New privacy options - set general and item-based preferences

Privacy is very important and although most people use playlists in order to express their preferences or music knowlege we've all playlists we would like to hide form the public or even from friends. Just image the president of an Aimee Mann fanclub listening to heavy metal all the time ;-) Or who admits having a perfectly adjusted 80's playlist with Rick Astley and friends? ;-)

To overcome these issues, we've introduced a bunch of new privacy preferences with our latest 01/09 release - in the Preferences dialog (you can find the link in the upper right corner) you're now able to define the general privacy settings for your account in more detail. This way, you can allow all users or just your friends to play your playlists.

Of course, the access to your library still will only be possible for your friends.



Privacy settings for an individual playlist
You can mark any playlist as private - this way even your friends will not be able to play your playlist or search for it. Just uncheck the "Public" property when creating a new playlist (or edit it).