facebook connect
Today we’re unveiling our integration with Facebook Connect, a tool that allows you to — surprise! — connect your eMusic and Facebook accounts. Here’s why you want to do this.
First things first: to use Facebook Connect you must already have a Facebook account. Next, simply visit any album page while you are logged into eMusic, and look for the Connect button right above “Download All.” Would a picture help? K. Here it is:
Click that. When the dialogue opens up, click “Connect With Facebook.” Login and voila! You’re done!
OK great. Now what?
Integrating Facebook Connect and eMusic allows you to post cool things to your Facebook wall and activity feed. Next time you’re feeling pumped about some amazing discovery on eMusic and want to tell the world about it? Do this.
We’ve enabled you to share five things:
1) You can post an album.
2) You can post an artist.
3) You can post an album rating.
4) You can tell a friend.
5) You can post an album review. (Note the checkbox.)
Before it posts, you can see exactly what it will look like. It’s clean and subtle. Here’s an album post:
Use this opportunity to show your friends how much better your taste is, to recommend a record to a buddy or just to get the word out. Whatever you want.
Cool! I get it. Is that all there is, though?
For now, yes. But the beauty of Facebook Connect is its flexibility. Future integrations could include things like being able to see which of your Facebook friends are also eMusic members, setting up an automatic feed so that whenever you download something your friends know about it, sharing lists, etc. There are many options, all of them great for the eMusic community. So start checking it out, and let us know what features you’d like to use, and what you think. Thanks!
Very cool! I can’t wait to get into this!
::sigh::
I need more excuses to walk away from the Internet now and then not more to hang around it!
Seriously though, very cool.
HEH HEH Like many “Techies” I don’t “social” “network” but my brother who also uses Facebook does So I forward this link ta him
very cool
Saw the Pavement thingy on your Facebook page today, Yancey, and wondered what the hell it was (& why you were drawing attention to a reissue that’s been out for a couple years now). Thanks for the explanation!
Super cool! Great new feature!
I applaud this, Yancey. I’m a steady user of both eMusic and Facebook. Thanks.
I just posted my first review using Connect, and I’ve got to say that it’s pretty damn cool. And I LOVE that it’s not just another application that forces you to spam all your friends.
None of my Facebook friends have eMusic but they trust my musical tastes. Say I send a recommendation and they decide to buy it through eMusic .. would there be some sort of referral bonus for their signup 30 day membership? Would they be able to enter me as a referrer at signup if it’s not automatic?
Yes, I’m selfish .. I want more downloads. Can you blame me?
ryan i *think* that’s how tell a friend through facebook works now. i *think*. lemme doublecheck on that.
and here’s why i don’t get paid to think. tell a friend does not work like that yet. yet.
Great job on the facebook connect guys! I dig it!
Is this really relevant to facebook? I’m sick of all the ‘extras’ supposed to improve facebook that simply make it more difficult to perform it’s ACTUAL purpose. This is just a marketing tactic. I love eMusic, but I don’t think it needs to be on facebook.
@Muzz I have to Disagree, this seems like it’s tailor made to be exactly the good things for facebook. MOst people learn about music (i.e. not pop radio shite) from their friends and now adays friends are literally the people on your facebook (see how I did that facebook friends
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I’m just recently trying to utilize Facebook (and also MySpace) more. Not for any partiicular purpose but overall just for branding toward some possible future benefit.
One thing I Do do though is blog a LOT. I use a Typepad platform. I’ve got over 6500 posts on my blog at http://www.wanderingsalsero.net .
I enjoy sharing my taste in music with others. I think it’s unique. I wish there was some sort of widget for sharing my emusic discoveries on my blog…..and maybe making osme affiliate commissions too.
Best regards,
Art
The Original WanderingSalsero
Great! I’m so glad you’ve implemented something like this! I’ll be using this for sure.
Yay! I have been waiting for this!! Thanks, emusic!
Awesome idea!!
Outstanding,two of my favorite sites all in one, great job!!
would like to know more about this.
great
Tried it, got good responses from my mates, will carry on using it.
Awesome! I love integration.
Uhm, sorry this is lame. Just another company making a facebook application because that’s what you’re supposed to do in business now.
So I click on the button and it puts a line on my facebook page saying I check out some album – so what. What’s in it for me? It’s 100% purely free advertising for eMusic, and nothing else. Social media is supposed to reward the company AND the user. You give a little, you get a little.
@John, ontop of the comment I made to Muzz (which applies to you too) welcome to the world
Yes partially it’s advertising;Though “for a limited time” (yeah for the last 5 years SO FAR) you do get free tracks when a friend signs up. . . and it’s advertising for a band that you may love that would otherwise go completly unheard (even by your friends) if not for your link and review on your page. . . also is anything on your page “for you?” isn’t it supposed to be for your “friends”. I’m not saying you’re being selfish/self centered but. . . Oh wait fuck that yes I am HA!!!!!!!
great way to share the latest and greatest…you know…like JLo, Spears and Jonas Bros…now my friends can know just how cool I am
Enjoyed your Facebook. Keep up the good work and keep looking forward and upward.
