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I mean, do you watch videos? I find, they fill the same role, but for when you can't look at a screen.
I often walk to work now and just listen to a podcast on the way. Or if I'm cleaning or sewing or, well, I don't paint so far, but I imagine, they're excellent for that, too.
Lots of handiwork stopped being boring, since I've gotten into podcasts.
But yes, obviously also just pick better podcasts. One of the podcasts I listen to, is just interesting/fun science topics being presented and discussed. That's not low-effort at all...
I listen to music. There's an endless amount of bands I want to listen again, and another endless amount of bands I never heard that I'm trying to discover. And then there's a streaming service dedicated to classical music. I don't have enough hours during my work to listen to all of it, but I do my best. I probably average 6h per day listening to music.
If you're wondering, I'm a software developer. And I also listen to music during meetings, I just lower the volume to hear the people.
Ah don't forget to say fu Spotify
If that works for you, then that's great. I'm not saying folks have to get into podcasts, I'm just explaining how I find them useful now. I did not get them for a long time either, because I had wrong expectations for them.
And well, I also happen to work as a software dev, but my brain hates when I have to process words that I hear, while also processing words that are on my screen.
So, my own 6h of music per day is generally without vocals, or at least vocals that I've heard many times before or which are in a foreign language, so that my brain doesn't have to process them.
And that probably makes my music collection comparatively unengaging. I guess, I also don't grab new music often enough to make it engaging that way.
With all that combined, music is kind of largely relegated to the background thing for me, and podcasts are a foreground thing, when I can't look at a screen.
Again, just explaining how they work for me. It does sound like music could take the foreground role for you.
I totally vibe the same as you. It's not that it's foreground all the time, it's that now that my coding got to a level that I don't need to concentrate, I enjoy part of me attention going to the music.
But yeah if I'm doing something hard it's going to be the same 3 iron maiden albums for a couple days lol