Your preferred workshop music source?

[Dugg]

Interesting subject and now a chance to ventilate...... I have a 100 CD changer in my shop (two-car garage) that I click on "random". It's not random! It repeats on an irregular basis to the point that I actually wrote down the CD numbers and cut numbers over a three day period to prove it. Yes, as a matter of fact it was the same three days I was out of Prozac. And yes, I do need to get a life.

A couple of weeks ago I got XM radio for my car and yesterday I heard a my first repeat. Over a year ago I cancelled our Dish network due to lack of intelligent programming and too many commercials and as we live in the mountains here in Colorado, we don't get broadcast TV and don't want it.

I'm going to get a XM Radio docking station for the house and garage as we can't get decent radio reception either. Sure, the Christian stations come in clear, but that's because here at 8500' we're closer to heaven.

[martindugdale]

I strongly recemmend that you all check out Pandora.com

You type in an artist you like and it creates a radio station that you can fine tune to be exactly what you're into. It's absolute genius.

[alliance_metal]

I heard about that Pandora system.. sounds cool..

Personally.. I'm a musician as well, so I find myself playing lots of air bass, air guitar, and air drums while I'm watching my system do stuff. ..but if it's some tedious crap I gotta pull off, I find a few songs and let them repeat over and over again.. keeps my mind on task

[lennie]

I whistle constantly and unconsciously, to the point where i have had my co-workers say they think they hear me when i'm not even there....kinda spooky....

[ImanCarrot]

Radio 1 for me here in the UK, it's mindnumingly boring enough that I can concentrate on machining- once my machine is setup it's pretty much a case of continualy pushing the big green button.

[jetski]

Hey you need to listen to the following on the web. bobandtom.com live stream. Time change will screw it up for you guys in the UK but they are on from 6 a.m. Indiana U.S.A. time. till about 10 or 11. Rock and Roll and a lot of comedy. Or I listen to Polka on Fridays, because of my age and our shop has beer on Friday. Cha-Ching. So you can go to polkabarn.com and listen to 2 guys out of Wisconsin (recorded). Put your cheese hat on and polka in the tool room.

[stebanski]

I also had a 100 disc cd changer and was dissgusted by the same problem as mentioned by Dugg. So I was elated when I found I tunes and quickly loaded all my cd's into it and purchased new stuff from the I-store.
But guess what? Same problem. It has its own favorite songs and plays them often. It also seems to ping pong back to the cd it just played prior to the current one, only its a different trck this time.(just like the 100 disc changer did).There is something weird about random play systems that makes them very narrow minde.

[jackson]

because tech. they are still a computer and they dont understand random so they have to compute "stupid computers"

[stebanski]

Yes...I just logged onto pandora.com.
Looks like it just could be the shiznit!!
I'll reply back after a few days of listening.
Thanks Martindugdale

I strongly recemmend that you all check out Pandora.com

You type in an artist you like and it creates a radio station that you can fine tune to be exactly what you're into. It's absolute genius.

[Lexx0001]

I used to listen to the radio from morning to night. Then I changed jobs and they didn't allow music. After a while I noticed that I didn't miss it, and the only time the radio is on now is when I'm driving to or from work.

Even then it's talk radio

[sdantonio]

I've always opted for a live band whenever I can get one. But they are getting a little expensive these days.

I'm a one-man shop making custom musical instruments. When I'm running the heavy machinary I wouldn't be able to hear music anyway and when I'm working with the hand tools I'm usually concentrating on listening to the wood (if that makes any sense to you all... the tone of the edge tool cutting through the wood actually changes depending on thickness and wood stiffness etc). So usually the only time I really have any music in there is when a customer comes in to try out an instrument.

So yeah, on one level I was being a wiseguy with the live band comment... on another level I was serious.

[metal_god]

Hard rock and metal....no hip hop, country, emo or rap music in my shop. Loud enough to hear but not hinder with keeping and ear on your work. My apprentice is a lead guitar player in a progressive rock/ metal band.....go figure!