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Poll: What’s Your Favorite Way to Listen to Music?

Technology is ever entwined with the way we listen to music. There have been vinyl records (78 rpm to 45 rpm to 33 1/3 rpm), 8-track, radio, cassette, CD, digital downloads and streaming. Despite the boom in streaming music with Pandora, Rdio, Spotify and now iTunes Radio, there’s also been a resurgence for vinyl records, with worldwide sales of $177 million last year — the highest number in 16 years. So how do you like to listen to music? On satellite radio in the car? Digital downloads on your iPod or Android phone? Streaming? Or good old-fashioned vinyl? Vote in our poll below and explain more in the comments.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • I'm all over the place and use all technologies. I ripped my thousand or so CDs onto my computer and use this for downloads on my iPhone or iPods for the car or to work out. iTunes is my computer Jukebox. The CDs themselves haven't been used for many years. I acquire vinyl from thrift stores and estate sales to listen to in my upstair hippy lounge. I've bought digital downloads through online services. When thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail I lost my music on my iPhone so I downloaded a couple of albums and podcasts for musical motivation during the end of my hike. There are some great podcasts out there and some very talented podcasters. I've been streaming Pandora through my PS3 and Blu-Ray disc player and that is an incredible resource. Shoutcast is also a great resource through my disc player. I'm and trying to live smaller so as long as there are free to inexpensive services available, I don't feel I need to possess music.

  • I stream music! I use Torch Music, which is a free music streaming service and I'm totally addicted. I have a playlist for work and for when I'm cleaning the house, it totally puts me in the right mood!

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