QRSong! Blog – Music, QR Codes & Spotify Tips
Discover insights, tips, and stories from our team
Corporate gifts people keep: custom music card sets
What makes a company gift survive the desk drawer, why letting the team pick the songs is the part that matters, and the real numbers: minimum order, lead time and what you can customise.
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QR codes for musicians: what actually works
Putting a QR code on a poster, merch table or record sleeve. Static versus dynamic, where to point it so it works on every service, and the print rules that decide whether it scans at all.
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How to make your own music bingo cards
Build music bingo cards by hand with a spreadsheet and a printer, or generate them from a playlist. How many songs you need, what goes wrong, and how to settle a disputed win.
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The QRSong! gift box: what it does and does not fix
A foldable printed box with a window in the lid, holding up to 190 cards. What to put behind the window, and why presentation only amplifies a personal deck.
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Four games you can play with one deck of music cards
Timeline, bingo, quiz and Music Match all run on the same cards. Which to play for which group, and why switching game revives a deck better than new songs.
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Which streaming service works best for music cards
Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer and YouTube Music are not equivalent. The hidden playback comparison that decides whether the game works at all.
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Play your QR music cards with Apple Music
Apple Music works directly in the free QRSong! app now, with the song title hidden and the full track playing. Here is how it compares to Spotify, Tidal, Deezer and YouTube Music.
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Music Match: the music card game explained
Match on artist, genre or decade and race to empty your hand. How it differs from a timeline game, and why it suits a table with uneven music knowledge.
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Feature your playlist and earn a discount
How the discount works, and more usefully, what makes a featured playlist other people actually pick. Concept beats taste, and the title is the whole pitch.
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How to host a music night that keeps going
Setup, the first ten minutes, and what to do when attention drops around card forty. Speaker, snippet length and the one person who knows every song.
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How to pick songs for a music game
The three ways a game playlist goes wrong: choosing songs you love, sticking to one era, and getting the count wrong. How many songs you need and why years break.
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Why hidden playback matters in a music game
Scanning with your phone camera shows the song title and ends the round. How hidden playback works, and which streaming services actually support it.
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How to design your own music cards
What actually matters on a music card and what is decoration: quiet zones, contrast, legible years, and where personalisation earns its keep.
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Printed cards or print at home: which to pick
The real difference is paper weight. What goes wrong printing music cards at home, what 350 gsm fixes, and how to decide which one your deck needs.
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How QRSong! started: a deck you build yourself
It began because I lost an argument about a song. The homemade version, the three things that went wrong with it, and why the release year turned out to be the hard part.
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