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Instagram already has a virtual monopoly on the photo sharing side of social media, but now it is set to venture into the realm of music, thanks to their upcoming app functions. Code found within Instagram’s Android app informs us that ‘music stickers’ for its Stories function will soon allow users to search and add songs to their Insta-stories. Similarly, Instagram is testing auto-detection capabilities to capture tracks playing in the background of stories and posts.
Although Instagram hasn’t officially announced these updates, this music-centric shift is in line with recent updates which allow users to directly share posts from third-party apps such as Spotify and Soundcloud on their Stories. This has followed Facebook’s recent move to secure licensing deals with Sony, Warner and Universal.Instagram user Jane Wong was briefly able to test these features on her account, which auto-detected a song she was playing in the background on her iPhone. However, she wasn’t able to utilise the ‘music sticker’ feature. Poor Jane.
Instagram is working on adding soundboard-like stickers for Stories
Sidenote – sounds like someone at Instagram is a Taylor Swift fan 😉
… get it? “sounds” like pic.twitter.com/N18lPuOK0H
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 3, 2018
Stay tuned…the insta-gration of our generation continues.
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