# What are people listening to when walking around with earphones plugged into their cell phone

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 14, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-listening-to-when-walking-around-with-earphones-plugged-into-their-cell-phone/817886 "2018-07-14T08:58:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-listening-to-when-walking-around-with-earphones-plugged-into-their-cell-phone/817886/28 "2018-07-15T17:04:24Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> “… apps for radio stations”. Um, listening to radio doesn’t need appS! I am talking about literally over-the-air local stations like you would on a portable radio. For which you need exactly one app if your cell phone has the radio part of the chip enabled.

You don’t know that radio stations have apps for iphones and androids? I have about 6 apps for radio stations and NPR. I don’t need to have a chip enabled. I have never even heard of that. On apps you can see playlists, comments, the website etc.

Maybe if I just get some chip I can avoid all that convenience? I have no doubt that tuning station to station on that chip will create some new “problem” I didn’t want.

What we might need is one app that coordinates all the radio apps under one command.

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