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Spotify has joined forces with Facebook to offer users of the popular social networking site access to their large music library. The venture means that users can now share current tracks, playlists and history with all of their friends.

The music service has only recently made its way over to the US after numerous talks broke down over artist and track rights. Since its creation it has proved popular in Europe, especially the UK, and the company are now hoping the partnership with Facebook will prove a huge success for the company who have tried so hard to break through to the US.

What’s in it for Spotify? Facebook has billions of users and will be a great advertisement for the music streaming service, which in-turn could make a huge amount of money from selling their packages.

Something that has left a sour taste in the mouth of many is that new Spotify users must have a Facebook account. The music streamer co-founder Daniel Ek had the following to say on Twitter: “There’s been a big barrier to sign-up, we wanted to remove that and make it a seamless experience”. Although many complained, the service has enjoyed over 1 million signups since the merging, showing that it hasn’t put people off.

Users have also raised concerns over lack of privacy and requested the option to hide tracks from their timeline (obviously for the more embarrassing songs!!). Spotify have responded with the following: “Many of our users have told us that they like to share what they’re listening to, but also want an easy way to hide their occasional guilty pleasures. So we’ve now added a new ‘Private Listening’ mode to our latest update.”

The update however, with not be automatically turned on and must be activated manually. If you are on Windows you will find it under the ‘File’ menu, and Mac users must go to the menu bar, click Spotify and then ‘Private Listening’.