Frequently Asked Questions About Song Trivia

Song Trivia is an online song trivia party game. You create a room, pick a playlist, customize a monster avatar, and race friends to guess the song, artist, album, or decade as 30-second previews play.

Click Create a Room from the home page, pick a playlist, choose a quick preset, then share the six-letter room code or invite link with your friends.

No. Song Trivia is guest-first — anyone with the room code can join. Accounts are optional and only used to save avatars, achievements, and playlists.

Yes. The game is fully responsive and works in any modern mobile browser. The lobby, gameplay, and avatar creator all adapt to small screens.

Yes. You can open the room on a big screen via your TV browser or Chromecast/AirPlay, and have players guess from their phones.

Every room is private by default — the six-letter code is the only way in. Hosts can also lock the room mid-game to prevent new joins.

Beginner Mode uses the friendliest playlist defaults, longer previews, and forgiving fuzzy matching so new players can find their footing.

Family Mode applies the family-friendly filter (no explicit tracks), uses longer previews, and enables helpful hints — great for kids and mixed-age groups.

No Mercy is the hardcore preset: one guess only, strict matching, fastest-wins scoring, and no hints. Best for music-nerd friend groups.

Album Nerd forces guessers to also identify the album the song appears on, not just the title and artist. Deep-cuts territory.

Bot Battle adds AI-controlled opponents with adjustable difficulty and personality so you have someone to race when friends aren't available.

Yes. Solo mode with bots enabled gives you opponents to play against. The daily challenge is also designed for single players.

Yes. Click Connect Spotify on the Playlists page, then paste any playlist URL or import your Spotify Liked Songs — up to 3,000 tracks. Playlists you own pull in full; for someone else's public playlist, Spotify caps non-owners at 100 tracks (Nov 2024 lockdown). Duplicate it to your library to bypass that.

Yes. Paste any public YouTube playlist URL on the Playlists page and we'll import up to 3,000 tracks. No login required.

Song Trivia plays audio via YouTube embeds, so any track that fails to resolve to a playable YouTube video (region locks, removed videos) is skipped at import time. The /health endpoint on each playlist shows how many tracks are playable.

No. Song Trivia uses Spotify only for playlist metadata. Audio playback uses YouTube's official embeddable player — keeps everything free and legally clean.

Yes. All audio plays via YouTube's official IFrame embed. Song Trivia does not download, host, or distribute audio.

No. Song Trivia does not host, upload, download, or distribute audio. All music is streamed live via YouTube's official embed player.

Yes. Toggle Family-friendly mode on in the lobby to filter explicit tracks. Kid-safe (strict) mode additionally filters adult-themed titles.

Yes — when Family Mode and Kid-safe (strict) are enabled. Kid-safe filters explicit songs plus adult themes (drugs, sex, violence). Several built-in playlists (Disney, Disney Jr, Kids Party) are curated specifically for younger audiences.

Yes. The avatar creator lets you choose from 5 base monsters and unlock 40+ outfits, headwear, accessories, backgrounds, and patterns through achievements.

Yes. Each of the 10 themes changes the background, cards, buttons, fonts, music dock, divider artwork, and avatar stage lighting — not just the colors.

Each correct guess earns a base 100 points plus a speed bonus (up to +200) for answering early. Streak bonuses add +25/+50/+100 at 2/3/5 correct in a row. Battle rounds can double the points.

Enable hints in the lobby to reveal the first letter, word count, year, genre, or album as the round ticks down. Each hint reduces the points you can earn on that round.

The host can skip the song with the Skip button. The game also auto-replaces tracks with missing audio sources at round start when possible.

Yes. From any room or playlist page you can flag a broken song so we can fix or replace it for the next game.

Yes. See the Music & Copyright page for our takedown process. Rights holders can request removal of any track or cover art and we will act promptly.