Facebook has launched a new feature that combines social media with music.

Listen With Friends lets Facebook users listen along with any of their friends who are playing music.

Alexandre Roche, a product designer at Facebook, wrote a blog post about the feature last week in which he said: “ This feature lets you listen along with any of your friends who are currently listening to music. You can also listen together in a group while one of your friends plays DJ.

“You can listen to the same song, at the exact same time—so when your favourite vocal part comes in you can experience it together, just like when you’re jamming out at a performance or dance club.”

The feature works via the chat sidebar. When a Facebook user is listening to a song, a music note will appear next to their name. To join them in listening to the track, users can hover over their friend’s name and then click the “Listen With” button.

Users do need to share the same music service in order to use the feature, with Spotify and Rdio being the only two services that are currently used by Facebook. If a user attempts to listen to a song with an incompatible music player, they will be prompted to install the right one instead.

Listen With Friends is also part of Facebook chat, meaning that users can chat online about what they are listening to.

Tags: facebook, social media

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