The introduction of restrictions on listening to VK music angered Internet users. Our recommendations will help you get around the ban and listen to music on VK for more than 30 minutes.
For several years now, Android and IOS users have been forced to listen to their favorite tracks on VKontakte in a limited mode. But there are many ways to help you bypass the ban and listen to VK music for more than 30 minutes.
Previously, this social network was the most convenient for listening to music. But for users of the mobile application, everything has changed, and not for the better:
- audio advertising appeared;
- tracks are no longer saved in the device memory;
- Listening to music in the background is only allowed for 30 minutes a day.
BOOM
To avoid this, the developers recommend subscribing to the official BOOM application. You can use the service for free for a whole month, but then you will have to constantly pay 149 rubles.
The service allows you to forget about annoying advertising and also save songs to the device’s memory. But not everyone is ready to pay 1,788 rubles a year just to listen to music, especially if they do it infrequently. Therefore, most users are looking for other ways to circumvent the ban.
Background listening to VKontakte music without restrictions
The introduced restrictions forced users to look for ways to listen to VKontakte music in the background without restrictions and paying for a subscription, and such solutions were found.
Unlimited listening to VKontakte music from the application
One of the ways that we have discovered to listen to music without paying a subscription and without restrictions in the background involves using a mobile headset. The essence of the method is as follows:
- You need to connect a headset (which has a button to start music) to a phone with the VKontatka mobile application installed;
- Next, the VKontakte application opens on the device;
- After this, start playing any of the tracks. It’s better to first make a playlist of songs you’re interested in;
- Next, pause the music you are playing and lock your smartphone screen;
- After that, use the button on the headset to play music from the device again.
You will notice that there are no restrictions with this method of playing music. That is, even after an hour of listening to songs in the background, a message about the need to purchase a subscription will not appear.
Important: The above method is relevant for the version of the VKontakte social network on mobile devices numbered 3.0. If this method works for you, we do not recommend updating the application, since there is a high probability that this “error” will be corrected in the future.
Unlimited listening to VKontakte music via browser
If these restrictions were introduced for mobile applications, they did not affect the browser versions of the social network VKontakte. Accordingly, as before, you can listen to music without restrictions through your browser, including from your mobile device when the screen is locked. All you need to do is:
- Go to any browser on your mobile device, for example, Safari or Google Chrome;
- Next, go to the official VKontakte website and log in with your account;
- After this, start playing music and lock the screen - the song will not be stopped and will continue to play in the background.
This method has disadvantages, for example, playing music through a browser requires more traffic than through a mobile application. In addition, it is less convenient to interact with the VKontakte music player interface through a browser than through a mobile application. But a clear plus is that in this way you can listen to music for free without restrictions.
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Bugs
Not so long ago, you could listen to music without restrictions by downgrading to an older version. But the developers took this into account and removed the music section in earlier versions of the application. The most popular and easiest way is to use bugs.
Option 1:
- Connect a headset to your mobile device that plays tracks using buttons.
- Open the VK music application, play any song and pause it.
- Press the Play button on your headphones and enjoy your favorite music in the background without restrictions.
Option 2:
- If you don’t have the necessary headset at hand, try cheating the time. Open the VK application and play your favorite tracks.
- When the half hour is up, go to the settings on your device and change the date to yesterday.
- Log in to VK again and continue playing.
This method is effective and simplest.
Option 3:
- Open your browser.
- Log in to the mobile version of VK.
- Turn on any playlist and listen to music to your heart's content.
But taking into account all the innovations, it is not at all excluded that very soon similar restrictions will be introduced for listening to tracks in the browser.
How to listen to blocked music on VKontakte
VKontakte (VK) blocked the music of several popular artists. Personally, I only have one out of two hundred melodies blocked, but there are victims for whom most of the lines in “My Audio Recordings” have “faded” - blocked compositions are indicated in a pale color, when you try to play them, a warning text appears, mp3 download plugins download an empty file to them .
What to do if VK is completely blocked? There is also a solution!
The practice of renaming compositions has become widespread - Lana del Rey becomes “Bathroom Without Doors”, etc. This approach will not last long, because on YouTube, for example, the algorithm checks the actual sound in the file - and can even find fragments (musical quotes, etc.) d.).
How to listen to music that has already been blocked on VKontakte? If we are talking about personal computers with Internet access, there are similar flash players in at least two services where you can listen to music for free, and completely legally :
1. Yandex.Music (music.yandex.ru) - Lana del Rey is definitely there. It doesn’t work from every place (it works from Russia, but it won’t from the European Union). Yandex has an agreement with copyright holders - perhaps they receive statistics that are interesting to them, in exchange for this, users can listen to music from the site without the right to download it. There are mobile applications with access to Yandex.Music. Yandex allows you to import playlists from VKontakte into its service (music.yandex.ru/import).
2. Zvooq.ru (formerly recordings.ru) is a music store where you can listen to compositions from the site endlessly, or you can pay a nominal fee of about 10-20 rubles per composition and download a high-quality file for your player. When purchasing entire albums or collections, one file is cheaper.
In both services, you can save playlists to conveniently return to the selected song. Thus, you can leave VKontakte to communicate with friends and listen to any non-commercial amateur musical performances, and listen to commercial music from particularly greedy copyright holders in the next browser tab via Zvooq or Yandex.Music.
