Is it bad if one plays music loud in his own appartment?
351426
I wish my loud-music-playing neighbor were reading this so he could understand why it's so darn annoying.\n\nIt doesn't matter how stressful your day was. Turning up your music loudly to relieve YOUR stress is selfish and inconsiderate. Doing that is like saying it doesn't matter how it affects anyone else as long as YOU feel better. You should either use earphones or find something else that helps you relieve stress.
1081124
Don't put automatically playing music on your blog it is loud and annoying.
1166328
Second choice.\n\nAnd please, put the music very loud so I can't hear any of these fanatics screaming!!
560901
Once you get the building, you can usually get away with it.  It's a great place to play your music LOUD & work ALL NIGHT if you want to!  Just to be on the safe side, you should call your local building code department & ask them.
1171805
I would look in your lease to see if there is a clause about there being a "quiet time" during certain hours.  If you know your neighbors, see if any one of them have complaints and/or have called the landlord.  If it is say, 2AM, and you hear unreasonable noise, you could always call the police and report a public disturbance.  But I wouldn't do that unless the landlord fails to act.  You may just have to face the possibility that you might have to move to get away from it.
796415
You should practice you instrument everyday. If you can't then you should put sticky notes everywhere in the house that you would normally go so you remind yourself everywhere.
49607
BTW, I personally hate it when I go to a website and I forgot that my volume was turned up a little and I get blasted out by music which I do not enjoy. My first inclination is to hit the back button.
356522
well if its loud enough to disturb them then yes you should probably turn it down a little\n\nin a way by yelling outside of your door they might feel they are giving you a taste of your own medicine, I mean its still rude of them, I'm just saying try and understand where their fustrations come from\n\nalso it might help if you move the TV/speakers away from any walls near your neighbours, that might lessen the noise for them
657383
Go ahead and call the cops!  The general rule is that if you can hear it from 25 feet or more away, the person making the noise is disturbing the peace (of course, this has reasonable exceptions like construction work, emergency vehicles, and so on).  Ask the police for a copy of the report number, and present a copy of that to the building manager.  Continuing to disturb other tenants like that is usually an evictable offense.
265728
i got the same problem but i play my music really loud and turn of any thing that will distract me. than i start in one spot in my room then after that spot is cleaned i move on to anthor until my room is clean. But if i have any clean clothes i hang them up and i through all my laundry downstairs to before i get to the floor!!!
555735
dont be too loud either
990863
Very sparse.  Only suitable for an arty spaced out mood.\nWill never go mainstream, but maybe that's not what you want.  I wouldn't listen to it at home, but if I had an avant garde art gallery or maybe a minimalist restaurant I would play it to create an edgy mood.  Keep working on the production side as well - you need some real sharp sounds when there's so little going on.
325715
listen to music loudly,throw pillows,or sit alone in your room or awhile or in a room where no one is
950079
how about play music thats so bad that people will pay to have it turned off, like Hansons "MMMBop"...or something like that! just blast it somewhere a lot of students frequent and make a huge sign that says \n\nCan't take it anymore??\nWant to "Stop the Bop"?\nDonate here and we will glady give you your sanity back =)\n\n-Calli
414497
7.25pm on a weekend or even a weekday is reasonable time.\n\nYes, you may blast off before the no-noise time, IF YOU'RE JUST ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS.\n\nBut the problem for your lady neighbour may not be about the time you play your music, and neither is it about your rights.  \n\nA sensitive person would think, - my taste of music may not be another person's.  For lateral argument sake, how would you like her to play her boring ethnic classical music on the same volume as you played yours on your woofer?\nAnd you hate that type of music, but you know she has her right as it is still early.  Wouldn't you have WISHED that she was more sensitive to your feelings, THAN just be concerned about her RIGHTS?\n\nWouldn't you have wished that she puts her civic consciousness and neighbourly thoughts to the fact that her music may not be to your liking.?\n\nIf we would all think about others and feel how we would feel in situations, INSTEAD OF DEMANDING OUR RIGHTS, our neighbourhood would be a lovelier and more peaceful place to be in.\n\nOur human RIGHTS have actually been overly used without much consideration for harmony, inter-relationship and empathy. \n\nIt is not the address that makes the neighbour, it is the people in it.  \n\nI rather live in a less prestigious neighbourhood with nice and thoughtful neighbours than in an up-market neighbourhood where Human Rights have gone overboard.\n\nYour kids are away, so you can let your hair down so to speak, - well & good, enjoy that time to yourself.  You have to get up at 5am, but that doesn't mean therefore others have to cope with you.\n\nYou feel you deserve a good time and want to hang loose, great - go to a pub or take your CDs with you, hop into your car, go to no man's land and blast out till 5am and go to wherever.  That's your choice.  But it is insensitive to put people through your personal agenda.
644798
In my opinion this is a "right to enjoyment of land" question. Your local council will have guidelines of level of decibels that a person must tolearate for reasonable enjoyment.  The courts will use a detriment approach to who suffers the greater harm, you or your neighbour. If is in excess then you may ring council.
123323
Yes, by requiring to move the woofer with more ampltitude, requireing more force and thus more energy.  An interesting note is that most of the 'extra' energy required for the louder sound is not converted into sound...There is very little energy in sound.  I have read something where it would take over 8 years of 'shouting' to heat a cup of coffee.