Apple’s new Beats-based streaming music service, expected to be named “Apple Music”, will feature Ping-like social network pages for artists, 9to5Mac reports. While the network won’t extend to users of the service, artists will be able to setup their own pages that can be used to post information such as track samples, photos, videos, and concert updates.
Artists will also be able to cross-promote by sharing content from other artists on their own pages, and users will be able to comment on and like content on artist pages, but will not be able to create or post their own content.
It appears the feature will be referred to as “Artist Activity” and can be disabled in Restrictions, as evidenced by a new setting found in the latest iOS 8.4 beta.
The feature is expected to be available across the iOS, Android, and Mac versions of Apple Music, although it remains unclear whether it will also come to the Apple TV.
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