Streaming Music Atract more people?

Do play streaming music in my sim atract more people? Or on the contrary this scare away the people or is this irrelevant?

My sim didn't play music before, but now I decided to play streaming music in my land.

At present I play streaming music from a rock / pop rock radio but I intend to play my own mp3 musics from a paid streaming server. It is expensive to pay and I have doubt if is worth it.

If it was live music, that would be different - live music always attracts a crowd. But just a piped stream of MP3s alone isn't going to do it. You need a good venue of some sort to go with it.

You can find a buncha free radio stations and streams at shoutcast.com. What do you have in your sim? Is there a dance club? A store? A village? I'd say run a stream and keep the music in theme with the area. (^_^)

The sim I have a parcel in is mostly Anime and Gothic Lolita styled with a consistent theme across most of the parcels. Because of that, I keep an Anime themed ShoutCast station going all the time. It's only if I'm hosting a party that I turn my own server on and stream from my MP3 collection. (^_^)y

My sim is Urban, I have stores and houses for rent. The city has also a leisure area with a soccer field and other things to have fun. My Intention is to stream brazilian music, but not "samba" or "bossa-nova" as the brazilian music is well-known, I intend to stream brazilian pop rock, This can be a madness of me, but I really would like to do. The problem is the expensive price of the streaming hostings.

As a rule I turn off the local music streams in sims I visit, unless it is a place where I intend to listen to it...club or dance venue.

Generally, people who keep the music button on are going to find an abrupt silence when they go to a sim without music.

People who generally don't keep the music button on generally don't care one way or another whether the sim is playing music.

Then there are people who turn it on selectively. They'll keep it on if they like your music, turn it off if you don't.

If those three groupins encompass most of the world of Second Life residents, then provide music. In none of those cases do you lose anyone by providing music. In some of those cases you may lose people by not providing music. As long as you don't choose a stream particularly strange or offensive, I don't see any risk of scaring people away by providing music.

Considering the number of requests I get for the stream i play at my store, I think music is a plus. People can always turn it off if they don't like it.

Yeah, the stream isn't the reason people will go to a sim, but it might cause some to hang around a while longer. I recently split off a parcel from one of my public places, and the media settings didn't carry over to the smaller parcel. I got a bunch of IMs within the next day asking where the music went!

I actually watch movies or listen to iTunes when I'm in SL so my audio's usually off. *shrug*

Pretty much what Amity said.

Those who like what you're playing can listen to it; those who don't can turn it off. I generally don't listen to parcel streams, preferring my own selection of music, so I wouldn't notice any way.

Your choice of music do say a bit about yourself and the crowd you'd like to cater to, though, but unless it is fairly extreme, I don't think you'll *lose* much, and if it is somehow in theme, it just adds to the overall experience of your area. I have sometimes noticed particularly unique and fitting "soundtracks" to an area, and thought "Oh, neat". (Illusions' Spanish guitar springs to mind).

So I'd go with the, "Potential win; why not?" line of thought.