We just launched our newest addition to the music discovery engine: mufin for artists. It allows you to add your own music to mufin for free, making it possible for our users to easily discover your music. For example, a user searches for on mufin. If a track of yours is similar to that music, it will be recommended to it. It doesn’t matter how known or unknown your music is, as for mufin only the sound of the music matters. In addition, users can put your music on playlists or post it on Facebook or Twitter with the ability to directly listen to it. This way, friends too can find out about your music, fueling promotion and viral buzz.

Of course, you can decide yourself if you want to allow streaming of your tracks or not. You can also include a link to your homepage if someone wants to find out more about you. Mufin for artists is free, so check it out and let us know in the comments what music mufin thinks your tracks are similar to.

Another year has almost passed! Memorable music moments in 2009 include the death of the king of pop, unfinished award speeches, and new superstars, just to name a few.

And of course, 2009 brought some changes to mufin: The 3D sound universe saw the light of day, and so did the mufin player. We added a video search, auto-playlists, a new visual navigation to mufin.com amongst a bunch of other things.

How have you been using mufin during the last year, though? What tracks got discovered the most, which albums did you like and what artists were hot on mufin?

Read on to find out and remember that mufin is a sound-based music discovery engine. You’ll not only find the usual suspects in our best of list but also some new and surprising music.

Most discovered tracks 2009

1. Spiritual Awakening – Rage
2. The Love - Intrallazzi & Fratty
3. Stairway to Heaven (British Rock Symphony) - Ann Wilson
4. Around and around - The Rolling Stones
5. April Love - Pat Boone

Expectedly, the artists you have been looking for covered the whole musical field from Singer/Songwriter via Pop to Alternative/ Rock. Take a look yourself at the ones that have been searched for the most:

Most search artists

1. Sting
2. Muse
3. Reamonn
4. Neil Young
5. Beck
6. A Perfect Circle
7. Pet Shop Boys

As with artists, the most searched albums are quite interesting, too:

Most searched albums

1. Geheimnisse der Stille - G. Pommerien
2. Ancient Spirit – Patrice
3. Knights Of Cydonia – Muse

What is your album of the year, did you find more exiting recommendations on mufin.com yourself? Then let us know in the comments.

Quite recently, we have asked you per email how you listen to music in your spare time and how you use the mufin player. Exciting sounds what we've come across.

Is it possible to own enough music? We would rather say, no, not in the slightest, which you agree to when taking a look at your revealing answers concerning your music collection. But take a look yourself: more than one quarter of you folks state to own at least 100GB or more of music.

Besides, we were interested in how you predominantly listen to music:

Concerning our question whether you own a portable music device, you came up with an ambitious and clear-cut YES, I do own one (83,44%). Also, two thirds of the owners use their portables daily or regularly several times a week. More than 20% of you do use social networks about daily, further 20% of you at least  several times a week. Opposed to that, music websites are somewhat behind, 9% of the survey participants stated to use it on a daily basis, 23% make use of it a couple of times per week.

What kind of listening habits have you got? How much music do you normally listen to? The answers are pretty straight forward: pretty much and pretty frequent. The picturesque illustration below shows you, what listening type you consider yourself as.

We are looking forward to your feedback and many thanks again for your support!

You can do everything at once now! After recently moving our Web Player on mufin.com to the lower edge of the screen, we have now re-arranged the entire site making it possible to listen to music without interruption while searching for new tracks on mufin.com. Additionally, sharing titles and playlist recommendations via Facebook and Twitter has been simplified even further. So, don't lose any time and share those playlists with your friends! By the way: the discovery centre regularly offers new playlist recommendations for logged-in users, such as: http://www.mufin.com/us/playlist/5712

And the best is yet to come: we have launched a new form of music visualization on mufin.com under "Vision".

By clicking on "Vision" similar titles are not presented in a list, but in a kind of map, which arranges music similar to a selected track  based on sound characteristics. Just as in the list view, you have acces to player, playists, history and auto playlist etc.

Using Vision is similiar to using online maps. You can move the view of the map, use the mouse wheel to zoom and navigate in the overview window at the bottom left to quickly reach an area further away. The more you zoom in, the more details per song you will be able see. Discovering music has never looked this good!

Our friends over at SoundCloud are organizing the first German Music Hack Day taking place in Berlin next week, September 18th till 20th to be precise.

What is the Music Hack Day? Music Hack Day is an un-conference style event where hackers & coders and companies providing an open API work together on new web/software/music projects in just a short weekend. The first Music Hack Day took place in the London offices of the Guardian where more than 30 new projects saw the light of the day, Citysounds.fm is just one of the very cool applications created on the first event.

We're excited, to say the least, that Music Hack Day is coming to our home town Berlin. And while you're in Berlin, make sure to check out some of the other cool events happening next week such as the Berlin Music Days or the #camp.