What media do you listen to on a "long drive"?

[ZLoth]

Yes, this is a companion post to How do you primarily consume media when on a long drive? (2025 Edition). What that post covered how you got your media, this poll covers what media you listen to. A "long drive" is more than a few minutes driving to run a quick errand.

[Scott5114]

As with my answer in the other thread, it depends on who's in my car. If it's just me, normally I'll listen to music. If my wife is along, it's 50/50 whether it's music or one of our favorite podcasts (usually Small Town Murder).

[ErmineNotyours]

I get bored just listening to music or spoken word. I used to try to divide them up on a USB stick, but then I would have to predict what music I want to listen to later.  Now because I have a 2014 CRV that still has a CD drive, I'm going to keep the audio books on a stick and play music from MP3 CR-ROMs.  This gives me more flexibility for bailing out of a book and listening to music.  I have to remember to change discs at rest stops.

[ErmineNotyours]

Also, I'm going on trips with someone who refuses to listen to rock music unless it's Christian rock.  I still have a stack of blank CD-Rs from when CD-Rs were my primary storage medium, so I spent several weeks streaming Stryper and Petra albums, recording the stream and cutting the songs back into MP3s.  Maybe not the best sound quality, but I wasn't going to spend hundreds of dollars to buy downloads.

For that matter, the CD-Rs that I burned years ago are still doing okay, even though I've heard they should be dead by now.  They've gotten scuffed over the years so that certain albums can't play, but the data layer hasn't failed.  Compare that with the Warner Bros pressed DVDs that no longer work, and you can't always predict things.

[Brandon]

Primarily music via satellite radio or flash drive.  About the only time I'll tune to something else is WBBM (780 AM or 105.9 FM) when I'm looking for traffic information.

[Henry]

I love that SiriusXM has the best of everything, because I can either listen to music (such as 70s on 7, 80s on 8 and The Blend) or a Cubs game on the MLB channel. For non-music channels, I prefer news over talk, and even then, it'd have to be terrestrial radio like WLS or KIRO.

[ZLoth]

Poll closed, and a overwhelming majority selected "music".