You Can Now Share Spotify Songs to Your Instagram Story
When you really enjoy a song you listen to, you may want to share it with your story. But the standard result may seem disappointing: when sharing Spotify, for example, you can share the art of the album, the title of the song and the artist’s name, but you will not really be able to hear the song itself. If you want to share the audio, you must count on the integrated music function of Instagram, not the Spotify extension.
This changes this week, because Spotify will now allow you to share audio extracts to your Instagram history. The company announced the new integration Thursday, and it’s quite simple. When you share a song on Spotify on your Instagram story (press the Share on Spotify song, then choose “Stories” with the Instagram logo), your Instagram application will open to a new story, with the art of the album for your chosen song. You will also hear an extract from the song playing on your story. Of course, Spotify wants a commitment, so the functionality is delivered with a sticker that allows viewers of your story to open the song in their own Spotify application.
It is a small but welcome change for Spotify users, some of whom have requested integration for years. This article on the Spotify Subdreddit is from April 2021, so there should be Happy Spotify fans who are also Instagram users.
Music sharing in real time with Instagram notes
Credit: Spotify
As part of this ad, Spotify also deploys the possibility of sharing what you listen to in real time to Instagram notes. The notes allows you to publish a short message to your DM flow, and now you can have your notes update each time you listen to music on Spotify. If you want to configure this, start a note in Instagram, then press the music icon. Here, press “Link Spotify”, then follow the steps on the screen to connect your account.
What do you think so far?
Spotify says that if you are already listening to music, your note will update immediately. If you are not, it will display the next song you listen to within 30 minutes. You can also share a specific song that you listen to notes, if you prefer. It works like sharing a story, only choosing “notes” in the option.
I do not use Instagram notes (or stories, elsewhere), but even if I did it, I am not sure that I would be comfortable sharing my musical experiences in real time directly with all my list of Instagram followers. I can understand that I want to highlight a new favorite song, but I listen to so much random music, I don’t need all my Instagram friends by knowing each piece that plays on my side.
