If you had a click-wheel iPod you probably remember Music Quiz, the little built-in game from 2003 that played a clip of a random song from your own library and made you name it, against the clock.
My friends and I spent whole summers playing it.
It got replaced by the paid iQuiz in 2007 and quietly disappeared. Apple did bring a version back as a Siri Shortcut in iOS 14, but it's not the same thing and most people never found it.
That game is the reason I built what I built. Every modern "guess the song" thing gives you one fixed daily track chosen by a stranger, which is the opposite of what made Music Quiz good: it was your music, so you had no excuse for getting it wrong.
Mine works off an Apple Music playlist. You copy a playlist link (Share Playlist → Copy Link, or just the address bar on music.apple.com), paste it in, and it builds a scored run out of that playlist: short preview, guess title and artist, clues if you're stuck but they cost you points.
Two honest differences from the original:
- Music Quiz gave you multiple choice. Here you have to type the answer, but there's an autocomplete so you're not fighting spelling.
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- Music Quiz read your library straight off the device. This reads the playlist's you upload, so you need to have hit Share Playlist → Copy Link.
Something I learned building the Apple Music side, in case anyone here finds it interesting: Apple's editorial playlists are genuinely localised per storefront. The same pl. ID returns a different tracklist depending on the country code in the URL — /us/ gave me "Today's Hits" with 50 tracks, /it/ gave "Successi del momento" with 70, different name and all. So it doesn’t change just the title but the whole content.
Disclosure: I'm the developer. Curated and community playlists are free with no account; building one from your own link is the paid part (just 1$ to cover costs even for the free version).
Somebody says 3 seconds preview is too easy, others it’s too hard. I was thinking of doing different levels of difficulties but I’d like to hear your view on it.
Happy to answer anything about the Apple Music side.
Edit: I’m a senior developer with a full time job, this is not some vibe coded sloppy shit. I’ve been working on it during my free time for the last 1-2 years. The original version had no audio preview, just AI generated hints.
The game is called songle. Use Apple20 if you wanna a 20% discount