With audio recognition, Facebook can help automatically check in to your favorite music, movies and TV

Since the dawning of its Open Graph back in 2011, Facebook has been encouraging users to not only provide status updates but to check in to locations, activities, entertainment and even feelings.

Now an update to Facebook’s apps, rolling out soon, enables users to take advantage of their microphones and automatically check in to TV shows, movies and music. The optional feature, when enabled, will listen to noise around the user -- meaning that it can actually identify media while statuses are written -- and detect media from a catalog of movies, TV and music.

When shared, friends can access a 30-second preview for music, a link to the Facebook page for movies and a listing of the episode name and number for television shows. A representative from Facebook said that the company has partnered with media companies to provide the information for 150 live TV channels as well as up-to-date listings on new movies and music.