canned music
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In 2002, its radio stations in Minot, N.D., aired canned music as a toxic cloud blanketed the community after a train transporting anhydrous ammonia for fertilizer derailed and exploded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
So even though Joice’s bass is amplified, “it’s totally different” from piping canned music from a phone through a speaker.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
From a few feet below you can see the creases of his jowls as he shouts above the canned music.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2020
The canned music already included the song’s near-dog-whistle vocal flourish, which Ms. Carey no longer pretends to be able to deliver.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2017
Speaking of canned music reminds me we have a small portable trench machine, which closes up like a valise, easily handled and carried about.
From “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went by Louis Keene