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Music News: Facebook to launch music service
Member Since: 3/7/2011
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Facebook to launch music service
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/f...ners-leak/3761
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Facebook’s rumored music service will have seven launch partners, according to a code leak: Spotify, MOG, Rhapsody, Soundcloud, Rdio, Deezer (France), and VEVO.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/bu...g-service.html
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This week, according to numerous media and technology executives, Facebook will unveil a media platform that will allow people to easily share their favorite music, television shows and movies, effectively making the basic profile page a primary entertainment hub.
Facebook, which has more than 750 million users, has not revealed its plans, but the company is widely expected to announce the service at its F8 developers’ conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
By putting them in front of millions of users, Facebook’s new platform could introduce the music services to vast new audiences. “If it works the way it is supposed to, it would be the nirvana of interoperability,” said Ted Cohen, a consultant and former digital executive for a major label.
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watch this space on Thursday @facebook f8 conference.
Paid subscribers by on-demand music services:
Spotify: almost 2 million
Deezer (France only): 1.5 million
Napster: 830,000 (back in 2007)
Rhapsody: 800,000
Muve Music: 200,000
MOG and Rdio: around 100,000 combined
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Member Since: 6/30/2010
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Will it be as big of a mess as FB chat? 
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Member Since: 11/24/2006
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I was about to ask you what Vevo thought about it, til i read:
Btw, i can't watch "California King Bed", it's blocked. I thought you could see all the big artists vids from everywhere.
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Member Since: 7/12/2010
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I want music on my profile page for every visitor 
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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Of course this is announced after I delete my facebook. 
Oh well... *goes and revives account*
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Member Since: 3/7/2011
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more details on how this will work:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-201...haring-report/
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According to the paper, Facebook users will be able to post links to the songs, music videos, or movies they're watching, and their Facebook friends will be able to click directly to the content and check it out themselves. The links will appear in a Facebook user's news feed, or on a tab or in a widget incorporated into user profiles.
The Times piece quotes David Hyman, CEO of music service MOG, as saying that the Facebook service is meant to do away with the "friction" involved in similar link-sharing arrangements, where, in the case of MOG, a nonsubscriber following a subscriber's link to a song would land on a page that urged the nonsubscriber to sign up and asked for a credit card number.
The Times article focuses on music services and talks of the linked-to songs as being offered for free to those who click the special links. But it says neither MOG nor rival Rdio would say how much free music would be offered.
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Member Since: 4/22/2011
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don't see how this is much different to posting youtube videos on facebook, and ppl who want to see it just click on it to watch it
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Member Since: 3/7/2011
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Originally posted by G4L
don't see how this is much different to posting youtube videos on facebook, and ppl who want to see it just click on it to watch it
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I have used Spotify and MOG to stream music (audio).
I also have used Youtube to stream music (audio).
The difference between them are Day and Night.
As for Music Videos, Youtube/VEVO is King. So you have a point there. But for music (audio), Spotify/MOG/Rhapsody/Deezer/Rdio etc... is like your Ipod/MP3 player. A MP3 Player that can play 15 million songs.
With Spotify integration, more people can join in the fun.
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Member Since: 9/28/2009
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Originally posted by Dust2
I have used Spotify and MOG to stream music (audio).
I also have used Youtube to stream music (audio).
The difference between them are Day and Night.
As for Music Videos, Youtube/VEVO is King. So you have a point there. But for music (audio), Spotify/MOG/Rhapsody/Deezer/Rdio etc... is like your Ipod/MP3 player. A MP3 Player that can play 15 million songs.
With Spotify integration, more people can join in the fun.
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Erm, I think he was referring to the method of implementation. Sharing a *link* to the song on the streaming service is very similar to sharing its YouTube audio or video link.
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Member Since: 5/10/2011
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I hope we could auto-play songs on our profile!
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Member Since: 10/2/2010
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YAY!!! 
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Originally posted by G4L
don't see how this is much different to posting youtube videos on facebook, and ppl who want to see it just click on it to watch it
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It's not the same as posting YouTube videos. On YouTube, many songs are altered to bypass the copyright filters, but with this official implementation of several major music distributors, that problem won't be so pervasive.
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Member Since: 6/14/2011
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Wow.... Facebook & spotify coming for iTunes wig
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Originally posted by Pelvic Thrust
I hope we could auto-play songs on our profile!
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please no
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http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/indus...05359532.story
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What's also interesting about the code is the functionality it may provide. It references a "bridge" of some kind, which points strongly to the belief that Facebook will act as a sort of music interoperability hub between rival music services. The most obvious upshot of that would be that a MOG subscriber, for instance, would be able to post a playlist on his/her Facebook wall, and a subscriber of Rhapsody would be able to play it using Rhapsody.
Aside from making it easier for existing streaming music subscribers to interact with each other and discover new music, it also represents a potential customer acquisition windfall for all. Facebook is the ultimate amplifier of information, with links and updates able to spread between friends and networks at unmeasurable speed.
The hangup of course has always been that non-subscribers could not listen to more than 30 second samples. But Spotify and MOG now have free listening tiers, and Rdio has announced plans to reveal its free tier shortly (likely the same day as the Facebook Music announcement).
But Facebook's plans also go beyond streaming songs. Sources have confirmed to Billboard that other types of music services will be involved as well-specifically, ticketing. Details on this are thin, but it's believed that Facebook will include links to buy concert tickets for any of the artists liked or posted on users walls, perhaps even an update of which artists listed as any users' favorites are about to appear in that users hometown, or even an iLike function that let friends see when other friends have indicated their plans to attend a given show.
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Facebook keeps making these little updates and they're gonna end up DEAD like MySpace when it gets too tacky.
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