Great Facebook. Keep up the good work. Keep looking forward and upward.
I’d like to be able to customise the message that it sticks on my profile.
So why has this gone absent today, it’s not there above ‘download album’ where it has been these last few days?
Another bit of web 2.0 excess baggage that wasn’t tested fully before becoming another script load issue, or similar, on emusic?
I’m not knocking this if people want it, just asking why so much that arrives on the emusic site seems so poorly tested. It took ages to get the list issues fixed despite paying users asking for that to be fixed, priorities do seem to be more inclined towards what John and muzz state above, commercial tie ins.
Weird..the connect tab’s back up now!!! It had not been there all morning today, I checked it out in Firefox and Opera.
I agree with Chris E…it would be very useful to at least have the option to change “checked out” to “downloaded” or “loved” or something.
Uh, I see the ad, and it links to the blog post, but how do I actually download the thing?
LOL “Jonas Bros” I just shit myself, sorry
Why Facebook …….. all the musos hang out at MySpace!
MySpace Connect …… now that would be logical
Dave B
i like this..i’ve been telling everyone about emusic for a while. now i can also post what i’m listening to
there is no connect on the emusic audiobooks. why?
@DaveB…because there’s no one left on Myspace except for bands.
Myspace still exisits other than pr0n bots and spammers? who wud’ve thunked it LOL
What a dumb offer..
eMusic should do their own advertizing.. Now when eMusic can integrate my eMusic library list into my Facebook profile, which will provide true insight into my sick personality, then I will have interest.
to each their own! this fits nice!
Lol I’m becoming a big proponent for this and I hate facebook and other social networking time wasters I mean web sites.
@Kenny Why would your idea “the entire library” be better than music that you feel STRONGLY about enough to review, y’know just wondering
What’s a facebook? Is that like the books you can look thru when picking a haircut, except for face transplants?
Can’t wait to be able to post individual tracks to my profile, and especially to share with Facebook friends. Preferably so they can listen to the track right on Facebook, without clicking through to Emusic.
(Not sure my friends would appreciate the amount of FB mail this feature would bring into their inboxes…)
What would be really cool is for my friends to be able to see all of the albums I’ve downloaded over the last few years that I have been an emusic member. Kind of like I can see in my download history.
I think this is very cool but I also seriously think it would be much better if members got a referral bonus for promoting through this, if the promotion resulted in others opening up an account on eMusic and downloading music.
If we can get referrals through tell a friend or an affiliate account, why not get bonuses this way?
love the idea of connecting facebook with e-music
I don’t like this.
What I’m most curious to know is if eMusic will move away from a subscription based plan. If they intend to drive people to eMusic to download an album that I recommend, then most people will probably turn away when they find out they have to join the site.
This really is nothing more than advertising for eMusic.
Dave, it’s not any different than linking to an album page from a blog or other site. Any given music blog links to either somewhere to purchase the album (Itunes, Emusic, Amazon) or a link to the band’s website or Myspace page. Your argument is like saying that linking to a band’s Myspace page is free advertising for Myspace, or an Itunes link is advertising for Itunes, etc. Of course it’s free advertising, a no-commitment street team, if you will. I send Emu links to friends on Last.fm all the time, though most of them are on Emu already. Facebook Connect is just another way of doing this, though it’s made much easier, with just a click of a button. It will be useful to some (like me) and not useful at all to others…no one is being forced to use it.
Emu’s been a subscription based service for quite a while, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon–it would require a complete overhaul of their business plan and frankly would destroy the entire point of their service. If someone wants to download something that you recommend via Facebook Connect but they absolutely do not want to join the site, then if they have half a brain they’d find some other way to purchase the album…and undoubtedly for a higher price.
@ptolemyclark …… very funny LOL
Well, just the bands … and ME!!
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When I saw the Facebook / emusic thing I checked it out. Now whenever I click on a song or an whole album the Facebook popup …..pops up. It won’t go away and I find it incredibly annoying.
Is there anyway to get rid of it on my end?
I don’t have a Facebook button on any page. I’m logged in to both eMusic and Facebook, but NO button.
On Opera 9.63 (k)Ubuntu 8.10
Hey Damon,
I have the same problem running Opera on a Mac. It’s a browser issue, it works in Safari, I’m guessing it works in Firefox and obviously IE too.
Not sure what that’s about.
Anyway… has stopped me from trying/using the feature – but probably no great loss.
I am also a fan of Allyson’s thought: “members got a referral bonus for promoting through this, if the promotion resulted in others opening up an account on eMusic and downloading music.” Most of my FB friends are real friends, not people that don’t want to hear from me. I am the music junkie of the group and they will check out emusic if I recommend it. With how easy eMusic is to set up and the more than fair subscription rates, they will love it.
this is complete bullshit i got a “free” 25 song download i tried to redeeem it and they want me to pay for it. if emusic is going to partner up with playboy and put a 25 “FREE” song downloads in there magizenes they should at least have the balls to tell you, you’ve got to pay them to get 25 free songs and if you do that its false advertisement…once again i think this is complete utter BULLSHIT…