Do you have a favorite artist/genre to listen to while simming?

I very often have my sims listening to (or playing) music ingame.

Except when I'm in build mode. Then I'm listening to either a favorite band on Spotify, or the WQXR online stream, because I got tired of all the build mode music long ago!

I do have a lot of fun seeing how other people include RL music into their stories, including yours :)

No music when I'm playing the game. I'd rather hear the game. I like to put on headphones and really immerse myself so I can hear all the small sounds. You can hear the sound of feet on a yoga mat or even the light breeze during a cold morning jog. It's the little details that I enjoy.

If I'm building then I have BB music muted and I will instead listen to podcasts. Sometimes I pull up a stream on my second monitor.

@mightysprite About three songs after I posted that one from Sade, Danielle and Londyn's couples song came up, John Legend's All Of Me. When I'm in Under The Tartosan Sun I usually have something slow and deeply romantic playing. Sade, Usher, John Legend, Ed Sheeran, etc. When I'm in Schemes & Dreams I've got R&B and Hip Hop playing. If Schemes & Dreams had an official artist it would be Lizzo. When I'm building it could be anybody.

No music for me. Other than what's playing on my sims' stereos. I also use headphones to catch all the in game sounds.

when playing its usually

1. in game music I think the particular sim might like or that i associate with them

for example Goths often listen to jazz or retro channel for ts1-2 vibe

spop was pretty much always playing for watsons since it was in their likes

2. channel that goes with world

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strange tunes in strangerville
japanese folk in komorebi
cottagecore in henford
spooky in moonwood and forgotten hollow

so forth

3. seasonal

Summer strut, Blues,Island for the summer
Winter holiday, Metal, for the winter
Spooky, Japanese folk for the autumn
Romance, Cottagecore for the spring

well other channels too but those hit my forgetful brain first

4. actual instruments if my sims play them or are filthy rich enough to hire someone I love hearing the piano concert on the background

I don't really play music while i write unless it relates closely since i can get oh so distracted

and when building i often just hear whatever is on radio or tv or then i have the in game music as i pretend i am going to go and play later but the truth is i will not finish the build in next 10 hours

this is often weird because i can just look at build and suddenly be reminded of random news i heard while building and sometimes it totally ruins the build for me cause i just keep thinking about some awful news when i am there

like for instance i was trying to start this one build in sulani when tv was blabbering about sexual abuse stuff and luckily i had to bulldoze that anyway cause it was giving all the awful vibes to my brain even when it was just normal house

similarily though there was some movie about romantic painters on tv when i was building dreamer house which i thought was funny coincidence

It depends on my mood. My default is to listen to a TS1/TS2/SimCity 3000 playlist, but otherwise I listen to what I'm in the mood for. Sometimes that's citypop, sometimes it's big band standards. (I have listened to Carribean music when playing Sulani, though.)

Most of the time I just like listening to the game sounds because I feel more immersed in the game. Occasionally I will put Classic FM on and have that playing quietly in the background. I have it on at the moment whilst I am spending some time in CAS but I think I will go back to game sounds once I'm done in there.

Great answers from everyone! I always knew I was a bit different for having music from outside the game going at the same time. I do hear some sounds from my game while I'm listening to my music. I have the master volume, voices, and sound effects maxed, while I have the others muted. I use the volume controls on my keyboard to control the volume for the game and I use the volume controls in my music apps to set those and then balance the whole mess so I can listen to both. I would love it if my sims and I could listen to the same music at the same time, but custom music, in my game at least, doesn't work.

As the vast majority of my Sims 4 gaming is my 1960s world I, naturally, listen to 90s grunge rock.

Only joking. I listen to 60s radio stations or YouTube playlists whilst playing. Sometimes I listen to stock library music or the Sims 1 soundtrack because I really like it. Of the Sims 4 songs my favourite is Cheer Up And Free Your Mind by Jenny O...the Simlish version.

"simgirl1010;c-18256780" wrote:
I also use headphones to catch all the in game sounds.

Same :blush: When I'm playing, I love hearing all the great sounds in the game.

"mightysprite;c-18256752" wrote:
I very often have my sims listening to (or playing) music ingame.

Same :blush: I like many of the in game music genres - radio stations, and when the sims are talented in playing music, it sounds great. Many of my sims are music lovers as I am IRL (even if some of my sims don't have the trait, they still often listen to music for fun and for relaxing).

~ When I'm in Build Mode, I like to listen music from the radio or MP3 (Yep, that old type of device, which is still great) or from Youtube. I have very broad musical taste, so I listen many different genres and bands and artists :blush: