so .... Spotify's launching a facebook app?
... which will be automatically integrated with every Facebook account belonging to users in available countries.
Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
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Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#32The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said. Why? Maybe this function will be an interesting experiment, but I just don't see it working out. Honestly, does anybody really care if their friend is listening to the same song (in a different geographic location) simultaneously? Where's the value added? Wha…
Last.fm does this with their radio. I like to find new music from my friend in Germany (I'm UK based) and will find new good music from time to time.
Haven't you ever been in your friends car and heard a song on their CD and been like "wow that song is great, I wanna get it!" - same concept.
Music is so ineptly social.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#33tl;dr; "Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed" "Clicking on the Spotify icon will install the service on their desktop in the background, and also allow users play from Spotify’s library of millions of songs through Facebook." "The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the so…
"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States." So it's not really a 'launch' or a 'music service'. It's an integration. Having said that, I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.
> I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.
Unless all your friends have shitty taste.
note: I do find it a technically interesting feature
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#34I'm in Spain and I have Spotify. I must be one the few that actually don't like it.
I love music but I have no clue about artist names, bands, etc. This is why I LOVE Pandora.
Just enter a familiar name, from the few that I know and I can spend hours listening to good music.
Actually is so good is annoying, because I have to constantly upvote all the songs.
I tried many many times to like Spotify, but Pandora wins by a long shot.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#35I'm in Spain and I have Spotify. I must be one the few that actually don't like it. I love music but I have no clue about artist names, bands, etc. This is why I LOVE Pandora. Just enter a familiar name, from the few that I know and I can spend hours listening to good music. Actually is so good is annoying, because I have to constantly upvote all the songs. I tried many many times to like Spotify, but Pandora wins by…
Pandora is available in Spain? I was under the impression it was USA-only.
When I try to access it from here in the UK, the message reads:
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#36tl;dr; "Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed" "Clicking on the Spotify icon will install the service on their desktop in the background, and also allow users play from Spotify’s library of millions of songs through Facebook." "The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the so…
"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States." So it's not really a 'launch' or a 'music service'. It's an integration. Having said that, I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.
"I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting."
You can always tune the same radio station... :-)
I know you don't get to pick the songs, but it's an easy solution.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#37The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said. Why? Maybe this function will be an interesting experiment, but I just don't see it working out. Honestly, does anybody really care if their friend is listening to the same song (in a different geographic location) simultaneously? Where's the value added? Wha…
There is not much detail there about how the feature will actually be implemented but here are two scenarios: You see that a friend with a similar taste in music to you listens to song you don’t know so you click to listen in. That would be useful. This integration also could allow your friends to play music for you. (“Hey, listen to this cool song I discovered!”) I find myself sharing links to songs (mostly some vid…
Spotify already does all of this (with Facebook integration, too). The new feature is supposed to be synchronisation (listening to a song at the same time as your friend).
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#38I hope there will be a way to just use Spotify without using Facebook. It seems like that could become obnoxious if I had to sign into Facebook every time I wanted to listen to music.
Well, you can do that already (with optional Facebook integration), so I wouldn't have thought they'd take that away.
Especially since there are lots of existing paid accounts which aren't connected to Facebook.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#39I'm in Spain and I have Spotify. I must be one the few that actually don't like it. I love music but I have no clue about artist names, bands, etc. This is why I LOVE Pandora. Just enter a familiar name, from the few that I know and I can spend hours listening to good music. Actually is so good is annoying, because I have to constantly upvote all the songs. I tried many many times to like Spotify, but Pandora wins by…
Pandora is available in Spain? I was under the impression it was USA-only. When I try to access it from here in the UK, the message reads: We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S.
I use this service http://unblock-us.com/
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#40The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said. Why? Maybe this function will be an interesting experiment, but I just don't see it working out. Honestly, does anybody really care if their friend is listening to the same song (in a different geographic location) simultaneously? Where's the value added? Wha…
Last.fm does this with their radio. I like to find new music from my friend in Germany (I'm UK based) and will find new good music from time to time. Haven't you ever been in your friends car and heard a song on their CD and been like "wow that song is great, I wanna get it!" - same concept. Music is so ineptly social.
You mean, "inherently social."