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I see you're not a connoisseur of socially-inept subway phone DJ's


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Apparently these DJ's listeners do not practice Google-fu at a proficient level.

We call them "DJs without headphones" in Poland. They're [1] obnoxious in public transport. Now, I often considered speaking up, but figured out that if they're such a retard to do this, they probably won't listen and it could end up badly.

[1] Or maybe had been, seems they're on decline. Albeit when powerful BT speakers were all the rage (like JBL Flip), they were overused in public spaces as well.


If there's any possibility of somebody (e.g. a barista) overhearing me asking my phone to identify a song, I won't do it. Perhaps I'm excessively bashful, but I would find it embarrassing.

Being stuck on the subway several times a week with 1 or more people playing bass dependent music/game audio through their phone speakers... shoot me now.

>random coffee shop person saying their song name out loud to play it instead of just using their phone screen

Well, if you do it once (to set an album or playlist or single song to play), nobody cares. If you talk to cue every song to be played, sure you'll annoy someone.


If you can't tell the difference between a dj and playlist or AI then the DJ is terrible.

The problem: you don't want to be DJ-ing at work, where your time is better spent on more important things than what music you will listen to.

whoaa .. wasn't expecting all this. I just download songs to put in my android phone for running. Though I doubt your salty words. Mostly a bunch of drunk people in a crowded party want to dance and have fun. I am sorry that you had to spend a lot of money 'buying in'. But I think the point of a DJ is to play music to a crowd, get them to have fun and dance..

It is explicitly legal to perform non-amplified music in the subway.

I just don't listen to the radio outside of the news and talk shows. We do have a college station that's pretty good most of the time, but it's not always my kind of music. I don't have access to a computer per se, but I've got one in my pocket. I just didn't have my headphones charged because I'll go through periods where I don't even want to listen to my own music and these bone conduction headphones don't have good enough quality to understand a podcast.

These two coworkers, actually, are excellent. I love working with them. Just their music choice for work is horrible. I'm pretty lucky that the only things I have to complain about here are the hours and background music.


I'm willing to wager it was terrible. This anecdote is not evidence against the practice required to DJ at a professional level, sorry.

"It's not like the DJ is doing anything but playing other people's songs"

Yea, I'm not going to listen to music I want to listen to for the first time on a crowded noisy tube thanks.

There is no way to tell the difference in a subway station, even for an instrument as loud as a violin. Moreover, no one goes to the subway to listen to music.

Well, DJs are not musicians. They hate it because deep down, they know it's true.

I know I'm not the target market for bars and nightclubs but I've always hated just how loud the DJ's play the music. What is the point of going to a social atmosphere when you can barely even talk to someone without shouting? Who actually enjoys ear splitting music?

Good insight; imposing yourself on others is never going to be very popular.

The modern equivalent of the boom box is people playing music loudly on their phone speaker on public transport.


You must not have normies in your life. I'm subjected to cell phone and laptop speakers constantly.

A lot of folks inexplicably defend these "DJs without headphones." I've seen some go so far as to claim being against them is an act of, yes, racism.
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