What is Giddy? Play With Your Music Like Never Before

Giddy is a free music player for iOS, Android, and the web that lets you put songs exactly where you want them and listen together with other people in real time. Instead of a flat list with three choices (play now, play next, play last), Giddy gives you a clock face. Drag a song onto 12 minutes from now and that is when it plays.

Giddy is built by the team at Easy Song, which is why you will find it here in our help center. It runs on your Apple Music subscription today, and it is part of a longer plan: giving artists a way to distribute music directly and keep 100% of the income from those streams.

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Giddy is free. An Apple Music subscription is required to search and play full songs, though a free trial is available.

Try Giddy Without Signing Up

You do not need an account, a subscription, or an app to see what Giddy feels like. Open play.giddy.com and choose Try it now. The real player opens with a demo playlist already loaded and starts playing 30-second previews from Apple, straight in your browser.

Everything on screen is the actual product: drag songs around, spin the clock, change the look. When you want to keep what you built, create a free account.

The Clock: A Twist on the List

The clock face is the part of Giddy people notice first. It is your music queue, drawn as a rolling 60-minute view of a queue that can be any length, with a little behind you and a lot ahead of you.

• Put songs where you want them. Drag a song, album, or playlist from Explore or your Library onto the clock. Want something ten minutes from now? Drop it at ten minutes.
• Reach further ahead. Scroll the clock, or grab the minute hand and pull it forward. There is no distance limit. Spin as far ahead as you like and drop a song there.
• Reorder by grabbing time. Drag a segment of the clock to move that song somewhere else in the running order.
• Jump and play. Double-click any song on the clock to start it now.
• Peek before you commit. Press and hold a song to hear a short preview without disturbing what is playing.

Prefer a list? The Queue panel is a classic top-to-bottom view of the same music, and you can drop songs onto it instead. The two always agree; use whichever you like.

Three Views, One Swipe Away

Giddy has three views, and you are never more than one gesture from any of them:

1. Explore: Search all of Giddy, browse featured music, and find other listeners.
2. Now Playing: The clock face and your queue.
3. Library: Your saved songs, albums, artists, playlists, and parties.

On a phone, swipe left and right to move between them. On a computer, all three sit side by side, so you can see what plays next while you are still searching. You can drag the panels around to split or re-dock them, and Reset layout puts everything back.

Create: Describe the Mix You Want

Create is a fourth tab in the web player's left panel, alongside Explore and Library. Tell Giddy the kind of music you are after and it builds you a 25-song mix of real songs from the catalog.

There are two ways to say what you want, and they combine:

• Pick from lists. Rows of decades, genres, and moods. Search a list, press Enter, and each choice becomes a pill you can take off again.
• Write it in your own words. A plain description works just as well.

Either way there is one brief on screen and it is the real one: your choices are turned into the sentence you are reading, so you can see exactly what Giddy is about to build before you build it. Nothing is ever typed into the box for you.

The Comfort zone slider runs from Safely me to Not me, and it does real work: it decides whether your own library is used to keep the mix inside your habits or to push it out of them.

Your decades are treated as a boundary rather than a suggestion: only songs first released inside those years, judged by the original release and not by a later remaster, live version, or cover. Genres and moods stay deliberately loose on purpose, so adjacent styles and near neighbours can still surprise you.

The results take over the whole panel so you can read the mix before you commit to it. Drag any song straight onto your clock, ask for Add 25 more that fit the same brief without repeating what you have, or undo that if you would rather. Nothing touches your queue until you say so: Replace all and play now, Save as playlist, or the ⋯ menu for the usual queue choices. Whatever you set is still there when you come back, and Start over clears the lot.

Create needs a free account, so it is not part of the no-account demo.

Party Mode: Listen Together, Build Together

Your Library and Playlists

• Save anything. Songs, albums, artists, playlists, and people you want to follow.
• Turn any queue into a playlist. Build the music on the clock, then save it. Once a playlist is open, your changes save automatically, or you can switch to manual saving in your account settings.
• Bring your music with you. The web player imports a CSV export from another service (Exportify for Spotify, TuneMyMusic, or Google Takeout for YouTube Music). Giddy matches each track to its catalog, shows you the matches to review, and rebuilds your playlists and saved songs.

Your Giddy library is its own thing: saving a song in Giddy does not change your Apple Music library.

Nice Touches

• Autoplay. Off by default. When on, Giddy notices the queue running low and quietly adds songs that pick up where your music left off, for as much as five hours past the end of the queue.
• Start radio. In the ⋯ menu on any song, artist, album, or playlist. Giddy builds a mix in that style and hands it to you before it touches your queue.
• Make it yours. Skins change the whole player's colors, the clock has several looks, and Virtual Vinyl puts a spinning record on screen.
• Install it like an app. In a browser, Giddy can be installed to your desktop or home screen, with its own window and icon.
• Tell us what to build. play.giddy.com/feedback is a public board where you can request features, report bugs, vote on other people's ideas, and see what we are working on.

How to Get Giddy

The first time you open Giddy, it asks you to connect an existing Apple Music subscription or start a new one. Follow the prompts and you are listening. (We earn affiliate income from new Apple Music subscriptions, which helps fund Giddy's development.)

Some features, such as CSV import and the newest party features, arrive on the web player first and come to the mobile apps afterward.

What's Coming: 100% to Artists

Every song in Giddy comes from Apple Music today. The bigger goal is direct distribution: artists putting their music into Giddy themselves and keeping 100% of the income from those streams, with no middle layer taking a share.

If you are an artist, join the mailing list to be told when it opens. In the meantime, the way to get your music into Giddy is the way you would get it anywhere else: distribute to Apple Music through your distributor of choice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Giddy free?

Yes. Giddy itself costs nothing on iOS, Android, and the web. To search and play full songs you need an Apple Music subscription, which Apple charges for separately. Subscriptions start at $10.99 per month, and Apple offers a one-month free trial. You can also try Giddy with no account at all, using 30-second previews.

Do I have to use Apple Music?

For now, yes. Apple Music is what gives Giddy its catalog: around 100 million songs, ad-free, the same music you would hear in the Apple Music app. Direct subscriptions to Giddy are planned.

Will Giddy change my Apple Music library or playlists?

No. What you save and build in Giddy lives in your Giddy library. Your Apple Music library and playlists are left alone.

Can my whole family use it?

Giddy is for music lovers of all ages and all genres. It does not yet have a setting to screen explicit content (that feature is planned), so parents and guardians may want to supervise younger listeners in the meantime.

Is Giddy the same as Easy Song?

They are separate products from the same team. Easy Song handles music licensing, copyright registration, and pre-cleared recordings. Giddy is a music player. Both come out of the same mission: to foster music creation and enrich music experiences.

How do I report a bug or request a feature?

Use the community board at play.giddy.com/feedback, where you can file bugs, request features, and vote on what others have asked for. You can also contact us directly.

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