Listening to music
How do you say listening to music?
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Personally, I only use the "a" when it's something that might be confusing. Example. Yo le hablo a el. Without the "a" in this instance, it's confusing. Ellos escuchaba musica is clear enough. Some people use alot of words in spanish, some don't. I prefer not to, because I like to be understood and I hate when people say "what?" "can you repeat that?" Drives me crazy. 
I also agree with "escuchar la música". Escuchar (listen to) is similar to esperar (wait for) & buscar (look for) on this sense where the preposition disappears because it is "embedded" in the verb itself.
Leoz, is taking the "a" out common practice? If I am not mistaken, and I have been known to be mistaken on multiple occasions, the "a" is acceptable as well. Like I tell my students though, you can learn something new everyday!!!
Would you mind repeating that?
What?
Good to know, short and simple, by the way can you repeat that? just kidding of course 
Yo escucho a musica, is I listen to music. They listen or are listening is "estan esuchando a musica. I like to listen to music is me gusta escuchar musica. They like listening...you get the point....is Ellos les gustan escuchar musica. Some educated person is going to correct what I said...but it's the heart of it and would be understood.
you should suppress the 'a'. I suppose they come from 'to' when you translate. But is escuchando música instead of escuchando a música.
You say escuchar musica, that is to listen to music. If you want to say I listen to music you would say "Escucho musica".
