So back in my youth i was into loud music in the car. I used to have 10 disc magazines for my cds, load 10 in, change them next month. This has lead to me having a cd collection of a little less than 700. Now in the basement where the shop is, radios get no reception. So I had bought a cheap little am/fm/cd player. It only held 1 cd at a time. I would play 1 cd till I get tired of it. Well the player stopped working 2 weeks ago. I figgered it got too much dust inside of it, and tried blowing it clean, and using some rubbing alcohol to clean it, but no success. we have WiFi set up in the unit, so I asked the kid what did I need to do to have music down there. I bought an Alexa Echo, set it up, and subscribed to Spotify Premium. Sound quality is superior to the player I had before, and I’ve already listed over 108 hours of music in my library, which I play in shuffle mode. I figure a good many here do something similiar. I’m VERY happy with this decision. Yes I’ve added another $10 a month to the budget, but you know what? I’m worth it! (Or so I keep telling myself LOL) Another great feature is I now have a female that does what I tell her to do LOLOL (glad me Missus doesn’t read this stuff  )

I have a old boom box I dissected and added wired speakers in the ceiling to.  Coupled that with a old IPOD mini that has who knows how many songs.  Just let the thing shuffle.  It ain't pretty but it works.  Radio is no longer an option the commercials are just absurd.  I want a break from all that, not have it thrown in my ears some more.

 

Now how often do I turn that on.  Meh, not much.  Alot to be said for peace and quiet.  To each his own right?  

Just got a Google Nest Mini, for extending our Nest doorbell. Might try to see if it will work with Iheartradio. The local oldies radio station plays the Steelers games and I could care less about the NFL after the kneeling fiasco.

 Thanks for the idea!

I can't get radio because none of the stations broadcast what I want to hear. So instead I stream something called AccuRadio, which offers commercial free music of (literally) of any genre you could possibly want. I'm not worth the $10 a month like you.

7 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I can't get radio because none of the stations broadcast what I want to hear. So instead I stream something called AccuRadio, which offers commercial free music of (literally) of any genre you could possibly want. I'm not worth the $10 a month like you.

 

 

I have same problem, all these radio stations play songs in English.  Russian and Ukrainians get screwed.  But hey the internet is a beautiful thing.  My wife downloads the music and loads it up on my IPOD for me.  Always makes for interesting conversation when the rare visitor comes by.   

I’m an Amazon Premium Music subscriber.  I have an old laptop in the shop so I stream different genres of music depending on my mood.  Works well for me.

Pandora through my mobile phone and blue-toothed to a set of speakers. Or if I want talk radio, I listen to IHeart Radio.

2 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I can't get radio because none of the stations broadcast what I want to hear. So instead I stream something called AccuRadio, which offers commercial free music of (literally) of any genre you could possibly want. I'm not worth the $10 a month like you.

Yes you are!

No music in my shop. I enjoy the quiet along with the sound of the power tools.

23 minutes ago, Al B said:

No music in my shop. I enjoy the quiet along with the sound of the power tools.

Ditto!

John

The only music is the sweet hum of the machines running.  If I have to listen to something while sanding or assembling, it will be NPR.  

 

After listening to our local classic oldies IHeart station play the same 30 songs 24-7 our son put me on his Spotify account.  I listen to Pandora some tool.  I've found out that there is a whole lot of good music out there that I have never been exposed to

On the Spotify, I usually listen to the "weekly picks for you" and usually there will be 1 or 2 tunes that I like well enough to hit the save to favorite button.  Probably have over 400 tunes in that favorite place now, a lot of which is new to me.  The artists may not be new to me, but a lot of the music is.

 

We have a relatively new radio station in our area now that calls itself "Americana".  I enjoy listening to it in my truck.  It is, in fact, local.  Live DJ's just like the old days and playing a broad mix of music.

 

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My Spotify library has this song in it. 

...If it ain't free it ain't for me. 

I'm a member of the no music group.  I sometimes turn the radio on if I am putting finish on something.

 I listen to Summit radio, online & fm. It's a public radio station with no commercials. You do have to deal with a fund raiser once a year but it play a mix of new and local bands & classic songs mixed in during the day. 

2 hours ago, Cal said:

After listening to our local classic oldies IHeart station play the same 30 songs 24-7

 If a song that was released in 1971 and it was played just once a week that's over 2500 times it was played, even Stairway to Heaven gets old after that.

My son bought me a set of Bose noice cancelling head phones that blue tooth to my phone and then set my phone up with YouTube music and it works really well. It has three levels of noise cancellation and on the max level it is so noise cancelling it’s not safe. I leave it on the middle level and it works fine. On max I found I was walking away from tools and not shutting them down which is scary. 
Paul

20 hours ago, lew said:

Just got a Google Nest Mini, for extending our Nest doorbell. Might try to see if it will work with Iheartradio.

It Works!

3 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

...If it ain't free it ain't for me. 

I was in that camp, with 700+ CD’s. I figgered I had already paid for the music. When the cheap little boom box died. Our son talked me into trying an Alexa Echo. I love it, even after figgerin in the $10 a month.