Seems pointless and inconvenient for me as they usually seem to be poor quality, and can you really listen to music in the shower, and are you showering long enough to benefit from it?
Or do you own one and use for a different purpose, like swimming or Kayaking?
How is enjoying music “pointless”? I don’t understand your train of thought at all. Benefit from it? I just like music
lol this is the only response necessary
OP didn’t say listening to music is pointless. Try rereading the post.
Seems pointless
Literal first 2 words of the post. Have you checked your CO detectors recently?
I know grammar is hard, but OP is clearly saying that using a Bluetooth speaker in the bathroom seems pointless, not music listening in general.
Maybe at least be correct if you’re going to be a dick.
My wife and daughter do yeah. Blaring kpop at 7 in the morning. FML
Right there with ya, brother. 😂
You’re a better person than me. I would have smashed that Bluetooth speaker the very first morning…. I am, not a morning person…
This is not the way. Embrace the K-pop, get really comically freakishly deep into the K-pop. Start dressing up appropriately, for a K-pop dancer, get your other dad buds to come over to practice the moves. Make it part of your core identity until they want nothing to do with it. And then you can relax
I was just going to say start blasting Baby Metal, but your plan will 100% work better
Yup, I stand corrected. This is the way.
Haha I used to. True story, my wife got me one in 2015 for my bathroom - built into the exhaust fan - I listen to the news while I shower in the morning.
Six months later, over at the neighbor’s house across the street for a block party, and someone asks “Hey, anyone know who’s blasting NPR at 4am every day?”
Turns out the exhaust fan taking the shower moisture out basically turned into a speaker cone and for months everyone on the street was waking up pissed off lol. Replaced with a regular fan and separate speaker, no more complaints.
Did they ever find out it was you?
Yeah I totally came clean, partially because I couldn’t really believe it - the bathroom I use is in the basement - but the vent goes out the same spot as the laundry exhaust and damn… I went and turned it on and it was clear over the block party :| everyone laughed.
Also live in a place where most sleep with the windows open - I don’t think it was ever in much doubt heh.
That’s kind of amazing, actually, haha.
Body wash and long hair shampoo plus conditioner takes me 10 minutes, full shaving routine takes me another 10. Yes, I listen to music through a bluetooth speaker. Yes, the quality is what one would expect from an inexpensive speaker the size of a soda can.
No, I don’t blare music when people are sleeping.
I benefit from it as much as I do from listening to music at any other time? It’s entertainment.
Pointless? Yeah, it’s a luxury.
Inconvenient? I’m not sure I understand that part. You just queue something up as you’re getting ready to shower.
Showering long enough to benefit from it? I mean, yeah? For the 10 or so minutes I’m in the shower, I hear some music and that’s nice.
I think you might be getting some really bad bluetooth speakers if they sound so bad and are so hard to operate that you find the process frustrating.
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I have several JBL speakers that are awesome. I listen to music and podcasts in the morning while I get ready. Bring it into the shower, carry it around the house, take it hiking. Can’t go wrong with a decent Bluetooth speaker.
Please don’t do that while hiking around others, lots of people go hiking to get away from constant sounds like that.
Or camping, OMG. The people who set up at a national forest and start blaring shitty music.
Unfortunately lots of people lack self awareness. I do honestly try my best to not be one of those people.
I keep the volume to a reasonable personal level and pause any time people are within range. Try my best to be considerate.
I have a Sonos portable speaker that I keep in the kitchen but take into the bathroom while I shower. It just sits on the shelf outside the shower. I like music while I shower, and doing it this way keeps good quality without risking the speaker.
I actually use my phone. The speakers on this bad boy are loud enough to hear it while taking a shower.
I like to dance a little, singing into my shampoo bottle as if I am performing a concert.
That’s just my way of pumping myself up… to go through the shitty day at the office.
Happy Monday everyone!
I’ve used one for podcasts, definitely. But even for music, they may be poor quality generally but they’re significantly better than a phone speaker, and much better than a phone speaker ten feet away through glass or plastic.
If you like long showers, and you listen to a news program, or an audiobook. It makes a lot of sense.
I find the main issue is that for it to be loud enough to be clear over the shower (audiobook) it has to be loud enough that I worry it’ll annoy my neighbours upstairs/my flatmate
Since my phone is water resistant, I put a magnetic mount in the shower to listen to music, podcasts, and the occasional Teams meeting if I’m running late.
A Teams meeting!? I wish I was as brave as you. I’m not even brave enough to poop while listening to a Teams call, much less showering. I’m terrified they’ll call me out and I’ll either have to unmute at the worst possible moment or stay muted and have my boss assume I’m not paying attention.
If I showered during a meeting I would be paranoid about somehow magically turning on my camera.
Eh, pointless is kind of a matter of preference. It’s something you either want, or you don’t. There’s no point beyond that.
The inconvenience is no greater than it used to be for other types of portable music sources. Folks have been using radios and “boom boxes” in the bathroom for longer than I’ve been alive. My mom had a small radio she was allowed to use in the bathroom when she was a kid in the 50s.
It’s also more convenient than playing the music extra loud from another room.
But, yeah, if you’re just hopping in and doing the bare minimum as fast as possible, it would be an increase in effort beyond the reward of music for most people. You’d have to be the sort that just always has music playing for it to be “worth it” to switch to a dedicated shower speaker.
Mine is a fairly general purpose unit that is shower proof. I bought it specifically for use in the shower (though it’s rarely in the shower, I prefer to place it elsewhere most of the time), but it isn’t advertised as a shower speaker. Most of those that are tend to be kinda meh sound wise, and/or lack any bass at all. I also use it in the kitchen while cooking, unless I’m the only one home and can really crank my main system up.
But, yeah, lots of people have dedicated units of some kind.
Allows me to listen to audiobooks when I get ready in the morning. Couldn’t live without it.
