Rating songs is fun. Beating your friends at naming them is better. Auralys Space, the games area of the Auralys music social network, hosts two games built for exactly that: Music Roulette and the Live Blind Test. Both are quick to learn, both get loud fast, and both will expose which of your friends has been faking their music knowledge for years.
Music Roulette: how it works
In Music Roulette, one player creates a game and the others join — games run with 2 to 6 players. A track plays, and the question hanging over it is simple: who does this track belong to? You race the other players to name the artist. The twist that makes it "roulette" is the unpredictability of what comes up: the track could be a giant hit everyone knows or a deep cut only one person at the table has ever rated. Fast answers win, but one confident wrong guess can cost you the round.
Why your ratings matter in the game
Here is the part most new players miss: the tracks you have been reviewing and ranking on Auralys are your training ground. The time you spend building your Top Auralys ranking — really listening, really deciding what belongs where — is exactly the knowledge Music Roulette tests. Players who rate a wide range of music, including their friends' shares, walk into games with a much bigger map of artists in their head.
Live Blind Test: the classic, but live
The Live Blind Test takes the oldest game in music — hear a snippet, name the song — and runs it live with your group. Everyone hears the same opening seconds at the same time. No track title, no album art, no hints: just the first notes and your memory. The fastest correct answer takes the round. Blind tests punish people who only know choruses, because the game is won in the intro — the drum fill in the first two seconds, the synth line before the vocal starts.
How to win more games
A few habits separate the winners from the guessers. First, do your daily Quests — they deliberately push tracks from outside your usual genres into your ears, and blind tests love pulling exactly those songs. Second, when a friend shares a track in your feed, actually listen to it; shared tracks from your circle are the most likely game material. Third, in Music Roulette, answer when you are 80 percent sure rather than waiting for certainty — in a 6-player game, someone else is about to be sure too. Fourth, learn artist signatures: a producer's tag, a singer's breathing pattern, a band's favourite chord change. Intros give artists away.
Games are better with the right group
Two players make a duel; six make chaos. If your group has mixed tastes, the games stay close, because everyone has home turf. If everyone listens to the same three artists, the fastest thumb wins instead. Recruit one friend with completely different taste — the metalhead, the jazz uncle, the K-pop devotee — and every round gets harder and funnier. Clubs are a good place to find those players: join one outside your main genre, which our getting started post walks you through.
Where the games fit in Auralys
The games are not a side gimmick. Auralys is built so that everything feeds everything else: reviews teach you tracks, rankings organise them, Quests widen them, and the games test what stuck. A track that humiliates you in a blind test on Friday is the track you review on Saturday. That loop is why people stay.
Friday Drop nights are game nights
One rhythm worth stealing from regular players: when the Friday Drop lands, groups open a Live Blind Test built around the week's new releases. Nobody has history with the songs yet, so the game stops rewarding memory and starts rewarding ears — who can read a track's artist from thirty seconds of a song released that morning? It is the fairest version of the game, and the loudest.
Start a game tonight
You need a free account and at least one friend on the network — the access page gets you in safely in a minute. Create a Music Roulette game, send the invite to your group chat, and find out who actually knows the music they never stop posting about. Full picture of the network is on our homepage.