How to Turn Any Apple Music Playlist Into a Guess-the-Song Game

If you keep your music in Apple Music rather than Spotify, most “guess the song” games leave you out. They either hand you a fixed daily track or they only read Spotify links, which is no help when the playlist you actually want to play with — the road-trip one, the gym one, the one your group chat has been arguing over for three years — lives in your Apple Music library.

You can now point an Apple Music playlist at Songle and get a playable, scored game out of it. Here’s exactly how to get the link, what happens when you paste it, and a couple of Apple-specific quirks worth knowing before you do.

Step 1: copy your Apple Music playlist link

This is the part people get stuck on, because Apple Music doesn’t show a URL the way a web app does. The share option is there on every platform, just tucked into a menu:

iPhone and iPad. Open the playlist, tap the ⋯ (More) button near the top, choose Share Playlist…, then Copy.
Mac. Open the Music app, right-click the playlist in the sidebar (or use the ⋯ button on the playlist page), then Share → Copy Link.
Web. If you use Apple Music in a browser at music.apple.com, you can skip the menus entirely and copy the address straight out of the URL bar while the playlist is open.

Whichever route you take, you end up with something shaped like this:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/your-playlist-name/pl.0123456789abcdef

That pl. chunk at the end is the playlist’s actual identifier. The human-readable name in the middle is decoration — it can change without breaking anything.

The one requirement, and it’s smaller than people expect: you need to have hit Share on the playlist at least once, because that’s what gives the playlist a readable web page. A playlist you’ve never shared has no link to copy in the first place, so in practice: if you managed to copy a link, it works.

What you specifically don’t need is to publish it. Apple keeps two separate settings, and they get confused constantly:

“Show on My Profile and in Search” makes the playlist discoverable — findable on your profile and in Apple Music search. Nothing to do with this.
Share → Copy Link makes the URL readable by whoever holds it.

Only the second one matters. A playlist that is not published on your profile still works fine — so you don’t have to make your listening public to build a game from it.

Step 2: paste it in and pick a size

Once you’ve got the link, the rest takes about a minute. You sign in (Google handles the sign-in), paste the Apple Music link into the create dialog, and choose whether you want a 10, 20 or 30 song game. Songle reads the playlist’s public tracklist, finds a short preview and the artwork, year and genre for each track, and builds the rounds.

Building a playlist is the one paid part of Songle — $1.00 for 10 songs, $1.80 for 20, $2.40 for 30, with any tax handled at checkout. Playing the curated playlists costs nothing and doesn’t need an account at all, so if you just want to see whether the format clicks before spending anything, start there.

New playlists are private by default. You can flip one to public so it shows up for the community, or leave it private and hand out the secret link — anyone with that link can play it without the playlist being listed anywhere.

The storefront quirk nobody warns you about

Here’s the Apple-specific detail worth understanding, because it surprises people.

Apple Music is regionalised. That two-letter code near the start of the URL — the us in music.apple.com/us/playlist/... — is the storefront, and for Apple’s own editorial playlists it genuinely changes what’s inside. The same playlist ID opened on the US storefront and the Italian one can return different tracklists, different lengths, even a different playlist name, because Apple’s editors localise those playlists per country.

What this means in practice:

Your own playlists are unaffected. A playlist you made and shared has one tracklist everywhere, so the storefront in the link doesn’t matter.
For Apple’s editorial playlists, copy the link from your own region if you want the version you actually listen to. Grabbing a US link when you’re used to the local edition can hand you a game full of songs you’ve never heard.

Songle keeps the storefront that’s in the link you paste, so the game matches the playlist you were looking at when you copied it. It’s only worth thinking about if you’re deliberately hunting for a specific regional edition.

What a round actually plays like

Once the game is built, playing it works the same regardless of where the playlist came from:

You hear about three seconds of the track and try to name it.
Stuck? You can unlock five more seconds, which usually flips a song from “no idea” to obvious.
Year and genre are free — they cost you nothing, so use them.
Beyond that there are three clues in escalating order: the first couple of letters of the artist, then the first couple of letters of the title, then a written riddle about what the title means. Each one you take costs points.
You guess the title and the artist separately. The title is worth more. There’s an autocomplete on the title field, so you’re not fighting with spelling.

You play the whole playlist as one run rather than a single song a day, and it ends on a summary with your score per track. There’s a score card designed to be screenshotted — it shows your score and a grid of coloured squares for how each round went, but not the song titles, so you can post it at friends without spoiling the playlist for them.

Which playlists make the best games

Not every playlist converts into a good round. A few things that make the difference:

Mix hits with deeper cuts. All obscure tracks is demoralising; all mega-hits is over in two minutes. A blend keeps a mixed-ability group in it.
Twenty to thirty tracks is the sweet spot. It plays through in a sitting. If your source is a 300-song monster, the size limit does the trimming for you, but you’ll get a more coherent game by building a shorter playlist deliberately.
Watch out for songs everyone knows from the first note. If a track’s intro is burned into your friend group’s collective memory, it stops being a guess and becomes a formality.
Themes travel well. One-hit wonders, a single decade, one artist’s discography, the soundtrack to a specific summer — anything you can assemble as a playlist works as a themed quiz.

Apple Music or Spotify — does it matter?

For this purpose, no. Songle accepts links from both and the flow is identical: same sizes, same prices, same private-by-default behaviour, same shareable link. Use whichever service your playlist actually lives in; there’s no reason to rebuild a playlist on the other platform just to play with it. If you’re curious about the details, the FAQ covers both.

The one practical difference is on Apple’s side, and it’s the storefront point above — worth a thought when you’re grabbing an editorial playlist, irrelevant for your own.

The short version

Open Apple Music, find the playlist, hit Share Playlist → Copy Link, and paste the result into Songle. Pick 10, 20 or 30 songs, and you’ve got a scored guess-the-song game built from music you actually chose — playable on your own, or sent to a friend as a link with a score to beat.