"First time listening" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it any time you are referring to someone or something hearing something for the first time. For example, "It was his first time listening to a symphony orchestra, and he was enthralled by the experience."
"I remember the first time listening to them and thinking, How can they get away with this?
The man behind the massacre of five people at a Wendy's restaurant in Queens faced relatives of his victims yesterday for the first time, listening to their angry accusations and then apologizing, before a judge formally sentenced him to death.
The teen's father testified that he merely told officers he couldn't tell if it was his son after his first time listening to the call, which captured the audio of fight between Martin and Zimmerman.
At a loose end following HHC's closure, he found himself, for the first time, listening to a selection of old British hip-hop albums purely for fun; realising none of them were available on CD, he had his epiphany.
Even though this was not my first time listening to a church worthy prayer (in length and vocabulary) within the walls of government, it still shocked me when the council member asked that "everything we do tonight be for your glory God" and ended with "in Jesus name, Amen".
If you can't find anything the first time, listen to the disk again.
If you do not understand something the first time, listen to it again.
It becomes whole again only in the mind and soul of someone listening for the first time, and listening again.
He told me that while he wanted to be an advocate and work for change and greater acceptance, he thought that he should first spend some time listening and learning.
Spend one-third of the time talking about your own perspective, one-third of the time listening closely and intimately (holding hands or otherwise touching each other) to your partner, and one-third mutually engaging in the dialogue at hand.
It does this through software on the client side that the listener must install once the first time they listen to a Podbridge-wrapped podcast.
