"background fodder" meaning in English

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          "text": "He listened to music on his media player while he worked out on the treadmill: a classic use of background fodder."
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          "ref": "2002, Billboard, volume 114, number 23, page 35",
          "text": "Yet, a richer diversity of song texture and timbre would elevate this 12-track collection from gorgeous, atmospheric background fodder to a set that reverberates with more distinction.",
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          "ref": "2013, Michael N. Salda, Arthurian Animation: A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television",
          "text": "In the refocused narrative of King Arthur's Knights, Malory's larger Arthuriad—from the sword in the stone to the final conflict between Arthur and Mordred—becomes background fodder for Gareth's foreground adventures.",
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          "text": "He listened to music on his media player while he worked out on the treadmill: a classic use of background fodder."
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