I have music playing all the time when at the computer. Only listen to MP3s (nothing lower than 320kbps) Never listen to music with anything other than high quality active noise canceling headphones unless I am in the car of course.

Only listen to electronic dance music, mainly trance, electro house, and happy hardcore

I can’t live without music.. seriously! It has gotten me through some really dark periods in my life. When you want to escape the sh!t in this world some songs and long mixes can just take you to other dimensions and make you forget all your troubles.

I started out listening to rock and instrumental music in the 90’s and even tho I hated dance music back then I have come to absolutely love it. These days my favourite styles are electro, funky house, progressive trance, trance, psytrance and my latest addition is the ambient field with artists like Entheogenic who crossover western dance with mystical eastern vocals and instruments.

I even perform better at work while listening to music, haha.

I listen to music on my iPod or on my notebook, I use iTunes on a endless playlist in shuffle mode.

I love to listen mostly to dance, electro, house, R&B, soul, hiphop, pop, electro-pop, alternative and many other genres..

i have always had a passion for music, i remember my first walkman and all the tapes that i used to have, backed then i listened to commercial stuff, and i mainly had cassette singles, never had enough allowance to but the full album! i had REM, Bel Biv Devoe, Michael Jackson, Stone Temple Pilots, so forth. I remember my collection expanding with full albums, when BMG and Columbia House started to come around.

In middle school is when the grunge scene emerged, and all listened to was Nirvana, STP, NIN, Bush, and all those band tha took over MTV. I would listen to my walkman all the time. Even when I went to bed sometimes, I remember going to California every summer on the bus, and my biggest priority was taking my walkman and my big red casstette case.

Later when I got to highschool is when I was introduced to the rave scene. My first genre was hardcore/gabber. Amongst my collection of cassette were RAW, Thee-o, Ron D. Core, and a tape I have fondest memories by Brian from Moon Tribe.

Later in highschool the CD revolution started and I took an absence from the rave scene and did the preppy thing. I still listened to rave music just didnt go the events as much. But i started to get into rap, mostly Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Tupac, Biggie, you know the good stuff. House music was dominant genre here in my city, so I got into Mark Farina, Johhny Fiasco, well basically anything that was released on Afterhours, Om, Naked Music.

Upon graduating is when i had my calling to djing, as by that time i left the preppy social scene for my true love, electronic music. I also took a liking to drum n bass, but mostly the UK stuff, especailly Metalheadz and Grooverider, oh and Adam F too! I started djing house, then I moved on to progressive, then breaks, and now Im djing anything that I like that sound well together, tech-house, fidget, deep house, minimal, converting those into my sound for a set.

Now i listened to music alot I play it at work, i bought small little speakers for the laptop here in my office, i blast it in my car every morning on the way to work and home. I also play tunes either on my cdj or on the computer at home while ironing, also after i have given my daughter a bath. Ive been known to play music while in the shower, with the door open so i can listen. I also used to sleep with music either on my stereo or with headphones. Surprised that i didnt wake up strangled to death, “death by music” eh not a bad way to die, haha.

I listen to just about everything, with some favorited more that other, Frank Sinatra is a fav, Sean Lennon too, The Beatles, Ginuwine, nothing like some good Rnb, I like the Mystery Jets, Faker, and tons more.

Music has gotten me through some very hard and dark times in my life, it has always helped me cope, cry , and laugh in many situations. I think that along with my attitudes music has helped me become the person I am today and has gotten me to where i have wanted to be in life. I now have taken on the task of wanting to produce music, so that i can do the same for other people what music has done for me. I most relate and agree with a Cevin Fisher song that says:

“Hey yo party people, you know we’ve made it through some hard times. If it wasnt for the music I dont know what we’d do. You know the music stepped in and saved my life. I gotta thank God for the music.”

Well, I have to admit I am really bad at quality control when it comes to music. Sometimes I don’t even bother plugging my monitors in when I’m listening to iTunes. I like background music when I’m working, so my MacBook speakers come in handy when I just put all my music library on Shuffle and get to work.

That is when I’m not working on audio related stuff of course. Then I’m using my M-audio Bx5a-deluxe monitors. Which have a lot of high end, but I like them.

I have ADD when it comes to music, skipping over many tracks because they don’t engage me immediately . I sometimes walk the streets with my thumb on the skip button on my mp3 player, going skip, skip, skip. It’s also because I really should update my song library on my Mp3 player but whatever….

