Is 'loudcasting' deeply irritating or the new normal?

Surveys suggest that many find people playing music out loud on public transport very frustrating. The phenomenon has grown as we become ever more connected.

So as we become ever more online in public, will we see increasing attempts to clamp down on loudcasting? Or will it end up becoming as normal a part of our soundscape as the hum of passing traffic or a plane's engine thousands of feet above us?

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