Do you ever listen to music while playing games?

[Prowler]

By music I don't mean listening to the games BGM/OST. But listening to a CD or to music on Spotify while having the game on mute or with its music turned off.

I only do it for select few games such as Football Manager and Civilization. FM has no music at all. The only sound it has is the sound effect of clicking through menus and the stadium audience reacting to the matches. Perfect game to listen to music to. Civilization has background music but it gets repetitive after a while in a game that's meant to be played in long spells. So I'd rather listen to a couple of music albums during a civ session instead.

[Andrew NDB]

I'd do that when I was playing FFXI Online eons ago. But only because I'd log hundreds of hours and get super bored with the existing music.

[FrederikWolferson]

I listen to audiobooks while playing.

[Dpooly84]

Good question, sometimes I do. I just bought my daughter a Billie Eilish album for Christmas and I let her listen to it while I'm playing GOW Ragnarok. Some games I like getting lost in the ost but I love putting on 90s rap while play fighting games, it just hits all the nostalgic feels

[IMJ]

I loved how you could remove the Ridge Racer disc from a PSOne and put in any music CD that overlayed the Ridge Racer game while you played it....

[Andrew NDB]

Or how the older, I think original X-Box versions of say, WWE Smackdown would let you upload .MP3s to be custom music of your choosing. I believe GTA San Andreas even let you do that with like a custom radio station that you can upload songs to. GONE, from subsequent versions.

[Storm Eagle]

Where I live, this radio station has a block called 90s @ Nite, where they play 90s rock music on Saturday nights from 8pm to 10pm EST. I always listen to it at home, and I'd have retro gaming sessions while it was on.

[Turo602]

Or how the older, I think original X-Box versions of say, WWE Smackdown would let you upload .MP3s to be custom music of your choosing. I believe GTA San Andreas even let you do that with like a custom radio station that you can upload songs to. GONE, from subsequent versions.

The fact that this didn't become standard and that there hasn't been much demand for its return is just f*cking criminal.

[Prowler]

Or how the older, I think original X-Box versions of say, WWE Smackdown would let you upload .MP3s to be custom music of your choosing. I believe GTA San Andreas even let you do that with like a custom radio station that you can upload songs to. GONE, from subsequent versions.

The fact that this didn't become standard and that there hasn't been much demand for its return is just f*cking criminal.

There were no SmackDown games on the original Xbox. The first one to get an Xbox port was SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, I believe. And it was for the Xbox 360 already.

I think you guys mean the Raw games for the OG Xbox? Perhaps they had such feature?

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I play music while playing Pokemon Showdown coz its own music can frankly be rage inducing at times. Regular Pokemon is also fairly playable with other music too.

First Person Shooter games like Counter-Strike though? No way, any extra music would hinder your gameplay since you want to focus on sounds like footsteps and the direction of gunfire.

[neatoman]

If we're exclusively talking about music that isn't in the game itself, maybe if the music of the game is really bad or there is none to begin with. I rarely see myself turning the music off and listening to something else. It's more likely I'll be listening to a podcast or something if I do that, but I can't think of much music I'd do that for. If it's something like solitaire or something that is easier to do but if the sound of the game is important, it's not exactly a good idea to turn it off.

As for music that is part of the game, why yes, yes I do listen to it. Ever played New Vegas? If you have, how could you not?
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