This is totally unrelated to work but is awesome with a capital A. If you like The Current then you’re going to love this tip. First of all, what is The Current? It is only the best radio station on the planet. Take a minute to go check them out at http://www.thecurrent.org/ .

So now you’ve checked out The Current and love them. You can listen to them over the air waves via 89.3 FM, over their iPhone/iPad app available on iTunes , over LIVE streaming available on their web site or LIVE streaming available via the Internet Radio stations listed in iTunes or Apple TV ( under the Alternative section ). You really have no reason to NOT listen to them!

I used to use The Current’s LIVE streaming via their web site to listen to their broadcast. There was one problem with this – whenever I hear a song I like that I don’t know the artist/title I have to switch over to the web browser to see who it is. That get’s a little annoying but that’s a good thing… because they play a ton of new stuff that is really good. However, I’m ecstatic because I found a solution to this problem.

I keep my music in iTunes and have been using Growl and GrowlTunes to get popup notifications when the next track plays. Tonight I had the idea to listen to The Current in iTunes while running GrowlTunes to see if I would get a popup notification when they change tracks on the radio station. So I fired up GrowlTunes and iTunes and then found The Current in the Alternative station list and what do you know!! I started getting popup notifications from Growl whenever The Current played a new track. Yay!! Happy listening folks!

The Current is supported by members so if you like them please support them by sending them a little cash – seriously… everybody knows you could do with a one or two less cappuccinos each month – so do your friends a favor and give it to The Current instead.

This article applies to iTunes and Growl running on Apple Mac OS X. Sorry Windows friends… I’m not sure if there is a way for you to do this or not. If any Windows friends find a way please email me and I’ll update this article – just send a message to dan@humanstuff.com.

Cheers, Dan