Adding music to VK stories: how to make and post stories with a VKontakte song

March 12, 2021. Published in sections: Working with social networks. 35012

Stories are effective tools for promotion and promotion, with the help of which you can easily expand your target audience on a social network and increase its activity. To fulfill their main function, they must be bright and interesting, attracting attention. This can be achieved by overlaying popular songs or catchy melodies on short videos for the Stories feed. Next, we will tell you in detail how to add music to a VK story.

How to add music to a photo

Author Yatyana Guryanova asked a question in the Other projects

Guys, tell me how to put music under a VK photo on the wall. and got the best answer

Answer from Lena Dobrovolskaya-Forever•.¦.?[guru] Try refreshing the page window or logging in from a different browser. Go to your VK page, move the cursor to ATTACH

Next, choose what you want to attach to the wall, for example, an audio recording (music), choose from your music or use the search, click on add and it’s already on your wall :)) I also uploaded a picture there to check So everything loads fine there . If you attached something wrong there, you can always delete it by clicking the cross in the right corner above the entry. Source: © Good luck to you :))

asked to the Society Please tell me how easy it is to make a video from photos with music and captions? You can make a video from photos with music and titles very easily in the PhotoSHOW PRO program.

Published by Sadkov on August 29, 2021 August 29, 2019

A musician’s card is a specially designed page for a musician on the VKontakte social network. It occurs automatically when you (or your label) submit your track to Boom. The card becomes a catalog of your VK music; it can be found in a music search and linked to the community. In this article I will tell you how to link a VK musician card to your community and change the cover (by default it is empty).

How to make a VK history with music on Iphone

Making a Story with sound on an iPhone is extremely simple. You only need to launch the program to play songs before pressing the button to record videos. The following will do the job perfectly:

Any application is suitable for both online and offline listening to songs.

Step-by-step instructions on how to post a story on VK with music:

1. Open the application in which you listen to tracks
2. Play the desired song
3. Minimize the program to play the song in the background
4. Open VK
5. Click on the story button
6. Shoot a video in the usual way
7. Click on the “Publish Now” button.

Your song will be heard in the recorded video.

Please note that the tracks you play on headphones will not be heard in the story. Always disconnect this accessory from your mobile device before shooting to get great videos.

Photos with music in VK Stories

The above method of adding sound is relevant only for those who are going to post a video in their story. But what if you want to publish a photo in your Stories feed with your favorite song playing in the background?

After the release of the latest iOS 11 update, owners of Apple products received an additional option - they can now record everything that happens on the screen of their device. This innovation can be used to create a cool musical Story.

First, let's figure out how to launch the new utility on the iPhone:

1. Open the standard settings utility

2. Go to the "Control Center" section

3. Click on the line “Set up email.” management"
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4. Add a utility to record what's happening on the screen

5. Swipe the screen up

6. In the control panel that appears, find an icon that simulates a video recording circle

7. Click on it.

After completing the above steps, a countdown will begin, and after three seconds, screen recording will begin.

How to add music to a VK story with a photo:

1. Go to the app that contains your favorite tracks
2. Play the desired song
3. Minimize the program so that the track plays in the background
4. Open your Camera Roll
5. Find the photo you plan to publish
6. Swipe the screen up and click on the record button
7. Upload your recorded video using the standard method.

You can edit the video and get rid of the red stripe in any mobile video editor, for example, VivaVideo.

How to link a musician’s card to the VK community

Linking a VK community with a card is quite simple

1. Make sure the community belongs to you (you are an administrator)

2. Write the following message to VK technical support: Subject: Please link the artist’s card and the community

Text: Artist card: https://vk.com/artist/****** Community: https://vk.com/******

Instead of ******, enter links to your musician card and community, respectively.

Example of a support request (successful :))

3. Wait :). In my case, the process took 7 days and once I had to remind myself. The scale of your community and the number of songs in the catalog do not matter: at the time I linked the card to Boom, I had 1 track, and several dozen friends in the community.

Features of publishing Stories

At the end of 2021, VK management presented a new social network service that makes it possible to post photos and short 12-second videos in the feed, which are available for viewing throughout the day. The new publication format was created so that users could share with their friends and subscribers what is happening in their lives right now, without worrying about the quality of the content.

Stories are placed in a special block located above the main news feed. There is also a button to add them. It is noteworthy that the user can upload photos and videos no older than 24 hours. The VK administration introduced another restriction on the creation of Stories - by default, they can only be posted from a smartphone or mobile gadget. The official web version of VK is not equipped with tools for publishing disappearing photo and video materials. However, there is still a way to download stories from a computer, and it is described below.

How to post VK Stories from a computer

By uploading stories via a PC or laptop, you will not be able to change your privacy settings later. This is worth considering if you do not want any of your friends or subscribers to see the published materials.

