Facebook Silences Official Music Player, Discography

Facebook is no longer working on an official music dashboard, and instead the social network is steering its users toward music services it has partnered with so far: Spotify, Rdio and Mog.

Facebook’s music player and Discography apps, the last traces of the long-rumored but never-launched music dashboard, went silent as of yesterday.

Instead, the social network is steering its users toward music services it has partnered with so far: Spotify, Rdio, and Mog.

Facebook’s official music apps never launched, but would have allowed people to upload MP3 files, add track information, and share those files on their news feeds for Facebook users to stream.

Rather than declare the discontinuation of an official music dashboard, Facebook slipped a post into the site’s help center, saying:

What happened to the Music Player and Discography apps on my Facebook Page?

The Facebook Music Player app is being replaced with better ways to incorporate music on your page.

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