Spotted this in a survey on Facebook (social networking site). It asked how people listened to music; the answers were broken down by various categories, perhaps the most interesting was by age:



Over 70% of the youngsters listening to MP3 formats, and hardly any to CDs. Amazing how fast things change

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My age group is not covered at all

Am I supposed to be dead by now?

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I'm in the 25+ group, and the only reason I use my iRiver to listen to music is because I can't take my home theater system when I go mountain biking. The quality of the audio path from source to ear of typical MP3 systems is not quite adequate for me. And I suspect that's largely due in part to learning how to mix audio, which makes one slightly pickier when it comes to neutrality =)

In the home theater system, I use a traditional CD carousel.

One of these days I hope to add a FLAC-based HDD or solid-state player to my HT system that is automatically synced with my computer, and have the ability to buy and download full 5.1 albums from the Internet!

Maybe when MP3 players pay a bit more attention to quality than features, I'll have another look. Of course, I understand I am in the extreme minority in my age group

im nearly into the yellow band!!
im so old.

mostly i listen to music on my pc or mp3 player.

Where's the "on 2 nice speakers with a glass of wine" option?

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That's interesting.
It doesn't say what format the computer listening is in - I guess the large majority is mp3 - but I listen to all my music from my computer and I have it on there as 16/44 wavs.

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My age group is not covered at all

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Er.. You don't even exist!

Just proves that you mustn't believe all you read on a screen.

I see that live music doen't exist, either!



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No, just deaf. I notice that the survey doesn't include ear trumpet as an option

I wouldn't read too much into this at all. It's typical survey skewage and not representative without further qualification.

The only thing one can extrapolate from the figures, is that most of those who use Facebook (who are young anyway) and who took the time to fill in the survey seem to listen on an MP3 device. Beyond that it's speculation.

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I wouldn't read too much into this at all. It's typical survey skewage and not representative without further qualification.

The only thing one can extrapolate from the figures, is that most of those who use Facebook (who are young anyway) and who took the time to fill in the survey seem to listen on an MP3 device. Beyond that it's speculation.

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I wouldn't read too much into this at all. It's typical survey skewage and not representative without further qualification.

The only thing one can extrapolate from the figures, is that most of those who use Facebook (who are young anyway) and who took the time to fill in the survey seem to listen on an MP3 device. Beyond that it's speculation.

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I think id be interested in knowing how much music that is listened to is legit by age group...

I think that might be quite revealing.

surveys can be complete rubbish tho. I dont know a single teenager who owns an ipod. they all have psp's tho

This might prove my age but-what the hell is facebook?

The only reason I use an mp3 player is that nobody invented a portable turntable.

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I am the facebook generation, 19/student!
My preferences:
CD's or vinyl (dependent on genre) first choice, through decent hifi or monitor speakers
MP3 where portability is an issue (i.e when running. If I am going somewhere with a bag, the cd walkman and sennheiser earbuds come with me)
Web radio (if I forget my cds)
Cassette (in the car)
Radio (if all else fails)

wow. Cassette.

I'd forgotten about these!!

Trouble is, people are generally happy to buy what they are told too. I don't mean this as a conspiracy it's just they way people work and how marketers have taken advantage of that. I do it for example with soap powder. I really really don't want to spend any time giving the soap powder I buy any serious consideration. I'm happy to grab what's on the shelf in the supermarket.

Give The Kids computers that play music, a means of finding music with them (be iTunes or Limewire) and a reason to sit in front of them a lot (like social networking sites like Facebook or Myspace or watching general trivia on YouTube) and they'll end up mostly listening to music on computers! Tell them iPods are cool (which they are) and make it easy to transfer music between it and the aforementioned computer (which it is) and they'll use iPods to listen to music too!

Above a certain quality fidelity doesn't really come into it. I can hear the difference between most MP3s and CDs but that's not to say most MP3s sounds awful. They don't.

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Curiosly, a lot of people I meet seem to own some kind of ipod or other mp3 device which they claim to be "unable to live without", but when you ask what type of music they are into, or who their favorite band is, they are literally unable to answer with anything but "oh you know, anything really" or similarly non descript statement.

Don't make the mistake of concluding that because kids these days seem to be inseperable from their portable music players that they have a greater love or understanding of music than previous generations. They are still listening to commercial guff put out by the big labels which bears an equally small relation to real music as the 7"s you probably bought when you were 13, just for more of the day.

maybe I'm being pedantic, but just coz you listen on an iPod, it doesn't mean you're using mp3. The default is AAC, which is definitely better. I use mine with Apple lossless. The supplied headphones are IMO a bigger source of quality loss than the file format.

