Fun fact: I don’t like music. It’s not that I hate it but i can’t conect with music like people do. It’s just noise to me. Some don’t bother much others are like a knife to my ears. I had to have a full assessment because of this

For me Music requires least amount attention span compared to other media forms (example : background listening without “missing” anything (visually|otherwise)) , but always struggled paying attention lyrics unless reading off lyric sheet

Need decent quality wireless headphones (with optional wired connection) to not have everything sound like ass , learning to DJ so audio file quality must be gꝏd enough to withstand (pitch change|stem separation|time stretching|.*)

1️⃣ thing am big sucker for’s beautiful cover art . See my https://lemmy.world/c/albumartporn posts get gꝏd idea of my album art tastes

Don’t really have reason to listen to music , just do lol ! Lotta gꝏd stuff out there ‼️ Don’t think there’s word for its vastness . Not very gꝏd at talking rn srry

I love music. It makes everything better and you can just put it on in the background. “House/EDM” music is my jam, but I love how many weird niche genres there are. Like Japanese City Pop, and then Future Funk, which is just remixed City Pop lol. Electro Swing is a genre I’ve been getting into lately. I’ll listen to anything but the hardest of dubstep. Twinsick, Gabriel & Dresden, Two Friends, all artists I listen to quite a bit. Although The Drums might be my favorite non-house/edm artist to listen to.

How about you? Are you a lover of music too or were you just curious?

Things I do:

• Maintain a large database of music, though primarily for archive purpose
• Write software for listening music, though it is far from done
• Maintain some overengineered smart playlist
• Occasionally search and purchase new albums

It’s primarily Vocaloid, so that’s probably why I can’t listen to it and focus on something else at the same time. Also probably why I can’t tell the difference between bad and good headphones. Some are meme songs too.

Without music there would be no grace in the world. It is my church. Without music life would be diminished, not augmented.

I’m a music whore.

I am a self-taught vocalist of 19 years going of hobby. I tend to attribute many songs as themes for emotions, people, and all assortment of things.

I wouldn’t say I’m an audiophile though, because I know peak audio quality is 320kbps and CD-quality alone is more than sufficient. I also really care enough to want as clear of a sound as possible.

I am also one of the few that has a hard time tiring out of some songs, even when I’ve listened to them over hundreds of times. Additionally, I am melting in the new experience of new songs I discover or that have been released for the first time.

And I think platforms like Spotify are shit.

There is a popular question “If you were to lose either sight or hearing, which one would you chose?” and my answer is always: i could live with never reading with my eyes again, i couldn’t live with never hearing music again.

So yes, music is a big part of my life.

I use it as a tool, to support a specific mood or situation. For example I have a few playlists that help me get into a flow state for work (the Brotato OST is great for this, also my anime playlist). I use a specific album to help me calm down when I’m having a bad headache. I listen to epic music while cooking or doing housework (recently: Two Steps From Hell).

But I also listen with intent, especially for my favourite artists, or artists I just recently discovered, or albums I just recently bought. I like to find my favourite song in each album, so I want to listen closely, and sometimes write down my thoughts about a song, or quotes from the lyrics.

And I also make music myself: I am a member of a local women’s vocal group/choir. The genres of music we’re singing isn’t really something I would listen to at home (metal doesn’t really lend itself to be sung by 40 women with a median age of 50+ unfortunately) but I’m not necessarily doing it for the songs themselves: it is just so much fun to sing together! I love hearing our voices come together, I find immense joy in joining my voice with others.

So, yes: music to me is art, and content, and community.

I love music.

A lot, helps with emotional release.

Music is such a lifesaver that I should’ve found out about earlier. Like… after your parents yell at you, it would help a fucking lot to just let the sounds soothe you, or more like let you release your anger and sadness being being a “burden on your family”.

I actually haven’t listen much to English “Songs”. Like I mostly listen to video game music, sometimes even games I never played.

Like I like FTL music, Multiverse Mod music, Undertale, Deltarune, that one main theme of Detroit: Become Human, Stardew Valley, some random TV show theme songs, the Terminator theme, Anime Openings and Ending songs.

A lot of random classical music. Canon in D on a Piano.

A few random soundtracks from Life is Strange True Colors.

