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
There was scant canned music and, from the Puerto Ricans fans, more cowbell.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 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 Bowker, Richard Rogers