How do your primary age DC listen to music in their rooms?

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For a main present, I want to buy dds (9 & 7) something that allows them to listen to music in their rooms.

What do other people do? Until now they've only had cd players and story CDs. Want to encourage some musical exploration...

Also pondering a digital radio so they can listen to kids radio stations

DD (10) has my old CD player at the moment. I imagine she'll have a laptop by secondary age and will probably start streaming and having a wireless speaker by then.

My 5 yr old has an echo dot - bought for birthday as she loved our echo in the kitchen.
Child settings, she can ask for stories, jokes and music, she loves it.

I'll also add that the funkids radio station is played a lot in her room.

My dds have a dot. With a Spotify account it plays everything they want (including random songs they're singing in choir)

DD(10) has a radio and mostly listens to Classic FM We're not really making the most of the 21st century in our house...

Rhinestone I love that your dd listens to classic FM!

The 21st century is so complicated!

My 10 year old and 8 year old listen to their play list on my Spotify (which plays hell with my algorithms) through their Kindle Fires.

Our DD 7 has a Sonos. Spoilt! But I can turn it down/off from anywhere which is a bonus.

Amazon music through their kindles.

Spotify via an Echo Dot, it also has a radio player but the kids don’t really use that facility.
We have one in every room and you can talk to each other through them too, which is handy at dinner time

My 11 yr old DS listens to Classic FM too! He has an echo dot in his room. Given the prize at the moment I think we’ll buy one for dd 8 as well.

CD player, echo dot as a Bluetooth speaker or via amazon music.

Each having a Google home mini for Christmas. We have a Spotify account so will be able to use that.

Google Home mini's here too, with a Google Play Music account. Couldn't recommend it more. You can also broadcast messages to each other from them instead of shouting across the house

Once you get a echo dot or a google do you have to pay a music subscription fee to play any music?

Echo Dot with family Spotify subscription.

I'd avoid the Google Home. After having both them and dots/Echos, the Echos are FAR superior. The Google ones are crap.

Amazon music/Spotify via Amazon echo. I would get the echo rather than the dot if it's for listening to music.

I love the fact I can turn it off/down from my phone!

I have just bought DD's 7+11 dots for Xmas. At £25 each I decided it was definitely worth it.

I'm pondering this issue too for 7yo ds - and feeling like a dinosaur wrt technology these days! I'm not keen on the echo/AI stuff as I try to boycott Amazon but is the only other option a radio? He loves my radio.

My 4 and 6 yo have a cd player in the playroom. I know it's a bit low tech but they have lots of cds and I figure they'll go digital before I know it, so no rush.

Spotify on their Kindles (7 & 9).

Amazon Echo with family subscription to Amazon music. Obviously, you can listen to the radio on the Echo as well.

Do you need to buy speakers as well as the echo or does it play it through that?

The Echo is a speaker, you don't need anything more.