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Instagram: support audio_configuration (attach a track from Instagram's audio library)

Feature Request

Meta shipped the Instagram Audio API on 1 June 2026: audio_configuration lets you attach a track from Instagram's own library at publish time, with separate volume levels for the music and the original audio, so a voiceover survives intact.

It is only available on "Instagram API with Facebook Login", so accounts connected through Zernio's Instagram Login flow cannot reach it. Two things would unlock it: an optional Facebook-Login connection for Instagram alongside the current flow, and audio_configuration exposed in platformSpecificData.

Why this matters more than "nice to have music": Instagram lists taps through to the audio page as one of the four main things it predicts when ranking Reels. A Reel with a library track gets a real audio page that other people can browse and reuse. A Reel with a bundled music file gets "Original Audio" and that signal is simply absent — no amount of licensing work on our side reproduces it.

Bundling our own tracks also does not scale: catalogue licences that allow redistribution inside a product are the expensive tier, and none of it gives us the audio page.

We publish Reels daily through Zernio and would be glad to test this early.

Posted by Mooney Live ·
Status: Completed2 comments

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  • Miquel Palet López

    Team•

    Aug 26

    This shipped on 10 August 2026, both halves of what you asked for. platformSpecificData.audioConfiguration now takes audioId, audioVolume, and videoVolume on Reels, and you can browse or search the catalog with GET /v1/accounts/{accountId}/instagram/audio (plus GET /v1/accounts/{accountId}/instagram/audio/{audioId} to look a single track up). As you noted, it requires an Instagram account connected via Facebook Login, and that connection method is now generally available, so reconnect the account choosing "Facebook" and the classic Instagram Login restriction goes away. One behaviour worth knowing: if a track becomes unavailable between scheduling and publish, the post fails rather than publishing without the audio. You offered to test this early, so please do, and tell us how the audio pages perform for you.

  • Miquel Palet López

    Team•

    Aug 7

    We’re waiting on Facebook’s approval for Instagram Login with Facebook. when this is available will ship it