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for longer drives i queue up albums or an audio book, but for shorter drives i always use the radio. there's something fun about "fishing" for a good song and those morning talk shows are stupid but endearingly so in small doses

when i lived in buffalo, we had this amazing station WECK FM that was what an oldies station was back when what an oldies station is now was modern, so like all 50s and 60s early rock and pop. five years living there and i was somehow still constantly hearing stuff i'd never heard before

Not really, I only listen to the radio in the car but I barely drive since I started to take the bus.

Not since middle school in the 90s.

Mostly no. Currently the only time I put it on is when I'm away from the computer for a length of time doing something quiet.

And I'd probably not even do so then if I had a tablet or smartphone to cue something up from the Internet instead.

(I'm basically stuck in the '90s here. Largely by choice, but money is a factor.)

Given my work as a dev I've pretty much always got BBC Sounds on in the background while I'm working. Mainly Radio4 but also Radio6 for music and sometimes sports on Radio5 (Australian Open tennis is a personal favourite for cold winter mornings.)

When I get into someone's car who doesn't use streaming (usually someone older). Almost everyone listens to the same 3-4 stations which put on the same 20-30 songs on a loop.

Not by choice.

When I drive with someone else at work (not often but sometimes it happens), they often want to listen to the radio, which means we're listening to ads for 90% of the trip and then we get one song. And people are okay with that. Fucking mindless drones.

Radio really has gone to shit. If you haven't listened in a while... the ads are almost worse than going online without an ad blocker. You won't get a virus or spyware, but you might spend the whole trip listening to ads before you earn the right to hear one censored song. Then you get back in the car and the ads start over again. It really is mostly ads these days. Most radio stations in an area will be owned by the same company, and they sync the ads so you can't just change the channel.

I do, I mostly stick to the black talk shows because the rest are full of MAGATS For music, I cycle through all sorts of stations

My wife and I share a music streaming account, so if I’m driving and I know she’s using it at home, I switch to radio in the car. But I don’t listen to music, I usually end up listening to NPR or something.

Occasionally I'll put on the radio either in the car or at home, but it's not very common these days.
My boyfriend listens to the radio in the car and he regularly finds new music that way.

I can't say I miss it from having once been the go-to platform. I'll trade radio over to having listening to whatever is on my media stick, PodBean or Sirius in comparison.

I've only gone to radio when I don't have either of those things, it's just white noise. I try listening to sports stuff, I just get annoying hosts with low-IQ callers calling in, I get music stations that repeat shit over and over .etc

And it's like, I don't miss this as much as I thought.

I haven't listened to the radio regularly in years. I listen to podcasts whenever I would have previously listened to the radio.

Absolutely, community radio stations WORT and WYMS are at the top for music, WPR for news and classical. The charming unpredictability of community funded radio is a beautiful thing, streaming falls flat as a pancake against a well run, non-corporate, station.

Only when I'm forced to in other people's car ... and I absolutely hate it.

Nah, I remember my first car I took it to Best Buy and had them install an Aux cable so I could play music from my phone. Literally never went back to radio. Not to say it’s a bad medium, I just prefer constant music without interruption.

Nope, never did. I do sometimes listen to online streams for specific genres etc. but never actually radio stations.

Occasionally in my car, we have a few decent local stations. And occasionally in my garage too while working on vehicles.

Not me. For the longest time finding a decent station in my area was inexistent. The first moment FM transmitter in the cars became a thing, I went all in to my stash and play what I have there

Nah, all in demand streaming.

Yeah :)

If you're getting your news from the radio, I hope it's NPR stations and not shit like drive-time talk radio

lol. NO.

not since Corus bought the last remaining real Rock station here.. they turned it into 'top 40 slop'

I went Spotify, but honestly.... that's fine too. I use VLC on my phone, and in the car.