As you've no doubt have read , we made some exciting enhancements to the already-solid Zune Pass: you can now keep 10 tracks. So that begs the question: what tracks are you keeping. Hence, this quickpoll. Just list the tracks you've decided to keep with your Zune Pass, if you have one. I'll start: This month, I downloaded the 10 tracks in Sea Wolf's first full-length record, Leaves in the River . My favorite track "You're a Wolf." And what about you dear reader? Leave...

In this year’s update to Zune , you’ll find a brand new rating system. We’re moving from the 0-5 star rating to a simpler, more straightforward rating system: “like” (symbolized by a heart), and “don’t like” (symbolized by a broken heart). Now for the backstory: I spoke with some folks on the design/dev team about this and picked up some of the reasoning and thinking behind the new rating system. Last year, we extensively tested the 0-5 star rating system with users – both on the current system and...

Tomorrow, dear blog reader, is the annual Microsoft company meeting. Hence, no posts. Stay tuned Friday for, you guessed it, New Music Friday.

For 24 weeks now, I've been providing links for Zuneinsider readers to download new, free music. I'm sorry to say, dear blog reader, but I'm actually running out of ways to introduce the tracks. Hence, today, I'll just say: have a butcher 's : First up, by request : Stereogum has a Ghostface vs. Spoon Mashup . And a bunch more tracks . Rock out to these three tracks from Rockinsider Also, rock out to this: Mars Needs Guitars has a track from SXSW standouts Bonde do Role . And if you're not quite...