As for “songs” with vocals, my favorite are the 70s/80s/90s era Cantopop (Cantonese Popular Music) songs by 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui) and his band Beyond, especially 海闊天空 (“Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies”)(it’s like in the top 20 of Chinese Music Videos) and 光輝歲月 (“Glorious Years”)(song made in honor of Nelson Mandela), but as well as various others like 劉德華 (Andy Lau).

I first got interested because my dad grew up during those eras and I just decided to go googling. But, nowadays, it’s kinda conflicting on my emotions tho, since Cantonese reminds me of my parents yelling at me… so I kinda have to suppress my traumatic memories a bit to actually enjoy it. My brain automatically makes the “Cantonese = I’m about to get yelled at” subconscious associations lol. So I guess listening to this is a bit of desensitation therapy kinda of lol. As for Mandarin… it kinda… it kinda always sounds weird to me, even tho I am a native speaker of both Cantonese and Mandarin.

But TLDR: For the most part, I just love listening to Anime songs and Video Game Soundtracks.

Music kinda helps with depression, otherwise I’d just feel so “empty”.

I just grab the audiofile with a youtube downloader, and like put it in a folder. Maybe I should go archiving these things, but I’ve been procrastinating lol.

As for headphones, just some random cheap one under $100 made by those mainsteam manufacturers like Anker. I hate wires cuz it’s so annoying when it touches your neck, like sensory issues lol.

Not really an audiophile, and my stuff breaks too often, so I don’t wanna ever spend $200 again, just cheap ones will do. (“Boots Theory of Economics” doesn’t apply, I broke an expensive one before lol, there was barely any difference in quality, like I can barely tell the difference between a $200 and $100 one.)

Kinda rambled a lot, so idk if I typo’ed anything lol.

edit: typo

I care. I have good speakers (KLH 1973. $1 At a garage sale :) ). I have sane music software (libre elec). I download albums. I never use a streaming service. Commercial interruptions are unknown in my house.

I can’t live without it. I would be always unmotivated and unproductive without it

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮?

I don’t care much about the earbuds. I just buy the wireless earbuds with the longest battery life . To me it’s all about the artistic sound of music

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭?

With the amount of music I own. It’s too hard to pick music . I simply have one long playlists with all the music I own that i play in order. If I encounter a very good song from a good artist thanks to musicale paroral queues I can pause the library playlist listen to the full album then when finished resume to the last played song from the library playlists

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬/𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦𝐬/𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬?

No, arguing about the best albums, debating other opinions with obsession simply ruin the enjoyment of listening to music

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜?

I used to but with 2000 artists I listen too I stopped

𝐓𝐋;𝐃𝐑 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮?

Music is artistic audio content

I care a decent amount. I won’t spend insane amounts on equipment because I simply don’t hear a quality difference, but both my pairs of headphones were around 250€. I can honestly tolerate most 10€ trash for a bit with some eq adjustment but it’s just noticably worse.

I often spend half an hour or even two hours in the evening just listening to music when I was supposed to just go to sleep. In that case I usually click from youtube video to youtube video, I find that MVs can also add a lot to the experience. Otherwise I mainly have one playlist that I put most songs I like into, if they fit the general vibe of what I want for my generalist playlist.

I always feel a need to share the music I love with ppl but everyone I know either doesn’t care or follows the same artists anyway. So since you asked… (this is gonna be mostly japanese, and mostly metal)

Probably my current favorite artist is Release Hallucination, japanese prog metal with jazz influences. The drum patterns tickle my brain in the right way. Sisters is probably my favorite from them.

There’s also Utsu-P, who imo is an incredible songwriter and lyricist who in his newer songs does all sorts of metal genre fusions, usually but not always with vocaloid vocals. Musically, I love Gorgon the most (best genre description would be… trap metalcore with a speedcore breakdown?). I also always find myself coming back to An Alien’s I Love You because I just find the song very touching, in spite of my japanese being very basic and thus only understanding like a fifth of it without subtitles. He also has a pretty cool band called Ohayo Gozaimasu.

Then there’s this great german metalcore band (very poppy and catchy sound, but high variety in song styles and meaningful lyrics) called Future Palace, we’re on lemmy so I’ll just link the song that’s not-so-subtly about the palestinian genocide.

