Has the iPod Changed the amount of time you spend listening to music?

[Glorybox3737]

Since getting your iPod do you feel as though you listen to music more or just listen to more music?

I personally don't spend anymore hours listening to music than I did when I had an cd player. I still spend between 1-4 hours a day listening to music. I just listen to more music. Like more artist and more albums. Lot's more vareity in my life.

How about you guys?

[MetalManCPA]

Variety is the key, not time

I just have more to choose at my fingertips. I generally listen to music 8+ hours a day. Before it was streaming MusicChoice (too many repeated songs although I still do once a week), FM radio (too many repeated songs and stupid ads), or CD's (PIA to carry around).

[mrdantownsend]

I got my first when I was 12, and I was big on music then, but i'm bigger on music now.

I couldn't say that the iPod itself makes me listen to music more, but it makes be listen to more music.

[Nader172]

I have, when I recieved a CD player I thought it was the greatest ever. I listened to it about twice becuase I was only 9 and music wasn't such a big thing to me.

Then when I was around 13, I recieved an MP3 player. It was a Memorex. I was really disappointed with the quality, so I just threw it against the wall. My brother asked if he could have it so I gave it to him for 40 dollars, and he too threw it against the wall three days later. It was a piece of crap.

About two days later after giving away my Memorex, I bought an iPod mini. iPod mini's wern't well known at our school yet, but I bought one anyways. From the start I haven't been disappointed. This outdated little guy is still my favorite toy to play with. I've been listening to music twice as much as I used to. And I've had this thing for like a year now and its still going strong.

~Nate~

[CJNeverWinter]

I know the iPod has increased the amount of music I listen to. the iPod makes time fly by when working.

[urbanlegend]

I listen to music a lot more and I listen to a lot more new and different music.

I have a friend in the record industry and she and her colleagues are always whining about how the iPod has ruined her industry and that her friends have lost their jobs, but I think it's a load of crap. I buy more cds now and I listen to more music since I got the iPod.

Of course, these are the same music industry people who don't recognize digital sales as being real sales. I wonder if they sit around and whine that they don't sell as many cassettes as they used to. Must be the iPod's fault. ;-)

John

[Derek McNelly]

Yeah.

I listen to music probably 2 hours a day more than I used to, and more importantly, I've started listening to different music a lot more.

I'm listening to Bay City Rollers now...

S-A-TUR-DAY NIGHT!

[jpod999]

When I got my first iPod 2 years ago, I started listening to music all the time because it was so much easier. Now I listen whenever I can! :D:D

[Kristiano]

Definitely. Last time, I used to flip on the radio for like 15 minutes a day.

Now, I'm listening to music (both in iTunes and not) for between 2-7 hours each day.

[punk_r0x]

I listen about the same but now it's all music I LIKE instead of radio crap at work.

[iPodJon120]

I used to only listen to music on my computer or cds in my car, now that I have an iPod, I use it when I walk, on the bus, before I go to sleep, at home, at work, etc...Dramitic increase of listening to music, and I love it!

[bdb]

Not much. Its probably increased the amount of time I spend listening to music some because I can listen when I'm out and about...but that doesn't count for that much in terms of hours per week.

Mostly I listen to more music because I'm more into music these days. That started before I got my iPod.

[cks2006]

A bit, since most of my digital music collection is on it. I haven't listened to my radio shows the past week or so though, because I have to edit them into apple compatible MP3.

[VipFREAK]

No, but if you'd have said Video then I think it's gone up by 1000%.

[Shane1]

my first mp3 player was a piece of crap...some unbranded ####e 128mb, it had no bass or treble crackly headphones, the cable was soo short errr then again it did only cost

[TheJosher]

I don't think the iPod has caused it, but I'm certainly going through a music addiction. I'm playing music every waking (and even listen to music to get to sleep ;)) moment when possible.



Josh

[Krn iPod]

Ever since i got my iPod, it's made listening to music much easier, and i have been listening to music more. I just want some more songs to download. Before i had an iPod, i didn't have a single music player, my sister had a CD player. All i really had was a tape player, which i had no tapes to, so i pretty much had nothing. So buying my iPod, has changed my life in music, I don't have to change CDs, tape's, no comercials, etc. It just makes life simple.

Krn iPod

[rubbers0ul]

before i had an ipod i'd just jam out in my car to my ridiculous CD collection but now i listen to around 5-6 a day sometimes during school but ive listened for like 14 before a day in the summertime when the whether was fine and i could shesh right up and touch the sky

[redyredred]

Absolutely - I listen to music a lot more now than I did before I bought my first iPod. I was always buying those huge books to store 100 or so CDs in and stashing it in my car. What a pain that was. I'd put in a CD, listen to one song, and switch to another CD, and repeat again for as many times as needed. I don't miss those days at all. Since getting my Shuffle, I find that I'm listening to music even more while waiting in line somewhere, grocery shopping, etc. I honestly can't imagine my life without my 'pods now, hehe!

[paranoidxe]

No not really I was using a Mini-Disc player for work, now my iPod has replaced it. I listen 8 hours a day at work as usual.

