newurbanmusic community

times today I've sat down and I finally took time for this blog here and my radio show set up a community in sixgroups. If your eyes May you please once set up, you certainly falls on the new bar on the side, and probably many other things, it all comes with time. The idea I came already a while ago, without knowing exactly what this community brings with it all. Continue reading

Each user of a pirate?

This question of Electrical reporter, those investigative and ironic persona that embodies Mario Sixtus now for over 50 episodes. Who does the same and video podcast that started out in cooperation with the Handelsblatt and has now arrived here in the ZDF Mainz, still does not know should be ashamed of themselves and what each new episode from watching immediately. Continue reading

last.fm Best Of 2008

Now is the time of year reviews, tonight we can in the annual review conference call between the ZDF and RTL back and appending heart, and is actually the new Google Zeitgeist already there? With last.fm you wanted to be even faster and now has a 'best of 2008, the artists, albums and tracks based on the Scrobbles all users published. Continue reading

On the disappearance

accumulate Currently, interventions that have the disappearance of the subject: loopkid wonder that the people of today do not miss the tactile and emotional experience of a physical sound carrier. It's not so much to him about the replacement of vinyl and compact disc with music downloads and files, but rather the consequences of bringing change to the format of “Download Songs” with them. Continue reading


Pengcamp Mainz

Before her now switches away in hordes and hingähnt before you: “Not again, an article about BarCamps,” should you, especially if you are from Mainz or environment, but a closer look, because this is about the so-called Pengcamp in Mainz, at the Gerrit has alerted me: communication about communication is a fascinating subject that concerns us often internally. Continue reading

iLike

Granted, I do not know exactly what is behind iLike. If the page is only one among many other music community, or is there more to it? No idea, I lack the time and the desire to see and try out. But one thing I was interested but then, that the API of iLike, which allows relatively easy and intuitive integration of the songs on your own site. Continue reading

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Live

The music begins quietly, like the chirping of a cricket. Suddenly you notice the noise of a brook, the water that flows always the same but slightly varied. Birds are chirping, bees buzzing, you take more and more true noise around you. Everything is harmonious, and at some point, the ground begins to vibrate, the air hums, your spirit rises from the mountain meadow and sees the mountain peaks, one adjacent to, above, behind the next. Continue reading

mp3-compatible

A major reason why I specifically iTunes and Apple products, iPod and Co. refuse, the far-reaching limitation of the user by DRM, closed systems and monopolistic market power. That the copy is marketed under the euphemism of “fair play”, adds to my distaste for just yet. And even if it were iTunes for Linux, I would not use it. Continue reading

Automatic music recommendations

Recently, on the Barcamp Berlin, Petar Djekic the Fraunhofer spin mufin.com presented. The aim of mufin is to give you automatic music recommendations by audio files are analyzed and a unique “fingerprint” generated by them. Based on the information thus obtained will be identified similarities between music pieces, and combined with traditional methods such as user reviews and buying behavior even more accurate results. Continue reading

Updates, updates, updates

Finally, I come once again for an update here on the blog. In recent days there was much to do and therefore no new entries. A new radio show, while in the background of the new Flash Player 10 for live music by Calexico provides, if I did not just re-clicked on a new track on SoundCloud that is no longer beta now but is open to all. Continue reading