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> Put on your wired headphones. Sit down (e.g. on the bus.) Now try taking off your shoulder-strapped bag to hold it in your lap, without first taking out your
by nayaketo 5y ago
> Put on your wired headphones. Sit down (e.g. on the bus.) Now try taking off your shoulder-strapped bag to hold it in your lap, without first taking out your headphones.
This used to bug me a lot but I've found an easy solution. Just route the wire under your t-shirt or shirt or jacket. When I'm not using my headphones, the headphones hang around my neck. If I feel like taking off my headphones and placing them on the table, it takes 5 extra seconds to pull the wires from under my shirt after disconnecting them from the phone.
- derefr 5y agoDo you have a length of slack cable dangling out the bottom of your shirt, like a performer wearing a lavalier mic? If not, then how do retrieve your phone from your pocket in order to change what you're listening to (or just to read something), without the cable yanking your own shirt up?
- Vrondi 5y agoGet some decent headphones with in line controls on the cord or earcups, then you will not need to take the phone out of your pocket as often.
- derefr 5y agoI have those. What I need to do that requires pulling out my phone, is selecting what I'll listen to next. When listening to music, I don't usually bother to "queue up" songs/entire albums in advance, or to make playlists, but rather I just have a library of individual tracks, and then, as I listen to a song, I'll have a whim for what song to listen to next. (I use music to inspire me while writing fiction, so a lot of this is about creating the right mental mood for a scene.) If I'm not listening to music, I'm listening to podcasts, which are also often a "listen to one episode, then pull your phone back out to select the next one" sort of experience, as many of them like to do things like slip in repeats of old episodes, such that a linear listening order gives you things you wouldn't want.
- devilbunny 5y agoI have a Marmot jacket (very lightweight, but essentially water- and wind-proof, so any insulating layer underneath will keep you warm while keeping the jacket itself lightweight enough to prevent overheating on warm-but-inclement days) that features a breast pocket that zips vertically and is large enough to hold my iPhone 13 Pro Max. It has a small hole on the inside surface of that pocket that allows you to route a wire inside the jacket and connect it to a device in the pocket. If you need to manipulate the sound device, unzip the pocket and pull it out, do what you need and put it back.
- mkl 5y agoYou put the slack in your pocket.
- derefr 5y ago1/8" cabling could be wound into your pocket, yes—especially the thin-cored crap that most earbuds are made of. But at that point, are you gaining anything in audio quality by using wired headphones over Bluetooth headphones? When I picture "preferring wired headphones", I picture taking around my studio monitors with their 10ft 1/4" solid-copper-cored cabling. (I did used to do pretty much this, when I was a stupid teenager! But that was before Bluetooth was invented.) That kind of cabling doesn't have a minimum curve radius that would let it fit in most pockets, unless you're either wearing an overcoat, or you've got the middle of the cable cleanly wrapped and tied in a linear bundle [which would still protrude upward out of most pockets, like a very tall phone.] There's also the as-yet-unmentioned inconvenience of such cables—that they tend to have 1/4" RCA jacks on the ends, making plugging them into your phone a worrying experience involving adapters and shear stress—but oddly enough, modern phones with their lack of headphone jacks are better for this, since the flexible DAC adapters that plug into their USB ports protect the phone itself from being damaged by the shear force of a rigid 1/4"-to-1/8" adapter.
- p1esk 5y agoare you gaining anything in audio quality What makes you think you’re gaining anything in audio quality by using 1/4” instead of 1/8” cable?
- nayaketo 5y agoJust like the other commenter has mentioned, keep the slack on your pocket. Works best if your pocket is either deep or comes with zippers to seal them. Alternately, just wrap your phone with slack cable and be mindful about this when taking out your phone.
- nemof 5y agothe shortcoming with that, at least in my experience is that you cannot just quickly pull out your phone and glance at something, unless you want to accidentally pull your headphones out of your ears when you raise the phone to your face and tug on the wire that's trapped under your shirt.
- nayaketo 5y agoWith this setup you have to be a bit mindful for sure but if your cable is long enough, pulling out phone and using it as you would normally is no issue. You also keep slack cable on your pocket as other commenter has mentioned.