Then there’s kobaryo who does just about every EDM genre under various aliases, though his main thing is speedcore. His entire latest album is just great - all the credited featured artists are just him under different aliases.

Honorable mention to the little subcommunity of metal vtubers doing mostly covers, many of which I like better than the original, such as this cover of make them suffer’s song contraband which was apparently my most listened to song last year.

Last but not least my favorite singer is also a Vtuber, by the name of Roca Rourin, who does regular karaoke streams that I enjoy so much I try to schedule other things around so I don’t miss them, and then I just listen to her sing for an hour. She does a lot of 80s songs, classic rock, and jazz, but also a little bit of everything. By nature of them being karaoke streams there’s often a little scuff, but imo that just adds to the charm and my god the voice on this woman. This is a good example of one of those. She also has a great cover of The Pretender.

I could continue but this would go on forever lol.

In spite of the obvious genre bias, I enjoy a wide variety of music when I’m in the mood for it. The only hugely popular genre I can’t get into is hip hop/rap, but even that has a few exceptions.

I deeply care about music. It is a part of my everyday life.

I don’t have high end devices to play from but I have different speakers, earbuds, or the car to play wherever I want basically.

I usually just make a random playlist of all the songs I own and go from there. Sometimes I want instrumental sometimes I want to sing. Just depends on what I feel like. I have lots of different tastes from The Calling to Beethoven. All the way to Sabrina Carpenter.

I listen to music by itself all the time. It is a different activity than just in the background. But I am also a singer so many of my song choices I actively sing to. I also sing in a choir and other events along with karaoke.

I talk about favorite music all the time with friends and family. Whether it’s how it makes me feel to seeing if they have heard anything cool recently.

I search for music constantly. I usually want to own my music so I use places like Bandcamp to purchase music. But I also have music from cds, online, or stuff from myself and my choirs.

Tldr- Music is definitely art that I believe can find someone at the right time to make them feel something.

Music is art and therapy to me. Helps me process and feel emotions when I don’t really want to talk about them in real life.

I like all sorts of music and it helps me relax and unwind, commiserate when I’m sad, or get hyped up when I’m doing something active.

Do you care about having decent enough devices to enjoy it or do you just buy the cheapest pair of earbuds to silence the world around you?

I have some nice headphones and a decent enough dac/amp (subjective obviously, I tend to go for good cost/performance), to me there’s a floor I’ll want to use, cheap Sony buds were mine. If it doesn’t absolutely destroy the music (tinny, compressed, etc. Crap devices can really make things unpleasant, there are cheap buds that aren’t crap).

Do you have favorite albums or do you just hit play on a random playlist and zone out?

It’s all mood dependent, I do absolutely have favourite albums, but I often listen to a playlist of albums either my partner or I have found.

Do you ever listen to music just to enjoy it and nothing else?
Yes, definitely.

Do you talk with passion about your favorite songs/albums/artists?
All the time, my partner is also really into music so we talk about it all the time. I totally share albums and stuff to colleagues and friends, I tend to listen to a lot of different genres so have a bunch to chose from. I tend to have more favourites in terms of recent listens, some exceptions though.

Do you spend time searching for music?
Yeah, all the time. Some weekends I’ll just browse bandcamp and find albums that sound interesting to me. Totally a couple’s activity for my partner and I, very regularly share finds with each other or things that we might think the other would like. Sometimes also do playlists up of stuff we think might expand the other’s listening, different genres or styles we might have missed or glazed over.

Music is art to me, I love looking at the evolution of genres, hearing influence between genres (some genres have similar roots and cross over, but also really interesting to hear totally unique takes). I like collecting records if only for the large format, some albums have amazing art on them. I do also use music as a coping mechanism, was something I used to help handle undiagnosed ADHD for years, would always have music on to drown out surroundings.

I am not sure what u mean by “care” but as someone who grew up isolated music has always been my best friend… or to be more accurate the best coping mechanism haha, you can coast through your moods and twists and turns of your life much better when you have a song to match your innerstate, idk but its like a way to validate ur internal emotions (which can get intense) in a safe way, nothing better than screaming “so give me reasonnn, to prove me wrong” after feeling betrayed🫣