Apple Opens Up: Subtle iTunes 10.0.1 Update Makes Ping Immensely More Useful

Like many the great unwashed , I activated Ping when Apple reveal it earlier this calendar month , and then like many people I end using it . Where ’s the , um , social ? Why is it read I like all these Britney Spears remixes ? Et cetera .

But the latest package update from Apple might go a little way toward fixing and answer at least one of these pressing questions .

One most notable modification in 10.0.1 is the ability to use Ping from within your own iTunes depository library , instead of having to manually search out music tracks you already own in the wordy ether of the iTunes Store . It ’s a pernicious yet important work shift for Apple , a company long love for , ahem , control of content and medium .

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What this entail is the previous setup , wherein a user would have to partake in song via the iTunes Store and nowhere else , is gone . It ’s been replaced with a Ping release next to every song you own . With the push , locate in a drop curtain down menu accompanying all your euphony library runway , you may “ like ” that song , or post it to your visibility with a note . Or you could use the free fall down carte to incur that artist song or album in the iTunes Store . All this is done from within iTunes on your automobile .

Again , it ’s a elusive change , and peradventure one that should have been there all along , but the shift is perhaps revelatory of an Apple that ’s opening up the iTunes / Ping experience a bit to make thing light for the user .

There ’s obviously more work to be done to make Ping into the knock-down euphony - divvy up social meshwork Apple obviously wants it to be — the web remains limited by the fact that Apple continues tonot render any kind of serious access to Facebookor Twitter , for example . That order , it ’s a start for all you share - mad music lovers out there . [ TechCrunch ]

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