Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
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Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
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Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#2tl;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 sources said."
"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."
"No money is changing hands with this partnership"
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#3"...it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."
I guess I assumed since Facebook is based in the US this meant that Spotify would be available in the US too, but on second thought, I'm sure Facebook is big everywhere.
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#4The 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? What does anybody gain from this? Maybe social has a place in music, but this isn't it.
Edit: I'm not disputing the fact that bonding doesn't happen over music (clearly it does, as anybody who has ever listened to a song with another person would know), but I fail to see the purpose of simultaneous listening across the world.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#5tl;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.
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#6The 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…
Actually, my friend (in Norway) and I (in the USA) often listen to the same song at the same time because we want to share it with each other.
Most of the time that isn't happening, but when we want to, it'd be nice to have something to help with that.
Not that it's a huge hassle to hit 'play' on whatever youtube video he sends. The 10-20 seconds of lag aren't really that important.
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#7The 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…
Many of my friendships involve a lot of bonding over music, as I'm sure do many other peoples'. If I were to suddenly become geographically distant to them, if I moved away to another country or whatever, I would imagine that being able to listen to music in sync with them in that way would be a pretty powerful thing. I'd definitely do it a lot.
Think of it like talking on a webcam with your relatives back home, but with less talking and more shockin' out.
>but I fail to see the purpose of simultaneous listening across the world.
It's just the simple pleasure of knowing that over the other side of the world, your friend, who presumably responds to the music in the same or a similar way to you, is currently having that same response at the same time. This knowledge could reinforce the sensation of a shared experience, especially if you're recreating a shared listening experience from the past where you were physically together.
Obviously it doesn't really matter because you have no way of knowing what the other person is actually doing at that time unless you have some other out of band communication, a webcam or whatever. You would have the same sense of shared experience if spotify only told you it was syncing but actually didn't, how could you know? However, we are talking about emotional phenomena here and as such these logical stipulations don't really hit home.
EDIT: Also using it to synchronise two entire parties would be fun.
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#8The 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…
I think this is interesting from a DJ or live mix-tape perspective. I have several friends who's taste in music I like. I would love it if they set aside an hour of "dj'ing" live. It is also interesting during a "chat" session.
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#9thats a helluva right hook for Google
Re: Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify
#10The 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…
Listening along with a friend who appreciates music as much as you do is great. Sometimes you don't have the liberty of be with them physically, so facebook is ready to provide the next best thing.