Short version: you do not need a music subscription. The app plays the songs already on your phone, and Apple Music too if you have it.
This is the question people ask before they download, and the answer is better than most expect. GameDay Music does not require Apple Music, Spotify, or any other subscription. If you own the songs, you can fire them.
What the app actually needs is a file it is allowed to start, stop, seek and duck under an announcer. A song on your phone is all of those things. A song inside someone else's streaming app usually is not, and the rest of this page explains why.
MP3s you bought and downloaded — from Amazon Music or anywhere else — and anything already sitting on the phone. Add them to the Audio Library once and they load onto any button, with their own start points. Nothing streams, so nothing buffers at a rink with one bar of signal. No music subscription needed, on iPhone or Android.
Connect it and the whole catalog is available inside the app: search a song, assign it to a player or a button, set the second it starts. Works on iPhone and, since October 2026, on Android as well. Optional, not required.
This is the one we expect to change. Amazon has no open developer program for playback — it has been a closed beta for more than a year, with no public signup — so no outside app can play an Amazon Music subscription, ours included. We have made the case to Amazon directly. If that door opens we will build it: plenty of families already pay for Amazon Music through Prime and have never had a way to use it at a game.
Spotify's SDKs only let another app remote-control the Spotify app, so the audio comes out of their player rather than ours. That rules out the announcer ducking under the song, a horn on top of it, and the fade. Their developer terms also limit use to private personal use and prohibit modifying or altering their content, which a start point does. We will add it the day those rules change.
YouTube's developer policies prohibit separating audio from video, prohibit background playback, and require an app to reflect the standard YouTube experience, ads included. A goal song that fires instantly, audio only, while you are looking at the board breaks all three. Premium does not change it: Premium is an entitlement on your account inside YouTube's own app, and there is no way for another app to inherit it.
Paste your Spotify, Amazon Music or YouTube Music list — or just screenshot it — and every song gets matched on Apple Music and sent to your phone. No sign-in, nothing connected.
No. The app plays audio files already on your phone, so anything you own works on any button, with its own start point. Apple Music is supported if you have it, but it is optional on both iPhone and Android.
Not yet, and not because we have not asked. Amazon has never opened a public developer program for playing a subscriber's own Amazon Music, so no third-party app can do it. It has been in a closed beta for over a year. We have put the case to Amazon directly, and if it opens we will add it. In the meantime, songs you have downloaded to the phone work on every button.
No, and it is a Spotify restriction rather than a missing feature. Spotify only permits another app to remote-control the Spotify app, so the audio plays in their player. That makes it impossible to duck the song under an announcer, layer a sound effect on it, or fade it. Their terms also limit use to private personal use and prohibit altering their content.
No to both. YouTube's developer policies prohibit separating audio from video and prohibit background playback for third-party apps. Premium is an entitlement on your account inside YouTube's own app; there is no mechanism for another app to use it.
Open the Audio Library and import the files. They appear everywhere you pick a song, so you can put one on a DJ Board button, a player's walk-up, or a playlist, and set the exact second each one starts.
The app is free for 14 days with no card. After that it is $9.99 a year for one team, which covers a whole season, or $24.99 a year if you run more than one. That is the only subscription involved, and it is not a music subscription.
Best Goal Songs for Youth Hockey (2026)What rinks are playing after the horn this season, and the Starter Set that loads a full hockey board in one tap.
Best Baseball Walk-Up Songs (2026)The walk-ups baseball and softball teams actually played this season, straight from the app.
Best Football Touchdown Songs (2026)What sidelines played after the score this season, and the Starter Set that loads every offense and defense button in one tap.
Best Walk-Up Songs for Youth Softball (2026)What softball teams actually played this season, counted from real games rather than guessed at — and how to make any of them land in the three seconds a batter has.🎙️Stadium announcer voices38 voices that call every player by name before the song.📣Sound effects44 bundled sounds that play over the music, plus your own.