Apple-TV: Set Favorite Radio Stations...

To set any internet radio station as favorite, just press the middle-button for a few seconds (see image below) while this station is playing... and a menu appears!

On the iPad Remote app it's even simpler - in the lower left corner you find a "favorite" button...

improve iTunes metadata...

I always tried (manually..) to keep my iTunes library organized, including cover images, album names and genres...

Via lifehacker I recently found Pollux - a neat and free (!) application which analyses given songs and fetches all required metadata from the internet. Version 1.1.2 did not work great, since the new version 1.1.5 it's perfect...

If you work on a mac, go get it here... (don't forget to donate if you like it!)

Update (Oct 2009): Pollux has been such an overhelming success that they cannot handle requests any longer... hope they'll be back online soon!)

Update again (March-Mai 2010): They are live again - better than ever. Great tool, way better than all the other crap I tested...

Geniales Rockerlebnis: Queen Kings

Im malerisch gelegenen Waldschwimmbad (!) hatten wir ein Konzerterlebnis der besonderen Art: The Queen Kings rockten unglaublich nahe am genialen Original, frisch und musikalisch aufregend gut. Knapp drei Stunden Musik für 16 Euro Eintrittspreis (und Kinder hatten freien EIntritt) - das nenn' ich value-for-money.

Selten habe ich ein Bass-Solo derart genossen wie die kurzweilige Darbietung von Rolf Sander, der nahtlos Passagen von Smoke-on-the-Water in sein Cover von Another-one-bites-the-Dust: Umwerfend, Kompliment!

Die Stimmen von Mirko und der Backstage-Dame Susann gehen unter die Haut,
die Gitarrensoli klingen meisterlich, und der Schlagzeugpart von Matti Schmidt war begeisternd gut, ein instesamt überzeugendes Erlebnis.

Wir gehen wieder hin - keine Frage!

One of the coolest things I've seen in a long time...

an absolutely stunning T-Mobile marketing event - happend January 2009 in a London underground station...

From one reviewer at youtube:

Whoever thought of this idea can rest on this one idea for many years to come. Brilliant at many levels. Music can change the world. We've just witnessed it at a railway station in London. And old and young. And black and white. Love this video. Kudos to T-Mobile.

(happend to be my mothers' birthday...)

If you like it, I found its making of video...

OOP 2009: Freitag spielt die Musik...

Zu den Kernthemen der kommenden OOP 2009 in München gehören
diesmal die soft skills. Haben wir IT'ler auch bitter nötig -
ganz im Ernst. IT-Projekte kranken selten an schlechter Technik, aber fast immer an schlechter Kommunikation oder schlechtem Teamwork.

Auf der OOP treten Alice Heiliger und Co. (endlich mal!) an, uns
auf ganz unkonventionelle Weise Abhilfen zu zeigen: Am Beispiel
der (nonverbalen) Kommunikation von Dirigenten nämlich...

Mein persönlicher Tipp: Hingehen, mitmachen.

(I'm gonna eat my own dogfood: Bin selbst auch dabei!)

Sponsoring Internet-Radio!

Today I donated a few bucks to my favorite internet radio station (Whisperings). Although it's tempting to just consume streaming audio, the artists of out-of-mainstream-stations surely have more problems earning a decent income than we IT-people... and I'd like stations like that to be available for long!

my current favorite radio station...

is, of course, a stream, Solo Piano Radio. Provided by the artists themselves its audible via iTunes and available in a free and commercial version...