Psychology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Centre for Performance Science, Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2020 Feb 6;15(2):e0228457. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228457. eCollection 2020.
Adults listen to music for an average of 18 hours a week (with some people reaching more than double that). With rapidly changing technology, music collections have become overwhelmingly digital ushering in changes in listening habits, especially when it comes to listening on personal devices. By using interactive visualizations, descriptive analysis and thematic analysis, this project aims to explore why people download and listen to music and which aspects of the music listening experience are prioritized when people talk about tracks on their device. Using a newly developed data collection method, Shuffled Play, 397 participants answered open-ended and closed research questions through a short online questionnaire after shuffling their music library and playing two pieces as prompts for reflections. The findings of this study highlight that when talking about tracks on their personal devices, people prioritise characterizing them using sound and musical features and associating them with the informational context around them (artist, album, and genre) over their emotional responses to them. The results also highlight that people listen to and download music because they like it-a straightforward but important observation that is sometimes glossed over in previous research. These findings have implications for future work in understanding music, its uses and its functions in peoples' everyday lives.
成年人平均每周听音乐 18 小时（有些人听的时间则远超这个时长）。随着技术的快速变化，音乐收藏已压倒性地数字化，这带来了聆听习惯的改变，尤其是在个人设备上聆听音乐的习惯。本研究旨在通过互动可视化、描述性分析和主题分析，探索人们下载和听音乐的原因，以及人们在谈论设备上的曲目时优先考虑哪些音乐聆听体验。通过使用新开发的数据收集方法 Shuffled Play，397 名参与者在随机播放他们的音乐库并播放两首曲目作为反思的提示后，通过简短的在线问卷回答了开放式和封闭式研究问题。这项研究的结果强调，当人们在谈论他们个人设备上的曲目时，他们优先使用声音和音乐特征来描述它们，并将它们与周围的信息背景（艺术家、专辑和流派）联系起来，而不是将它们与自己的情感反应联系起来。研究结果还表明，人们听音乐和下载音乐是因为他们喜欢音乐——这是一个简单但重要的观察结果，在之前的研究中有时被忽视了。这些发现对未来理解音乐及其在人们日常生活中的用途和功能的工作具有重要意义。
