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
