Instagram is the home of content creators. Millions of Instagram videos, stories and posts are viewed and shared daily. But not all of them have what it takes to stand out. People add all sorts of things to their Instagram stories, videos or posts to make them unique and engaging. From filters to stylized text, stickers and questions. However, nothing hit like an Instagram post with a song.
In the Instagram app, you can choose the song you like and add it to your story or video. Music can be added to an image, video, or even plain text. In this article, we’ll look at how to add music to your Instagram story, video, or post.
How to Add Music to Your Instagram Story
Unlike Instagram videos and posts, stories are a quick peek into your life that disappears 24 hours after being posted. These can be photos or short videos that are displayed in slideshow format. You can view your story or other people’s stories by clicking the profile icon in the bar at the top of the feed.
Although the stories can be no more than 15 seconds long, you can make the most of them by adding music of your choice. Here’s what you need to do to add music to your Instagram story.
1. Open the Instagram app on your smartphone.
2. Swipe left on the home page to go to History. Alternatively, you can click on “Your Story”at the top.
3. Take a photo by pressing the shutter button or long press and hold to create a video.
4. Click the sticker icon at the top and select the Music sticker from the menu.
5. Search for a song or choose from popular songs used in Stories.
6. Drag the bar at the bottom to select a piece of music to accompany your Instagram story.
7. Click Done in the top right corner.
8. Click on your story below to share your story.
By adding music to your story, you can change the duration of the clip, as well as how it should appear in the story. For example, you can display real-time lyrics, album art, or a small text field with the song title.
If you just want a song, just drag the text or banner to the corner of the screen so that it doesn’t appear on top of the story.
You can also add Instagram music stories from Spotify, Apple Music, Shazam, Soundcloud and other supported apps. To do this, find the share option when playing a song in the music streaming app and select Instagram.
How to Add Music to Instagram Story from Spotify
Here is an example of how you can create an Instagram Music Story from Spotify.
1. Open the Spotify app and start playing the song.
2. Click on the share button and select the Instagram app on the share sheet. Once you do that, Spotify will create a story for you in the Instagram app.
3. Click “Your Story”at the bottom to share your stories.
These stories have clickable text at the top of the story that says “Play on <music streaming app>.”Basically, people viewing your story can listen to the entire song in the same music streaming app by clicking on the lyrics.
How to Add Music to Instagram Videos
Instagram Reels are short videos with multiple clips ranging from 15 to 60 seconds. You can create a video in the Instagram app or import a short video file. Just like Instagram Stories, you can add text, stickers, and use AR effects on Instagram Reel. Here we’ll take a look at how you can add music to your Instagram videos.
1. Open the Instagram app on your smartphone.
2. Swipe left on the homepage or tap the “+”icon in the top right corner and select “Drums”at the bottom.
3. Click the music icon in the list of icons on the left.
4. Select a song from the Instagram library.
5. Move the slider at the bottom to select a song section and click Done.
6. Press the shutter button to start recording.
7. Click “Preview”and select “Next”.
8. Select a cover image for your Instagram feed and click Share.
When creating a video, you can also use the sound from the videos of other Instagram users. However, you will need to save the audio beforehand. To do this, go to the Reels section, click on the audio banner in the lower right corner and click on Save audio.
Now when you add music to your drum, click Saved and select the music you saved earlier.
While Instagram provides a ton of Reels editing tools, Instagram is not a video editing app after all. If you’re adding multiple clips and using AR effects, chances are the app may start to crash or become unresponsive.
Therefore, many users prefer to record videos in third-party software and import them into the Instagram app (more on that later).
How to Add Music to Instagram Posts
Instagram posts are photos or videos that appear in your feed. Unlike Instagram Stories or Reels, you can’t add music to Instagram posts in the app. Instead, you’ll need a third-party app to add music to your messages.
While you can create stories and videos within the app, Instagram posts need to be imported from your gallery. But that’s not too bad, since you get a lot more freedom in video editing apps compared to Instagram.
Best Video Editing Apps to Add Music to Instagram Videos, Stories and Posts
Most of the Instagram posts or videos you see on your feed are created in a video editing app. Video editors usually have a lot of features and are quite flexible. Here are some of the best video editing apps for your smartphone −
inshot
InShot is quite popular for editing videos for Instagram and adding music. In the application, you can add default music to the video or upload your own. In addition, the app has all the basic video editing features. The best part is that the app allows you to remove the watermark in exchange for viewing ads. InShot is available for Android and iOS.
YouCut
YouCut is similar to InShots in appearance and features, except that it has no ads. You can easily import your music and choose from pre-existing ringtones in the app. YouCut is available for Android.
Adobe Premiere Rush
Adobe is a big name in the video editing community. Adobe Premiere Pro for Windows is used for professional video editing. But if you know the basics, you can also use the Instagram video editing tool.
Premiere Rush is the light version of Premiere Pro, but it’s perfect if you want to upload videos to social media. It has all the necessary video editing tools and you can easily add music to your videos. The app is available for Android and iOS.