But all in all, I can’t live without it. I listen to music constantly and I can’t go out of the house without music in my ears and I can’t cook without something blasting in the background. It is only when I have to concentrate on something profusely that I turn it off.

But hey guys, I’m with Adrian on this. I’d really like to hear more opinions of yours discussing the questions above. I only answered a few but I hope you guys will take the time to give your two cents.

Penny for your thoughts?

Listening for pleasure mostly takes place on headphones using iTunes on work computer or iPod when out and about. I will put CDs or records on if I’m at home and my wife isn’t around — she kinda hates the music I like.

I listen to whatever format is most convenient at the moment. I don’t think I could consistently tell the difference between 320k MP3s and uncompressed audio, but then I’m 52 and my hearing tops out about 15khz at this point. I am very sensitive to tonal balance and ‘bad’ (i.e. unintentional) distortion within the limitation of my hearing, though.

I listen to music pretty much all day at my computer programming day job. At home, I listen with purpose, but mostly on stuff I’m working on — either my own stuff or things I’m mastering/mixing for other people.

I listen to literally every style of music, except for genres I can’t abide, like trance, happy hardcore, contemporary christian, and commersh country. I.e. techno, house, dubstep, idm, jazz, rock, folk, classical, noise … I mostly make some form of techno or idm left to my own devices. I listen for ‘all of the above’ — to analyze music I like to try and incorporate structural and tonal ideas, for enjoyment, to shut out the inane chatter in my office. I can’t live without it, which is why I’ve become very careful about hearing protection, and listening to headphones at safe levels.

Don’t have a crazy listening story per-se, but a lot of times I’ll have something going in my studio, and it meshes in an unexpected way with whatever my wife is blaring upstairs. I’ve gone so far as to borrow her CD to gank a sample because I like how it fits with what I’m doing.

Oh, and one of my wife’s comments on my music making — I was playing a CDR of a new track in the living room when she came home one day and she said “is there something wrong with the stereo?”

Music kinda found me. I was a 13 year old kid when Mom and Dad started listening to an 80s station on the radio, and thats how it started. Mom was a huge Duran Duran fan and Dad, a Def Leppard fan. So I guess thats my entry into music. I’ve been a fan of both bands since and seen Duran Duran twice and Def Leppard once. So far they are my only concert experiences, but they made such an impression on me and my future. I took up bass after my first DD concert. I was so enthralled with the sheer power John Taylor’s bass lines unleashed, that I couldn’t contain myself as chills ran up and down my spine. It was my great awakening, sort of speak, and I began to consume myself in music. After a couple of years of “studying” 80’s music (specifically New Wave and Electronic) I started to branch out musically. The first cd I picked up on my own was Franz Ferdinand’s debut, still one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite albums. With the introduction to Franz, I found bands like The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, and The Strokes. Around this time I started delving into ska (No Doubt and Sublime) more classic rock. Led Zeppelin became a huge influence and I began learning Page licks and finally I pursued guitar as another instrument. Through Zeppelin, I found blues rock and more importantly, Jack White. I quickly became a White Stripes/ Raconteurs fan and started modeling my guitar style after White. Along with blues rock, I found myself seeking out Grunge styles, Nirvana, Bush, and STP are definitely influences for me. Last year, my diverse music taste hit a new craziness. I started listening to bands like Paramore, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaiser Chiefs among many others. I found Muse…. and my creative approached changed forever. Muse is in my top 3 favs because of the multi genre approach they use. They are a huge inspiration. Of course, this year I fell in love with The Beatles, so I feel thats inriched me extensively.

As for preference, I love Vinyl.
Hate mp3 but its what 90% of my collection is.
I use Windows Media Player

I listen to music nonstop even in my sleep! I have dreams with the music supplying soundtrack which is very trippy.

I listen to all kinds of genres but New Wave, Indie, Blues Rock, Prog and Electronic, usually.
I play the same genres
and I listen to music for enjoyment, to improve my own music, and because I need my fix

I’m into dubstep, dub, electronic, hip-hop and grime, including:
6BLOCC, Zomby, Matty G, Caspa, Bassnectar, Beat Assassins, Skream, Benga, King Tubby, HD4000, Cypress Hill, Bob Marley, Aesop Rock, Burial, A Perfect Circle, dz, Prince Far I, Distance, KoЯn, Sublime, Synkro, Starkey, Tool, Eminem, Filastine, 16 Bit, CunninLynguists, DJ Shadow, Mimosa, RJD2, Ill Bill, Kode9 & the Spaceape, The Others, Kromestar, Yong, Bar 9, Pinch, Plastician, Digital Mystikz, Deftones, Three 6 Mafia, N-Type, Flying Lotus, Necro, Aphex Twin, Rusko, Ludacris, MRK1, L-Wiz, Joker, Morcheeba. Just to name a few.

