There’s a bunch of new features here, before I list them all out make sure to refresh your browser.

Check back here in a few minutes I’ll have the details…

There are several new features I’ve turned on tonight:

Enhanced Playlists

Check out the look of playlist browsing.

You’ll note that I’ve gathered all the tags from the uploads (the popular ones anyway) and used them to tag the playlists themselves. (Don’t worry if you tagged a playlist already I did not overwrite your tags).

Expand the playlist and you’ll notice several new features:

The means ‘download all the files in this playlist’

Also note the tags below the description are links, they will take you to all the other playlists that share that tag. Like all these tagged “downtempo”

Now notice on each line for a track, next to blue info button is a tool icon: which will popup an ‘action’ menu for that track. If you are logged in you can add the track one of your playlists, review it, etc.

Next to the tool icon is one of these and a number next to it. That is a link that will show you all the other playlists that track is in. Like here for Skyline Mix.

Now for your own playlists you see the familiar ‘Edit Properties’ menu item in the playlist. When you follow that now, I will show you all tags for the uploads you’ve added under ‘Suggested Tags’ to encourage you to use these to help tie playlists together.

Hopefully all these will make it easy for playlist makers to make it easy for playlist listeners to bounce around the music on the site based on shared taste.

There’s more features I’m going to write up, while you’re waiting check out a great old playlist by J. Lang.

Featured Pages Feeds

Several of ‘feature pages’ like Featured Samples now have their own syndication feeds. Whenever you land on a page with one, just check out the in the left of page. Here’s the one for Featured Samples. This way you can keep track of various features like Artist Spotlight and even when our Home Page changes.

not to be a pain, but i think your switch re-seeded my playlist in the wrong order and now my show is all out of whack :O

it doesn’t seem too obvious how to re-sort the list or i’d just do it. sorry…

New Embedded Players

Do you have a blog or web page somewhere out there? We’ve added several new Flash(tm) embed players to our publicize pages including for playlists. These are very cool looking. Here’s the Yahoo! Easy Player:

And finally (I would have had this sooner but he had me chasin down his nit picky bugs ;)

MC Jack in the Box Presents: Cool Music

Our new feature is one by a community member that will feature the best of site on a weekly basis (here’s the feed so you can get notified when he posts).

oh yea - one more (I forgot :)

Search Playlists

There’s a whole new category of search - you can now limit your search to just playlists. For example, here’s a search for the ”ambient” in playlists.