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Because it has mildly interesting charting features and will stream recommendations I can listen to when I'm roaming with my notebook, I signed up with last.fm and plugged their Audioscrobbler into Windows Media Player. To give it the beginnings of a sense of what I listen to, I set WMP to play a shuffled playlist of the Irish traditional music I have in mp3 format. That means the albums and stray tracks I've downloaded from emusic, and a handful of CDs I ripped so that I could listen to them on my mp3 player. It took twenty-three hours to play through the entire list. Given how vastly much more Irish traditional music I have on CDs than I do in mp3 files, and given that Irish traditional is maybe an eighth of the music (LPs, cassettes, and CDs) in this house, that's a bit boggling.