The social network VKontakte is no longer suitable for music lovers who are not accustomed to paying for music for economic or ideological reasons. First, the developers removed caching tracks from VK applications and saving them to local memory, and in October, free listening for one hour a day (and they are going to reduce the limit to half an hour), as well as a music section from older versions of applications. Music on VKontakte was truly free only under Pavel Durov, and the new owners of the social network established a dialogue with the copyright holders and agreed with them on the payment of royalties. Full music service it didn’t work out from VKontakte, it’s still a dump with tracks of varying quality, mistakes in song titles, music of the users’ own compositions, audiobooks and all sorts of rubbish. Those who do not want to pay for such a service are quite understandable; besides, there are people who listen to rare music, the rights to which belong not to major labels, but to indie labels or the performers themselves.
Durov did not abandon the libertarian idea that music should be free, and is now implementing it in the Telegram messenger. With the update to version 4.4, in addition to , a new music player appeared.
How the player works
Telegram developers have launched the @cctracks channel to demonstrate the work of the new music platform. It contains several tracks that are distributed under a Creative Commons license, that is, they can be listened to and copied for free.
The web player is quite primitive: it shows the name of the artist and song, allows you to start playback, pause it, rewind tracks, adjust the volume, download mp3 files and share music with your interlocutors. There is no automatic transition to the next song, managing playlists or viewing information about a release or file. There is more variety in mobile applications. In addition to all of the above, it is possible to send files to other applications (for example, to VKontakte), as well as control buttons and display of the cover image in the notification area. When you click on the track name, it opens full player with play and pause, switch, repeat, shuffle and playlist search buttons. Clicking on the name of the current song at the top of the playlist will open the release cover in full screen.
While playing a track, the next one is automatically cached, and the cache is stored for the time specified in the settings (Settings > Data and storage > Storage usage): three days, a week, a month or always. Tracks are not selectively deleted, but you can specify the type of files you want to delete (photos, documents, music, other files). The player in applications can also save files in standard folder with music, after which they become available in the players installed on the smartphone.
Where to get music
If you have a music collection on your computer, you can upload it to chat with yourself via standard interface sending messages. The tracks will be copied to the messenger server and will be available to you on any device from which you log into Telegram.You can use channels to create a cataloged collection and sort music by release, genre, artist, and other parameters. These channels can be made public and your music will be available to everyone who joins them or who you add to them.
There are also a huge number of thematic channels that post music. As a rule, each such channel specializes in one particular topic (pop news, club releases, heavy music, selections based on mood, etc.) There is no search in them.
The third way is to search for music using bots. You send the bot an artist name, song title, or genre, and it shows you what it found. Some bots can also find the right music based on sound fragments (for example, YaMelodyBot from Yandex).
You can find music channels and bots in thematic collections of Telegram channels: tlgrm.ru, telegram-store.com, tgstat.ru, telegrambots.info.
Please be aware that sharing music that you do not own the rights to, as well as listening to and downloading music that you did not purchase, may be considered piracy and may be punishable by law.
Musical communism
It is obvious that Pavel Durov has seriously taken up the music field and plans to create a platform based on Telegram for convenient distribution of music, bypassing intermediaries (managers, labels, copyright holders, etc.) The experience of VKontakte has shown that this is possible, although the social network will ultimately still take into account the interests of Sony, Universal and Warner, and in the USA and Europe until recently it was considered a pirate resource. It is possible that Durov is looking into the distant future, where there are no labels, and hopes that it will become fashionable among DJs and performers to create Telegram channels with music that they are ready to share with listeners for free.Telegram: voice messages and their details
Recently, to save time and provide comfortable conditions for using this function, Telegram has made some changes to its operation of this type communications. Now Telegram users can send them much faster and easier. New features make communication even more enjoyable!
Features of voice SMS Telegrams
Instructions for using voice messages in Telegram
To send such an SMS to a friend, you need to open a window with available chats and select a specific person. Next to the text input line you will see a small microphone icon. Please note that to record a sound, it is not enough to click on it once - Voice connection Telegram is activated only when the micron button is pressed.
After you release the button, the message will be automatically sent to the other party. To listen to the voice again, press the play button. Don't forget that a notification is recorded only after a slight vibration.
There are some things to keep in mind when using this feature. For example, while recording your notification, you can delete the saved audio by swiping right on the search bar that says “cancel.”
You can leave voice notifications in Telegram without using buttons. In this case, you must listen to the previous message, and after the signal start speaking. However, there is another way to record audio without tapping the screen. To activate it, you need to go to the Telegram settings column and select the “Bring to record” mode. After this, recording will begin immediately when you bring the device closer to your ear.
Tonight the Telegram messenger was updated to version 4.4, which brought a number of very interesting innovations. And while the entire Russian-speaking Internet community is discussing the appearance of the Russian language in the application, we found in new version a much more epic innovation and it concerns music.
The main person in Telegram, Pavel Durov, has a great sense of trends and opportunities for growth, especially if they somehow relate to his past project - social network In contact with. Let us remember that with latest update mobile application VC was tightening the screws related to music. For example, playing music in the background without paid subscription now only 1 hour per day is available, and previously the offline caching that everyone loved was consigned to the scrapheap. Moreover, VKontakte has closed access to the music section from archived versions of the application.
Durov perfectly sees the dissatisfaction of VK users and, albeit without unnecessary noise, but precisely responds in his new brainchild with the opposite actions. While VKontakte is struggling with free music, Telegram is beginning to create new opportunities for it. And we are sure that this is just the beginning!
