VKontakte is a social network that no longer needs to be represented in the former CIS. School friends meet in it, here people often meet their future soulmate.
But “Contact” has another positive feature, because of which this social network is incredibly popular in our country. This is a giant music collection, which is collected on the personal pages of users. We will not talk about the legitimacy of the use of musical works, but simply talk about some problems that may arise during their reproduction.
Simply put, why doesn't Vkontakte music play? We will try to analyze the main reasons for this "shameless" behavior of a popular social network.
Internet connection speed
How many times have they told people that a good and fast channel is needed for normal work on the Internet, but they persistently continue to step on the same rake again and again. Why doesn't Vkontakte music play if your connection to the network is provided by barely live GPRS or even an EDGE connection? Of course, due to constant packet loss, a long response time, and other reasons, which almost every user is well aware of.
Even if you have a channel from a normal provider, which does not “lie” every other time, bother to check the speed through specialized resources. In addition, it does not hurt to contact the technical support of the operator. This is especially useful if you are absolutely sure that there are no problems on your part.
Type of internet connection
Of course, we will not talk about Dial UP, since rare users of this terrible anachronism already know why the music in VKontakte does not play. It affects the extremely low speed, and the stability of the connection as such is not. But why doesn’t music play if you "sit" on a very decent satellite channel?
Today this type of connection is not so common, but to this day it can be found in those cities and villages where the signalmen cannot even bring the banal ADSL.
It's all a matter of principle: first, an outgoing request should be received from the user. As a rule, in 99% of cases, users do not buy expensive equipment that allows bidirectional requests, and therefore the same mobile phone with a stunted GPRS is used for this.
The result is still the same: giant pings, loss of 80% of packets and the like "charms". That's why the music in VKontakte does not play, although the network speed seems to be normal.
Mobile Internet
Even if you use mobile high-speed Internet (3G), it’s too early to relax. Until now, in our country no honest unlimited tariffs have appeared, and therefore, after the exhaustion of a certain resource (from 1 to 30 GB, depending on the operator and tariff), the speed is cut to 64 Kb / s.
Therefore, if you still could not enjoy the work of your favorite musical group, check the rest of the traffic. Perhaps it has long been exhausted.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt to check the coverage area: even in large cities it “jumps” from time to time, so speed may well be lacking. Do not forget also that in many cities the canal at peak times is completely clogged. In such conditions, only a program for downloading music can help you to hear your favorite song.
In addition, it does not hurt to check the modem: it happens that some models (ZTE, for example) have such low characteristics that, when used, the channel speed can be much lower than the declared one. This is especially true for .nix systems, where equipment from some manufacturers can generally behave completely unpredictably.
Browsers
After a long epic of checking the quality of communication, we proceed to consider the most fundamental reasons why the music in Vkontakte plays poorly. Since we listen to it through a browser, the roots of the problem should be sought in this program.
Least of all troubles is Google Chrome and other browsers built on its code. The fact is that it is automatically updated, it includes its own analogue of a flash player, and therefore beginners do not have to configure anything.
With IE and Firefox, things get a little more complicated. The fact is that these Internet browsers do not have a built-in Flash player, and therefore inexperienced users suffer for a long time trying to start playing tracks on the computer. The program itself for music in this social network is based on this technology, so without it you won’t be able to hear your favorite artist.
We put a flash player
It’s not difficult to do this. Download the installation kit from the official site, run the installation program, click the “Install” and “Finish” button a couple of times. The browser should be closed at this moment. After that, you can restart the Internet browser, go to the social network and listen to music.
Some settings
And how to set up music in "Contact"? Of course, the question may seem surprising, but it's not so simple. Yes, there are no complicated player settings on the social network itself, but you can configure Flash Player itself so that playback problems occur as rarely as possible.
To get started, click on the "Start" button, go to the "Control Panel", and then find the Flash Player item there. Click on the link with the left mouse button. A dialog box opens in which you should be interested in the "Storage" item. It is necessary to check the box next to the option "Allow sites to save information ...".
In this case, VKontakte will be able to cache all the necessary data on the hard drive of your computer.
Configure Firefox
Since we already talked about many aspects of setting up Flash, it’s good to talk about browsers that the VKontakte music program uses directly. Let's start with Ognelis, as it traditionally has ample opportunities for creativity.
Since the interface was seriously modified in the latest version (29.0.1), we will talk specifically about the features of its configuration. First, click on the button in the upper right corner. It has the form of an icon with three dashes, which is well known to users of "Chrome".
A small menu will open in which you need to select the "Settings" item. In it, go to the "Network" tab. In it, you need to uncheck the box "Disable automatic cache management." This will avoid unnecessary excesses associated with their overflow.
By the way, it is precisely the latter circumstance that often leads to the fact that you cannot listen to music in real time.
By the way, is it possible to configure the browser so that music from "Contact" can be saved directly to the hard drive? Given that this is Firefox, making it extremely simple.
There is not one program for downloading music from Contact, but in this case we would recommend installing the Flash Video Downloader extension. Don’t be confused by the word Video in the title: this wonderful plugin easily downloads not only video, but also audio files.
Using it is as simple as possible: immediately after installing and restarting the browser, the "Download with .." button appears under the songs. Click on it, select the location to save the clip, and then click on the "Download" button.
Google Chrome setup
Since "Chrome" is the most common browser to date, you need to talk about its proper configuration.
If you have music in Vkontakte constantly stop playing in it, you must do the following:
- click on the icon in the form of three dashes in the upper right corner;
- select "Settings";
- click on the link “Show advanced settings”;
- looking for the item "Personal data", click on the button "Content Settings";
- in the window that opens, check the box "Allow sites to save local data."
After these settings, your “Chrome” should begin to work more stable with the music collections from “Contact”.
As for IE, then some special settings are not required. Pay attention only to some of the features of flash settings that we have already described.
If you need a program for downloading music from "Contact", we can recommend using Internet Download Manager. This great app quickly catches music links so you can quickly replenish your local music collection.
What else could cause problems?
What to do if all of the above does not help? Firstly, you can try using a different browser. Speaking of Firefox, Vkontakte music does not play very often because of the incorrectly configured NoScript extension.
This plugin is wonderful, it prevents almost 100% infection of a computer with malware, when attackers use specially prepared scripts for this purpose.
But there is one problem. Inexperienced users who have heard from more experienced colleagues about the benefits of this extension put it on, but they don’t know anything about trivial settings. As a result, music does not play, buttons are not pressed, and frustrated people blame the “viruses” for everything.
To avoid this, click on the plugin icon and select the “Allow all on this page” item. The site will reboot, and all blocked functions will become available.
Malware
Surely, you are surprised that we remembered such a popular reason last. There is nothing strange here: practice shows that music on a social network is least dependent on viruses. In any case, far from any malicious program can block it. “VK” music may not work only if a virus specifically blocks access to social networks.
This is very rare, and to fix this problem it is best to use bootable disks with antivirus programs. Scanning the OS from under an infected system is completely useless in this case.