Facebook is working on its own podcast player, which will be separate from the Spotify Miniplayer.

 According to reports, Facebook is developing its own in-app podcast player, which the company announced on Monday.

The new feature will be distinct from the company's new in-app Spotify player, according to The Verge. Podcasters who opt in will be able to distribute their shows via their Facebook pages. However, the specifics of the commodity are still unknown.

It's likely that this will work through RSS, or that the creator will have a backend system for uploading content to Facebook. According to a Facebook blog post, this feature will be available in the "next few months."

According to The Verge, during a conversation with "Platformer" writer Casey Newton last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg characterised the Spotify partnership as primarily about "music." However, Spotify's announcement of its Facebook mini-player today explicitly mentions podcasts as a use case.

Users will be able to upload and listen to episodes directly from the Facebook app, rather than having to navigate to Spotify. The business, on the other hand, has other plans to become more integrated into the podcasting ecosystem.

According to Facebook, more than 170 million people follow podcast sites, and more than 35 million people belong to fan groups for specific shows.

Furthermore, since podcasts are still largely an ad-based product, Facebook might collect data on shows and listeners and use it to direct its own ads at them, potentially giving producers a share.

It could also provide developers with a way to place their work behind a subscription paywall, similar to Apple's recently announced Apple Podcasts Subscriptions. With Facebook's formal entrance into the podcast player market, nearly all of the tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Amazon, will have their own podcast products, on top of Spotify and other smaller apps.