In this study we wanted to discover the most prominent technologies in listening to digital music and the reasons underlying the popular choices. We asked Finnish students what are their main sources of digital music and how they perceived these sources. We received over 700 responses to an Internet questionnaire. Among our discoveries, we found that on-demand music services, Spotify and YouTube, are the most popular. Many users utilize both actively. YouTube is more popular, possibly because it is more accessible, more socially connected, and satisfies many musical needs, but not solely because of its visual content. The perceived service characteristics are distinctive, but only greater musical serendipity was predictive of more frequent use of the service. We also find a preference for YouTube when sharing digital music with others. We discuss the relationship between perception and choice, and present directions for future research on music interaction and consumption. Keywords Sound and music computing; User studies; Social media; Web interfaces; Consumer products Research highlights  Introducing how interaction paradigms can be applied to analyze digital music interfaces  Presenting a survey study with over 500 respondents describing digital music listening practices and preferences  Documenting how two music services, YouTube and Spotify, are the most frequently used music sources for Finnish students in their early 20's  Highlighting YouTube as an accessible, shareable, and multi-functional music source used at least every week by 76% of respondents  Showing that although users have switched from intangible goods to digital music services, the interaction paradigms still remain the same

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Music business is undergoing a tremendous change in the early twenty-first century. Similarly, the landscape of music delivery and discovery is drastically evolving because of new technologies. This paper presents SoundAbout, a platform for locationbased music services. It enables new applications running on mobile phones and desktops. It allows users to share music and information about music they listened to in different locations. With SoundAbout people can experience music related to the different locations in various ways, for instance by seeing what music has been listened in different districts of the city during a particular time span, select a list of favourite artists or songs and attach that list in favourable location, and see who else in different locations share their taste in music. Our goal is to not only support musical serendipity, but also affect the city culture. With context-aware music services, it is possible to offer people new kinds of urban audio experiences. In this paper, we apply characteristics of psychogeography and graffiti painting as an inspiration for the design of service concepts for the platform.