Step-by-step instructions on how to post a story from a PC or laptop:

1. Paste the following address into the top line of the browser - https://vk.com/dev/execute

2. At the bottom of the page you will see a blank “code” window
3. If you want to upload a disappearing photo, insert the text into it: “return API.stories.getPhotoUploadServer(<“add_to_news”:1>);”
4. If the video is “return API.stories.getVideoUploadServer(<“add_to_news”:1>);” (without quotes)
5. Click on the line “Run”
6. The “Select file” window will appear on the right side of the screen, click on it and select the object to publish.

Add a photo to the musician's card

The next step is to add a photo to the card (the photo is displayed in the page header).

First you need to prepare images of a certain format:

1. For the web version (display on computers and laptops) 1510 pixels wide and 344 pixels high
2. For the mobile version (displayed on smartphones in the VK application) 1440 pixels wide by 730 pixels high.

Photos must meet the following requirements:

Color VKontakte: photography can be either color or black and white. BOOM: the photo must be color, rich and colorful, the background is not white. Format: jpg, png.

It is prohibited to use the following as card covers: 1. Album/single covers; 2. Drawn images. The exception is virtual musicians who do not and cannot have photographs of performers (for example, Gorillaz); 3. Scanned images; 4. Photos stretched from a smaller size; 5. Poor quality, unclear and blurry photographs; 6. Photos that contain logos (including those of the artist), inscriptions, advertising; 7. Photographs with frames and other decorative visual elements, collages, as well as images with pronounced processing in graphic editors; 8. Photographs showing nudity and indecent gestures; 9. Photographs that show drugs, alcohol, tobacco products, any hints of them or the consequences of their use; 10. Photos with weapons and obvious demonstration of aggression; 11. Photos with obscene language. We may ask you to replace photos if they do not meet the specified requirements, as well as in some other cases.

How to insert music into VK history on Android?

Owners of Android smartphones will have to install special programs that will allow them to add tracks to photos and videos for Stories feeds. According to statistics, the following applications are the most popular:

• VideoShow is a powerful video editor with a wide range of functions. In addition to overlaying music tracks, it allows you to create bright and colorful slide shows and presentations. It features a simple and intuitive interface and pleasant design. Freely available, includes in-app purchases.
• Movie maker &Editor is a free video editing application that includes in-app purchases. With its help, you can apply a variety of effects and animations, and create sound. An indispensable tool for any blogger.
• Flipgram is an application that is available for both Android and iPhone. Allows you to create full-fledged films on a mobile device, make slide shows and presentations. It is free and includes advertisements, which you can opt out of by purchasing the PRO version. Equipped with a button for publishing video materials on various social networks, including VK and Instagram.

Step-by-step instructions on how to add music to a story in VK using an application (using Flipgram as an example):

1. Go to Google Play to download the video editor
2. After installation, run the program
3. Click on the "Video Editing" button
4. Find the desired video in the Gallery and click on the “Start” button
5. You will see tools for editing and changing, the program will offer standard melodies
6. Specify the track you want to overdub.
7. Click on the "Add Music" button.

Here you can reduce the length of the video (if necessary) to twelve seconds.

Save the edited video to the device’s Gallery, and then publish it to history in the standard way - launch the VK application and click on the “Add story” button located in the upper left corner of the screen.

Let's look at the process of creating your own music photo album using the example of two PC programs - SlideSHOW from Movavi and PhotoSHOW PRO. They have intuitive menus, work with a wide variety of file formats, and also feature extensive editing capabilities and a variety of tools. If your collection of photographs lacks some zest, this is what you need.

Why is the slideshow from PhotoSHOW PRO better?

• №1.
  The editor allows you to use titles and interruptions. They give the video completeness; such a video looks more serious and professional.
• №2.
  You can add short videos to your project and, if necessary, trim them right in the program. This variety will make the slideshow even more interesting to watch.
• №3.
  Thanks to the collection of animated collages in PhotoSHOW PRO, you can easily place several photos on a slide at the same time.
• №4.
  The software offers an extensive catalog of effects and transitions; moreover, you can customize the animation yourself.
• №5.
  In the program, you can easily customize the musical accompaniment to the video - select a song or instrumental melody, add sound effects or record voice comments.

How to send a song to VKontakte in the mobile version?

On the mobile site m.vk.com you can also send tracks in messages to other people. To do this, you first need to enter a dialogue with the required user and click on the button with a paper clip.

Next, in the additional functions menu, you need to select the “Audio recording” item.

Next, a window will appear in which you can select songs from your personal playlist. Unfortunately, here you cannot select several tracks at once, since after clicking on one of them, the site will immediately add the song to the message, opening a dialogue window. Therefore, to send several songs in one message, you need to repeat the above steps again each time.

To find a song to send from the general VK search, simply enter the required query in the search bar in the track selection window. Next, all suitable compositions will be displayed. To select one of them, just click on it.

The songs attached to the message will appear in the dialog window. In order to send them to your interlocutor, just click on the send message button.