SAN FRANCISCO- Facebook and Spotify collaborate on a music service continuously at the largest online social network of the world, the report published Wednesday by the Forbes business magazine.
A Facebook spokesperson told AFP that it had no news to announce on this front, but pointed out co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, commenting to a G8 Summit that the California company is interested in making industries of music and movies more social.
"Many of the most popular music services worldwide are integrated with Facebook and we constantly talk to our partners on ways to improve these integrations", Facebook spokesperson said in response to an inquiry of the AFP.
"Specific to Spotify, we constantly point to their product as one of the best examples of the use of Facebook to the inhabitants of a rich social experience."
Members of Facebook can already use an application to share with friends what songs they listen to Spotify.
A history of Forbes based on anonymous sources reported that Facebook started testing a service that would allow the vast library of the Spotify music songs to be transmitted to the members of the social network.
Facebook is not for music or film companies but it works with companies that create entertainment content to make their social services more, Zuckerberg said at a forum of the G8 in Paris.
"I hope that we can help these companies become more social", said Zuckerberg.
"We will see a lot of the transformation of these industries for the next three years, five years that we have with games so far."
Titles such as "FarmVille" by Zynga, to play online with friends on Facebook, are part of a trend hot "social games" and similar that potential said Zuckerberg exists with news, music and films.
"People listen to music with friends, read you the news and discuss with friends," Zuckerberg said.
"These industries can be reconstructed with social construct", he continued. "The possibilities when you perform these social enterprises are much larger than (in their current form)".
Earlier this month broadcast Swedish music streaming service Spotify has launched an application allowing users to synchronize the lists of reading and songs purchased through its service with Apple iPod, a clear challenge on Apple's iTunes.
Young Swedish society had formerly only focus on dissemination online.
Founded in 2006, Spotify is one of the world largest streaming sites and is available only in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Great Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands, due to copyright issues.
In March, the company announced that it has reached a million paying users. It currently has about seven million users of its free version, head of the company product Officer Gustav Soederstroem told TT news agency.
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