To ask how you play music at home?

[hopelesslynaive]

This is going to sound naïve, but we don't listen to much music, and for the last few years our only music playing device around the house has been an ipod nano, in an ipod docking station. I have all our old CDs transferred to my pc in iTunes, which I've been selectively syncing to the to the ipod, space permitting.

But, now the ipod is broken!!! I only realised when I was putting up the Christmas Tree - I went to put on some Christmas tunes, and the navigation buttons no longer function.

So, what next? The world has moved on since we bought the ipod nano. Do people just use their phones to play music these days or is there an obvious "must have" device? If you use phones do they plug into your speakers using a wire or do you dock them? Our ipod dock does have an "audio in" hole at the back, so presumably it can be used as a traditional speaker too.

We all have Android phones, so if we were going to use those I guess we would need to use Google Play, yes? Or is there something else that's better? Does everyone just keep their music in the Cloud, and download it selectively to their phones if they're playing it regularly?

Please, help me navigate this .....

Either tv music or cd through the amp. Loving paloma faith and rag n bone man atm.
Or for running, i use the kisskube app to listen to kisstory through a fab sony bluetooth speaker with extra bass boost.
In car its cd. I dont have digi radio or anything techy in my 2008 car 🤣

CD player. Kids use their CD players or Amazon Dot. Tried downloading some music to an iPod once but was a waste of time seeing as I could just put a CD on! Never listen to music outside the house apart from in the car.

Sonos.

We play a mix of music on iPhones, Amazon music (have prime account so it's free) and free Spotify account.

Yes to OP question about Alexa integration; but you can ignore if you don't have Alexa

Essentially, Sonos is just a Bluetooth speaker that you hook up to any music source. You can then buy more speakers for you tv and different rooms and connect them all if you wish.

We have Sonos without Alexa.

Piano, record player and radio I think I may be stuck in the ‘70s

BluOS app and wireless Bluesound flexi plus speakers in different rooms.

Record player.

My parents wouldn't buy me a cd player as a teen (90's) so all my music was on vinyl. I then inherited my Dad's vinyl so I've lots to play.

I still buy vinyl from charity shops now.

We also have Amazon music and Spotify but nothing beats vinyl!

Amazon echo. We listen to music so much more now, its lovely

I'm surprised so few people listen to music through their computers but prefer to use their phones. I'm fairly old though and do mainly view my phone as a phone and as our in house mobile reception is rubbish it's usually recharging somewhere or turned off or on a window sill if I'm expecting a text. Most people use the land line if I'm not at work.

We only have work laptops, no desktop. Don’t tend to use a computer much. We don’t have a landline.

There are loads of options and all depends how much you want to spend.

I wouldn’t buy a Sonos if I were you - sounds like you don’t listen to music that often so would be a waste of money.

UE Boom is a great speaker available for around £100, has a good battery life, is portable and waterproof. It’s also Bluetooth compatible so you can control it all from your phone (most speakers are now; docks are a bit old-school!).

Amazon Echo or the Google equivalent is also good. You could subscirbe to Amazon Prime for about £80 a year and get access to all their music (decent selection) and you also get digital copies of anything you’ve ever bought through Amazon on CD.

Alternatively, you can use your phone and upload through iTunes (or similar for a non-Apple device) and stick your phone in a bowl (speaker side down). The vibrations increase the sound and act like a speaker. That’s a good option until you get something more permanent.

It depends what I’m listening too. CDs on Bose Soundwave, vinyl with record player linked to the Bose or Apple Music through Orbit Sound soundbar.

I stream Apple Music to the sound bar (£100 Samsung one) that is with my TV by Bluetooth and upstairs I stream it to a portable Bluetooth speaker. I am considering Sonos speakers but Apple are bringing something out in the new year so I will see what that is first

If these things seem too expensive I will stick with what I use now

I have a playlist I've created in Youtube on my phone which I link to a speaker via Bluetooth. I love it, can find any song I want though do have to put up with an advert every few songs.

Amazon echo or record player 😁

CD, Mp3 or phone, radio, occasionally a cassette. I'll sometimes Bluetooth the phone to a portable speaker, or use an auxiliary input to a couple of our stereos. I still like a tangible stero, probably the legacy of my childhood where the quality of a stereo was easily measured by how big and black it was

Besides, I always struggle to find the right kind of USB cable for the Bluetooth speaker as it's the awkward type. The disco lights are cool though

Bose speaker and Spotify on my phone. Connects through Bluetooth

We have a stereo with Spotify and dab radio. We connect it to our phones and use Alexa with it to say what we want to listen to. We have loads of cds but I'm thinking of getting rid of them because we use Spotify all the time now. I have them all on the computer as well but I've kept them for nostalgia more than anything. However I can't remember the last time I loaded one in the stereo.

If you have Sonos and the wifi is playing up, are you stuffed, or is there another way of connecting? I'm tempted but thinking maybe it would be better to go for something that has Bluetooth as well as wifi.

I still just play CDs on my CD player

I have a beautiful blue and green record player which also plays cds, has a usb port and radio. It’s handy for my friends for Xmas and birthdays as they are buying back all my favourite music on vinyl.

When I go running or walking I just use the iPhone though. I also have iTunes on the iPad so sometimes just switch that on.

Prior to getting the record player I used my iPod and a docking station

Another question. If you just have Bluetooth, and your music is in a format that is imported from a CD (mp3 or m4a or similar) then is the quality ok? I've read that Bluetooth doesn't work well for those types of files.