How many hours of music do you listen in a day?
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Topic: How many hours of music do you listen in a day?
Posted By: chemebien
Subject: How many hours of music do you listen in a day?
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:34
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Music in general, not necessarily prog rock music. Regards. |
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:35
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6-8 on a good day, maybe more. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:38
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At least eight every day.
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:39
| Lucky both of you, I wish I could do that. I must be between 2 and 4 hours a day. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:40
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25 |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:40
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Wish?
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:41
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No, I've altered my body cycles so that I can get 25 hours of music into a day!!!! And really, 6-8 Since I have no life |
Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:49
| 8+. All day, no matter what I'm doing or where I am there's music playing. Sometimes I turn it off for special purposes, but almost all the time I got music on. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:52
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Does playing music count too? -------------  
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Posted By: DreamInSong
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:53
Depend if I'm in school or not. Since it's summer (and I'm something of an insomniac) I can listen to upwards of 8 hours a day. However, if schools in session, I'm lucky to get 2 hours, 3 if you'd call the stuff they play at parties music 
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Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:55
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1 ish hours, 2 at the most.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:57
| Six to eight. I listen to it when I work out in the morning, as I read in the afternoon and when I'm about to hit the hay. But then, I do occasionally go out for adventures... |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 22:59
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2-4 these days; sometimes 6.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:09
| well at work there's a radio in each area of the building, but my job involves moving around a lot so I really wouldn't count that plus we all know they don't play music on the radio. That leaves about 4 hours a day, I guess |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:12
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If playing guitar counts then 4-6, otherwise 2-4 -------------
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:27
yeah that's pretty much my situation too |
NecronCommander wrote:Posted By: Tursake
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:27
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Since school starts today I gotta cut down on music listening, so I'll say 4-6 hours
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:40
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Good lord you guys are crazy. I'm not sure what my overall average is, but it's definitely under 1. The radio at work doesn't count. If I counted the radio in the car it might bump it up t 1-2 but I don't think that really counts. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:43
Its easy when you do nothing. Even easier once you become wallpaper and hours/days cease to exist and you live on your plane of time. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:46
most of mine comes from the hour-long commute to and from work on top of that, I often run my ipod through a guitar amp so I can listen to music whenever I'm in the basement - another couple hours a day |
Posted By: soundsweird
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 23:50
| I think it ALL counts. Music in TV commercials, in the background on TV news and sports shows, at the grocery store, book store or restaurant, in the car, the guy's radio in the cubicle next to you at work, when you're on hold on the phone, the girl whistling in the hallway, the song that's stuck in your head. John Cage said that "Everything we do is music", and he might be right. Oh yeah, and the stuff you actually WANT to hear... |
Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 02:20
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8 but its always been like that. Today is the exception not the rule as I only have heard about 3 hours worth. I have the music on while I am doing things for about 80% of that 8 hours. Also lucky that I am home alone for about 6 hours a day as everybody is working (Day time). 1 hour would be in the car from that 8 hours of time.
Somtimes though I just listen to the noises of everday life and have nothing playing. Always though there still is music even when none is playing because the great Avante muscians are at it. ( THE BIRDS outside) ------------- Matt |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 02:26
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Hmmm yeah...I'd say music is music (as long as you want to listen and its not just playing somwhere) even on those days I leave the house....I will have the radio on (there are good stations by me) CD's in or my mp3 player. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 02:56
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Average: 0-1 hour. Sometimes I wish I had more time... ------------- 
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 03:02
| Anywhere from 4 to 12, based on the level of activity. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 04:18
on my Dutch weekdays including my commute time, around 6 hours (as soon as I'm home, i put on music until bed time >> no TV)
On Begian w-e, a fair amount less (despite concerts), because of other activities (family, friends , girlfriend, etc...)
So on average I'd say in ballpark figures, roughly five hours/day ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 07:03
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I went with the more than 8 option. I'm the guy in the next cube with the music going so I get a full eight hours at work, add another two hours on the commute and at least an hour at home. iPods are a wonderful thing. I do have about a half hour a night that I actually just turn everything off and only listen to music, but most of the time it's the accompaniment to my life.
------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 07:27
| What an original poll. Really good. On the work days I only listen in the car and in the mp3 when I go to sleep. As an average 2 hours or maybe a bit more depending on the day. On the weekends I extends to 4 hours. As an average 3 hs. Almost always progrock or prog related. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 07:40
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weekdays 2 hours - thats carride - work and back. + sometimes ,5 - 1 hours after work.
weekends would be anything from 0 hours to 16 hours a day.
voted 2+ ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: mwood
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 07:43
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1.5 to 2 hours during my commute, depending on traffic. Sometimes I hope for a traffic jam so that I can get through another album. 2-6 additional hours while at work, depending on how much I need to interact with co-workers or customers. When I was younger and had less responsibility at work, I could easily listen for 7-8 hours or more. Almost none at home.  |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:24
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Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:29
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4-6. Every day.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:43
Well, I hope you're feeling better than the rest of us music obsessed types.  I'm an 8+. I listen to whatever I want at work as I'm currently in a private office and spend most of my time on the computer. I listen to music in the commute, so that's typically 30 minutes most each way. 8+1=9. If I'm a good boy and do gym add on an extra 30 minutes to an hour. My home listening habits are more erratic. Because I listen to so much already, I tend to listen least at home. I probably spend more time watching prog DVDs. I also dabble with my musical instruments. My wife usually watches TV in the bedroom at bedtime. If I'm not interested in watching I use my player and headphones until I doze off. So people won't find it too much of surprise that even when I'm in a silent environment music pops into my head (radio head) either original stuff or mostly stuff I've heard before.------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:53
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I'm not obsessed, I just enjoy music. What is there better to do? ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 09:16
Sex. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 10:20
Well once you've been with your partner for 15 years or more
 .... music catches up. extra-marital sex is a different matter  ..... I'd even put up with the Bee Gees in the background ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 10:22
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Since I started my "Sorting by track length" project. I've probably been doing about six hours a day. Normally it's a little less, though, so I'll vote 4-6.
