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 ...

The challenge last time was to come up with a name for “the music you get while on hold on the phone” — a term like elevator music. James L. Sherley, of Boston, took exception to the idea that the two ...

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 ...

The phone adds warbles, crackles, and periodic dropouts that are impossible to replicate on the bandstand; these imperfections are what give hold music its soul. When I call a business and get put on ...

I called Business Objects (makers of Crystal Reports, amongst other stuff). They have a menu option to select what type of hold music you would like to hear. I believe there were 6 choices. You could ...