Since I'm not working on the #OpenBSD laptop, I can use it for music and video playback. I remember from the past that video could be a little janky in OpenBSD, but that is no longer the case.
I'm getting great video, no stuttering. Great audio as well.
I have been experiencing some stuttery video in the Threads website in Fedora 40, but that doesn't happen at all in OpenBSD 7.5. It's the exact same hardware (I boot Fedora from an NVMe SSD and OpenBSD from a SATA SSD). Maybe it has something to do with Wayland in Fedora vs. Xenocara in OpenBSD.
This OpenBSD system, using #Firefox, is great for YouTube. Again, this OS hasn't had a previous "reputation" for smooth video playback, but I have been very pleasantly surprised.
I tried the Pandora music service in Firefox, and that plays very well.
Spotify will NOT let you use its service via browser on OpenBSD (maybe you can "trick" it, but I haven't tried), and of course there is no official app on OpenBSD. However, I've been using the great #ncspot — an ncurses app written in Rust (https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot) — in the terminal for Spotify playback, and it has been working really well. I had to specifically set my terminal in Xfce to allow for Unicode so everything looks better, but the audio (and UI) is pretty great.
ncspot is available as a package in OpenBSD, making it easy to install. I like it in Linux as well, where I tend to add it as a Flatpak.