Facebook Launches Social Music Service with Spotify

June 21 news, according to foreign media reports, Facebook plans to work with music streaming service providers Spotify or other music services and applications to jointly launch a new social music platform, allowing users to listen to music directly through Facebook, and instantly get friends to listen to Information on music.

This social music service, known as "Music Dashboard," will install new music tags in the left column of the Facebook user home page. U.S. technology blogger GigaOm founder Om Malik said that the music tag "is only displayed to Facebook music service partners." The user clicks on the tab to enter the Music Dashboard page. The user will be able to see all the records of the past listening to music, as well as the number of times each song is heard.

Malik also revealed that the playback and pause buttons will always appear at the bottom of the Facebook page, which is "currently showing the location of the online chat page." This button allows the user to control music playback while also displaying the currently playing music when the user logs in through Facebook Connect. In addition, this feature also allows users to pause or play music directly within the Facebook page.

Malik revealed that the Music Dashboard music service will also include the following features:

1. Music notification: When a friend listens to the user's recommended music, Facebook will send out a notification message.

2. Recommended Music: Users can get a list of songs recommended by their friends. In addition, they can also play music through the play button.

3. Popular music recommended by friends.

4. The pop music album recommended by friends.

5. Friends recently listened to the music list.

6. In the upper right corner of the "Happening Now" tab, you can see what happened in the user's social circle and music circle, including the music that your friends are playing. It is reported that this function will also display all the user's music playback records.

According to the tech blog Business Insider, this new service will bring "billions" of business revenue to Facebook. Business Insider columnist Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry stated that Facebook's music service goal “is in line with its game strategy, which is to help Facebook users discover good music and help music through social graphs. Business attracts users."

However, Facebook will also face huge copyright fees. It is not yet clear how Facebook will use this service to obtain profit income. However, if Facebook develops well in this music service, Facebook will likely enter the music service market and directly compete with Apple iTunes.

According to recent news reports, the competitive relationship between Apple and Facebook has intensified. Apple recently announced a partnership with Twitter, not Facebook, to further integrate Twitter applications into the iOS 5 operating system. Facebook is also reportedly launching a web app store that competes with the Apple App Store.