“Playlist creators can opt to allow friends to add songs to the playlist, and the list remains open for the originator to edit, add to or re-order,” MacNN reports. “Any song available on the iTunes store can be used as part of a playlist.”
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WOW!!
That’s going to save it!!
haha. yep. this is definitely the thing that will make Ping relevant. lulz.
Apple re-invents the playlist™
But srsly, I actually might use this as a way to recommend songs to some friends. I find that every now and then I’ll send them an e-mail with 7-8 songs they might want to check out (or have friends send me that). I haven’t tried this, but it might be easy way to go through my iTunes library and pick out a few songs to recommend.
Damn! I meant to write:
Apple re-invents the mixtape™
Ping will continue to fail as long as it only supports songs that can be purchased within iTunes. I listen mainly to UK pop and top 40 from other European countries – much different than US radio, so in many ways iTunes has always been useless for me.
LastFM is and will always be light years ahead of Ping unless Ping separates itself from iTunes.
Fitz,
Dude…
Really… Really?
The trees are likely obscuring your view of the forrest.
Ping? What’s Ping?
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I had incorrectly mentioned once that Ping allows you to rate, comment, post on music and artists anonymously. Not true. You can change the username, but then your credit card no longer works. Apple won’t let you create a pseudonym either. I mean, who wants to publish an honest comment about how they really feel on something as personal as musical taste to the entire world (teenaged girls may not answer that question)?
Unless Ping is targeted towards the MySpace crowd, it’s a fail. Someone once mentioned that Apple doesn’t get social, so very bloody true. Here they are sitting with hundreds of millions of iTunes users and have no clue how to afford them a social environment to communicate with. Heck, we communicate better on MDN, get a clue Apple.
Anyone know an easy way to transfer iTunes from my daughters old Macbook (pre-intel) (iTunes 9) to her university approved non-Mac computer capable of using iTunes 10? I gave her my 3g iPod Touch when I got my new one and she can’t use it on iTunes 9. Thanks in advance.
@ Uncle Fester’s Cousin
Yes. Really. Ping is a closed environment. I can’t suggest tracks or recommend songs to friends unless they’re available in the iTunes U.S. store. It’s only “social” for what iTunes sells in your own country. It’s useless in a “world” of music.
I don’t see why ping will continue to fail just because you cant use it. Most people don’t listen to the same crap you like.
It won’t fail because of the music I like. It will fail as long as it’s closed within it’s own store and the “social” part tied to its own inventory.
@silverhawk,
You can use the backup feature in iTunes and burn your library to a disk or put it on an external drive.
@Cubert
Thank you!