2011 is not a bad year for music because of the diversity of hits released this year, coming from different sources . Sadly though, there aren't a lot of standout artists and songs this year, making it easier for me to filter out my choices. Many sites are also proclaiming the death (it's probably just hibernation ) of rock this year (but at least we're fine, according to one site.)

Enough with depressing news. Here are my favorite tunez last year:

• Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song
  The last two years were a banner year for the half-Filipino singer and…

[Taken from this forum.]

Using only SONG NAMES from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions (Wikipedia is your friend). Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think.

Artist: Linkin Park

Are you male or female: Robot Boy
Describe yourself: By Myself
How do you feel: In Pieces
Describe where you currently live: Somewhere I Belong
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: A Place for My Head
Your favorite form of transportation: Crawling
Your best friends are: Wretches and Kings
You and your best friend is: One Step Closer
What’s the weather…

The other day, I was looking for Vista's startup theme because I want to use it as the startup tone for my WinMo phone. I found the WAV files for various system events but ultimately failed to find the actual tone. I used the search button to locate all music files in \Windows (Search is one of Vista's best features IMO), and to my surprise, I found eleven excellent WMA tracks in the winsxs folder, with complete album artwork and ID3 infos. (I also liked Vista's new thumbnail view for music files)

You can get the songs by…

Actually, this one is way too easy.

As usual, go to the weekly chart of your choice and get your total plays: Mine is 250

And then … divide that by 7, as simple as that.

Let's see.

250/7 = 35.714

That reads, about 35 songs a day. That's kinda short. Let's see, assuming the average playback of a song is 4 minutes, that's a total of 142 minutes of playback, or only about 2 hours and 22 minutes a day. That kinda sucks….

Oh yeah! New layout and new features. But that's not what this entry is all about, even though it has something to do with it. I was busily exploring my page for changes, and to my utter delight, I discovered that the weekly charts has some additional statistics included. Check it out for yourself, right beside the calendar thingy, you'll see the total number of unique artists, unique tracks and finally the total number of tracks played in that week.

Okay, so there. Actually, I already have this idea for some time now, it's just that way back then, I…

It seems that tracks with ID3v1 tags can't be scrobbled. Well, then, that makes 10 tracks already. Now, I hope last.fm updates my site because I'm tired of waiting already. (Oh yeah, I'm actually ashamed of my current chart… Blame it to Winamp, it has a bad habit of picking the same artist even on random playback)

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