Are There Key Ingredients Missing from Facebook Music Sharing?
By Karla Robinson
September 26, 2011
September 26, 2011
- Following last week’s F8 developer’s conference, and the news that Facebook is making a significant shift into media sharing, Wired offers an interesting take on possible missing elements to successfully sharing music via the social network.
- “Yes, Facebook will facilitate legal music sharing — something the industry has been trying to do ever since Napster electrified (some would say “electrocuted”) the music business over 10 years ago,” suggests the article. “But as important as it is, Facebook’s music initiative is missing five key ingredients, all of which are within its grasp.”
- According to Wired, the following are the missing ingredients…
- True Music Sharing: Facebook should allow people to listen to each other’s music using whatever music service they want. Instead of using the service that the friend is using, you should have the option to select which platform you would like to use. They’ve started doing this (somewhat unfairly) for Spotify with a “play in Spotify” link in shared songs on other platforms, like Rdio.
- Real-Time Group Listening: “Why didn’t Facebook music launch with the ability to join other listeners on a station in real-time, so that people can chat about what they’re hearing…?”
- Music Tab in the Ticker: With all the new information coming to Ticker through automatic updates in Open Graph, it would be nice to have a music filter to separate music updates from other things like adding friends.
- Apple: Apple, iTunes and iCloud were not included in the media system and would be beneficial to users.
- Independent Developers: Facebook just needs to “stay out of the way” of independent app developers that build third-party players atop their catalogs — apps that could offer a range of interfaces, platforms, designs, features, and more to programs like Rdio or Spotify.
Topics: F8, Facebook, Facebook Music Sharing, Music, Open Graph, Sharing, Social, Social Media, Social Network, Song, Streaming, Ticker
2 Comments
I love Spotify, but I’m not a believer in this “See every track that every person you know is listening to and may or may not even like” thing. I agree that without some of these features, it’s meaningless and noisy. This one will probably backfire on FB…
I love Spotify, but I’m not a believer in this “See every track that every person you know is listening to and may or may not even like” thing. I agree that without some of these features, it’s meaningless and noisy. This one will probably backfire on FB…
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