canned music
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Viewers and listeners primarily hear canned music or see a screen that simply says “VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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
This came to be known as the "canned music" fight, and arguments pro and con consumed the greater part of the hearings before the Committees on Patents.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker