canned music
Waiting room audio
Canned music is prerecorded music played through speakers rather than performed live.
The term carries a slightly dismissive tone, suggesting something mass-produced and lacking the authenticity or spontaneity of live performance.
It's used especially to describe background music in stores, restaurants, elevators, and other commercial spaces.
The restaurant's canned music was so loud we could barely hear each other.
- pipedTransmitted through tubes
- elevatorVertical conveyance between floors
- faintWeak and indistinct
- speakerOne who talks
- sound systemAudio playback equipment
piped in · studio · commodification · jazz standards · easy listening · soft rock · shopping mall · mall · grocery store · public space · dental office · alienation · restaurant · kitsch · hum · waiting room · on hold · classical adaptations
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Onstage musical performance
live performance · live band · live entertainment · live show · jam session
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