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.

We have Alexa in the kitchen for Spotify or listening to the radio but I prefer quiet when I'm cooking, it's dh that uses it. In the living room we use a Bluetooth speaker/soundbar thing that's also connected to the TV, again it's dh that mostly uses it. I only really listen to music when I'm walking using headphones.

I think it’s weird (or just not my ‘thing’) to have music on all the time, I very rarely listen to music, occasionally if I am driving. I wouldn’t dream of buying a CD or downloading music or whatever it is you do these days (my new car has a fancy sound system & no CD player which irritates me). I have a tradition where I like to play a Christmas CD when I write my cards & I was starting this weekend but discovered our CD player had broken & we had thrown it out last year.
Most of the time we are in complete silence at home, if we invite friends round I wouldn’t put on any music. I am useless in the music rounds in quizzes !

The more I think about it the more I find "actively disliking" ALL music quite funny, it's bizarre!

This cartoon always makes me laugh. As a child in the 1980s I remember being amused by there being so many ways to play music: records, tapes, CDs. Back then, the "sound system", "stereo", "music centre", "record player", or (to my grandparents) "radiogram" was a prominent piece of equipment in many living rooms: nowadays, they're much smaller, including the speakers. I have a surround sound system I bought in 2006 which I really like, but it's tricky connecting more modern stuff to it.

(As for Alexa: whenever I hear it mentioned, I keep thinking of somebody in an early series of The Apprentice who didn't do well as project manager, selling pizza calling out "fifty pence a sloice" (sic).)

It's not bizarre - people like different things.

It's like the "I don't understand" thread - people who can't get their heads around the fact that others have different preferences.

Personally, I'd never actively choose to listen to music. I find it dull. I'd much rather listen to a podcast or voice radio. I don't find the need to have background noise when I'm doing things around the house. I'm not interested in music, I don't go to concerts, have no songs at all downloaded to my phone, don't watch music or singing related TV shows. Most music I get in a week is watching Strictly, and that's about the dancing rather than the music (and the audience clapping along like a bunch of seals drives me nuts).

I do understand that people like different things. But I think music goes beyond general preferences. I think there is something fundamentally different between people who can’t live without music and people who have absolutely zero interest in it (I’m aware there are plenty of people who fall somewhere in the middle). Their brains must respond so differently to music. Like colour blindness or something.

Haha it’s alien to me to !
We have an Alex in the kitchen, a Bluetooth / CD player with amazing speakers in the living room.
Bluetooth speaker and iPod on daughters room.
A piano and a drum kit

I don't get why people need noise around themselves constantly. We don't have a speaker system or a radio in our house.
The only time I listen to music is in the car.
Whilst working (cleaning), I don't have music on unless I'm really bored.
Silence is golden!

No way to play music in our place either. Never even thought about it before.

I just have Apple Music on my phone and a tiny Bluetooth speaker that I move from room to room as needed. However I listen to most of my music either at work or while walking, so normally I listen to music via the headphones.

I don't have a radio.

I don't actively dislike all music. I really like music I can join in with by singing or dancing. But I don't like most contemporary music and I really, really don't like background music. I can't bear constant noise and much prefer quiet.

I think there is something fundamentally different between people who can’t live without music and people who have absolutely zero interest in it
Like the difference between people who can't live without art and people who have no interest in it. Or people who can't live without sport and people who have no interest in it.

It's just people being different from each other. Music really isn't this big special unique thing.

We have sinks and stream through that, or our tv which has great speakers.

The kids have little Bluetooth speakers that are surprisingly good.

No need for a 'sound system'. I remember my dad spending a fortune on his hi Fi with amps, turntables, different speakers etc. Just no need now.

I would quite like to get into vinyl and have a turntable though.

SONOS. Not sinks. Well we have sinks too. It not for music.

What about when you have guests over for a party or dinner or whatever? Don't you play music?

No. We talk.

I'm with all the music lovers, ever since a tween I've been obsessed with music. Being without something to play it on for a short period would freak me out then, less so now I'm an old gimmer.

We have a bose speaker system to play up and downstairs, plus Alexa in the kitchen. We stream from phones, tablets and the smart TV!

I love music, but I hate people buying unnecessary shit. An Alexa in one room plus a Bluetooth with a CD player right next door, plus more in your children’s rooms does not make you cool and into your music, it makes you wasteful. You’ve bought all this unnecessary shit and you think this make you MORE enlightened? Nope. This sort of one upmanship is a marketer’s wet dream. You can buy your way to cool muso status if you have MORE STUFF. Fantastic.

And who has dinner parties these days . Are you hyacinth bucket?

I know some people who would never put music on. It's sad

I think music triggers emotions in some people, whether it's joy, sadness, anger etc, but it leaves others cold.

My DH likes to have music on and has some peculiar old fashioned tastes, but if you asked him the lyrics to a favourite song he wouldn't know and wouldn't care.

Personally I know all of the lyrics to the 100 albums and 600 random songs on my phone, because if I didn't know and understand the lyrics what's the point?!

I love music, but I hate people buying unnecessary shit. An Alexa in one room plus a Bluetooth with a CD player right next door, plus more in your children’s rooms does not make you cool and into your music, it makes you wasteful. You’ve bought all this unnecessary shit and you think this make you MORE enlightened? Nope. This sort of one upmanship is a marketer’s wet dream. You can buy your way to cool muso status if you have MORE STUFF. Fantastic.

Well, that’s remarkably aggressive. I don’t think anyone has claimed ‘cool muso status’, I think they’re just talking about stuff that brings them joy. Do you really have nothing in your life/house that is unnecessary but brings you joy? A totally utilitarian existence?

Some people like music and some 7se it as a background noise,or use the tv for that.
I like quiet.
I don't listen to music as much as I did and don't blast it out because I like my neighbours.
I actually don't like parties much because if the music.
My dd however does love music and has discovered classical which she has on her laptop while revising.

I've got a Sonos but even then, still just play YouTube through the TV instead sometimes

Yep I sort of agree...music is more important to us than tv or phones so we have a fairly decent system

I think music through a phone is not really listening to music

Meh. You find me aggressive, I find the op and some pps wasteful and a bit tragic with their competitive “love of music” (aka buying more stuff than they need).

There is a massive difference between appreciating music and having the best / most devices on which to play it.

And we all have too much shit in this country, including me! But I certainly wouldn’t be starting threads on here and wringing my hands because I had a play date with someone who didn’t have the same unnecessary shit as me.

I can’t believe that even needs to be said.

And I think cool muso status is exactly what some people hope they are projecting on here. I just couldn’t LIVE without my Alexa! How could I listen to music on the tv? Can you hear yourselves? I’d be ashamed.

Like the difference between people who can't live without art and people who have no interest in it. Or people who can't live without sport and people who have no interest in it.

It's just people being different from each other. Music really isn't this big special unique thing.

Yes, I suppose music isn’t unique, I’m not sure I said it was. I’d say there are also fundamental differences in the way people’s brains respond to art, and sport. I suppose I was trying to explore why some people can’t understand the point of music, and some people can’t live without. It’s a bigger difference than, say, why some people like Strictly, and some people like X Factor.