Music around the house all the time or silence?

I prefer speech radio if there’s an interesting discussion or drama. I also listen to magazine type phone in programmes like The Jeremy Vine Show and early mornings I like Chris Evans, he does play a lot of music but also chatters on about anything and everything and is endlessly optimistic, so a good start to the day.
Other times I like a bit of silence just to take in the sounds around me, birds singing, neighbours in the garden etc.
I live alone so I get to choose ?

I'd sooner music than the News Channel which is on all day in our house. As soon as my DH leaves the house, the TV is off and a lovely silence follows.

Silence for me.

Absolute silence, never listen to the radio.

Silence apart from when we actually sit down to listen to an album, or to watch tv. Never music as background.

I don’t like radio, if I want music I play my own. Too much chatter, adverts and people who talk for the sake of it. I like quiet too but if I’m reading, noise does not distract me at all. I am one of those people so absorbed in the story that any noise/music does not register. I like music when I’m doing jobs or ironing, it seems to make the chore go faster for some reason. Having said all that, I do like quiet also. Times when you just need to chill, especially in the garden.

Like you I enjoy silence, but like you I am married to a man who doesn't. Compromise is that I have a room of my own, and he keeps the volume fairly low.

This works for us.

Silence for me too unless I am cleaning then I have music on, the cleaning seems to go faster with me trying to singalong. I loathe the adverts on the tv, the noise level always goes up and so it gets muted. Also why do drivers have to share their noise and why is it always loud bass. Moan over, going now.

I need the radio on, not necessarily music, to distract me from the racket of noisy children the childminder next door basically herds out into her garden most days. I love it when it rains - a little bit of peace.

I sleep better if I have the telly on in the bedroom . It goes off after 3 hours , I think !

I do wonder why it is necessary to have some form of noise all the time - I can understand tinnitus sufferers at is must be hell, but peace and quiet are so rare, and so lovely. I stood listening to birdsong the other day - that and the sound of the wind in the trees was so relaxing that I could have slept on my feet. The younger members of the family seem to need music all the time, from waking to sleeping. I love music and like many posters I play it in the kitchen when I am cooking, or ironing , and enjoy all types, but peace wins hands down for me.

Always have TV on all the time as I like to hear other people as a background when I'm alone

I have the television on all the time. I just like the aural wallpaper, I don't watch it all the time, and I'm not lonely.

I'm another silence lover in the main. If I do put on the radio then I prefer to listen to talking rather than music. DH on the other hand likes music 24/7 - ugh!

Have you tried asking him to listen via headphones?

It depends on my mood. Just lately I prefer silence, but when things cheer up again I shall hopefully go back to lots of music around the house.

Peace and silence here.

I like to choose my own music so not really keen on the radios random songs.

Over the last year or so every time I put the car radio on it is either depressing songs, noisy songs, or people sending request in for Sunday love songs, naming half the family who I have never know .

So have reverted back to my cd collection in the car.(yes ABBA all the way to work)

I like peace and quiet. I haven't listened to the radio or music for years. I had too many years of other people's choice of music and TV. This is a bonus of living alone.

Radio news in the morning, turn to Cool Jazz to relax me after the awful morning news.

I don't have the radio on other than R4 on Saturdays, as I am usually too busy to listen properly. I don't like music radio, as I can't choose the music and I get irritated by the presenters, so I usually have music of my own playing (ie playlists, not me playing music?). I find that if I want to concentrate it helps to have something to 'screen out', and if I'm pottering about the house it helps to have something to tune into.

Like Cabbie, I use music to counteract my tinitus, but also TV and talk radio. I put on Classic FM when I go to bed and tell Alexa to stop playing in twenty or thirty minutes by which time I am almost always sound asleep.

I only play music when I can sit down and listen to it properly. By coincidence I was able to do that for an hour both today and yesterday. I found some newly written songs by a Christian collective called The Porter’s Gate and they’re well worth listening to.
(Only if you like that sort of thing of course.)

Since my dh died 2 years ago I have the radio on most of the time: lbc or boom, I find silence can become very hard to cope with.

Usually some background music or tv, but very low volume. For music I stream an app called Accuradio, and you can pick your genre. Normally for me is 70's and 80's music.

Will admit to tuning up Led Zepplin once in a while while doing housework.

That would drive me mad . If I play Classic FM in the kitchen when working I make sure all doors are closed . Our neighbour is doing an extension by himself and plays his radio all the time . We had to have a word with him as we could hear it in our house . His choice of station was terrible too .