A music quiz where the song is the question

How it works

1. 1

   Add the song

   Paste a Spotify track link or a YouTube video into a question, or upload an audio file, and trim a clip to the seconds you want.

2. 2

   Hide the answer

   Tick “Hide the track” and the big screen shows a spinning record instead of the title, the artist and the cover.

3. 3

   Play it live

   Everyone joins with a PIN on their phone. Faster right answers score more, and the leaderboard runs between songs.

More than “name that song”

Four song titles and one right answer is the classic, and it works. But the same track can carry other questions: an open answer where players type the artist (add the spellings you will accept, so “Beatles” and “The Beatles” both count), a slider where they guess the year it came out and score by how close they land, or a true-or-false about the song.

With a buzzer question the options stay hidden: the first phone to press gets to answer, and a wrong answer passes the turn on. With music playing, it is the closest thing to a TV music show.

Where the sound comes from

In a room, the music plays on the host’s screen, so the speakers are the only setup. In an online room, where everyone plays from their own place, the song plays on each phone instead.

Spotify plays the whole track when the browser on the big screen is signed in to Spotify Premium; otherwise it plays Spotify’s own 30-second preview, and Spotify picks which 30 seconds. A YouTube clip or your own audio file plays exactly the part you trimmed.

A whole music night

Split the quiz into rounds — the 80s, film soundtracks, one-hit wonders, Christmas number ones — each with its own name and background, announced on the big screen as it starts. The AI can write the questions around the songs too: ask for a round on 90s pop and add the tracks to the questions it writes.

What you get

Questions people ask