Facebook is developing a singing 'Talent Show' feature; to compete with Musical.ly
Social media giant Facebook now plans to take on Musical.ly, with its own lip-syncing feature.
According to researcher and code-breaker Jane Manchun Wong, the company is said to be working on ‘Talent Show’ which would allow users to compete with each other by singing popular songs and submitting their audition for review.
Facebook is working on Talent Show where users can pick a popular song and submit their singing audition for review.
Feels like a cross between Musically and Fifteen Million Merits from Black Mirror
as I previously spotted: https://t.co/jHsYQpEvgo pic.twitter.com/TfC2Og5wlw
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) July 28, 2018
At the moment, the feature is only restricted to Facebook Pages. Users will not be able to share their videos directly to friends as well. TechCrunch pointed out that Facebook began forging deals with all record labels, including the majors like Universal, Sony, and Warner, and several others last year. The deals imply that the company will not have to take down users’ videos with copyrighted music playing in the background.
In June this year, Facebook also debuted a new feature on its platform called Lip Sync Live, which will directly counter Musical.ly. As the name suggests, the feature will allow users to lip sync to a variety of songs across genres in real time and share the live videos with friends. The feature was initially available in select markets and users would be able to choose the option while streaming live from Facebook.
Facebook is also coming up with a new dashboard that will show you the total time you have spent on the app. The new feature will also allow you to temporarily mute the push notifications. The new feature, called 'Your time on Facebook' (Facebook) and 'Your activity' (Instagram), are designed to deal with the issue of addiction. While the feature will be launched worldwide after a couple of weeks, it has been made available, for a dry run, to 1 percent of the users.
On facebook, the feature will be listed under the hamburger menu (three vertical lines in the bottom-right corner of the app) while on Instagram it will be a part of the setting menu. The dashboard will present a bar chart that will show you the time you have spent on the app in the past seven days. It will also allow you to set the length of time you want to spend on that particular app and will send you a reminder once you reach that limit.
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