More than once you have added a song to your story, but it also had to happen to you that the song was uploaded at the wrong time of how you wanted it and you had previewed it before uploading it. If this is so, then here we will give you a little information on this subject and some good advice so that this does not happen to you.
What is the minimum and maximum time that a story with music can last?
Instagram updates more and more things in order to keep its users more pleased, this is the case of the possibility of uploading a photo in your story with music, since it is a way to recreate your audience while showing photos, and even being able to give to know the fashionable music. But this will only be a fragment of the song that you choose, since it gives the possibility of only 15 seconds maximum, without having a mark, it is all a matter of what time you decide to start and end.
You will choose this at the moment before uploading photos to your stories, Instagram gives you the settings to be able to set your music in your stories and edit your way.
What are the parts of your story setup and how are they used?
Having already programmed your music and the duration time, you must now configure your story, you must do it as follows:
Progress bar
It is a bar whose purpose is that you indicate which moment of the song you want to place in your story, when you use it you will place the minutes and seconds to which your story will go. You find that it is very sensitive, that is, it moves very fast and a bad movement will cause the part you wanted to place in your Instagram story to be out of frame, to use it you must do the following:
When your screen appears, the Processor bar option will appear, you must move and specify here when the part of the song you want to show begins and when it ends, respecting the duration time allowed by Instagram for music, which is 15 seconds maximum. You can also add music directly from Spotify to your Instagram stories.
Fragment playback
This configuration is not of much use, it shows you how to play the fragments you chose in the Toolbar, it will appear after you choose the music correctly. You must do it in the following way, click on this option then here it will give you a choice as to how you want the chosen piece of music to advance.
temporary option
- This is where you choose how long the musical fragment will be and you will use it in the following way.
- Click on the icon where the weather is, it will appear on your screen.
- Then you must locate yourself in the part where there is a moving icon, going up and down in which you will determine the duration of your music fragment, that is, with what speed your music will be in your Instagram story, the maximum of its duration It must be 15 seconds, there is no minimum.
- Having already chosen the time, now you only have to choose in which moment of the song your time will pass, since this is chosen first, then you must place the fragment of the song with the bar to process, this configuration is located in the lower part .
- When you have all this finished, you just have to press ready.
Apart from your photo, a tag of the song with the name of the song will appear in your story. You can also enter a sticker, feeling or even a text.
What to do if you want your stories to be longer than 15 seconds?
Use two stories for the continuation of the song
You can add another photo if you want to continue with your fragment of the song, since since it is 15 seconds and you have seen that you did not transmit what you wanted or you feel that you should show more of the song, you can add another story and give continuity to the previous fragment , you just have to add another story, here it will appear to choose another image.
You can place the same or choose another, you just have to be careful to have perfect continuity with the fragment of the previous song, enter the time, choose how many seconds you want to show the song now, then you will choose the fragment of said song and that’s it you may have 15 seconds more of the song you want to stream.
Download an alternative to Instagram Stories
You can use another app to add more time to your Instagram Stories, one of these alternatives is to download TikTok, since it goes hand in hand with Instagram because its options are similar. In addition, it has the possibility of adding background songs to your videos with a duration that can exceed the 15-second limit that Instagram applies to you.
