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canned music

NOUN
piped music
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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




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