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“Music is one of the most powerful and fun ways to connect,” says the spokesperson for Facebook after the company announced a new ‘Listen With’ button in Facebook Chat. The new feature lets you listen to music with friends on the social network. ‘Listen With’ Friends will start rolling out to all of Facebook’s 800 million users over the next few weeks. For now, only two music services support Listen With Friends: Spotify and Rdio, but more are coming soon.

The new function in Facebook lets you listen to music along with your other friends who are currently listening to music; the same song at the same time. You can also listen together in a group (of upto 50 people), as long as one of your friends is the designated the DJ (the person who was listening to music first). If you’re part of a company like Blackcode Advertising, then you can work out this group of colleagues and get to listen to music as you work. Unfortunately, there’s a limitation: the DJ can’t be changed; if he or she wants to leave, you all will have to do as well and rejoin another Facebook Chat session with a new DJ.

Here’s how to go about. First, you have to look for a music note along your friends’ names in Facebook Chat. If you see a friend listening to music, you can listen in by hovering over their name (provided you have the same music service, for eg:”Spotify”), and clicking the Listen With button. The music will play through the service your friend is using, allowing you both to simultaneously listen to the same songs. While then, if you’re worried over privacy, Facebook Help Center can help you out of it.

Tags: Blackcode Advertising, direct marketing, Facebook, Music