Why does not music play in "Contact"? Stop playing music in "VKontakte"

"VKontakte" is a social network that no longer needs to be represented on the territory of the former CIS. In her there are school friends, here people often meet their future soul mate.

But there is another "positive" feature of "Contact", because of which this social network is incredibly popular in our country. It's about a giant music collection, which is collected on personal pages of users. We will not talk about the legitimacy of using music, but just talk about some of the problems that may arise when reproducing them.

Simply put, why does not VKontakte play music? We will try to disassemble the main reasons for such "dysfunctional" behavior of the popular social network.

Speed of Internet connection

How many times people told people that for normal work on the Internet you need a quality and fast channel, but they persevere again and again to step on the same rake. Why does not VKontakte play, if your connection to the network is provided by hardly live GPRS or even EDGE connection? Of course, because of the constant packet loss, long response time and other reasons, which is well known to almost every user.

Even if you have a channel from a normal provider that does not "lie" through the 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 is no problem on your part.

Internet Connection Type

Of course, we will not talk about Dial UP, since rare users of this terrible anachronism already know why music "VKontakte" does not play. The extremely low speed affects, and there is no stability of the connection as such. But why is not music reproduced if you "sit" on a quite decent satellite channel?

Now this type of connection is not so often, but it is still possible to meet in those towns and villages, where the communicators can not even bring a banal ADSL.

It's all about the principle of work: first, an outgoing request must be received from the user. Typically, in 99% of cases, users do not buy expensive equipment that allows for bi-directional requests, and therefore the same mobile phone with stunted GPRS is used for this.

The result is still the same: giant pings, losses of 80% of packages and similar "charms". That's why the music "VKontakte" does not play, although the speed of the network seems to be normal.

Mobile Internet

Even if you use mobile high-speed Internet (3G), it's too early to relax. Until now, honest unlimited tariffs have not appeared in our country, 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 / sec.

So if you have not been able to enjoy the work of your favorite band, check the rest of the traffic. Perhaps it has long been exhausted.

Of course, it will not hurt to check the coverage area: even in large cities it occasionally "jumps", so the speed may well not be enough. Do not forget also that in many cities the channel is completely clogged at peak times. In such conditions, only the music downloading program can help you 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 using them, the channel speed may be significantly lower than the declared one. This is especially true for .nix-systems, where equipment from some manufacturers can behave completely unpredictably at all.

Browsers

After a long epic of testing the quality of communication, we proceed to consider the most fundamental reasons for why the music "VKontakte" plays poorly. Since we listen to it through the browser, in this program we should also look for the roots of the problem.

The least trouble comes from Google Chrome and other browsers built on its code. The fact that it is automatically updated, it includes its own analogue flash-player, and therefore beginners do not have to do almost anything to set up.

With IE and Firefox, everything is somewhat more complicated. The fact is that these Internet browsers do not have a built-in Flash player, and that's why inexperienced users suffer for a long time trying to play the tracks on the computer. The program for music in this social network is based on this technology, so without it you will not be able to hear your favorite artist.

We put the Flash-player

It is not difficult to do this. Download the installation kit from the official site, run the installation program, press the "Install" and "Finish" button a couple of times. At this point, the browser should be closed. 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 settings of the player in the social network itself, but you can configure Flash Player so that the playback problems happen as rarely as possible.

First, click on the "Start" button, exit to "Control Panel", 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. In it, you need to check 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.

Configuring Firefox

Since we already talked about many aspects of Flash customization, it does not hurt to talk about the browsers that the program directly uses for VKontakte. Let's start with "Ognelis", as it traditionally has ample opportunities for creativity.

Since in the latest version (29.0.1) the interface was seriously modified, we will talk about the peculiarities of its configuration. First, click the button in the upper right corner. It has the appearance of a pictogram with three dashes, which is well known to users of Chrome.

A small menu opens, in which you select the "Settings" item. In it, go to the "Network" tab. In it, you must uncheck the "Disable automatic cache management" check box. This will avoid unnecessary excesses associated with their overflow.

By the way, it is the latter circumstance that often leads to the fact that you can not listen to music in real time.

By the way, is it possible to configure the browser so that music from the "Contact" can be saved directly to the hard drive? Given that this is Firefox, it is extremely easy to do this.

There is not one program for downloading music from "Contact", but in this case we would advise installing the Flash Video Downloader extension. Do not be confused by the word Video in the title: this wonderful plugin easily shakes not only video, but also audio files.

To use it as simply as possible: immediately after installation and restarting the browser, a button "Download with .." appears under the songs. Click on it, select the location of the clip, then click the "Download" button.

Configure Google Chrome

Since it is "Chrome" which is the most common browser for today, it is necessary to talk about its proper tuning.

If you constantly stop playing "VKontakte" music, you need to 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";
• Search for the item "Personal data", click on the button "Content settings";
• In the opened window it is necessary to put a checkbox "Allow sites to save local data".

After these settings, your "Chrome" should begin to work more stable with music collections from "Contact".

As for IE, there will not be any special settings. Pay attention only to certain features of the flash configuration, which we described earlier.

If you need a program to download music from "Contact", we can recommend the use of Internet Download Manager. This wonderful application quickly intercepts links to music, so you can quickly replenish your local music collection.

Because of what else can there be problems?

What to do if all of the above did not help? First, you can try using a different browser. If we talk about Firefox, then very often the music "VKontakte" is not played because of the incorrectly configured NoScript extension.

This plugin is wonderful, it prevents almost 100% of the infection of the computer with malicious programs, when for this purpose intruders use specially prepared scripts.

But there is one problem. Inexperienced users who have heard from more experienced colleagues about the benefits of this extension put it, but nothing is known about the trivial settings. As a result, music is not playing, no buttons are pressed, and upset people blame "viruses" for everything.

To avoid this, click on the plugin icon and select the "Allow all on this page" option. The site will reboot, and all blocked features will be available.

Malicious software

Surely, you are surprised that we remembered about such a popular reason last. There is nothing strange here: practice shows that music in a social network is the least dependent on viruses. In any case, not every malicious program can block it. "VC" music may not work only in the case when a virus specifically closes access to social networks.

This is very rare, and to solve this problem it is best to use bootable disks with antivirus programs. Scan the OS from under the infected system in this case is completely useless.