Facebook to Rival iTunes With New Music Services?

Facebook is planning to rival Apple with more than just Project Spartan apps. It is also planning to launch new music services that will compete with iTunes, according to GigaOm.

For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook’s musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications. The company is currently working on lining up more partners for the 2011 edition of f8, its annual developer conference, which is most likely to be held in August 2011.

According to the site, Facebook will add a new tab in the left hand column called 'Music'. This tab will open up your Music Dashboard. On this page you'll be able to play/pause your music and view whats playing on whatever music service you've logged in to with Facebook Connect. You'll also see a snapshot of all the songs you've listened to, along with their ranking and play count, on each specific music service.


The Music Dashboard is said to have the following features:
● Music Notifications: here you have notifications that show if your friends have listened to songs recommended by you or on your profile.
● Recommended Songs: You can get a list of songs heard and recommended by your friends. You can also play them back by clicking the play icon.
● Top Songs from friends.
● Top Albums from friends, with cover art.
● Recent listens from your friends.
● In the upper-right corner there will be a "happening now" ticker that shows what is happening in your social and musical universe, including songs that your friends are playing. There is some talk that this "Happening Now ticker" would show-up all throughout your music experience and not just on the music dashboard.

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