Music
Facebook details its new music sharing services
by Nicole Villeneuve
September 22, 2011
There’ve been rumours about Facebook’s music integration plans for months now, and today at the f8 conference in San Francisco, they were detailed to reveal a real-time system allowing users to listen to, look for, and suggest music that others may be listening to.
Users will be able to connect their music-streaming site of choice to their Facebook, allowing songs they’re currently playing to display in the new (seemingly highly contested) live ticker on the main page. Users can then play the songs themselves, allowing sharing and discovery in a way that’ll be interesting to track. Not all of the involved music sites, such as Spotify or Turntable.fm are available in Canada, so it remains to be seen how exactly it will work here.
Mark Zuckerberg said the feature is a way to get people back to paying for music. “The key to music isn’t blocking songs, it’s to discovering more music than you’d ever thought you wanted to buy, through your friends.” [via Consequence of Sound]
