Social interaction in a media streaming service

The present invention provides a streaming media service. The streaming media service can permit artists or other users to create and upload "posts" to the service. Posts can include text, referencesto content items in the catalog of the streaming media service, and/or non catalog media content items that are created by the artist and uploaded as part of the post. Posts can be presented to usersas they browse the catalog of the streaming media service and/or in a dedicated feed. The rendering of a post on a user device can include graphical user interface controls that allow the user to access content items referenced by or included in the post. 本发明提供了种流媒体服务，所述流媒体服务可允许艺术家或其他用户创建和上载"发布信息"到所述服务。发布信息可包括文本、对所述流媒体服务目录中的内容项的标引和/或由所述艺术家创建并作为所述发布信息的部分上载的非目录媒体内容项。当用户浏览所述流媒体服务的所述目录和/或专用馈送时，可向用户展示发布信息。在用户设备上呈现发布信息可包括图形用户界面控件，图形用户界面控件允许所述用户访问所述发布信息所标引的或包括在所述发布信息中的内容项。