Everything people ask about SideSong

SideSong is a free web app for listening to music together in real time. Play any song and it becomes a live room: everyone playing that song right now hears the same moment, and you can chat, react, wave at each other and become friends. Music plays through YouTube’s official player.

Yes. SideSong is free to use. You need a free account (Google or email) so people know who they are listening with.

No. Songs play through YouTube’s official embedded player, so anyone with a web browser can listen. Nobody in the room needs a paid music subscription.

Open the song on SideSong and send your friend the room link (Invite, then Share link). The link opens the room at the same moment in the song, so you both hear the same second, with chat alongside. Friends on SideSong can also be invited straight from the room.

Each room keeps one shared playhead on the server. Every player checks against it and corrects small drifts on its own, so people in the same room hear the same part of the song, usually within a fraction of a second. If your connection drops, the music keeps playing and the room catches you up when you are back.

Yes. Every song is a room anyone can join, so you can wave at someone listening to the same song; if they wave back you become friends. Music Twins shows active people whose real plays and likes overlap yours. Blind (18+) matches you with a stranger for three songs, and names are only shown if you both wave.

Only your friends can message you, send you songs or invite you to a room. You choose who can send friend requests (everyone, friends of friends or nobody), you can be invisible in rooms, and you can block or report anyone from their name. Blind chat blocks phone numbers, social handles and links.

Yes, in the browser on phones, tablets and computers. You can also add it to your Home Screen to use it like an app. On iPhone, notifications work once SideSong is added to the Home Screen (iOS 16.4 or later).

A Night is a scheduled listening party. The host picks a setlist of up to 60 minutes and everyone hears it at the same time, with chat. SideSong hosts a themed public Night most evenings at 9 PM India time, and anyone can host a Night for their friends.

Circle is how a room takes turns picking songs. Everyone who joins the Circle gets a turn, the pick plays next for the whole room, and people can send a fire to picks they love.

Any song on YouTube whose owner allows it to play on other sites: Bollywood, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, K-pop, English pop, indie, live sets and more. Some owners only allow their songs on YouTube itself; SideSong tells you when a song cannot play here and hides songs that never can.

Those let you listen with people you invite. SideSong also puts you in the room with everyone already playing the same song, works in any browser without a paid subscription, and turns listening into friendships: wave at people, keep a Rhythm (days in a row you and a friend listened together) and find your Music Twins.

Yes. Settings, then Delete account, removes your profile, messages, plays, likes and everything else you added, and signs you out everywhere.