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How to master Apple Music's latest cool feature

How to master Apple Music's latest cool feature

Build collaborative playlists with friends.

Leander Kahney
February 23, 2024

I thoroughly enjoy playing the DJ at parties, treating friends and family to my impeccable taste in music.

So I find Apple Music’s newest feature — playlist collaboration — slightly horrifying.

Isn’t the point of building a playlist to base it on your personal selection of music, like the age-old practice of creating mixtapes?

I find the idea of a playlist built by committee to be a milquetoast disaster in the making.

Given that, collaborative playlists are a well-thought-out and well-implemented new feature of Apple Music. If collaborating on a playlist before a road trip, party or other gathering appeals to you, here’s how to do it.

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— Leander Kahney, EIC.

How to make a shared, collaborative Apple Music Playlist

This cool new feature lets you and your friends build a playlist together for a party, road trip, etc.

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This is a pretty good demo of how Vision Pro anchors stuff visually to physical space.
Anchor stuff to things on your desk but move your desk, and they'll move with it.
In this particular instance, that's pretty nice, but it's typically not nice when it happens. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Snazzy Labs (@SnazzyLabs)
10:05 PM • Feb 22, 2024

Under the hood visionOS creates a full floor plan of your space as you use it, and labels everything (floor, ceiling, chairs, etc). This is no joke. Most people dont realize the foundations in place here that will unlock a wide possibility of experiences.
— Ludovic Landry (@ludoviclandry)
9:02 AM • Feb 22, 2024

Apple in February of 1994, 2004, 2014, and 2024 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— 🅳🆈🅻🅰🅽 (@DylanMcD8)
6:41 AM • Feb 22, 2024

One more thing ...

❝

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

— Steve Jobs, 1997.

Today’s poll

Are you interested in collaborative playlists?

Results from yesterday’s poll: How do you feel about iOS 18 looking like visionOS?

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