[XXTwnz]

Hell yes! I went from 20 to 50 CD's a year to 2000 last year. I listen about 8 hours a day now.

[enkanomy]

I hate to admit it, but since having an iPod, i've been listening to more music. Gone were the days i'd take some time off and play some beethoven on the cd player and "really" listen to music. These days i just put on shuffle mode and let it roll. But the good thing is iPod adds variety to the stuff i listen to. The huge space allows me to compile music from different genres.

[tampatrader]

just makes it easier to listen with an iPod. before I had to tote around a cd case or a pile of jewel cases. just makes it easer to listent 24/7 :)

[kileak1]

Not just music, but audio books and podcasts too. This little thing opened a whole new world for me it seems. Music is so accessable now. No more digging through the cd's, or having to change them out all the time.

[ipodphoto30]

Yes, the iPod has definitely made me listen to more music every single day.

I listen to lots and lots more music with my iTunes or iPod. It's such a great device!

[LukeA]

Until I got an iPod, I didn't listen to music at all. Now I listen to music a lot. New computers (with USB & FireWire) didn't hurt, either.

[Wednesday]

Originally posted by enkanomy
Gone were the days i'd take some time off and play some beethoven on the cd player and "really" listen to music. These days i just put on shuffle mode and let it roll.

I think that sums up modern listening practises in a nutshell. Because of the portability of DAPs, we always seem to be doing something else rather than giving the music our full attention. Sometimes it doesn't seem right to me that something Beethoven slaved over, pouring all his turmoil and emotional energy into now functions as background music to shopping at the mall. When was the last time you sat down, pressed 'play', closed your eyes and did nothing but listen?

I don't mean this in an accusatory way. It just fascinates me how technology has dramatically changed - and continues to change - the way we as a society consume and listen to music.

~Wednesday~

[fs.freshman]

yes it has for me. id have to say it got me into music a whole lot more...

[toubabokoomi]

I listen to music just as much with my iPod. I travel on the bus and walk alot. I feel nude without some tunes to carry with me. I will say that it is spoiling having your whole music library to carry with you. It gets to the point where I can't find what to listen to. I never had this problem when I had a portable compact disc player and a wallet of CDs.

[Wondah]

it has totally changed how much I listen to music. I was never real big on portable cd players, and I was also never a big fan of turning on the stereo and playing music. Now that I have an ipod I listen to it everday when before I would just play music in the car, or sometimes when I was on the computer. Now since I have a fm transmitter its doubled even the time I listen to the ipod. and its not just music...its podcasts and all that. so I guess long story short the ipod has changed my listening habits.

[heppy23]

I don't really listen to music much more but I listen to more different music.

I have two 140 mile round trip commutes each week (used to be 5 times a week) and I CAN'T STAND the idiots on any radio station that plays music.
I also go on long walks pushing my baby in his pushchair.

I have got a big CD collection and it was hassle to rotate CD's in and out of the car and the shed. It's also dangerous changing a CD while driving.

I have ordered a transmitter so I can play music from my nano LOUD in the car.

I am only up to the end of B in terms of transferring my CD's.

[MrPogo]

Definitely. I've always owned a portable music player of some kind (cassette, CD and Minidisc), but never used them all that much. Now my Ipod comes with me, and gets listened to, almost wherever I go.
The main reason is that the Ipod requires no 'pre-planning' - as my entire music collection is on me I don't have to decide what I want to listen to before leaving house: as someone who always leaves things to the last minute I very rarely had time to choose a CD/tape etc before stepping out the door, but now I don't have to think about it till I'm already on my way.

[BINKIE]

It has changed how often I listen to multi-CD sets. I never liked listening to just 1 CD of a 3 or 4 Grateful Dead or Velvet Underground box set all day, because I didn't like changing them on the fly. I never had a good place to change them and then would worry I would break the box carrying it around. I can't afford to replace $25 a pop CDs these days. Now I can have big multi CD sets ready to go each day and leave the actual CD safely at home.

[androo9549]

Owning an iPod has drastically increased the ammount of time I spend listening to music. In the past, I would listen to a CD a couple of times, the put it away, without listening to it for weeks at a time. Now with my iPod, I'm able to choose from my whole music collection at one time, therefore not making me bored of a certain album or song.

[david_safc]

Yes i suppose it has made me listen to more music. Before i had an ipod, my music collection was barely 512mb and now it is 8GB (including videos and podcasts). However, i dont listen to my ipod as much as i could as i feel paranoid in a way about taking it out of my house, incase it gets damaged, as its quite new, however im starting to listen to it more and more now

[REv9k]

I mostly listen to podcasts, but I'll tell you this; it has changed the amount of time that I've had to listen to the woman in the cube across from me yap on the phone all reaking day at work about her mountain climbing, daughter that can't stand her (I understand why), and all of the oil we are getting from Iraq (by the way, where is all of that oil? I need some!)

[knights731]

Ever since I got my iPod I've been listening to music alot more. Because my old mp3 player was horrible I didn't feel a need to go through all the hassle to listen to music.