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Today, September the 22nd, is a big day for everyone who loves music.
Music is one of the most social things there is. That’s why for the past couple of years, we’ve been obsessed with what the next generation music service should look like.
We knew that the service had to be free to draw people away from piracy. Helping them to listen to even more music. To do that, we also knew that the service would have to be inherently social. There couldn’t be a better place to do this than Facebook.
We’re very excited to have been asked by Mark Zuckerberg to showcase this new experience at the f8 conference in San Francisco today. Take a look at these amazing new features in our video.
You’ll now start seeing new music posts and play buttons all over your newsfeeds. Hit a play button and the music starts. Right there. Spotify fires up to give you a new soundtrack to your social life. Check out your new Music Dashboard and your real-time ticker to discover the music that’s trending with your friends.
This integration with Facebook will help everyone to discover more free music than ever before. Thanks to our unrivalled, truly free service, users can just hit play to enjoy the music, no hassle, no gimmicks; month after month after month.
We hope many more people can enjoy the musical journeys that this integration will bring. Like the thrill of looking through a friend’s music collection and finding a track that blows your mind. Or sending birthday playlists across the planet.
Having free access to music on Facebook also gives us an opportunity to express ourselves in a new way. We’re proud to share pictures of our lives. Now we can say something about ourselves through music. “Hi I’m Daniel – here’s some Daft Punk.”
We know that Spotify’s users who connect to Facebook listen to more music on a weekly basis. They listen to a wider variety of music – in fact we have more than 400 million playlists created in Spotify now. Because these users are more social, they’re more engaged. Because they’re more engaged, they’re more than twice as likely to pay for music.
Social discovery on Facebook means that we’re bringing people back to paying for music again. And that‘s how the brilliant artists who create this music can continue creating it for us to enjoy.
Enjoy the soundtrack to your social life!
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Mark, you're kind of a genius.
Daniel, you're kind of a genius.
yeah!
but with google+ better x)
When does this feature get released?
just love it.
Is this released? will it be available to everyone? Wow nice!
when can we expect to see this on FB?
So... will there be another place than FB ? As a Spotify user, can I disable this feature ?
Please, please, PLEASE give us Google+ support. Please?
How do I start seeing this? Do I need to do something? It's not showing up.
I also raise my hand in support for Google+
sweet now just update the android app.....
Faster, better, stronger, harder.
Sweet!! But if the service is free, how are you bringing people back to paying for music?
Why does it say, "Get a Follow me on Spotify button for your profile" on the right of this page??? It doesn't put anything on my profile. Add me anyone who reads this who wants access to great playlists and music streaming news.
I understand a lot of people like these social features and integrations but I hope you won't be forcing them down to everyone's throat as it seems to be happening with all those reminders and "error messages" everytime I start Spotify. I hope you'll add opt-out toggles to the preferences page that allows users to disable all the social features, stop all those unnecessary announcements and let us use this great service just for what we pay for - listening music.
How about bringing Spotify to Canada so this new and amazing feature can be appreciated there?
Yay, its on Facebook!!.....PUT IT ON GOOGLE+ and I'll have an EARGASM WITH ALL MY FRIEEEEENDS!!!!!!! @playlistpro, that's for blogs and websites, or 'open source' social networking like myspace, that allow users to be "code monkeys" and add their own codes/buttons/tools. I imagine Facebook will make another nightly update and Spotify will magically appear on your profile. Nightly being wherever you are, it will happen at night...while you sleep....
dude this is great, i just hope it'll come to sweden for once.
http://olderthanelvis.blogspot.com/2011/05/ramones-my-back-pages-and-why-vinyl-is.html
Awesome stuff! Can't wait to give it a try. To everyone begging for Google+ support; Google hasn't given developers (myself included) "write access" to their social network yet, so cool stuff like this simply isn't possible yet. Be patient, as Google is rolling out API support to developers slowly.
I need to know... Will this work for everyone ou just in countries where we already have Spotify? Thanks
When does this start happening?
When I go to the spotify app on FB I get an error page
Sweeeet :) Can't wait to try this new feature! Spotify
Sigh, I give up trying to get this to work.
Google+ please, Facebook is being sent to the cleaners, nice idea though. And saying this I feel spotify is not having enough exclusives of late and more country restrictions than ever before, this is disappointing.
I'm not getting this to work, https://www.facebook.com/?sk=music invited me to download something, but everytime facebook logs me in I get this (http://cl.ly/AN73) window but as soon as I click anything Spotify Crashes..
Works fine, but my Spotify starting crashing... awful.
I was under the impressing that the Facebook integration allowed users to synchronously listen to the same song, and queue up new songs for them to listen together. The words "real-time" were used a lot and that was what led me to think so. I was really excited and just tried it out, but thats not how it seemed to work for me and my friend. Am I missing something?
Ya... the integration isn't what I expected either. I thought friends could just push the play button and they can listen to songs without having a spotify account.
@evansims You mean this: http://developers.google.com/+/api/ Pretty sure people can integrate with G+ these days.
So, uh, when does this start working? Because it's not here.
Try clicking on any Spotify play button in order to activate the music features on Facebook.
Spotify app seems to be MIA on facebook right now…but then again I can't get the Ticker to show up either (I'm sure some people would love to be in that position)
Fuck facebook, is there any way of getting spotify without all this Americanised share shit with your fucking friends shite? I fucking hate facebook, a place for kids and sex offenders. I'm paying spotify for this shit, I must be fucking mad.
Will be available worldwide or just a few countries?
Spotify ..en saa musiikkia kuuluun , miten sen sen saa toimiin ?..
I've had a free account for a couple of weeks now in the US... When and how do we get our 6 month FREE PREMIUM TRIAL?
tip: just like last.fm scrobbling, only leave the track in the graph when about half of the song is played and not only when it's started
Google+ support please!
Hey Spotify I'm a premium user, I click on the links and nothing is playing my desktop player is running but the link claims it needs to start it up GET IT SORTED. Otherwise great I've been waiting for this.
my spotify is offline help me
doesn't seem to work. i've shared a track to my wall - it tells me to login to spotify with my facebook details. I've done this and am logged in and then on facebook it's still telling me to login using fb details. rubbish. also, when are you going to get your android ap to work so it doesn't crash if you've got lots of playlists. I love spotify but the product itself is hardly impressive.
Check this: http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/daily_news_via_spotify Quote "we're going to stick to music for now and keep working on improving our service" Is intense Facebook integration the same as sticking to music and working to improve the service? Still no gapless, Spotify!
Does not work. Facebook (tried Firefox and IE on winXP) does not communicate with my Spotify client, and yes I have logged in with my Facebook account that is connected with my Spotify Premium account. Crappy untested(?) integration!
Cannot buy a premium account. This sucks!
Great news! I'm happy with my Premium account.
Doesn't work for me (Chrome/Mac)