This might seem silly, but I noticed I like the discovery flight music. Anyone use anything to play music in the background while flying? How about for VR? What’s the best setup for this? Probably would get repetitive but would love the option to incorporate that music into my flights  

IRL, I have a Sirius xm subscription w/ my gtn 750 and my audio panel allows me to continue playing music in the background while flying. It’s a very cathartic and soothing experience to play channel 53 chill while floating on top of clouds haha. 

Maybe just having a Bluetooth speaker nearby and playing it outside of the setup? I’m thinking someone has this figured out though. 

I use this : https://jumpseatmedia.com/

What would be really cool is if my Cessna c140 let me tune in 1940's AM Radio on the nav radios and played some swing and bebop and maybe a1940s ball game and some adds and news.

That would be awesome if we can tune into streaming radio stations on our planes and have it somehow be controlled through the Avionics panel where it shows album art, etc, kind of like Apple's Car Play but for planes. But for the time being I just use Plexamp.

I really enjoy Jumpseat Radio! Looking forward to its implementation in VR.

I sometimes open up the legendary WinAmp and play a few songs on long journeys.

8 hours ago, captain420 said:

That would be awesome if we can tune into streaming radio stations on our planes and have it somehow be controlled through the Avionics panel where it shows album art, etc, kind of like Apple's Car Play but for planes. But for the time being I just use Plexamp.

This is a feature of the gtn750 if you have a subscription. My wife has the garmin pilot app on her phone just so she can control the music from the back. 

9 hours ago, johnbow72 said:

I use this : https://jumpseatmedia.com/

This is great, thank you!

I use Spotify in the background when I fly, I often listen to "Daily Commute" i like to have a mix of news and my favorit music.

I use this little app from Simmarket, that I bought in about 2006 !

It runs in the background - you preselect the music files you want to listen to in advance, then the NUM keys on the Numpad control the tracks, and there are assignable buttons for volume, etc.

It's not that different to using Windows Media Player or VLC in the background, except that allegedly it uses a lot less resource power that other media players

https://secure.simmarket.com/aero-files-media-bundle.phtml

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Spotify all the way!

5 hours ago, Ixoye said:

I use Spotify in the background when I fly, I often listen to "Daily Commute" i like to have a mix of news and my favorit music.

+1 for Spotify.  As long as it's good Instrumental music so I don't have to listen to some guy crying about his girlfriend... I've got problems of my own to think about (or escape from)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/34UTI8mOgaonJPXADacBWa?si=ZLkTqTSLS2y6pLGvktu6Sg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

 

Edited August 9, 20214 yr by Stoopy

I almost never fly with music, but I can see why they did that with the Discovery Flights.  It's all right for that.

Years ago I once flew with Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherezade" while I flew Bristol Type 170 Wayfarer from Morocco down the coast to Dakar.  The fact that I remember the flight from 20 years ago means it must have been memorable.  Heh.

Nothing beats listening to some of the megalomanic symphonies of Bruckner while flying through mountains.

4, 7, 8 and 9 are especially suitable.

8 hours ago, Farlis said:

Nothing beats listening to some of the megalomanic symphonies of Bruckner while flying through mountains.

4, 7, 8 and 9 are especially suitable.

Oh yeah! Absolutely Bruckner.   4th flying thru mountains is perfect.