Sometimes, it's annoying, and sometimes, you kind of get into it if it's cool enough with a nice beat. That on-hold music is a part of your life, and for the most part, you hope it ends within a ...

Whether it's annoying or not, that music that pours through our earbuds or speakers on our phones while we're on hold is something we expect. Sometimes it's classical, sometimes it's jazzy. Even if we ...

TAYLOR Swift makes the perfect hold music when you’re kept hanging on the phone, according to new research. Swift’s signature blend of country, rock and pop has been found to be the winning ...

Listening to hold music is a universally unenjoyable experience — that is, unless it takes place on Pizza Hut's line. On Feb. 9, TikToker @noraeinhellll posted a video calling Pizza Hut to "hear the ...

Hold music is a replacement for silence that delivers one message, "Yes, you are still on hold." This is all it has to say, and in that sense, it only has to be noise. Yet on this shriveled cactus of ...

I'm on hold with Newegg, and the music quality is terrible! It's full of static and distortion to the point that I can barely make out what's playing. It sounds like the music is coming fron a fuzzy A ...

Whether it’s a bossa nova version of “Stairway to Heaven,” a synthy string composition or an energetic xylophone riff, you would be forgiven for thinking that “hold music” was designed to make you ...

In 2012, according to Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, an Adelaide man was kept on hold with the airline Qantas for 15 hours. As a recorded message affirmed, over and over, that a customer service ...

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