To think not having a way to play music in your house is weird?

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Had a playdate with someone recently, got talking about how my ds loves to dance to the moana soundtrack and my friend said "ah that's nice, we don't have any way to play music except through the telly or on my phone"

Surely this is all kinds of wrong. Everyone should have some kind of sound system surely?

It's not cos they can't afford one btw they're just not bothered.

I guess I could live quite happy without music, art, theater

Mostly we manage with a Bluetooth speaker and iPod or Spotify from the phone. That's good because it's so portable so we can take it whenever we go away anywhere. Also we can use Bluetooth in the car.

We can actually play CDs through the DVD player and we have a decent sound system with that but frankly we rarely do we the Bluetooth is easier.

Even have a turntable to play vinyl on but it isn't often used as we have to lug boxes of records down from the spare room

I don’t think it’s odd but then I don’t like music. 99% of the time I just find it very annoying I could very happily live with out it (especially when it’s played in fucking shops and cafes etc).
If my children want to listen to it they can through my phone or the tv but I wouldn’t dream of paying for speakers or anything when I could use that money on books!

Too true and this is usually the point where something a little more "experimental" gets put on

Oh dear Lord Spiteful you are one of those. Dinner parties at your house must be a hoot

I need music on constantly OP! Can't stand a silent house. Even when I'm in the shower I play music through my little Bluetooth shower speaker. My mum is the same, and when I was growing up there was always music on in the house, which could be why I have it on all the time now too.

Maybe they like to listen through headphones? Or just aren't interested.

We have music on most of the time in our house 😊. Can’t imagine not having anyway decent speakers to play it through actually. Ds has a record player in his room and downstairs we have Alexa and a CD player.

I like silence at times but love listening to music and sharing our favourites with dc.

DH has a Michell Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference turntable. The only time I ever listen to music is in the car or very occasionally through Alexa. I couldn't give a damn about sound quality as long as I can hear it.

Can you imagine how odd it would sound if someone said that they were pissed off because an acquaintance didn’t have a favourite genre or author?

To be fair, I'd be a little aghast about that too if they couldn't think of anything they had read and enjoyed.

^^ Those are two completely different questions! I wouldn't be able to tell you my favourite author or genre. I would be able to tell give you a dozen authors I really like, and another dozen books by different people that I've loved.

I like music. I listen to music. I like lots of different sorts of music (not everything, not 'ALL sorts') and I listen to a pretty eclectic range, just not at home very often. And a tinny phone speaker (not that it's that tinny, it's a nice phone) is perfectly adequate for my needs. If I had unlimited money and house space, perhaps I'd buy a nice music system and speakers, but for me, it's a not my choice of the best way to spend my money.

I would have absolutely no concern if music did not exist. I find a lot of it annoying and repetitive. I do have a radio tuned to speech stations, but no other means to play music. I don’t actual own or have access to any music - no idea how to put music on my phone or anything. Not bothered. But I find it weird that some people can live without a garden!

Meh, different strokes and all that and I have the radio or something playing on Spotify through several sonos speakers a good 75% of the time I’m at home!

We did without a tv once for a good 8 months it just didn’t bother us but was seen as really weird by others.

We don't. I only really listen to music in the car.

Or I'll stick Magic Channel on the telly loudly at Christmas time when we're putting the decorations up. Only time we have music.

I’m with the OP! I listen to music all the time using my Sonos system. All sorts of different genres depending on how I feel. I’ll even choose something from bed in the morning using the app on my phone to set my mood or the way I want to feel that morning

Dinner parties? At my house?

Kahlua My mum always used to play me her records and I have such lovely, heartwarming memories of this. I'm sure your DC will too

DowntonCrabby Good point! I don’t have a TV and this is probably just as “weird” to others. Just depends on your preference.

Tellies have radios in them too. They can tune in to a radio station which plays music.

It's a question of priority and a sound system or whatever is probably low on their list at the moment.

If I have people over to my house for food we chat, no annoying background music.

OP these people are weird.

Music from your phone is crap. We have phones, vinyl, CD,s and some really, really cool speakers. Big speakers.

We listen to all kinds of music all the time.

I don't because I rarely listen to music. We have a great sound system on the tv so can get music channels or radio on that if it's wanted. I also have decent speakers on my pc. I have no need for a sound system so don't have one.

Spiteful

Just FYI since the D.C. went to bed the only sounds in my house have been the ticking of the clock and the crackling of the fire.

I listen to Radio 4 at home and Classic FM in the car. I do have speakers though to play cheerful songs whilst I'm cooking or cleaning etc, but only listen to music at home about once a week. Which is quite strange as I do love music. I think I have such busy days that I need a bit of quiet.

We have four alexas, a couple of tvs, too many pairs of headphones to count (wired and wireless), a couple of random but reasonable Bluetooth speakers, four iPhones, two iPods, an iPad (somewhere), two kindle fires, and an aging Lego CD player.

Stereos aren’t really necessary to be fair:o

(My preferred combination is Spotify to Alexa if at home, or to my wireless headphones if not. My children all prefer earphones for all occasions. I’m not sure if that’s ASD or just unmitigated antisocial introversion.)

I'm just talking a bluetooth speaker though -nothing fancy.

YANBU, OP. If DH won the lottery he'd buy a Linn system.

The rest of you would die laughing if you came to our house.

This thread makes me feel really, really old.

Which I am: we played 78s when I was a kid. everybody else was onto 45s by then

I love music it's on constantly in this house, for years it's always been through the tv or my phone. For my birthday I was bought a DAB radio, just a small one, no fandangled mod cons just plays radio stations, it doesn't connect to my phone etc and it doesn't bother me. I've never really had anything other than the TV or phone and i like it like that.

Don't have a million more wires and machine looking contraptions around, don't have to mess about every time I want to go from one device etc to another.

Each to their own OP it doesn't make it weird that someone doesn't have a way of doing it like it doesn't make it weird that you do have.