You opened Tango to catch a live and it had already ended. Can you still watch it? In most cases, not through Tango itself - and that surprises people coming from platforms that auto-save broadcasts.
Tango does not store replays
Tango Live is real-time. Once the host taps end, the broadcast stops and there is no on-demand replay sitting in the app for you to scrub through later. The live is not "uploaded" anywhere public after it finishes. If no one captured it, it is gone.
This is fundamentally different from a posted video, which stays on a profile. A live only exists while it is happening.
So when can you watch an ended live?
Only if it was recorded while it aired. That happens in two ways:
- Someone screen-recorded it while watching - and chooses to share that file.
- A recording service captured it - which is where TangoRec comes in.
Re-watching ended lives with the TangoRec archive
TangoRec records public Tango lives and keeps them in a public archive. If a creator's stream was captured, you can browse and re-watch it after it has ended:
- Search the archive for a creator and open a past live.
- Re-watch in your browser without needing the Tango app.
If the live you missed was not recorded, the fix is to make sure the next one is - tell TangoRec to watch that creator:
- Open @tangorec_live_bot
- Send
/watch username - Their next live gets recorded automatically and delivered to you
The takeaway
Tango itself does not let you watch ended lives - there is no native replay. Your path to ended streams is a recording, either from someone who captured it or from the TangoRec archive. To never face this again, have TangoRec record the creators you care about.
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