favorite10.com, or f10, is a website that finds out what music you love and helps you find more music that you're going to love. By creating a list of your top 10 albums for a specific genre or time period, you're telling everyone what music you're raving about. By comparing your list to the other f10 users' lists, we come up with other albums that you will probably dig too.

And it's not just about discovering new music, f10 is also a way for you to share the music you really love with everyone else. Got an album that you think is severely underrated and overlooked? Well, f10 is a way for you to talk up that album and let other people discover that album too.

Finally, by letting users rate and comment on your lists, we have a little fun along the way. You think you have great taste? We'll see what the other users have to say.

To paraphrase a great book, how can you be friends with someone if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party? Not only do we help you find great music, f10 is also a way to hook you up with friends you already have and to find new friends based on their tastes. Any guesses as to which book we've nicked the tagline from? Send us an email.

Nope. You can search for albums and find out what other albums might interest you. But what would be the fun of a site called favorite10 if you didn't contribute your list of favorites?

Nope. But by creating an account (a simple process, we promise), you can create lists, join the discussion, tag albums, and a whole bunch of features we'll be cooking up soon.

There's no super secret recipe really. If someone puts an album at #1 in their list, it gets 10 pts. If someone puts it at #2, it gets 9 pts... and so on and so on. We tally it all up and there's your ranking.

First, please sign up and/or sign in. Once you're signed in, there are two ways to create a list: 1) if you're looking at a favorite10 list, there's a link on the right hand side to create your own version of that list, or 2) you can click on your name in the upper right hand side of any page and get to your user page. You user page will show you any lists you have already created and any lists that are available for creation.

Type in the name of the album in the search box. Because there are so many albums out there, please be as specific as possible in your search. Then click on the green + sign to add it to your list. The album you've just added will be added to the bottom of your list. If you want to move items around in your list, simply click on it and drag up or down.

You can add a comment about why you chose that album for that particular list if you like.

Search results are filtered for lists for a certain time period. For example, if you want to create a list for 2007 and the album was issued in 2006, it won't show up if you're searching while editing the 2007 list. If that's not the case, please send us an email with the name of the album and we'll hop to it right away.

You can save a list as draft while you're working on it. Once you're ready to show your list to the world, click Save & Publish. Remember that you must have 10 albums in a list to publish it. Also note that once you publish a list, it can no longer be turned off. You can keep editing it though.

You can. It just won't be shown to the world. We do this because we want you to make tough choices on your lists. If you could put 50 albums in your top albums of all time... well then it wouldn't be a favorite 10 list would it? But if you really must put 15 albums in your list, you should because you might move those albums into your top 10 at some point...

Because of reissues and special editions, sometimes an album will show up twice in search results. Choose the one that you think fits best -- i.e. look at the release date.

Tags are just keywords to help you find other items with similar keywords. For example, by tagging an album "alternative", you put it into a group of albums with that keyword. So whenever someone clicks on the tag "alternative," they'll see that album along with every other album with the same tag.

Just type in the tag you want and click Tag It. Don't worry if an album already has that tag -- tag it again. The more people that tag it with that keyword, the "stronger" the tag is and that album will rise to the top for that tag page.

This is a direct link to your list that you can send to your friends.