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Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by schlichtm » Wed, May 25, 2011, 9:57 PM UTC

Facebook is not partnering with Spotify in any way.

- This "icon" on the left of the homepage is simply a bookmark, a feature that any application on Facebook can choose to use.

- Facebook is an open platform and has yet to choose a winner among third parties for anything, and when they do they buy them and rebuild the product in house.

- Spotify does not work in the United States.

- Spotify simply has deep Facebook integrations, tech writers are either completely misunderstanding the information they stumbled upon OR they are blatantly turning this into a bigger story in order to get page views and attention.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by trafficlight » Wed, May 25, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

mishmash wrote: post #33

wccrawford wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...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

Exactly what I was thinking. I have no desire to listen to my friends' music.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by samlevine » Wed, May 25, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

trafficlight wrote: post #42

mishmash wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

Exactly what I was thinking. I have no desire to listen to my friends' music.

Maybe you need more friends? A decent amount of my acquaintances are just people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by BradGutting » Wed, May 25, 2011, 11:49 PM UTC

It'd be nice if a music service came out that didn't revolve around introducing you to new music or alerting you to what your friends are listening to. Or one that realizes the music you might like could be based on more than other bands you and/or your friends are already into (would any of these services assume that a Metallica fan might also dig Katy Perry?). There's a limit to how much stuff Facebook needs tacked onto it. And how many "hubs" for media already exist? At what point does this start looking like putting the VCR inside the TV set?

And not everything gets to become FarmVille.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by mishmash » Thu, May 26, 2011, 1:13 AM UTC

samlevine wrote: post #43

trafficlight wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly what I was thinking. I have no desire to listen to my friends' music.

Maybe you need more friends? A decent amount of my acquaintances are just people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.

> people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.

That's kind of cool, so you have a group of "friends" on facebook or whatever that you use for new music discovery?

edit: the poorly implied question would be what does using a generic social network get you that an account on a targeted site like last.fm doesn't have?

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by chrischen » Thu, May 26, 2011, 2:28 AM UTC

Like.fm just released a "friend panel" that lets you chat and see what your friends are listening to: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mbnhjlkenpmankjjbb...

Except this works with whatever website you're already listening to music from.

Also, the features they explained can all be achieved via a conventional facebook canvas app. A spotify icon in the left side? Isn't that just the app bookmark?

I think the title is probably just mega-linkbait. It's most likely Spotify just adding more facebook integration.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by salsakran » Thu, May 26, 2011, 3:08 AM UTC

stephenhalter wrote: post #31

salsakran wrote: post #13

so .... Spotify's launching a facebook app?

... which will be automatically integrated with every Facebook account belonging to users in available countries.

except that the other example they give (Warner Bros) was just an app made by them with no deep integration past using the api and credits.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by chrischen » Thu, May 26, 2011, 3:29 AM UTC

BradGutting wrote: post #44

It'd be nice if a music service came out that didn't revolve around introducing you to new music or alerting you to what your friends are listening to. Or one that realizes the music you might like could be based on more than other bands you and/or your friends are already into (would any of these services assume that a Metallica fan might also dig Katy Perry?). There's a limit to how much stuff Facebook needs tacked…

Such recommendations are already in existence. Pandora is one example. Itunes Genius is another.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by invisible » Thu, May 26, 2011, 4:33 AM UTC

BradGutting wrote: post #44

It'd be nice if a music service came out that didn't revolve around introducing you to new music or alerting you to what your friends are listening to. Or one that realizes the music you might like could be based on more than other bands you and/or your friends are already into (would any of these services assume that a Metallica fan might also dig Katy Perry?). There's a limit to how much stuff Facebook needs tacked…

How would you like it to base what you like on besides your past/current interests (e.g. related artists to the ones you listen to)? Just curious.

Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify

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Post by upinsmoke » Thu, May 26, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC

fabiandesimone wrote: post #39

udp wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

This is what I don't get. Music companies make it so different for music services to operate internally, they want us to pay VPN companies to enjoy music, rather than paying them.