Facebook Teams With Spotify, Apple Music

Other people can then check out that sample for free and get a glimpse into the insane inner workings of your musical mind. The “story” is streamed from Apple Music, iTunes or Spotify directly through Facebook, and the user is given the option to stream more music from the service or purchase the track to add to their library without leaving Facebook.

Anyway, the new music feature works only with devices running iOS mobile operating system, and music links shared from Apple Music, iTunes and music streaming service Spotify. And in 2011, Facebook gave music services a big push, via its “frictionless sharing” strategy, but ended up dialing it back, presumably because people didn’t like getting and receiving constant updates about what their friends were listening to.

“Music Stories” could also increase user engagement with Apple Music, Apple Inc.’s subscription streaming music service.

It’s just the latest indication of Facebook making its feed more powerful and relevant to its users. With this, users are allowed to enjoy unlimited, on-demand selection of songs online. [YOU’RE NOT REALLY SAYING ANYTHING HERE] Today we are enabling better music discovery and sharing on Facebook.

Music remains one of the last types of media that has not flourished on Facebook.

While it plays there’s an animation of a disc spinning round – it looks great in the news feed and reminds us of an old-school vinyl record. There’s no word on whether other platforms will be supported.

Facebook has announced a new post format which allows people to listen to the first 30 seconds of a song shared on the site.

You don’t need to have either Apple Music or Spotify installed on your device to listen to previews, let alone be a subscriber. Hello was widely available for streaming, but that may have been a test. For artists like Adele, CD sales remain a major source of income, and the stores that sell her music are an important promotional partner.

What is Music Story All About? Users that connected their Facebook accounts to a music service would have the music they listen to posted to their News Feed. How’s that any different from, say, just posting links to songs from YouTube like everyone’s been doing all along?