Instagram has launched a new feature that gives you the ability to add a song to your profile. Which is nice and all, but has prompted everyone over a certain age to fondly remember “the glory days” of MySpace.
You Can Now Add a Song to Your Instagram Profile
Instagram’s latest innovation is allowing users to add a song of their choosing to their profile. If you’re an Instagram user, you’re able to select any track from Instagram’s library of licensed music. This is the same set of songs already available to use in Reels.
Instagram has launched the new feature in collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter. The singer, who has scored a huge hit this summer withEspresso, is using the profile music feature to debut her new songTaste. This is the only way to hear a teaser of the new song before its full release.
Other Carpenter-related Easter eggs will appear if certain conditions are met. Search for “Sabrina” or the coffee cup emoji, for example, and the disappearing Notes feature will turn light blue.
How to Add a Song to Your Instagram Profile
To add a song to your Instagram profile, first, click your profile in the bottom-right corner of the app. Then, tapEdit Profileto see your profile editing options. Scroll down, and you should see aMusictab, with the option to “Add music to your profile”.
Click that, and you’ll be able to pick a song from the list or search for a particular title. There are some fixes to try if you’rehaving trouble finding a particular song on Instagram.
Once you have selected a song, you’re able to choose the 30-second clip that will be added to your Instagram profile. The default selection is usually best, but you can change the selection to suit your tastes as you see fit.
Your choice of song will now appear on your Instagram profile. Thankfully, it won’t autoplay, with visitors to your profile needing to play and pause it as they see fit.
Helping Us to Relive the Glory Days of MySpace
This is a nice feature for those Instagram users who want to put their musical tastes front and center. However, for me, and likely anyone who was online in the early 2000s, it immediately brings back memories of MySpace. Some people thinkMySpace was better than modern social media sites, but I disagree.
MySpace was known for allowing people to endlessly customize their pages, and that included adding music. However, unlike Instagram, music added to MySpace would autoplay, which made the site (at best) annoying, and (at worst) unusable. So, if Instagram ever enabled autoplay by default, I would immediately uninstall the app.
