Nothing. I need to devote 100% of my attention to the gazillion cars, construction signs in Houston.

I listen to the radio. I even know the stations for the drive to Albuquerque. Sometimes when I think of it I take some CD's along.

Audio books

Talk radio

My car came with a years subscription to Sirius and I've keep it up (2008). Like Lily, I have the auto options set to 6, 7, 8. That, and the heated electric adjustable seats are going to be requirements in my next car too. I rarely play music when home alone, may do some soft background music when having guests, but enjoy my oldies in my car. And yes, I sing along.

News highlights/traffic report. These days the most important news is the traffic report.

K102 Country

Local stations. A LOT of oldies.

Audio books on my iPad.

Same as at home, my being an addict of our national broadcaster: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (try www.cbcradio.ca - no commercials [but there are on CBCTV]).

Or for news commentary, cbc.ca/thecurrent

for interesting scientific material, cbc.ca/quirks

for other topics of intellectual stimulation, cbc.ca/ideas

for interviews with people pretty well worldwide related to current news in their area, cbc.ca/aih, i.e. "As It Happens".

Overnight they play programs from broadcasters in several parts of the world, Britain, Ireland, Australia, Germany (they have some of various topics related to African issues).

ole joyful

My 1 year free Sirius was just up last month. I didn't like it enough to pay for it. If I were going long distances I would listen to audio books but I rarely do that anymore. Plain ole radio is good enough for me and I'm a station surfer. :)

NPR.

XM Sirius radio.....mostly 80's on 8, 70's on 7, The Blend, The Bridge and the Love channel (which becomes the Christmas channel in December).

That's my thinking time. :o)

Mine also cam with free Sirius for 6 months. When it was over, we cancelled. They then got in touch with a really good deal for us to sign on again.

Just peace and quiet for me--I like the silence.

Old Country, don't like the new stuff. !!

I've got about 15 channels programmed on my Sirius. I have some CDs copied to the hard drive. I have some more music on a flash drive. I have a really great sound system so I really enjoy listening to music in my car. I do a lot of driving.

Lindsey, I drove round trip from Ohio to Phoenix in 2010 & XM radio was a life saver. Loved the comedy channels.

Also my last car had the DVD player built in the dash. But it would only show the movie while in park or neutral. BUT it would still play while driving so I listened to many movies without picture for years.

Casey, I do miss the Christmas channels on XM during the holidays.

My grandkids. They never stop talking.

I downloaded my favorite songs to an iPod Nano which I hooked up to the input jack in my car. I could also use Bluetooth, but it uses the Nano battery up faster. I don't like Sirius because they keep telling you that you are listening to Sirius which annoys me. I don't want anyone that's not physically in the car with me talking while I'm driving.

Sirius xm radio...mainly set to REAL oldies....40s or ’50s. Every 6 months I play the phone game with them, just like cable, to get a really good deal. Otherwise I prefer silence.

I drive a lot for work and listen to audiobooks while on the long stretches of highway. In towns, I channel surf and sometimes end up listening to things I wouldn't have thought I would have enjoyed.

Since I have a 7&9 year old (grandsons I'm raising) I've learned every word to every Disney song written. LOL

Like OJ, I listen to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) when I'm alone in the car. If DH is with me on short trips, we turn sound off. On longish trips, we really like music that we can sing along with, or comedy albums. One of our favorite sing-alongs is Harry Chapin's Greatest Stories Live.

I'm a life-long music hobbyist and very part-time musician. Sirius/XM Radio broadcasts at an unacceptably low bit rate- something under 100 kbs- and I can't listen to it. The music is over-compressed because of limited bandwidth. The swirling, as if through a tunnel sound typical of their stuff is what I'm describing. I tend to choose sound system upgrades on my cars. The three we have now all have upgraded systems and came with a Sat subscription. The first Sirius usage in each car was the last. I'm very picky about sound, I know that, and I'm sure their variety and sound quality are acceptable to many people.

As others have described, I have very high quality audio files on thumb drives in each car. I make the files myself and use only high bit rates. My listening habit seems to be for drives under 15 minutes, it's music only. Over 15, I'll connect my sound player to the car's Aux input and listen to whatever audio book I have in progress. Over about 30 minutes, I'll alternate between the two.

I have an old car with a CD player, but prefer to just play the FM radio. Always NPR and classical music.

Like sushipup, NPR

Talk radio, AM and FM.

A number of years ago, when I would drive cross country by myself, I would occasionally turn the radio on if I found myself getting tired. Mostly I prefer quiet. I've never listened to an audio book, I may have to try that one of these days. I do read, a LOT! But I want and like the feel of a real book in my hands. Not a good idea when driving... . .. .. ;^)

Rusty

Talk radio Monday thru Friday and on weekends mostly a station that plays classic country music. I listen to the radio all day long....carry a pocket radio with me when I am working outside.

