Now, anyone with a Facebook account can easily share his or her tastes.Music (formerly known as iLike) is a music listening service that allows you to add tracks to your Facebook profile, share playlists with friends, and play games. Thousands of blogs today aim to get what they consider to be good music out in the public. Early music bloggers started as music listeners. This only continues the trend that started when music went digital. Instead of the media (or radio DJs or MTV DJs as in the past) deeming what the next thing in music is, Facebook users will influence what’s big in music. On the other hand, if Facebook does develop into a converging point for the online music industry and users rely on each other for sharing and discovering music, this will create a larger role for music listeners. Once I sign up for Spotify’s Facebook app, my consent is assumed.” I’m not exactly sure how automatic the sharing is, or if there is a way to specify you don’t share, but users should pay attention. On Facebook, now, merely experiencing something is enough to trigger sharing. What he means is that I don’t have to bother with the ‘friction’ of choosing to tell you that I like something. Slate reported, “Zuckerberg calls this ‘frictionless’ sharing. Although letting someone see what your listening to doesn’t pose any foreseeable danger, if you happen to be embarrassed by your guilty pleasure playlist, be careful not to publish it (although, I would encourage everyone to not be ashamed of any music they listen to). Privacy on Facebook continues to be a controversial subject. Also, musicians and record labels probably will concentrate promoting efforts on Facebook. Although the actual streaming won’t take place inside Facebook, the musical connections and interactions with friends could converge on Facebook. Most likely, people who refuse to pay for subscriptions will look up the bands their friends are listening to, youtube some videos and then purchase what they like on iTunes.īut, this new Facebook feature does establish a potential hub for online music sharing and discovering. Maybe when everyone owns a 3G or 4G phone (which could be soon) with music service apps they will be more apt to pay for renting music. You can’t actually own it and put on it on your computer or ipod (or make a mix CD like some people still do). However, as Macworld suggested, it’s still only renting music. And if that does happen, perhaps one site will gain traction and popularity on Facebook, eventually dominating the scene. Macworld reported, “Streaming music services have added social networking components, but it’s been a hard sell because most people don’t see the value in ‘renting’ their music, thus making it difficult to find friends who belong to one of these services.” Facebook and these music services hope the feature facilitates more accounts for various streaming sites. However, in typical Facebook fashion, there will most likely be an easy hover-induced window asking users if they wish to join that service. If you subscribe to the same music-streaming service as a friend, you may duplicate their playlist on your own account, but if you use a different service, you can only view your friend’s playlist. ![]() What does this mean for the music industry? The new platform also allows users to see when friends buy concert tickets. Ticketing sites jumped on the bandwagon too. Not only will that allow subscribers to authenticate themselves using their Facebook login, it also gives them an option to add any song, album, radio channel or artist that they subsequently listen to on that service to appear on Facebook for others to see.” ![]() According to Billboard, “Any digital music service (or really any other content service) can use Facebook’s new API to integrate themselves into the platform. On the Timeline, users can display their playlist from music streaming sites like Spotify and Rdio. ![]() Friends can comment on music or chat with each other in real-time. The music feature, which is tied to both the new Timeline feature and the new Ticker, allows Facebook users to see what their friends are listening to via the Timeline or in real-time on the Ticker. In an effort to fashion Facebook as an online musical nucleus, Zuckerberg unveiled the social networking site’s new music feature at the f8 conference in San Francisco today. But then, Facebook stole the show.ĬEO Mark Zuckerberg now wants the world of music to revolve around Facebook. Today, more in-depth articles analyzing the impact of the band in our culture surfaced on sites such as Salon and The Atlantic. By late afternoon, blogs and websites posted heartfelt tributes. fans-immediately popped up follow the band’s announcement on its website. ![]() Yesterday, the music world united around news of alternative rock band R.E.M.’s split after 31 years in the business.
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