Listening to music while meditating I listen to a very low background score on a meditation app called Calm while meditating. It's mostly non-obstructive and really helps me get into the space of calm.
Where I live, silence of the outer world is hard to come by and I mostly use the music just to combat that.
Should I not be listening to music while meditating?
Does the Buddha have any words in this regard?

Metta &amp; Chai to all,
Kalpesh
Listening to music, among other liminally conscious activities, like scribbling or tapping a pencil while listening to a lecture in class, are ways of distracting one’s attention from other more disturbing phenomena such as street noise, but the goal of meditation is to focus the mind, not distract it. I suggest that buying some industrial grade earplugs (not the foam kind) would be more beneficial to your practice than listening to music.