How can I view my friend's itunes library?

Is there any way that my friend and I could browse each other's itunes music libraries? It would be ideal to be able to click and sample songs as well. We don't want to share the actual music files. This is strictly to expose one another to each other's music, and hopefully broaden our scope. Any music we're interested in, we would purchase from the itunes store (or elsewhere).
Is there any way to do this? I read an Apple support article (link below) explaining how to share itunes playlists. It even had the ability to sample songs. This would have worked out pretty well, except I can't find the option in the current itunes(11.0.5). Was this feature taken off?
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/music/itunes.html#playlists-shareplaylists
I read there was a program called 'Mojo' that did exactly what I'm looking for, except that it went an (illegal) step further and allowed friends to download each other's music. Which is probably why it no longer exists...
Any help would be appreciated.

Sharing playlists still works - Preferences/Sharing - but only if the computers are on the same network, so you and your friend would need to be in each other's homes to be able to share playlist through iTunes. Otherwise, you can export your playlist and your friend can either read it - he'll need an XML viewer - or import it into his iTunes:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1156612/itunes_playlist_share.html
There was a playlist sharing service:
http://www.getplaylists.com
but it seems to be dead now.
Regards.

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