Instagram: Instagram is testing songs in photo carousels: What is it – Times of India

Meta-owned app Instagram allows users to share photos, videos, and stories with their followers. The app allows users to edit their photos with various filters and editing tools, and share them on their profile or in their Stories. Users can also follow other accounts and interact with their posts by liking, commenting, and sharing. While there are a plethora of features that Instagram offers, the company still seems to be working on integrating new tools to make it more useful and entertaining.
Instagram is testing a new feature within the app which will allow users to add songs to their photo carousel. For those unaware, an Instagram carousel post is a post that includes multiple photos or videos that users can swipe through horizontally.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on his Instagram broadcast channel, stating that the feature is already available in a “few countries with more to come.”
While Instagram already has a similar feature, allowing users to add songs to individual photos, it makes more sense to add to a carousel of pictures. This means, instead of simply listening to a track while looking at a single photo, users will now have more pictures and time to listen to the music as they swipe through the pictures in a carousel.
Apparently, the steps for adding music to Instagram carousel posts would remain unchanged as it hardly makes any difference except the number of pictures in a carousel.
Meanwhile, the Meta CEO also announced that Instagram is testing a way to add music to Notes, the AIM-like feature that users share status with their friends. The platform will let users select and attach a portion of a song as their Note, similar to adding music to an individual post or Reel. With this, others will be able to see the name of the song and artist above your status.