Facebook and Spotify Reportedly Teaming Up to Stream Music to Your Ear
According to our favorite people, "sources close to the deal", Facebook has partnered with Spotify to bring its music streaming service to American shores. The service will be integrated with the Facebook website right in the news feed. The real kicker here, the service could launch in as little as two weeks.
Spotify has been struggling to reach American users for several years, but licensing deals have been hard to come by. Facebook users will be able to listen to music simultaneously with friends, the sources say. This goes far beyond the rudimentary Facebook Connect social integration Spotify currently has in Europe.
This deal, if accurate, would be huge for both companies. Spotify gets millions more users to prop up their flagging profits. Facebook gets the music streaming service it has been seeking for years, which will nicely compliment their burgeoning movie rental system. Sources claim no money is changing hands in the deal. Would you use Spotify through Facebook?
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mikesboat
May 27, 2011 at 4:15am
Interesting idea I suppose, though I have no problem with using spotify without facebook already to listen to music or to record spotify music to mp3 with Audials:
http://audials.com/en/how_to_rip_record_internet_radios/spotify.html
Don't think I'd be that much into using spotify through facebook anyways.
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Ghok
May 26, 2011 at 11:37am
I like Facebook and use it to stay in contact with my friends and family, but that's all I use it for and all I want to use it for. I do not sit around all day with it hanging in the background. I know a lot of teens and people in the 20s (a group I belong to, by the way) are ALWAYS on Facebook, but I simply am not one of them... and outside these age groups, I don't think many other people are either. This is because I know what a data miner Facebook is, and I don't trust it very much. I also don't give a fuck what my friends are up to all the time, nor do I think I'm important enough to constantly broadcast what I'm doing.
I would be interested in Spotify otherwise.
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Neufeldt2002
May 25, 2011 at 5:24pm
I was interested in Spotify, but not anymore. IMO, anything that is integrated with facebook is a slap in the face of common sense.
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Brad L
May 26, 2011 at 5:25am
I agree with this person. I'm not interested in anything related to facebook. That company has extended itself way too far, and they are doing so at the expense of user privacy.
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