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"Facebook users will see a Spotify icon appear on the left side of their newsfeed"

"Clicking on the Spotify icon will install the service on their desktop in the background, and also allow users play from Spotify’s library of millions of songs through Facebook."

"The service will include a function that lets Facebook users listen to music simultaneously with their friends over the social network, one of the sources said."

"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."

"No money is changing hands with this partnership"

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"...but it will only be available for Facebook users in countries where Spotify has a presence, excluding the all-important United States."

So it's not really a 'launch' or a 'music service'. It's an integration.

Having said that, I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.

You should check out http://outloud.fm/

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I have a thing I like to do with friends called I call 'song sharing' in which we listen to the same song at the same time and write what we are picturing from the music. Once the song is over we all press enter and see what each other's visions were. It's a really interesting way to get to know someone.

i can't tell if you are being serious or not...

If that wasn't sarcasm then I don't know what is...

> I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting.

Unless all your friends have shitty taste.

note: I do find it a technically interesting feature

Exactly what I was thinking. I have no desire to listen to my friends' music.

Maybe you need more friends? A decent amount of my acquaintances are just people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.

> people that I follow what they listen to and vice versa.

That's kind of cool, so you have a group of "friends" on facebook or whatever that you use for new music discovery?

edit: the poorly implied question would be what does using a generic social network get you that an account on a targeted site like last.fm doesn't have?

last.fm is great, but it generates a lot of noise (bands that I don't like that last.fm thinks I should like) and it doesn't allow me to instantly listen to what my friends are listening to.

When my friends post links to youtube or soundcloud it's usually only for tracks they really like. Newness is a good criteria for posting, as is good stuff you may not have listened to in a years.

You can do all this with last.fm, but for whatever reason no one I know uses it as such. Facebook, irc and message boards seem to be the best places for me to learn about new music.

"I think the 'listen to the same music as your friends' bit is pretty interesting."

You can always tune the same radio station... :-)

I know you don't get to pick the songs, but it's an easy solution.

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