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Following artists and friends
Use Ping to connect with the world’s most passionate music fans. Follow favorite artists to learn
about new releases and upcoming concerts and tours, get an insider’s perspective through their
photos and videos, and learn about their musical inuences. Read friends’ comments about the
music they’re listening to, and see what they’re buying and which concerts they plan to attend.
Finally, express your musical likes and post comments for your own followers.
To create and explore musical connections, you need to create a prole.
Create your iTunes Ping prole: Open the iTunes application on your Mac or PC, click Ping, and
follow the onscreen instructions.
Tap Ping (if Ping isn’t visible, tap More rst), then explore Ping. You can do the following:
Follow an artist Tap Follow on their prole page.
Follow a friend Tap People and enter your friend’s name in the search eld. Tap your friend,
then tap Follow.
When you follow someone, they don’t automatically follow you. In your
prole you can choose to approve or decline requests to be followed as
they arrive, or simply accept all new followers without review (the default).
Share your thoughts As you browse albums and songs, tap Post to comment on a piece of music,
or tap Like just to say you like it. Your friends will see your thoughts in their
Ping Activity feed.
Share concert plans Tap Concerts on your prole page to see upcoming concerts by the artists
you follow, and see which of your friends are going to a concert. Tap Tickets
to buy your own ticket, or tap I’m Going to let others know you’ll be there
too. (Not available in all areas.)
Streaming or downloading podcasts
You can listen to audio podcasts or watch video podcasts streamed over the Internet from the
iTunes Store. You can also download audio and video podcasts.
Stream a podcast: Tap Podcasts (tap More rst, if Podcasts isn’t visible) to browse podcasts in the
iTunes Store.
Video podcasts are marked with a video icon .
Download a podcast Tap the Free button, then tap Download. Downloaded podcasts appear in
the Podcasts playlist in Music.
Listen to or watch a podcast
you’ve downloaded
In Music, tap Podcasts (tap More rst, if Podcasts isn’t visible), then tap the
podcast. Video podcasts also appear in your list of videos.
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