facebook Launches “song stories” With Apple And Spotify

facebook is rolling out a new function lets customers share and play person Spotify and Apple music songs of their news feeds. called track stories, the new functionality lets customers repackage 30-second track clips of their facebook information feed through facebook’s proprietary tune participant.

Rumors of facebook entering the streaming track sphere and even launching a Spotify competitor had been circulating for months. The move alerts that facebook is as an alternative pursuing a coverage of collaboration, rather than competition, with the streaming giants—for now.

in keeping with a blog post by using fb product director Michael Cerda, “songs and albums shared from the leading song services and products will change into ‘tune stories,’ a new put up structure which permits individuals to hearken to a 30-2nd preview of the shared music (or album) while on facebook. The preview is streamed from both Apple tune or Spotify (depending on the source of the link shared), and may also be bought from or saved to the respective song streaming service.”

at the beginning, previews from Apple song, iTunes, and Spotify will likely be to be had throughout the information feed. customers will also be capable of right away purchase songs from the iTunes retailer thru their information feed. fb says other services are anticipated to plug into song tales’ performance, as well. The 30-second structure helps ensure that customers don’t get bored with the songs, but it surely additionally has a nifty felony perform: It sharply reduces royalty charges facebook has to pay.