.audiopro.com/en/product/addon-t3/#black