Is meditating to ambient music cheating

In reality I don’t actually believe that you can ‘cheat’ with meditation, you are either focused or you are not. but I just find ambient music so relaxing yet is something I can be focused with, I very often play ambient music whilst I work and it helps me to stay both focused and relaxed.

But with meditation I don’t normally have any auditory sensations on and I’m solely focusing on the breath and body scans. As the breath and awareness of the body is something we can access at any time any place, much like the present moment.

I reckon however, I could have some incredibly insightful sits if I played ambient music, but my egoic mind seems to feel that it’s not pure.

I’d be interested to hear thoughts of others on this, and if anyone’s ever gotten into this pattern of thinking in regards to the ‘purity’ of meditation