charlie: If you want to follow the Shulchan Aruch, don’t listen to music all year round.
This is not against you, Charlie, but this is an important point that many, many people miss. It is incredibly stupid for those who claim that the Shulchan Aruch doesn’t Asser music during Sefirah. Of course he did! He just had no need to write it because it’s always Assur. The analogous case (ad absurdum) would be claiming that Giluy Arayos is Muttar on Shabbos because you won’t find any mention of it being Assur in Chelek Gimmel or Dalet in the Mishnah Berurah. It is a ridiculous claim. As is the claim that music is Muttar during Sefirah because the Shulchan Aruch doesn’t say it’s Assur. Ad’raba, it would be idiotic to expect the Shulchan Aruch to call something Assur during Sefirah that is already Assur. Do people want him to have made it “double Assur”?