Apple has continued on its sluggish but unshakable pace of adding new feature to Ping , the euphony - based societal web it announced as part ofiTunes 10 . Over the weekend , Apple introduced the ability to share your iTunes playlists on your Ping River visibility and join forces on them with booster .
No software system update is needed to take advantage of the new features : now , when you flick the arrow icon on a selected playlist in your iTunes sidebar , a young “ Publish Playlist ” pick entices you to share your meticulously craft collection with your Ping friends . you may give your published playlist a unique name and description , then drag and drop Song to put them in optimum hearing order of magnitude .
Like the rest of your Ping River activity , iTunes verifies that all of your playlist Song dynasty are in the iTunes Store — if iTunes can not find a Sung dynasty , it gets silently stripped during readiness . play list are also special to a total of 100 songs .
While editing your playlist for publication , you may impart more songs from the iTunes Store even if you do n’t own them . If you experience like call for a leap of faith with your Ping following ’ taste sensation in euphony , you could allow them to add songs to discharge the experience . Your published playlist then appears in your Ping activity stream , and visitors can value , review , and , of course of action , buy single song or the entire play list .
you’re able to also make a brand newfangled playlist in the iTunes Store for sharing on your Ping profile fromthis page , though as of this authorship I ca n’t find that option anywhere else in Ping or iTunes .
Apple has been steadily tweaking and adding features to Ping since its launching , admit a Ping sidebar that eventually became theiTunes sidebar , as well as Twitter desegregation that gain it much easier to supply friends and share your favored tracks . Like many other social networks , Ping now lets you search your e - chain mail address book from Yahoo , AOL , Windows Live , and even MobileMe to quick add novel friend , and new filters allow you see activity from just your ally or the artists you follow . Apple also cleaned up its Twitter integrating over the weekend by replacing the iTunes Store ’s tenacious , ungainly URLs with little , more tweet-friendlyhttps://itun.eslinks .
