When, where, and how often do you listen to music?

Mainly in my room on my stereo. Either through vinyl or laptop. If not, 90.3 pretty much stays playing smooth jazz all day.

Living room is mostly laptop where I force all company to listen to 13+ minute Dead/Phish jams.

I'm not a fan of headphones except for porn.

I have about 15k songs on an iPod in my car. When driving, I listen to that 99% of the time. Sometimes I will put on Sirius/XM. At home, I have a Squeezebox connected to my stereo with a music server that serves up FLAC files and MP3's to the Squeezebox. First thing I do when I wake up is turn that on. I listen to it while showering and getting ready for the day (aka, taking a shite). Anytime I want some background noise, I turn on the music. When I brew, I have another iPod in a dock in the brewery loaded with good brew music. At work, I usually don't listen to music but sometimes I'll put some on. That's the only time I'll use headphones (Skull Candy buds) other than when I'm on an airplane.

How is the squeezebox?

Highly recommended?

Whenever I'm in my truck via Spotify. Occasionally, I'll do some night listening at home when I'm trying to find new stuff.

solid.

I listen probably 6 hours a day. Mornings at work when I'm in my office for 3-4 hours. Evenings when I'm grading papers and researching at home for 3 hours or so as well. That's all with headphones (which I prefer when I'm really wanting to listen closely to music. I find it to be more immersive and my home stereo system isn't that good).

We also have music going over the stereo anytime we're doing family time (getting ready in the mornings, cooking in the evenings).

And of course we listen in the car. All listening is on spotify these days unless I'm listening to a mixtape on soundcloud or bandcamp.

Truck to and fro - vehicle system
Kitchen while cooking - Bose dock plus phone
Camper - Boston Acoustics wifi speaker through aux or Sirius jambox
Other - Nakamichi bluetooth

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How is the squeezebox?

Highly recommended?

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Yes, if you can find them. They were originally called SliMP3 and made by a company called Slim Devices. Then Logitech bought them and discontinued the product a couple of years ago. I heard you can put Squeezebox firmware on a Logitech UE Smart Radio though.

It's the only way to go for me. I usually keep it on random play but if I want to, I can play any song or album without getting up from my couch.

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What do you listen to while brewing? I can never find anything I want to listen to while I brew.

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Depends on what kind of beer I'm making.

Actually, I just like unpretentious music that feels real to me. I'm a big fan of prog rock but for brewing, I'm looking for just the opposite. Blues, bluegrass, a little bit of country (not the fake-arse country-pop you hear on the radio), southern rock and good ol' fashioned straight ahead rock. Some examples: Allman Bros, Alvin "Youngblood" Hart, Gary Clark Jr., Keb' Mo', Zeppelin, John Campbell, Roy Buchanan, Sonny Landreth, Kathleen Edwards, String Cheese Incident, Levon Helm, Little Feat, Radiators.

Very underrated.