Playlist on my iPhone, Amazon Music and Pandora. Pandora does have commercials periodically but they are very short, like 10 seconds.

I don't listen to radio when I'm driving in traffic - too much other stuff going on.

I do like to listen to music when driving long stretches of boring highway, however, with my hearing failing, i don't enjoy music as much as I once did. Also, over the years of driving, I have adopted a habit of noticing a change in the background drone of my car's noises. In the past, this has alerted me changes happening which lead me to investigate. On several occasions, it has saved me from getting stranded.

The problem is currently, there is a lack of radio stations playing decent, easy listening, music. I discount hollering in a whiskey voice with poor enunciation as music; That's an insult to real music.

The other item I search for is news.

The end result: My car radio is off most of the time.

No decent free music here (IMO). We have XM and have had it for years. We listen to classic country, sometimes 50's and 60's. When we travel back and forth between MN and FL., it's wonderful. And we can listen to news if we want.

Sirius/XM for years about 70% of the time (Spectrum, The Blend, Bridge, 60's, 70's, 80's, sometimes a football game, sometimes country, sometimes a relaxing music station, whatever I'm in the mood for). The remainder I'm listening to songs on my playlist on my iphone. I have about 600+ songs collected or downloaded from my CDs for about the last 8 years or so. And I have 1 favorite talk show on a local radio station I sometimes listen to in the mornings. I also use my CD once a year when we have practice CDs for our Christmas choral performance. I'm singing along in the car on occasion for practice.

NPR and our local news station, (we lost the SJ one--boo,) KCBS.

Mine came with Sirius for six months. I let it drop after and they offered me one of those super-cheap deals to sign back up. I did but dropped it again after realizing that I pretty much always listened to the 80's channel and I have plenty of 80's music on my phone. Now I just listen to the music on my phone or sometimes I get an audiobook for my phone since I commute.

I have pre-set on my radio the local NPR station, which has interesting world music before late afternoon magazine/interview/news; a local Hispanic music station; a classical music station; a station that plays mostly 1980s, another that plays mostly 1940-50-60s; the conservative talk radio; the liberal talk radio (I listen to one until I weary of the half truths and exaggerations, then switch to the other until I tire of their half truths and exaggerations and never listen to the call-in shows); and the last is the headbanging Christian rocknroll station. All depends on the mood I'm in at the moment -- except it is classical on my way to work.

Sirius radio, like most everyone else - 60's, 70's and 80's. (I have no music on my new iphone 6 and don't intend to load any.) Or nothing at all.

Has anybody else noticed more and more talking on Sirius? Like for instance, Nina Blackwood nattering about a song or a musician or whatnot. I canNOT stand it. If I wanted to listen to talking, I wouldn't buy Sirius! So I switch back and forth between 60's, 70's and 80's as soon as Nina or Casey Casem or whoever says more than one sentence.

DH likes to listen to a local radio station that does a "Drive at 5" call-in program. Auuuggghhh! "Hey this is John at station XYZ! Who's this?" "Hi, this is Susie Jones from Podunkville. Can you play Yellow Submarine for me?" "Sure, Susie! Are you on your way home from work?" "Yeah, I've had a hard day and when I get home I have to tend to the laundry and fix supper and see to the kids' homework. So I'd really like to hear Yellow Submarine." "Sure, I can pull it out of the Oldies file! I sure hope you enjoy it!"

*littlebug5 pounds her head on the steering wheel*

YES!!!!! Littlebug, I noticed a lot more talking & advertising on Sirius XM & was very disappointed.

Pay radio should be commercial free, but then again, pay cable TV is FULL of commercials too.

I listen to XM station 5 or 6 and sometimes I play one of my CD's. I always have some kind of music playing and I love to sing along!

I don't have sirius so I listen to NPR. Mostly talk.

Sirius/XM, talk radio, local channels., but mostly sports talk especially during football season !! GO EAGLES!!!! "Fly Eagles Fly" :)

The engine in the car makes the wheels go round. I listen to the wheels. Real simple.

Mostly old rock -- KRTH has been around forever. If I'm feeling anxious, or get sick of commercials, I listen to a classical station for a while.

On the highway, I listen to talk radio or the oldies 109.6.

XL103. It plays music from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I also have a USB stick with some music on it, but the radio is what gets turned on the most.

Usually I switch between the public radio station and a local mostly "news" station which is unfortunately becoming more talk than news and info. But lately it's just too much political rhetoric that I wind up changing stations and when they're both polluted it goes off. There's a CD player in there but I don't use it. I usually have things on my mind and wind up making notes (on my digital recorder) so I don't forget. Only about a month until the election is over but then it's going to be too much holiday stuff on there. So, probably not listening to much. Have to rely on conversation when someone is with me. That can sometimes be tricky... :)

For running errands around town, I listen to NPR. For trips of maybe 30 minutes or more, I download audio books from my library onto a Kindle Fire that was purchased for exactly this purpose.