Thursday morning Apple introduced iTunes 10 with Ping. Apple is marketing Ping as a social network for music. Early reactions across the web are mixed at best.
So far, detone8.com has been unable to create a band profile, but we hope to get access soon. According to the blog Hypebot, Apple said that artist Ping accounts are by invitation only at this time. We quickly upgraded to iTunes 10 on our Mac, and after a few hours we also upgraded iTunes on Windows Vista. It was easy to create an account, but Ping was sluggish on the Vista computer.
We were only able to add a few artist profiles, and they were only major artists. We looked up Detone8 favorites like Ludo and I Fight Dragons, but they were not listed. Even Saves The Day, a band that has been signed for over a decade, is not among the artist you can follow.
If your band is on iTunes, let us know what you think about Ping. If your band is not on iTunes, check this iTunes guide out.
Brett Lohmeyer is an editor for detone8.com, and in the day you can find him at
Man this really stinks. Combine this with all the spam they are getting. I wonder how long it will be before all the artist that are on i-tunes will be available on Ping?