Listen to the Music on Spotify within Facebook App

Logging in to Spotify with your Facebook account? Too basic for the real collaboration between two giants. The recent update lets Facebook app users listen to their favorite music on Spotify without launching the original app – or even having it installed at all.

How does it work? It’s enough for you to run into a Spotify link shared by anyone, including you. Tap it, and the mini app will start playing the track. It works in the background, so you can keep scrolling your feed, replying in conversations, or preparing and posting your own statuses. While you have scrolled the original post away, the player resides in the bottom of the screen, with controls available, so you can pause the track or dismiss the mini player at all.

The Boombox project (as it’s called by the two participants) appeared on April 24, with the Facebook app update, in 27 countries. It’s a part of a much larger Facebook strategy to introduce more social audio features (and it’s not only something Clubhouse-like). This way, licensed music is introduced on Facebook the way its users have been expecting for long. It would be great to have the same experience with, say, SoundCloud and other popular audio cloud services.