Listen Together

Host an online music listening party

A listening party is a simple thing with an awkward technical problem: everyone needs to be on the same second of the same track, and every obvious method fails at that. Screen sharing turns music into compressed mush. Counting down from three drifts within a minute. Group calls duck the audio the moment someone speaks.

Listen Together is built for exactly this. One room, one shared player, one queue that everybody can see, and a chat next to it so reactions land while the track is still playing.

Setting one up

  1. Create a room and share the six-character code, or the link, with your guests.
  2. Build the queue ahead of time — paste YouTube links or import a playlist — so there is no dead air at the start.
  3. Give trusted guests control if you want a shared queue rather than a one-person set.
  4. Press play. Everyone hears the same moment.

Good occasions for it

How many people can join?

Rooms are meant for a handful of friends up to a decent-sized group, not for broadcasting to an audience. Everyone in the room is an equal participant: they can see the queue, chat, and react. The host decides who else can control playback.

Chat and reactions

Every room has a live chat and flying emoji reactions, so the party has somewhere to happen. Reactions are the part people actually use — a burst of emoji at the drop, without anyone having to type.

What it costs

Nothing. There is no account to make, no plan to pick and no trial to expire. Rooms are temporary: one that sits idle for a week deletes itself, which is the intended lifecycle rather than a limitation.

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