So, a new music player has appeared in version 4.4 of the Telegram application. Let's find out!
Player, caching, other features
To get acquainted with the features of the new music player, I used the link to the channel from the change history of the messenger itself. Telegram developers specifically created it to demonstrate new features.
We will see a playlist containing all the channel tracks located in reverse order from newest to oldest. We swipe up and it opens full screen.
If there are a lot of tracks on the channel, and you are looking for something special, then you can search the channel’s playlist by clicking on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner.
Clicking on the album cover will open the playback window in full screen.
So, we looked at the player, now let's look at caching. The algorithm works in such a way that while the current track is playing, the next one automatically starts loading and this happens cyclically. Downloaded songs are saved in the device’s memory and will be stored there for the time that you specify in the Telegram settings along the path Settings - Data and storage - Storage usage. You can choose from 3 days, 1 week, 1 month and Always. If it is set to Always, then tracks will not be automatically deleted from the cache.
I haven't found a way to delete tracks from the cache one by one, but there is one interesting feature. You can clear the cache selectively, that is, delete everything except music, or just music, or something else, by combining the checkboxes in the Clear cache item.
Another useful feature is saving tracks from Telegram to standard application Music that is made as quickly and conveniently as possible. To do this, in the chat, click the ellipses opposite the track already loaded into memory and click “Save to music”, after which the track appears in the local music library of the device.
It seems that I haven’t forgotten anything, and we examined in detail all the capabilities of the built-in player. Now let's talk about where to get music on Telegram.
Where to look for tracks?
Method one. We load it ourselves
If you don’t want to waste time searching for music through bots or channels, and you already have the tracks themselves, for example, on home computer, and you want to listen to them on Telegram from any device, you can simply throw them into a chat with yourself. Even if you store other materials there, this will not prevent the new player from separating the “wheat from the chaff” and showing only music in the playlist.
Method two. We use channels with music
Uploading your music somewhere is an extra effort that many people are too lazy to do in 2017, and it’s not necessary (the last paragraph was for oldfags who still download from “hares”). Telegram already has countless music channels and several handy bots that can search for tracks by title.
Channels are suitable when you are looking for new releases, selections, collections, that is, not a specific composition, but some group of tracks. Depending on your taste and needs at the current time, subscribe to channels that interest you.
It is gradually ousting its competitors from the market and increasingly capturing the attention of users. For example, recently the Telegram space began to actively comprehend the delights of music, which have become quite limited in similar products. Therefore, many users began to be actively interested in how to listen to music in Telegram, what to use for this, and whether any consequences are possible.
In fact, this direction is quite simple and convenient, so you can safely start studying it and ensure yourself a completely comfortable listening experience. We tried to understand the situation and look a little at this topic in a general understanding.
We use various bots for listening
As you might have guessed, to listen and interact with music, you should use a variety of bots that can be useful to users. Therefore, we suggest that you immediately pay attention to the most popular and useful of them:
- Telegram Music Bot is a standard bot that can be used to test the listening function. He offers simple songs and simply introduces the user to the main possible functions of this area.
- VK Music Bot Telegram is a universal bot that interacts directly with the VKontakte social network. Thanks to its unique structure, the bot is able to integrate your audio recordings from VK into Telegram. After this, you will be able to freely listen to them in CACHE format and not waste precious traffic. The only condition for using the bot is open access to your audio recordings on the VKontakte network.
- Yandex.Music Telegram bot is already an official development from Yandex, which can not only send music recommendations, but also offer access to your account on this service. Listening to music is possible in any case, similar to the CACHE format.
To use these bots, you just need to enter their name into a search engine. Then click on the consent to integrate the bot into your Telegram, and only then start actively using it. There is nothing complicated in their management, you can immediately understand them, in addition, they all have special instructions in Russian. The only recommendation is that you use these bots in the PC version of Telegram, since there is interaction with the browser, and on mobile device this is not very convenient to implement.
It is rapidly winning the hearts of users, the number of which already in the first year of the messenger’s existence exceeded one hundred million people and is growing tirelessly every day. The reason for such wild popularity is the versatility of the service. "Telegram" - free application, allowing the user to obtain complete confidentiality, and, in addition to the function of exchanging information with other account holders, the messenger provides a large number of interesting tools.
Telegram bots are special programs written to perform various tasks at the user’s request. They can collect and provide any necessary information, download files, order tickets, serve as translators, navigators, etc. The subject of Telegram bots can be different, and the set of functions that the account includes depends on it. Music lovers will find many interesting compositions of any genre in Telegram, which they can also listen to while communicating with friends. Music bots are designed to speed up the search for your favorite artist or track; they will also allow you to download an audio file to your device.
List of the best music bots "Telegram"
Among the many accounts for downloading tracks, the most popular are:
- @GetMusicBot. The bot's capabilities include searching for music on YouTube and SoundCloud, sending a file in a conversation to you or your friends, and downloading an audio file.
- @vkmusic_bot. This Telegram bot allows you to listen to and download tracks from the VKontakte social network. Music becomes available directly in the application.
- @audio_vk_bot. Using the bot, you can upload your audio recordings from your VKontakte profile to the cache and listen to music even when there is no Internet connection.
- @radioarchivebot. The bot allows you to search for recordings of radio broadcasts of famous Russian radio stations.
- @Best_Music_bot. The robot sends popular audio recordings in English every day.
- @YaMelodyBot. Yandex bot. Music allows you to recognize any melody in the database in a few seconds.
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