Summary: Want to make music longer on TikTok? Read this post to learn 4 easy ways to make a song longer on TikTok without paying a dime.
TikTok videos keep getting longer, but music does not always keep up. As of 2026, you can now record videos up to 10 minutes and upload videos up to 60 minutes. That sounds perfect, but many users still find that TikTok limits the length of music to one minute. Why does this happen? Often it is due to copyright rules or account conditions, and TikTok has not given clear guidelines.
That is where this guide comes in. I'm going to show you four simple ways to make your TikTok music last over 1 or 3 minutes. This guide is fully updated for 2026, so you can follow along and make your videos shine.
How to Make Music Longer (Than 60 Seconds) on TikTok Directly
Before the detailed steps, here are 2 facts you'd better known about TikTok: 1) It doesn't allow you to combine multiple music clips. 2) There are no features like speed down, reverse, or repeat to extend the sound on TikTok. Therefore, if we want to rely on TikTok to get things done, the only way out is locating and using a piece of long music from the ready-stock TikTok music library manually.
Step 1. On your TikTok app, press the white plus icon. Tap 60s on the new interface.
Step 2. Hit the red dot button to record the TikTok video, and press it again to stop the recording.
Step 3. Press the red checkmark to confirm the recording.
Step 4. Press Sounds in the bottom left corner. Choose the sound with a length longer than the recorded TikTok video.
Step 5. Click and drag the appeared soundwaves to select the needed parts of the song.
Step 6. Hit the checkmark button to confirm the change.
Step 7. Tap Next, enter the video description and other information. Afterward, press Post.
How to Make Music Longer (Than 60 Seconds) on TikTok in CapCut
Don't want to bother yourself with wading through a sea of short music clips to select a long but very mainstream music? Since TikTok only allows you to add music and sound from the TikTok playlist, the easiest way to make a sound longer than 60 seconds on TikTok is to apply a decent TikTok video editing app that supports to merge video and audio. To put it plainly, we can make a long TikTok video with full sound via video editors like iMovie and CapCut, and then post the long video on TikTok. In the below guide, we are going to use CapCut because it is released by the developer of TikTok and is 100% free to use. Better yet, it allows you to share a long music video on TikTok instantly.
Step 1. Go to the Apple Store or Google Play Store. Search CapCut and install this free video editor on your Android or iPhone.
Step 2. Open the CapCut app and choose Add Project. It will lead you to the camera roll of your smartphone.
Step 3. Select one or multiple videos that you want to add with a song longer than 60 seconds.
Step 4. Press the Add button in the bottom right corner to confirm the import.
Step 5. Move the playhead on the timeline to the end black frame, select the frame and then tap Delete.
Step 6. Press Sounds. On the new window, select Your Sound.
Step 7. To use the background music of an existing video, press Extracted, choose Extract sound from the video, select Import sound only, and then choose the plus button.
Suppose there is the needed music file on your device, you need to click on From device, and then select the liked long music on your device.
Step 8. You can use many advanced tools to polish the TikTok video to the next level. One feature I use most is the Crop tool under Edit. With it, I can crop a 16:9 widescreen video to a 3:4 TikTok video in a snap.
Step 9. Press the up-arrow button and hit Share to TikTok. CapCut will lead you to the TikTok app. Now, you press Next and follow the on-screen prompt to make the music longer on TikTok.
How to Make Music Longer (Than 3 Minute) on TikTok in VideoProc Editor
The above solutions are working for use more than 60 seconds of a sound on TikTok, but neither can bypass the 60 seconds limit of TikTok. However, this doesn't mean it's impossible to make a sound longer than one or even three minutes on TikTok. In fact, there is a fairly straightforward way to go about this. All you have to do is to add the long music to the video in a video editor. I'm going to use VideoProc Editor for the demonstration because it's easy and completely free to use.
\Tips: VideoProc Editor is available on iOS and Android for mobile editing. If you need to edit videos on a computer, VideoProc Vlogger offers a desktop solution with many of the same features.
Step 1. Download and install VideoProc Editor from Apple Store or Google Play Store. Open it up, tap Create Now, and choose one or multiple video clips. Just ensure the total length of these clips is over 60 seconds or 3 minutes, depending on your need.
Step 2. Tap Add Audio and choose the music file located in your phone. Ideally, the original music file should be over 3 minute. However, here you can make the music as long as you want, loop it, or pick any section of the song.
Step 3. Tap Export to export the video with the music included.
Step 4. Upload your edited video to TikTok. Add the same song from TikTok's music library on top of your video but set its volume to 1%. Why? TikTok registers that you "used" a licensed track. The 1% volume means you won't actually hear the TikTok version and you'll still hear your full-length music from your edit.
How to Make Music Longer (Than 3 Minute) on TikTok in Shotcut
For those who want to bypass the 60 seconds limit of TikTok by using an open source video editor, we recommend you to go with Shotcut. As an open-source and cross-platform program, it can help Windows, Mac, and Linux users to add a piece of long music to the video. In this way, we can get a TikTok video with music longer than 60 seconds. After that, we upload the new video to our browser to make a simple conversion for ensuring TikTok can recognize the file without error.
Step 1. Install Shotcut on your computer. Choose the proper folder to hold the project file, enter the project name. Hit Custom.
Step 2. Click on Add and select New. After that, you enter TikTok as the name. Next, you need to adjust the resolution to 1080x1920 and turn the aspect ratio to 9:16 for getting the best viewing experience. Hit Start.
Step 3. Hit Open File in the top left corner to select the video and audio clips you want to merge as one TikTok video.
Step 4. Press Ctrl +I to add a video track, and then you drag the video clip to the timeline.
Step 5. Press Ctrl+ U to add the long music. Next, you drag the music to the newly created audio track.
Step 6. Select the video track, choose the plus button on the media pool panel. Pick up Size and Position.
Step 7. Go to the video preview window to resize and reposition the video to crop out the unnecessary black bars.
Step 8. Drag the end of the audio track until it matches the length of the video.
Step 9. Press File > Export Video and hit Export File. Now you can export the music that is longer than 1 minute for TikTok.
Step 10. Follow the step 4 mentioned in the previous method to upload the video with longer music on TikTok.
FAQs
How Do You Get 60 Second Songs on TikTok
Generally, there are 3 solutions to get 60 second songs on TikTok.
Solution 1: Explore the ready stock music library of TikTok to find the music in a length of 60 seconds.
Solution 2: If you already prepare a piece of 60-second music on your portable device, use the Sounds feature of CapCut to merge the long music with the video, and then share the resulting video on TikTok right off the bat.
Solution 3: If there is a 60 second of music on your device, but it's not with the video you'd like to share on TikTok, you can firstly post it on TikTok and choose Private for Who can watch this video. After that, view the video on your profile, choose the soundtrack and select Use this sound > Add to Favorite. Next time you post a video on TikTok and press Sounds, you can find the created 1 minute song on TikTok under My Favorite.
How Do You Use Full Sound on TikTok
If you are using a sound from the TikTok stock music library, you just need to record or upload a TikTok video with a length no shorter than the sound and then hit Sounds to add the full sound to the video.
If you need to use a 3-minute or even longer song from your local device as the TikTok music background, the process can be a little complicated. You have to add the full sound to the video via software like CapCut, convert the video via TikTok long video converter, and then upload it to TikTok.
