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Meta is rolling out a new Instagram feature that may sound familiar to those who were on social media in the early 2000s.
"You can now add music to your Instagram profile (karaoke skills not included)," the company announced today.
It appears to be a simple implementation. Users can browse Instagram's music collection for a song, which then displays as a small, playable graphic on the user's profile page.
The feature isn't available to everyone yet. To see if you have it, open the app to your profile and click Edit profile. You should see the prompts to add a song; Instagram lets you select a 30-second segment to post.
Those of a certain age may remember this feature from MySpace. That site's users could also select their favorite songs to autoplay when people navigated to their profile—alongside a dizzying array of other customizations and the often-brutal "top 8" friends selection.
Thankfully, songs on Instagram will not autoplay, TechCrunch says.
Instagram launched the feature in collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter. According to The Verge, she will be posting a teaser for the song "Taste," which will be featured on a new album coming out Friday. Instagram is the only place where you'll be able to hear the song before its release.
Instagram is also adding some Sabrina-themed Easter eggs, which users can find by using certain keywords like "Sabrina" and the coffee cup emoji. There is also a Sabrina Instagram chat theme.
Instagram's music functionality has been in the works for awhile; mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi first spotted it back in 2022.