What this app does
Playcue plays music one track at a time for a live moment — a show, a lesson, a rehearsal. You build a cue list out of audio files already on this device and start the current cue with the giant GO button. When the track ends, playback stops and the room goes quiet. The next track does not begin.
Apps like MusicPlay and notevibes keep rolling into the next item in the queue. For someone running a room, that is the opposite of the job. Here the only way to start the next track is to tap GO again.
What is on the screen
- A cue light and a state: standby / playing / held / stopped.
- The current track name is the biggest type on the page, with the elapsed time and the next cue beside it.
- One giant GO button under your thumb. It turns into play, pause, resume, or next depending on the state.
- The cue list: Q1, Q2, Q3… in order, with NOW and NEXT flags, how many are left, move up/down, and remove.
- A loop-this-cue switch. It is off by default.
- You can name the setlist and export it as a JSON file, and import that file back.
How to use it
Tap “Add audio” and pick files from this device — several at once is fine. It takes mp3, m4a, wav, and ogg. Reorder with the up and down keys.
Tap GO and the current cue plays. Tap it again to pause, once more to resume. When the track ends, GO lights up green with the next cue’s name on it. Tap it then and the next cue starts.
Tap any cue in the list to make it the current one. Stop rewinds the current cue to the top; the rewind key jumps back to the first cue.
When people open it
Backstage when one phone is the whole sound desk, at a recital where each item gets its own track, in a class where the music has to stop when the activity does. The silence after a track is the point.
The person running it taps once with a thumb, often without looking. That is why the button is this big.
What it does not do
- No auto-advance. No shuffle, no crossfade, no fade-out.
- No streaming, no YouTube, no online search, and no crawl of your device music library.
- No TV remote, no casting, no account, no login.
FAQ
The repeating questions are “does it really not advance?” and “where do the files live?” Below is the actual scope.
Does it really not start the next track?
Correct. When a track ends, playback stops and the GO button lights up green. Nothing makes a sound until you tap it. There is no auto-advance setting to turn on.
Can it repeat one track?
Turn on “Loop this cue” and the current cue repeats. It is off by default, and even when it is on it never moves to a different track.
Does the list survive closing the tab?
Yes. The audio you add is copied into this device and the order and names are kept on this device too, so re-opening the app gives you the same cue list ready to play. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
Clearing site data in the browser removes both the list and the copies. Keep your original files somewhere else.
Do I need an account? Is it free?
There is no account and no login. It is a free browser tool, and Google AdSense ads may appear.