The Music Stories include an image of the album artwork, the song title and artist, the name of the service that it was shared from, and a button that’ll kick you to Apple Music or Spotify to stream the full track or buy it from iTunes.
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You don’t need to have either Apple Music or Spotify installed on your device to listen to previews, let alone be a subscriber.
Facebook says that it will roll out support for more music streaming services in the near future, as well. Facebook is working on adding the feature for Android users. Launch Facebook and start a new post, then tap and hold to paste the URL and create a Music Story on the social network. Music Stories will only appear on Facebook’s iOS app and will be rolling out around the world on Thursday. Want to share music from another streaming service? The new post format allows people to listen to previews on Facebook from Apple Music and Spotify. If you had it activated, Spotify automatically posted everything you played to your News Feed, and if you clicked play on a song, it would kick you out of the browser and into Spotify’s desktop app. Spotify went so far as to force users to sign up with a Facebook account, which didn’t please anyone.
We hope by making this experience better, artists will share more, friends will share and engage more, and music will become a better part of the Facebook experience overall.
If music really is as social as Facebook imagines – and the company is often right about what people are sharing to its network, thanks to the vast amount of data it collects and parses every day – this could make a big difference to people whose friends and family all use a different streaming music service.
There are few things people love more than music.
Music remains one of the last types of media that has not flourished on Facebook.
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Facebook announced this morning a new feature called “Music Stories”, that will allow users to better discover new music or share tracks with their friends.
