Facebook adds TV and music identification to its mobile apps to speed up status updates
May21
on May 21, 2014
at 4:12 pm
Facebook has announced a new feature coming to its mobile apps which identify TV shows and music playing in the background so that users can more easily share the song or show they are listening to or watching. Announced today in a blog post, the company said the feature will be available in the iOS and Android apps in “the coming weeks”. Essentially, the opt-in feature allows the app to listen for content using the microphone to identify music, movies or TV shows playing in the background using a Shazam-style matching system, and it’s active any time you’re writing a status update. If it…
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