GuessSong
Turn any Spotify playlist into a guess the song party game. Play a short clip, let everyone name the track, and crown the music champion of the room.
How it works
From playlist to party in 30 seconds
Paste a playlist
Grab the share link of any public Spotify playlist and drop it in. No Spotify login, no account — the game reads the track list for you.
Add your players
Type in everyone's name. GuessSong is a local party game: one screen, one host, everyone shouting answers at it.
Play the clip
The host hits play and a short clip (5–30 seconds, you choose) blasts out. No titles, no covers — just the music.
Guess & score
Everyone guesses out loud. The host taps whoever got it first — the scoreboard keeps track until a winner emerges.
New · Multiplayer
Mixed Playlist Mode 🔀
Don't stop at one playlist — everyone brings their own. GuessSong merges everyone's tracks into a single mixed pool, dedupes the overlaps, and turns the round into a battle of taste: can you tell whose playlist a song came from?
Pass This Phone
No backend, no waiting. Each player takes the host's device, types their name and their Spotify playlist link, then passes it on — a masked "✓ added" confirms it without revealing their tracks to the room.
QR Code Room
The host taps Create Room and gets a 4-character code plus a QR code. Players scan it (or open the shared link) on their own phone, submit their playlist, and watch it appear on the host's screen live.
Save a Taste Card
When the game ends, download a shareable Taste Card: the “Shared Bangers” every playlist had in common, plus two awards — Most Obscure Taste (whose picks were hardest for the room to guess) and Most Mainstream (highest average Spotify popularity).
Scoring
The host is the judge
No typing, no autocorrect arguments. Players shout their guesses, and the host taps the fastest correct answer on the scoreboard.
Why GuessSong
Built for game night, not for sign-ups
No login required
No Spotify account, no sign-up, no cookies-wall. Open the page and play.
Any public playlist
Your road-trip mix, K-pop hits, 80s classics — if it's a public Spotify playlist, it works.
Mixed Playlist Mode
Merge everyone's playlists into one pool and see who can guess whose taste is playing.
Zero setup
Nothing to install, nothing stored on a server. All game state lives in your browser.
Tune the difficulty
5-second clips for the pros, 30 seconds for a chill night. Pick how many songs each round runs.
QR code rooms
No app to install — players scan a code and submit their own playlist from their own phone.
Smart audio fallback
When Spotify has no preview for a track, GuessSong automatically finds one on iTunes or Deezer.
Free & open source
The whole thing is open code on GitHub. Fork it, remix it, host your own.
Guides
Go deeper
This page covers the rules. These cover the evening — what to put on, how hard to set it, how to score it so the last round still matters, and what to do when a playlist refuses to load.
How to host a music quiz night
A practical guide to running a music quiz for friends: how long a round should be, how to seat the room, what to do about the person who knows every song, and the five mistakes that flatten a good night.
Picking a playlist that plays well
Not every playlist works as a quiz. How to choose one by era, spread and recognisability — and why the playlist you love most is often the worst one to play.
Clip length and difficulty
Clip length is the difficulty dial in a guess the song game. What each setting does to the room, why the intro is the hardest part of a song, and how to pick a length for the group in front of you.
Scoring rules that keep it close
Why 3 points for the title and 1 for the album, what a runaway leader does to a room, and five scoring variants — comeback rounds, steals, wagers — you can run without any extra equipment.
Mixed Playlist Mode explained
How to run a round where every player submits their own playlist: the two ways to collect them, why guessing whose song it is beats guessing the title, and how to read the Taste Card at the end.
Playlist will not load
Four causes account for nearly every playlist that fails to load in a Spotify-based game: editorial playlists, private playlists, the wrong kind of link, and rate limiting. How to tell them apart in seconds.
Where the preview clips went
In late 2024 Spotify stopped returning 30-second preview URLs to new API applications. What we measured, what broke, and how a music game finds clips now that the obvious source is gone.
Party games for small groups
Games for four to twelve people, chosen by the one property that matters at that size: everyone stays in every round. Includes what to do when the group is too small, too loud, or does not know each other.