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Today on Thursday, Facebook has began rolling out a new feature aimed at ramping up the social experience of listening to music online. Are you one of the active 800 million individuals across the globe with Facebook account, then you will be alreday noticed that some evolutionary changes which are happening to the Social Networking site. Few days ago, the major changes is done for the new Timeline feature which offers a radical new way of viewing the history of a desired friend, which met with mixed revews from members.

The feature implemented into the Facebook is called to be “Listen With Friends” – allowing users to listen music with family all in real time. That means you can also listen to that artist songs along with any friend who is already playing it.

How that happens?

“You can listen to the same song, at the exact same time—so when your favorite vocal part comes in you can experience it together, just like when you’re jamming out at a performance or dance club,” Alexandre Roche, product designer at Facebook, wrote in a blog post Thursday.

So, when any Facebook friend is listening to a song, or a music note will appear next to their name in the chat sidebar and the real-time news ticker. By simply hovering over that friends name, then clicking the “Listem Music” button, you can listen as well with them in the same time.


The latest advancement within Facebook appears to have taken that to the next level, by letting you engage in a chat conversation with friends whilst listening to the same music at the same time. This has been dubbed the ‘Listen With’ feature, about which the company had this to say:

“Look for the music note in the chat sidebar to see which of your friends are listening to music. To listen with a friend, hover over their name, and click the Listen With button. The music will play through the service your friend is using.

When a new song plays, you’ll come along for the ride, discovering new music while your friend DJs for you.”

The Facebook’s feature will definitely add a whole new dimention to using Facebook, by effectively letting friends control their musical joy whilst chatting. Currently, Spotify and Rdio are the only two music players that support Listen With Friends. If a Facebook user attempts to listen in with a friend but does not have the compatible player, they will be prompted to install it.

So this feature is a part of Facebook chat, allows users to chat online while listening music “Listen With Friends” them upto 50 users.

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