Instagram He launched Reels last August as a major competitor for TikTok, a function integrated into its main social network that is practically a copy of the application of Asian origin, with similar functionalities. Although when it was launched it already had great similarities with TikTok, it was not until the last few weeks that they have really "copied" the vast majority of the application.
This is because last week, Instagram decided to launch a series of new features that came to the social network to further reinforce this new feature, thus improving the functionality and user experience. Thanks to them, now it is possible browse a song list that can be used in videos, but also save music or share it from clips that have already been posted by other users.
So you can get the most out of it and know how to repurpose music on Instagram Reels We are going to explain how its new features work.
Music search engine
To start using this new function you must go to Instagram Reels within your Instagram application and when adding an audio by pressing the button Audio that you will find in the Reels menu that appears on the left side of the screen, you will see how two sections appear: Trends y For you.
When you touch on the name of the album or song, it begins to be heard by the fragment of the musical piece that other users have used the most, which will usually be the refrains, although it can be any other fragment that is very popular among users. that make use of Reels on a regular basis.
Can be selected directly for add it to the videoIn addition to being able to edit it, change the desired fragment of the song if you prefer something other than the pre-selected one, and so on. The music browser also has a search bar at the top of the screen, where you can click in case you really want to search for any song you want, by entering its name or by searching for the artist or album.
Share music
Another of the functions that have reached the social network is the possibility of share music, so that the audio of a clip created by another user can be shared. To do this you just have to locate a Reels that has already been uploaded to Instagram that includes this topic. It may have appeared either on the Instagram feed next to the stories or that you have found it in the profile of a person you follow or in the option Explore.
When you press on it to start the video you will see how it appears at the bottom of the Reels the name of the song, which will be in motion and which appears just below the name of the creator of the video. If you click on the song you will be able to see how a new window appears in which a list of Reels that also make use of this song appear.
If you want to send it or share it with another person, you just have to click on the send button, that is, the one represented by a paper plane, which appears in the upper right corner of the screen. After clicking on it, you will see how your list of contacts is displayed, to whom you can send the audio just by choosing the person you want to send it to.
Save music
Next to the icon send or share audio you will find the icon save, pressing will save the audio for later use. There are two different ways to locate the audio clips that you have saved.
The first of them is to go to your profile menu and look for the tab Saved, in addition to being able to click on the option Audio, as in the case that you wanted to add an audio to a video. At the top of the screen you will find the button Saved. In either case, you will be able to see the complete list of the audios that you decided to save for another time and that you will thus have on hand to be able to quickly add them to your videos.
Thanks to these functions you will be able to fully enjoy your experience in Instagram Reels, a function that was born to become the great rival of TikTok, although it does not seem to have experienced notable losses after the launch of this feature by Instagram. However, the latter has the endorsement of having millions of users who consult its platform every day but who also do so not only for this type of videos, but to make stories, publish static content, conduct surveys or speak through of integrated instant messaging.
That is, Instagram added this functionality to its social network to provide it with additional functionality and match it in the audiovisual content to TikTok, but it offers much more than it is, however it is not specialized in this content and this causes that there are some differences with respect to TikTok, where users come being aware that they are going to enjoy a particular type of content and that they are not going to Find others that you may not find enjoyable or do not want to enjoy at the moment.
In any case, Instagram is still looking for new features and functions that give users more options to use their social network, but this can work against them in the long term. After seeing what happened with Facebook, which tried to cover (and cover) many areas, for many users it has fallen into disuse and this could end up happening to an Instagram that was originally created to upload photos.
In any case, it is still too early to make an assessment of Instagram Reels and it will be in a few months or years when we can look back and confirm whether it was a success or a mistake for Instagram to have added Reels to the extensive list of possibilities of the social network.