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Telegram
After leaving VK, Pavel Durov seriously took up improving the Telegram application. This is a useful service, and it is also possible to listen to VK music with its help. There are several ways:
- To use the bot, send it a song title or artist name and see what it finds.
- If you have a favorite collection on your personal computer that you want to listen to on VK, upload it to a personal chat with yourself. Sent songs are copied, and you can listen to them on any device (provided you are logged into the Telegram server).
- To create a catalog of music by genre, use channels that can be made public if desired.
How to fix the problem “The audio recording is not available for listening in your region in VK”
In some cases, the problem is random and disappears on its own after a short time. In other cases (especially for users from Ukraine), it is necessary to use auxiliary tools that can not only bypass VK blocking by Ukrainian and other censors, but also deceive the VKontakte site itself, informing the latter that it is dealing with a user from Russia.
Let's consider ways to implement this task.
Method 1: Use VPN extensions for your browser
A fairly effective way to solve the problem is to use various VPN extensions and add-ons for your browser, which allow you to deceive VK and present you as a user from Russia. Separate material contains complete lists of the best VPNs for Google Chrome and Yandex Browser.
To implement your plan, just install one of the appropriate extensions for your browser (“Hotspot Shield”, “ZenMate VPN”, “Hide My IP VPN”, friGate, “CyberGhost”, “Browsec” and analogues). And after launching such an extension, in its settings, specify the user’s location country as Russia (or Russian Federation). After this, all that remains is to go to the VK website and get full access to its musical content.
At the same time, you can always download these extensions simply by entering their names in the application store (extensions, add-ons) for your web navigator (Chrome online store, Mozilla add-ons, etc.). Moreover, some of these extensions make it possible to use them only for selected sites (for example, for the VK we need), which is quite convenient.
Let's consider this method using the example of the “Hotspot Shield” extension and the Chrome browser. Do the following:
- Go to the Chrome store, download and install the “Hotspot Shield” extension on your browser. Its red shield icon will appear in the browser toolbar on the right;
- Click on this icon, in the menu that appears, select “Continue as a free user”;
- Click on the big button to activate the extension;
- Select “Default location”, and in the list of countries that open, click on “Russian Federation” (Russia);
- Get access to previously inaccessible music on VK.
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Method 2: Use a proxy server
The second way to get around the problematic message is to use a proxy server through which access to VK will be made.
- Click on the Start button, type inetcpl.cpl in the search bar and press enter.
- In the Internet Properties window that opens, select the “Connections” tab, and then click on the “Network Settings” button.
Check the box next to “Use a proxy server for local connections”, and write there the address of a fast Russian proxy and the corresponding port (you can take, for example, from hidemy.name). Then click on “Advanced”, check the box for “One proxy server for all protocols”, click on “OK”, and close the window.
We reload the VK page, full access to audio should be restored.
The disadvantage of this method is that it slows down the overall work with the Internet, so it is better to use method No. 1 described above.
VKontakte began to limit free listening to music on the desktop. We say goodbye to the era again
The social network VKontakte began to block access to some artists on the desktop. You can now listen to them only by paying a subscription. Representatives of the social network say that they block tracks only at the request of copyright holders. But users still say that VK is no longer needed.
No sooner had VKontakte users grieved about paid music in the mobile application than a new sadness struck. Only in October did the freebie for those who like to listen to music in the application end, but there was still hope for the full version. Now you won’t be able to listen to the compositions of a number of performers through it.
On December 4, many noticed that it was impossible to listen to some foreign bands, including Pink Floyd. When a user tried to open a track, the social network began to show this notification, saying that the tracks are only available by subscription.
However, representatives of the social network itself do not call this a limitation. According to the VK press service, only those recordings whose copyright holders have requested this will be distributed by subscription. Representatives of the social network told vc.ru:
We are talking about cases where the artist and his copyright holder have decided to distribute a new release only to those who have a subscription. Previously, such tracks would have been completely removed, but now it is possible to listen to them. It all depends on each specific track, album and copyright holder, but, as a rule, we are talking about pre-premiere releases for subscription holders.
VKontakte added that they themselves do not make money from music subscriptions. All funds go to the copyright holders.
Having learned that now they will have to pay 149 rubles for a desktop, VKontatka users began to habitually “bury” the social network and say goodbye to the era.
bérg Original The feeling that VKontakte is turning into a social network only for the RICH, but what about the poor, why can’t I now even listen to free music from my computer that I added two years ago... Kurt Cobain, why... you died. Original
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Well, here we are... VKontakte is introducing a partial restriction on listening to music on the desktop. “Partial” - because not all tracks will be blocked, but only those for which the copyright holder “stood up.” We need to look for something new... #VKontakte #Music #VKBringbackMusicOriginal
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VKontakte now limits listening to music in the browser.Original
Well, as always, people began to offer an alternative. Some are very peculiar.
Vadim Original “VKontakte” introduced a restriction on listening to music from desktops and laptops. We introduced subscription access for 149 rubles per month. I don’t care, I listen to music on my phone and iPods. And my 2002 CD player is alive and well, with good headphones the difference between a regular CD and MP3/WMA is noticeable. Original
Now we can only hope that the social network will not follow the path of founder Pavel Durov and will not abandon music completely as an unnecessary thing. At least, the list of things that the “father” of VKontakte abandoned caused bewilderment among many people.