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The music played in my home comes from one of the following 3 sources:

1 - MP3 library, piped around the house with various media players over wi-fi
2 - Internet radio
3 - My own compositions from Logic

.... oh, and I am the wrong side of 30 by the way

Ok, I know the sound quality from MP3's isn't great - but it IS so convenient.

Edited by Craig Lockwood (23/07/07 11:04 PM)

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maybe I'm being pedantic, but just coz you listen on an iPod, it doesn't mean you're using mp3. The default is AAC, which is definitely better. I use mine with Apple lossless. The supplied headphones are IMO a bigger source of quality loss than the file format.

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My iRiver is very happy to play 44.1/16 wavs.....sounds great with the Grado SR-80 h/phones

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Curiosly, a lot of people I meet seem to own some kind of ipod or other mp3 device which they claim to be "unable to live without", but when you ask what type of music they are into, or who their favorite band is, they are literally unable to answer with anything but "oh you know, anything really" or similarly non descript statement.

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I don't really find genre to be that accurate or descriptive. I keep seeing classifieds "Want to start an Alt-Rock band," which 10 years ago would've included Counting Crows or Goo Goo Dolls, but which now seems to include many bands I'd call Heavy Metal.

There's apparently a genre called Texas Music. I live in Texas, I make music, but apparently it's not Texas Music because it's not country.

"Anything really" seems like an acceptable answer, as it barely makes more sense than 'acid punk' or 'nu-metal' or whatever the hell the current music magazines decided was a category this week. Bands like the White Stripes are labeled as 'indie rock' while they're on major labels. 'World music' is a similarly bullshit term regarding anything that didn't come from Europe or America.

Don't take this the wrong way, I don't think you're mistaken about the teens in any fashion, I just think it's a bit much to expect from them, when they probably listen to a wide spectrum of sub-genres that add up to 'anything really' in their brilliant minds. Heck, you might be right; 'anything really' probably means 'pop.'

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I understand what you are saying, but I disagree. There is a big difference between someone such as myself and probably many of you who likes many kinds of music from rock, punk, electronica, classical to jazz and beyond, and makes a conscious effort to seek out music which they will enjoy listening to, who can quite justifiably say they are into "anything really" which really means "a bit of everything really" and someone who listens to whatever the radio is playing that week, where "anything really" actually means "nothing really".

On the subject of genres, personally I think they are a very useful way of speeding up the process of finding exactly the music you want to listen to. For example I know that I don't like "jump up" or "trance n bass", which are really horrible (IMHO) generic types of drum and bass, however i'm mad for a bit of "gabber" or "breakcore" or "techstep". Now how am I going to find music I like, or people will similar tastes, if I just say I like drum and bass? Genres are heirachal (sp?) though, so as you say, alt-rock, or indie or whatever are vauge umbrella terms, with little meaning. Generally, I find that the more people are "into" their music, the further down the tree of genres they understand, so whilst I may be able to chat merrily to my band about the intricacies of "sludgecore" vs "grindcore" vs "metalcore", the average iPod joe probably couldnt go beyond "metal" or "rock".

Maybe I am just elitist, but I am sick of people on their myspace professing to be the greatest fan of some scene band (eg H.I.M), but then being totally disinterested in any other similar music, unless MTV told them otherwise.

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Well, yes and no... Facebook does have a peak in university/college age group but the next large group is older users. It's preferred by the 'adult users' over MySpace because of the way it works. Or at least it was last week.

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really? I didn't realise that. I've never seen any non students on it to be honest. But I suppose that is why facebook is better than myspace, it doesnt constently bombard you with randoms.

What's a random?

Also, wtf is sludgecore? It sounds revolting.

Now wash your hands.

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really? I didn't realise that. I've never seen any non students on it to be honest.

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95% of my friends on there are from my schools / uni / work. The children of the 70's WILL take over!

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Sludgecore is like metalcore but really slow, see eyehategod or mistress on pandora for examples. Grindcore is like metalcore, only it sounds more like grinding metal than music, Pig Destroyer are a great example (prowler in the yard is an ace album).

A random, I mean like on myspace when random idiots you have never met, add you to get the amount of friends they have up and stuff like that.

Edited by guy999 (24/07/07 07:41 PM)

Gawwwd, I never quite got the difference between Heavy Metal and hard Rock.....But then again I was a Mod