Music Trivia
Music Trivia is a five-question quiz built entirely from your own library. There is no generic question bank and no internet round trip — every question is generated at the moment you open the game by reading your local tracks, albums and artist metadata. If you don’t own it, you’ll never be asked about it.
Opening the Game
Tap the Games button in the Library screen header (controller icon), then choose Music Trivia.
[SCREENSHOT: Games sheet with Music Trivia and Quick Fire options]
The Music Trivia row shows your running record underneath it — for example 12 games · best 5/5. Before you’ve played, it just says “Test your music knowledge”.
Games is a Pro feature. Without Pro the Games button is dimmed, and tapping it opens the Pro upsell instead of the sheet — or does nothing at all if you’ve already dismissed that upsell once. See Pro Features.
What You Need in Your Library
Trivia is generated from real data, so it needs something to work with:
| Requirement | Message if unmet |
|---|---|
| At least 8 tracks | ”Add at least 8 tracks to your library to play Music Trivia.” |
| At least 4 different artists | ”You need tracks from at least 4 different artists to play.” |
| Enough variety to build questions | ”Unable to build questions from your library. Try adding more music.” |
If you’re short, import more music first — see Importing Music.
How a Round Works
A game is 5 questions, played straight through with no timer.
[SCREENSHOT: Trivia question — type tag, progress dots, album art, prompt, four option pills]
Each question screen shows:
- A type tag in the top-left (Name the Artist, Odd One Out, and so on)
- Progress dots across the top-right, filling in green or red as you answer
- Album artwork for the track the question is about, when the question has a track to show
- A line of host commentary above the prompt
- The prompt, plus a sub-prompt with the track title in quotes where relevant
- Four option pills — or two, for yes/no style questions
Tap an option to lock it in. The correct answer turns green immediately; if you picked wrong, your pick turns red alongside it. After a short beat the game fades to the next question.
Your score sits in the header as N/5 and only counts correct answers — there’s no time bonus and no penalty beyond getting it wrong.
Lives and Streaks
There are no lives — a wrong answer never ends the game early. You always play all five questions.
A correct-answer streak is tracked, but it doesn’t change your score. It drives the host commentary: two in a row gets you “Back to back! Nice.”, four in a row gets “Relentless. Four in a row.” A wrong answer resets the streak and swaps in a consolation line.
If you want a streak that actually affects the run, play Quick Fire, where a combo multiplier and a per-question timer are in play.
Question Types
Questions are drawn from a pool built fresh each game, then shuffled and cut to five. Which types are available depends on what your library contains.
Always available (built from your tracks and albums):
| Type | Question |
|---|---|
| Name the Artist | ”Who recorded this track?” — with the title shown |
| Name the Track | ”Which track is by artist?” |
| Odd One Out | ”Three of these are by artist. Which track is the intruder?” |
| Name the Album | ”Which album contains this track?” |
| Album Companion | ”Which track appears on the same album as track?” |
Available once artists have fetched metadata:
| Type | Question |
|---|---|
| Album chronology | ”Which artist album came out first?” |
| Artist origin | ”Where is artist from?” |
| Artist era | ”Which decade did artist form in?” |
| Genre match | ”Which genre is artist known for?” |
| Band member | ”Who is / was a member of artist?” |
| Active or disbanded | ”Are artist still together?” |
These second-tier questions come from the verified artist database — the same data behind the Artist Cards in Library AI and the Artists view. Artists that have never had metadata fetched simply don’t contribute questions.
Album chronology filters out live records and dated bootlegs, so it asks about studio albums rather than “1997-08-14 Osaka”.
Why the Questions Feel Personal
Every distractor is also pulled from your library. If you’re asked who recorded a track, the three wrong answers are three other artists you own — not famous names you’ve never listened to. That’s what makes it hard: the wrong answers are all plausible, because they’re all yours.
The game also avoids repeating itself. Once a track has been used as a question subject or a distractor within a game, it’s marked used and won’t come back in that same game.
The Result Screen
After the fifth answer, the game moves to the result screen.
[SCREENSHOT: Result screen — trophy, star rating, AI verdict card, artwork row, breakdown list]
It shows:
- A trophy and star rating — 3 stars for a perfect 5/5, scaling down to half a star for a wipeout
- Your score as
N / 5 - An AI verdict — a short title and a couple of lines of commentary written on-device from your score and the artists that came up
- A row of album artwork from up to four of the artists featured in the game
- A Breakdown list of all five questions with ✓ / ✗, the correct answer where you missed it, and a reveal fact where the question type has one
The AI verdict uses Apple Intelligence, on your device. If Apple Intelligence isn’t available on your device, the game falls back to a fixed set of titles (“Music Mastermind”, “Tune Detective”, “Still Learning”) and a matching line — everything else on the screen is unchanged.
Tap Done to close.
What Gets Recorded
Finishing a game writes to your local stats: games played, total correct, total questions asked, best score, and the timestamp of the last game. Those numbers surface in two places:
- The Music Trivia card in the Listening Analytics Dashboard — games, average score, best score, and last-played date
- The Music Trivia row in the Games sheet
They also feed three achievements — Trivia Rookie, Perfect Score and Trivia Addict. See Achievements.
Note: Quick Fire sessions are written to the same set of counters, so a Quick Fire run also bumps your trivia games-played and can raise your recorded best score.
Everything is stored on your device in the same local database as the rest of your library. Nothing about your games is uploaded.