I always thought Apple missed a huge opportunity to build a social network on top of iTunes.

See what your friends are listening to, develop communities around shared musical interests, get better recommendations. Sort of like YouTube now.

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hylaride a day ago | parent | next [-]

Funny enough iTunes Genius was amazing at discovering new music as it created a tree of "users who bought this, also bought these songs" and I spent a fortune on the iTunes Store on single songs.

It's now all but dead, probably because with apple getting a monthly cut with Apple Music either way, there's no incentive to maintain such a system.

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PlunderBunny a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

iTunes Ping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping

	▲	tantalor a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Launched September 1, 2010 A bit late to the party.

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stuartmemo a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funnily enough, I'm trying to do this, and just posted in "What are you Working On?" Not sure I'll have much luck if Apple couldn't make it happen though! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268285

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pogue a day ago | parent [-]

Looks interesting, how do you get it to sync what I'm listening to with it? I use Pandora & YT Music as my only music services.

	▲	stuartmemo a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks! Good shout, will definitely add support for YouTube. Pandora, however, is sadly blocked in the UK.

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doublepg23 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They do? It's pretty limited but if you tap your profile photo at the bottom of Music and then tap your profile photo in the menu again it'll bring you to a "Apple Music profile" of sorts you can follow people with.

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