Apple has updated iTunes and turned the small "marafet" in Ping

September 25th Apple released a new version of iTunes mediakombayn - 10.0.1. Updates brought users to not only fix errors in the program, but also innovations in the music social network Ping. But first things first.

For example, in iTunes 10.0.1 fixes a problem with the video display quality (it is worse when the screen were visible player controls).

Working with the cover art is now going on smoothly, without sudden closing iTunes and visualizers from third-party developers need to function properly. And eliminated the problem, due to which the media library and iTunes playlists are displayed as empty. Finally, the general incompatibility with third-party media libraries is no longer observed.

As for the renovation of social music network from Apple, thanks to new integrated drop-down menu in the Ping can now comment on the tracks, mark them as favorite, and even show them to other users, without leaving the music library without having to go to the iTunes Store, as it It was before.

In addition, the new sidebar user can monitor the activity of friends in Ping network, annotate and mark how they liked their actions.

This is - one of the first Apple Ping steps to transform it into a social network. Now it would be a good idea to somehow integrate Ping with Facebook and Twitter. So members of the network would be able to publish data on musical tastes and new tracks in these networks. In addition, we would like to and players in mobile devices from Apple's iOS-based buttons have also been introduced "Like» ( «Like») and «Publish» ( «Share»).

In addition, those who do not wish to use the Ping network or pull-down menus and side panels can be easily shut off this function. To do this, just need to get out from iTunes, enter the Terminal program, insert a field for entering a line of text «defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown 1" and press Enter. As a result, a function of the drop-down menu will be disabled. To enable it, use the command set «defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown 0".