Facebook music was earlier rumored to be out, but it wasn’t known as to whom would the social networking giant partner for the said service. Now its leaked that there would be at least seven launch partners joining hands with Facebook. According to web developer Yvo Schaap, several companies would be in partnership with Facebook to launch Facebook Music.
Apart from detailing about the launch partners, Schaap even noted that there were a few interesting references in the HTML code of all the major music streaming services in the world. These were for all track, album and artist pages have meta data in a yet undocumented format:
The similarity noted by Schaap was for Spotify, MOG, Rhapsody, Soundcloud, Rdio, Deezer (France) and VEVO. He was of the thought that the undocumented mentioned audio type “audio/vnd.facebook.bridge” has a reference to a format bridging audio between the streaming services and Facebook’s platform. These seven providers were thus serving the custom Facebook format by tagging their pages music.song and music.album.
For those who had been following the updates related to Facebook Music, there would be no real surprise as Rdio, MOG, Spotify and Rhapsody were already in the hunting partners list, which has just increased by three. But if one has not been updated about Facebook Music link-ups, one can read about it here. Talking about the number count, it seems seven might just help Facebook to have a launch which it would have only dreamt of for Facebook Music.
For a ‘non-compatible’ list, Schaap noted that the following nine services do not have the format in question:
-
iTunes
-
MySpace
- Pandora
- Turntable.fm
-
Amazon.com (store and cloud player)
-
Last.fm
-
Napster
-
Kazaa
-
Groovershark
Possibility of Facebook striking a deal with these non-compatible service providers is still there, but it looks like they would not be ready by the week coming.
Briefing about its features, Facebook Music has been already rumored to have scrobbling, means tracks you listen to will be automatically added to your profile and track unification, referring to seamless integration between the different music services – if you see a playlist or track posted from one service, you’ll be able to click and play it in your own service. It seems September 22, f8 conference might hold in a surprise from Facebook to call off all rumors and announce whether one would actually see Facebook Music been launched in the times to come or no. Leaks and rumors have been steadily coming in for months now and it everything looks to be fine, Thursday might just have the music lovers on Facebook rejoice with joy.
Facebook has proved its addictiveness and add to it the music addiction, the combination might just look lethal. Again, social activities include even sharing music and talking about music, apart from just listening to it, which makes sense that Facebook might soon opt-in for Facebook Music.