Instagram Gains Myspace-Style 'Song on Profile' Feature

[MacRumors]

Instagram has announced a new feature that allows users to add a song to their profile, an update that harks back to Myspace in the early 2000s.

Added music appears in the bio area of a user's profile. Unlike Myspace, the songs don't autoplay when someone visits a user's profile. Visitors can play and pause the song - or song sample, since the duration of the music is capped at 30 seconds.

"We're excited to announce that you can now add a song to your profile, giving you more ways to express yourself through music," Instagram said in a post from its creators account. "Your profile song selection will be live until you swap out the song."

To add a song, users need to go to the "edit profile" page and select "Add music to your profile," where they can search for and select a track from Instagram's library of licensed music (the same music that can be used in Reels or posts).

The new feature is being launched in collaboration with singer Sabrina Carpenter, whose profile features a teaser of her new song, "Taste," ahead of its official release later this week.

Article Link: Instagram Gains Myspace-Style 'Song on Profile' Feature

 

[Wando64]

What is the point if the music doesn’t autoplay?
If I visit an Instagram page, the last thing on my mind would be to press an extra button to hear 30 seconds of music.

 

[ShivneelSingh]

Is it available for only certain users?
I still can’t see this option on my account.

 

[attila]

What an absolute half-baked feature.

 

[Sev_11]

I don’t understand who would want this feature or need it? There is a reason myspace crashed and burned lol

 

[FelixDerKater]

*Autoplay on max volume."

 

[contacos]

Saw that ,yesterday and was like WHY? Like what is the purpose of this? To be listening to a track while stalking someone's feed?

 

[breather]

Mariya Tekeuchi - Plastic Love.

I chose this one, I love that song.

 

[Alfred.Woodden]

Everything old is new, and everything new is old.

 

[Tanax]

Oh God, no. Just no. This was the most annoying feature of MySpace.
I have my own music playing already, so no thanks!

 

[Digital Dude]

More carnival crap for the kitties’. 👶

 

[MrCrowbar]

Yet again proof that MySpace was perfection.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Can't all of the social media die off and just bring back MySpace?

 

[ghostface147]

Damn you can only do 30 seconds?

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Yeaaa... I'm not going to add that, but then I keep my profile private and only let family and friends see it.

It's showing up for my under Edit Profile/Music.

 

[trajen]

I think this is a cool feature. Now I can put my music on my page for visitors to check out. https://trajen.hearnow.com/muscle-memory

 

[alexandr]

Ok, now let's add some Friendster features, shall we?

 

[Royksöpp]

I don’t want all that crap. Just let me filter recent posts please!

 

[winxmac]

Japanese Music!!! Yes!!!

Are these coming from Spotify? YouTube Music? Apple Music?

Add this feature in Facebook too... 🤣

So this was a feature in Friendster taken from MySpace...

 

[sw1tcher]

I don’t understand who would want this feature or need it? There is a reason myspace crashed and burned lol

MySpace crashed and burned because they didn't know how to monetize the service unlike Facebook. The people running MySpace (NewsCorp) didn't have a vision for the business.

MySpace also came out before the iPhone and mobile apps took off. Meanwhile, Facebook was spending millions on developing a mobile app before mobile app usage took off or generated any meaningful revenue...

A decade ago, Facebook told the public markets that it was pouring money into smartphone apps because mobile usage was key to the company’s growth, even though it did “not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue” at the time.

That was in the prospectus for its Nasdaq debut, which took place 10 years ago Wednesday and resulted in the largest initial public offering ever for a U.S. tech company. Facebook’s $100 billion-plus market cap instantly made it one of the most valuable tech companies on the planet.


MySpace usage peaked around 2008 and after that it's been all downhill.

Facebook was also profitable years before they went public in 2012 unlike MySpace (did a quick search and didn't see MySpace generating any meaningful profit)

 

[kevinj85]

Instagram has announced a new feature that allows users to add a song to their profile, an update that harks back to Myspace in the early 2000s.

Added music appears in the bio area of a user's profile. Unlike Myspace, the songs don't autoplay when someone visits a user's profile. Visitors can play and pause the song - or song sample, since the duration of the music is capped at 30 seconds.

"We're excited to announce that you can now add a song to your profile, giving you more ways to express yourself through music," Instagram said in a post from its creators account. "Your profile song selection will be live until you swap out the song."

To add a song, users need to go to the "edit profile" page and select "Add music to your profile," where they can search for and select a track from Instagram's library of licensed music (the same music that can be used in Reels or posts).

The new feature is being launched in collaboration with singer Sabrina Carpenter, whose profile features a teaser of her new song, "Taste," ahead of its official release later this week.

Article Link: Instagram Gains Myspace-Style 'Song on Profile' Feature

They’ll be adding top friends next

 

[jyw104]

Can't all of the social media die off and just bring back MySpace?

 

[mondaiguy]

too little too late

 

[RealE]

Oh God, no. Just no. This was the most annoying feature of MySpace.
I have my own music playing already, so no thanks!

They did make it slightly less annoying than MySpace's music feature:

Unlike Myspace, the songs don't autoplay when someone visits a user's profile.

 

[shadowboi]

Back in the days there was a popular social network (mostly in post-soviet space) called VK. And it had not just that feature but also whole pirated library of user-uploaded music that you could listen or even add to your photos and compose posts in a such way so that a person views it as a gallery of shots and listens to music at the same time. And it was 2008!

So many years later and Instagram just woke up. No wonder network is almost dead nowadays, there is not much new and interesting content, and they even dare to compose feed 95% from advertisements and “maybe you know this person” or “your friend is subscribed to this person, check it out!”. It is a shame that Meta hires only the most unmotivated and totally talentless people to bring “new” features for their products