Is it Permissible to Listen to Recorded Songs During the Nine Days?

Greetings,

The custom is not to listen to recorded songs accompanied by musical instruments starting from the seventeenth of Tammuz (Shut Yechave Da'at Part 6, Siman 30, and Hazon Ovadia on the Four Fasts, page 186). However, it is permissible to listen to vocal music during the Three Weeks.

Best regards,

Hillel Meirs