I listen 24/7, iTunes at home/work. iPhone on the go and iPod w/ a secret stash for a backup. Mostly listen on AKG K271 MKII’s. If I’m mixing, got a set of Alesis M1-Active MK2’s and a Yamaha HS10W for the low end. Use Sony MDRV700DJ for djing.

Music is my sanity, its what holds my world together, what I put my money into, what I put my time into… Its by far the most fulfilling addiction I’ve ever had.

Protect your ears ppl, hearing damage is cumulative.

Much love,
Droski

Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/droskidubz

I listen to mid-90’s rnb / new jack swing most of the time. Other than that its mostly UK Road Rap, and hip hop, with the occasional Reggae or Soul track fitted in.

I Usually listen to it on my phone, or mp3 player, because I’m usually out. Other than that it is on my laptop. Sometimes it’s plugged into my Amp and Speakers, but rarely because I share a house, and they don’t agree with my music :@. So I’ve usually got my headphones in because my laptops speakers are rubbish, and I don’t see the point in listening to a phone through a speaker, because it sounds like a tin can.

I have a few CD’s and Vinyl, but most of my stuff is in MP3, because

a. Smaller Size
b. most compatible (phone, Laptop)
c. I don’t see the point in my getting a FLAC or WAV file just to say “I heard that extra hi frequency sound that doesn’t really add to the music or experience.

As far as what software I use to play music it would be Windows Media Player 12 (Windows 7), I love the remote access of your media library feature. Before that it was the Zune software because it looked so great, but the rating system messed everything up, and I HAVE to have everything neat and tidy in folders, with correct tagging and ratings lol.

I travel a lot (working) and music is my main companion. I carry a 250Gb hard drive stuffed with music (and video) and have a copy of most of my music in an iPod.
When I get to hotel rooms the first thing I do is to setup my gear, computer, large monitor, MIDI controllers, speakers etc. If I’m not working, I’m probably listening music in my room, or tweaking whatever I can create or preparing DJ sets ( I do DJing for kicks). I would say music takes about 40% of my time being listening, creating or reading about it. It is an acquired taste, since I was a litte kid, the radio was always on at home, it’s a passion.

I’m a South African. I wake up in South Africa in the morning to teach English to foreigners. I enjoy it. I go home and make music. I will travel the world making music when the time is right, God / World / Universe willing. I compose in Reason 4, Ableton Live 7 and Cubase SX3. Whatever. I’ll compose on two sticks and a coconut shell if I have to. I want to achieve, but I don’t allow this to become a stumbling block, to stand in the way of my appreciation for everyday life. The world is a beautiful place. If I can compose my life as effortlessly as I compose music, then I’ll come and visit you all when I begin my travels.

Having a mobile MP3 player and a pair of Sennheiser 202s is one simple thing that reminds me to keep going. Traffic becomes bliss, time to relax. Catching the train is a whole new experience. One day soon, when I’m walking the streets of some Indonesian village, I’ll be listening with just as big a smile on my face.

I’ve got a way to go, but you can download some of the music I’ve made for free. Thanks again Adrian and the crew for the informative and simple resource you’ve provided us in AudioTuts.

I am kind of different from all you guys (and maby girls). I only listen to music when I am on the go (in my iPhone) like riding the buss and stuff like that. At home do i never put some musik on except when it is a party. I dont even put that much music on when I am driving my car.

I used to have music with me and at home all the time, but when I started to produce music that kind of changed. I dont know why, but it is almost like I need the space to be creative. But I need my music on the bus home, bacuse thats what make me wanna get home really fast so that I can start producing.

I am always like that, I just get this urge to produce when ever I hear music, and maby thats why I dont listen to it all the time since I can not just enjoy it without taking it apart and trying to figure out how it was made. But that doesnt mean I dont enjoy the music I listen to on the bus … I love it, but I wanna do it my self as soon as it reaches my ears!!

Thanks for reading

i ‘m have not much time to listen music carefully or pay attention for them ‘cuz i’m quite busy from work. i alway listen varius kind of music when i ‘m working at office with my iMac but out there, i listen from my iPod.