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 11:09
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3-4, if I'm lucky... Most people in my house don't want to hear Opeth blaring out of my room.
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Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 11:11
Exactly.  -------------
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 11:13
I'm a tad bit young still, I promised myself to have just at least a tad bit of abstinence  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 11:15
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2-4 hours generally.
------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 11:16
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I take about an hour long bike ride a day when I'm not at work all day, and sometimes I like to listen to music. Ignoring that, on average, around 3 hours of music I actually choose to listen to myself. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 13:27
| Work days 1-2 hours. off days it depends on what I have going on. |
Posted By: sgt wilko
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:46
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When I'm at home and the mrs is at work, music is always on, never have tv on during the day. Music in the car is mandatory, if the wife is with me I have to compramise my choice, got to be something we both enjoy. In the evening when the wife's watching the tv, I'll have the headphones on listening to the I pod.
So much music, so little time
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:17
Wait a second. Are you me? Well, mine's a Zune and I probably watch more TV than you do, but that's kind of spooky.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Zebedee
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:22
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4-6 hours on average.
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Friendship is like wetting your pants: everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth. |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:55
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OVER 9000!
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:55
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3 hrs is probably a fair average for a normal day. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 18:06
Yes, I have the same problem. Not exactly about Opeth but just about Progressive Rock
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Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 18:08
or me?
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 18:13
| 6-8 hours for the moment, but I hope to get a life soon and to cut down. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 18:57
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not enough
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 19:22
Force yourself man. It might make you feel much better than you could know... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 19:40
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I run a home business basically off of my Macbook. By home business, I mean I spend 99% of my business time in front of my computer coding. That ranges from 4-14 hours a day, depending on my mood and deadlines. I also like to listen to music while going to sleep, if my girlfriend lets me - and I still enjoy listening to an album or two on the nice stereo instead of my headphones when I get the chance. I also listen to music while cooking, doing chores, etc...so on average, probably 8+ a day.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 20:02
If people at my house don't want to listen to Magma, well, tough, they can go upstairs |
Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 00:54
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Two hours. Any more and I usually get musical indigestion. ------------- ''Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.'' - Albert Camus |
Posted By: RIREINC
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 08:20
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Well... mandatory is 8+ Hours. I'm a complete melomaniac... especially if it comes to prog!
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Posted By: lensag
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 11:00
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1 or two. specially while i´m driving..
when i´m alone i´m always listening to music. but that´s rare. ------------- "when routine bites hard and ambitions are low, and resentment rides high but emotions won´t grow And we´re changing our ways, taking different roads.. Then love, love will tear us apart again.." |
Posted By: Tarquin Underspoon
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 11:10
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3-ish ------------- "WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!" -The Great Gig in the Sky |
Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 14:07
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Seriously 6-8 I don't have ptkc123's problem 
You can have sex listening music! Now there's nothing better to do  ------------- Pentagram Pizza YumYum Bloody
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 14:15
Awww, my wife doesn't like prog so the only music we listen to while making love is our own moans of pleasure. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 14:29
| 3 to 4 hours a day while painting, cleaning, indoor activities with the kids, etc. Brand X is on the agenda right now due to the fact that I just purchased 4 more titles......Masques, Product, Do They Hurt?, and Livestock. I've also been listening to The Very Best Of Guru, Guru, which is a double disc set on the Cleopatra label. Each disc clocking in at about 72 minutes. After I read stories to the kids, I pass out in the computer chair with Thursday Afternoon by Brian Eno on repeat mode. A pretty good remedy for a guy that has chronic insomnia. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 14:42
I've known those Brand X's for many many years. Oddly enough I have Product in my carrying case at the moment. All of your new acquisitions are essential albums in my collection. I try to make it a point to play Thursday Afternoon on a Thursday afternoon whenever it comes up in rotation. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 16:53
| Every moment of every day, if you're a John Cage enthusiast. |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:12
Luckies...  -------------
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Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:29
Well said. A dropped coin is f#cking awesome music ------------- Pentagram Pizza YumYum Bloody
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 21:11
On a good day, somewhere in the vicinity of 4 hours...usually it's anywhere between 1-4 hours. Lately, I've been listening to "Misplaced Childhood" by Marillion, "Crack the Skye" from Mastadon, ELP's "Trilogy", and more. Tomorrow, I'm going to see Rush in concert!!! 
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 21:37
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Posted By: R-A-N-M-A
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 00:01
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I listened to all of Zeit today, twice. Does that still cout as music? ------------- 
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 00:23
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No. Still great though.
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