Free Apps That Blend Music and Social Networking
Long before people got so addicted to social media, they had a deep love for music. The first criteria for buying any phone were the sound quality and memory size. Its true people have moved on to selfies and social networking but if you can find a way to combine it all, wouldn’t that be great?
There are apps that blend music and social networking so perfectly. You can discover new songs and share your music library with friends too. These apps are free and are outlined below.
- Shazam
Shazam is a very popular app used to identify songs you don’t recognize and want to know the name of – everything Shazam finds is logged for you in your account.
However, while the app’s primary purpose is to listen to and identify songs for you, it can also connect to your Facebook to see what your friends are discovering.
Shazam doesn’t let you listen to full songs within its own app but does let you listen to your Shazam music in other apps like Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, or Google Play Music.
When you Shazam a song, you automatically “follow” the artist and can get alerts when new information is available about them, like when they release a new album.
- Pandora
With the ability to import your Facebook profile into Pandora Radio, you can listen to your friend’s music and share your discoveries with them too.
Pandora is a smart internet radio service that plays music based on your feedback. Once you’ve entered an artist’s name or a song title, Pandora automatically suggests similar tracks which you can agree with or reject; Pandora will remember your answers and fine-tune its subsequent recommendations.
The only downside is that Pandora is at present only available in the United States.
- SoundCloud
SoundCloud is home to music uploaded by new artists and at-home users who want to share their music with the community. You can follow users to get notified when they add new music to SoundCloud.
After you’ve used SoundCloud a while, it can recommend users that you should follow and stay up-to-date with, based on your listening activity.
SoundCloud also lets you connect with Facebook to see which SoundCloud users your friends are following – this is a great way to discover new music if your friends have similar tastes.
- FM
Create a Last.fm account and connect it to other places you listen to music, like your device or other music streaming service, and it will build a profile of your musical tastes.
The auto-tracking of your music is called scrobbling and helps create a showcase of the music you love and can suggest new music and events that you might be interested in based on the music you listen to.
Last.fm works with services like Spotify, Deezer, Pandora Radio, and Slacker.
