I am feeling your pain! I have a new iPhone and without that normal hole to stick my earbud plug into, I can’t listen to anything today at work, so sad. Hopefully tomorrow I remember to bring the buds that came with the phone and plug into the charging hole.
@f00l@moonhat You are very specific in regards to your audiobook listening requirements…and I can’t get my son to use Audible, he prefers the Android narration…
Personally I use whatever headset I have around, listening in the car and sometimes while doing non-thinking work.
The audible app (either iOS or Android) has gotten very good.
There are also some excellent Android audiobook player apps. I personally like
Listen Audiobook Player
Smart Audiobook Player
Which app I use depends if the file format of the book. For audible books I use the audible app. Not gonna take the time to xfer to mp3 for those.
Re headphones
Whatever works for a person.
I like the LG series because
Comfortable
Decent battery life
Easy to take out of ears for f2f conversations in person
Easy to later put back in ears: the buds are where you think they are, without looking.
Good Audio quality for spoken word.
(Most important)
The right controls for spoken word, and the controls are easy to use, no fumbling or looking needed.
I listen many hours each day most days. So it’s worth it to me to get the right headset for me.
My friends who like audiobooks also prefer the LG Tones.
But if you like something else, use it!
Everyone has their preferences.
NPR has wonderful music segments. But they feel a bit like going to class.
The kind of radio I miss most were/are the college and alt or nonprofit stations (or sometimes mainstream stations) where the DJ played for love, and you just turned it on for background company, and then something would make you listen and blow your mind.
Seems like that usually happened between 2-4am.
That radio prob still exists. But my habits have changed, I guess.
And commercial music radio mostly sux now.
Thx for reminding me about the NPR segments. Tho I rarely listen to NPR anymore. It’s too slow paced for me now.
@f00l@tightwad I did enjoy listening to that little radio all day! A few stations came in pretty well, and I heard a lot of songs I really like and hadn’t heard in forever. Lots of chair boogie-ing going on. I do need to listen to music more often.
Because those shows are localized to individual station prefs and content during daily broadcast, I don’t think those can be had as podcasts.
If they can, I wanna know about it.
Time shifting thru the npr apps won’t do it for me.
I need speeded-up-speech controls and skip-fwd/back controls also, or I just can’t bring self to listen to various content anymore
I guess I’ve spoiled myself with my techno-media habits.
And there is so much great content out there now. It’s not like anyone is gonna run out of great stuff.
Listening to the superb “History Of Rome” podcast as I write this.
That does sound painful.
Sympathies.
Good luck with the withdrawl.
Thoughts and prayers, man.
a. There may be a local support group to help you.
b.
/giphy portable cd player
Read a book then? Like one of those old fashioned paper things?
I am feeling your pain! I have a new iPhone and without that normal hole to stick my earbud plug into, I can’t listen to anything today at work, so sad. Hopefully tomorrow I remember to bring the buds that came with the phone and plug into the charging hole.
@moonhat
Get a good bt headset for audiobooks. (not the same as for music)
My favs are the LG Tone or LG Tone Plus series.
Any of them, old or new.
The controls are just right for spoken word, and it’s easy to take them in and out if your ears for polite and respectful f2f conversations.
And then easy to find the bud and put it back in your ear.
!!!
don’t get a fake or a knockoff tho! Get the genuine LG’s!
!!!
Often there are cheaply or reasonably priced LG refurbs at Newegg and Amazon.
I usually listen to audiobooks w just one ear.
2 ear listening means music. : )
@f00l @moonhat You are very specific in regards to your audiobook listening requirements…and I can’t get my son to use Audible, he prefers the Android narration…
Personally I use whatever headset I have around, listening in the car and sometimes while doing non-thinking work.
@moonhat @tightwad
The audible app (either iOS or Android) has gotten very good.
There are also some excellent Android audiobook player apps. I personally like
Listen Audiobook Player
Smart Audiobook Player
Which app I use depends if the file format of the book. For audible books I use the audible app. Not gonna take the time to xfer to mp3 for those.
Re headphones
Whatever works for a person.
I like the LG series because
Comfortable
Decent battery life
Easy to take out of ears for f2f conversations in person
Easy to later put back in ears: the buds are where you think they are, without looking.
Good Audio quality for spoken word.
(Most important)
The right controls for spoken word, and the controls are easy to use, no fumbling or looking needed.
I listen many hours each day most days. So it’s worth it to me to get the right headset for me.
My friends who like audiobooks also prefer the LG Tones.
But if you like something else, use it!
Everyone has their preferences.
@f00l @moonhat What I meant was that my son prefers an e-book, read by the Android text to speech, over a true “audio book”…
I will have to check out the LG series for my next replacement, should my headset go bad (or more likely missing).
@moonhat @tightwad
I use text to speech for some books when there is no audio version and I have a long drive ahead of me.
V happy that the latest Paperwhite and Oasis e-readers do Bluetooth TTS.
I find the native Amazon TTS voice to be surprisingly listenable.
@moonhat Don’t listen to @f00l. Because of her, I have three LGs and two ears. I’m very fond of them all, and I’m really attached to my ears.
@moonhat @OldCatLady
More ears for you then.
/giphy ears
@f00l @tightwad This is what I’ve been using today. Radio or nothin. You know you’re jeal.
@moonhat @tightwad
I used to so love all those wearable Sony radios back when I loved radio.
Back when ratio wasn’t killed by predictable and boring algorithm-driven playlists.
Back when radio meant discovery.
I have one of those exact radios somewhere. And some other similar ones. The Sonys were the best back then.
Oh well.
Once, a long time ago …
/youtube “radio Gaga”
/youtube radio Gaga live aid
@f00l @moonhat @tightwad
NPR music
@Cerridwyn @moonhat @tightwad
NPR has wonderful music segments. But they feel a bit like going to class.
The kind of radio I miss most were/are the college and alt or nonprofit stations (or sometimes mainstream stations) where the DJ played for love, and you just turned it on for background company, and then something would make you listen and blow your mind.
Seems like that usually happened between 2-4am.
That radio prob still exists. But my habits have changed, I guess.
And commercial music radio mostly sux now.
Thx for reminding me about the NPR segments. Tho I rarely listen to NPR anymore. It’s too slow paced for me now.
@f00l @moonhat @tightwad
you can find them online as podcasts
i don’t hunt for them so not sure exactly where, but shouldn’t be hard
@f00l @tightwad I did enjoy listening to that little radio all day! A few stations came in pretty well, and I heard a lot of songs I really like and hadn’t heard in forever. Lots of chair boogie-ing going on. I do need to listen to music more often.
@Cerridwyn @moonhat @tightwad
What I want is ATC and ME as podcasts.
Because those shows are localized to individual station prefs and content during daily broadcast, I don’t think those can be had as podcasts.
If they can, I wanna know about it.
Time shifting thru the npr apps won’t do it for me.
I need speeded-up-speech controls and skip-fwd/back controls also, or I just can’t bring self to listen to various content anymore
I guess I’ve spoiled myself with my techno-media habits.
And there is so much great content out there now. It’s not like anyone is gonna run out of great stuff.
Listening to the superb “History Of Rome” podcast as I write this.