Sentences with phrase «rather than music»

So if you're just using one for conversational fun, controlling third - party devices, or perhaps listening to Audible rather than music, then it might suit you fine.

There is a noise bed you'll notice if listening to podcasts rather than music, though, and sound quality isn't up to much.

Unlike other smart speakers like the Google Home Max or the Apple HomePod, Amazon has a wide variety of smaller and more affordable smart speakers for users who are more interested in using them for their smarts rather than music playback capabilities.

We've put subscription in quote marks because, unhelpfully, Morning Consult is talking about free users as well as paying subscribers («Pandora and Spotify have free and paid subscriptions») rather than the music industry's understanding of «subscriptions» as meaning just the paying users.

Since dogs prefer to hear human voices rather than music, find a talk show on the radio or TV.

The change was most likely pushed for by Apple rather than the music labels but it carries risks for both parties.

Rather than a music library interface, the touchscreen lets drivers choose albums or folders in a sequential format.

This appears to be a movie fit to the music, rather than music fit to the movie.

The story that Glorious 39 weaves about this family is a complex one of events that seem to revolve around Anna, including the family's involvement with a shadowy government functionary (Jeremy Northam) and the discovery of a trove of 78 - rpm records that contain, rather than the music listed on the labels, secret recordings of conversations related to pro- and anti-Hitler appeasement advocates.

Not exact matches

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

Of course, the most popular releases have always dominated the music market, but it seems these new services increase that disparity rather than reduce it.

But as you grow older, and spend more ever - more time looking backwards rather than forwards, having a music collection you can treasure and revisit will be more important than ever.

So, rather than play music over speakers at workstations or throughout the office, allow staff members to bring headphones to work.

Down the line, she envisions offering things like cooking classes and music lessons, and she sees ClassPass as a lifestyle rather than a fitness brand.

Reviewers also complained that Apple's ambitions were transparently commercial, as Ping frequently pushed users to buy music rather than share and talk about it.

Rather than pour money into advertising, we invest in sports and music and entertainment, sponsoring music festivals and events in our core sports — surfing, skateboarding, BMX biking, and snowboarding — all closely related to the Southern California lifestyle.

It turned out that our customers welcomed the changes that we were making, like inviting music lovers to spend hours in our record shops, hanging out and talking about music, rather than pushing them to make their purchases and get out.

Her idea is simple: everyone with a video camera has a crapload of priceless family footage; however, because the footage is unorganized, and generally not put together well, people would rather pull their fingernails out than watch a half hour of family memories; therefore, working within different pricing models, my wife takes video, photos, and music, and edits people's stuff.

The company's research, for instance, suggests that using music or sound to score the experience with voice assistants, rather than relying solely on lengthy verbal responses, can make them more emotionally engaging.

This whole idea is they're bringing in tariffs that go into general revenues to pay for things like more Economic Action Plan ads rather than helping Canadian artists continue to success in producing world class music.

I appreciate your position... perhaps rather than responding with «more hip» music is to actually challenge this generation theologically?

It's the music and the physical activity that has made him feel at home at this church rather than the Episcopalian one he left.

Music thus used is seen as an integral part of the service rather than as gems of choral or instrumental music dropped intMusic thus used is seen as an integral part of the service rather than as gems of choral or instrumental music dropped intmusic dropped into it.

So we are forced to deal with the impact and force of what is, rather than with a preconception of what ought to be, in describing religious music.

JW's effort to make music participatory rather than performance - based struck a chord with Crouch, who also signaled his awareness that JW is rooted in its own particular neighborhood and could not be easily replicated elsewhere: «It made me want to move to Kansas City.

In the process they found themselves in contact with people who not only had musical tastes that were more to the liturgical side, but who — even when seeking worship «reform» — looked to the developing body of folk masses and new hymnody rather than to the Fanny Crosby — Ira Sankey — Francis Havergal — Homer Rodeheaver canon or the world of Gospel music.

Overdependence on the rhythmic structures of the music rather than on the text is a problem exclusive to more recent styles of music.

Rather than have our own party, minus the alcohol, sexuality, dancing, and secular music, why not just go attend theirs?

A first chapter considers how the medieval quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music became separated from the study of philosophy and theology, as if the quadrivium was an end in itself rather than the way in which a person was made ready for the study of philosophy and theology.

But the gospel story itself was communicated to most of the faithful through pictures, carvings, stained glass, drama, music and spoken words rather than through books.

Their power and foundational role in experience account for Merleau - Ponty's descriptions of fleshly ideas such as those of music and literature possessing us, rather than the other way around.

Rather than a typical summer blockbuster full of action, loud music and seizure - inducing camera jumps, War tells a more Shakespearian tale of love, haste, betrayal and desperation than you might see coming.

Sensitive, fond of music, rather afraid of his father, and of all authorities, religiously inclined, very intelligent, unfulfilled emotionally, perhaps no more than half awakened sexually — some of the characteristics of the pedigree western intellectual seemed to be emerging.

The sentences clashed, metallic and hard - edged, and rather than producing the profound music I had hoped to hear, begat only dissonance and off - tune complaints.

He plays his football music with soft touches rather than vibrant tackles and tracking back.

That cynicism, the realization that the rapper could very well been part of the rule rather than the exception, is pivotal to the music.

The rocking and music settings work very well on this sleeper and tend to help babies go to sleep rather than keeping them awake too much.

Make music the most important fixture in your home rather than the television.

Serve a snack and plan a quiet activity, such as listening to soothing music, looking at books, or resting on a blanket on the sofa (rather than in bed, which has a strong sleep association).

Witness how a baby will quiet down more easily with a particular music piece rather than another.

Babysitters, nannies, preschool teachers provide many different services as well: counseling / behavioral therapies (think children fighting in a sand box who need to be directed to «use words» rather than hit one another), nutritional guidance (our son's teachers have given us great ideas and resources for healthy meals), arts training (music class, creative arts class), occupational therapist (correct hand hold for four year old grasping a pencil), physical therapist (Hop on one foot, kids!

Research suggests that infants prefer pleasant, harmonic music rather than discordant, harsh sounds.

Stupar blames this low score on differences in opinion between the human testers on what matches a single image, rather than a problem with the system itself: «It's a lot harder when there is a single image to decide whether the music fits or not,» he explains.

Some solar cells convert sunlight into electricity more efficiently when loud music is played to them — as long as it is pop rather than classical.

This research builds on an earlier study, published in the journal Music Perception, which suggested that the ability to sing accurately is a skill, rather than a talent, which gets better with practice.

By suing CompuServe, as provider of the computer on which the material is temporarily stored, rather than individual users of the system, the music publishers hope to create a precedent.

The nomadic people of this small corner of Siberia prize multiple pitches in their music rather than single, clear tones.

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Rather than passively listening to music, Rauscher advocates putting an instrument into the hands of a youngster to raise intelligence.

It could additionally demonstrate that the observed transfer effects from music to touch are based on very basal mechanisms — rather than by a person's imagination to be touched by a person of a certain sex or attractiveness who listens to the same music.