Player's Guide
One Last Song is a community competition, discovery and collaboration platform for AI-generated music. You can listen, vote, enter songs, build playlists, ask for detailed reviews, grow creative lineages, support music you love and build a long-term record of your contribution.
The core loop: Listen → Vote → Earn → Create → Compete or Collaborate → Progress
1. Create your profile
New members begin with 50 points. Your profile can include:
- A unique username and profile picture
- A bio and creator links
- Tournament songs, standalone songs, results and statistics
- Hotted songs
- Weekly Honours and Progress summary
- A Praise Wall
- Links to The Review Room and Song Tree
- Controls for The Crate, notifications, public Progress, Rumble eligibility and hiding or restoring song cards on your public profile
Only you can see your points balance.
2. Discover music
Use different parts of the site for different kinds of discovery:
- Tournaments — open and active competitions
- Vote — battles waiting for your decision
- Hall of Champions — completed champions
- Leaderboard — creators, songs and tournament success
- The Listening Post — five-song member playlists
- The Review Room — detailed funded feedback
- Song Tree — creative lineage between songs
- The Crate — a fresh daily discovery mix
- Weekly Report — community activity, champions, Hots, honours and open tournaments
Guests can browse much of the site. Sign in for voting, submissions, Hots, discussion, points, collaborative features and personal tools.
3. Vote in battles
Every battle is head-to-head.
- Listen to each song for at least 45 seconds.
- Choose the one you prefer.
- An accepted vote earns 1 point.
You cannot vote for your own entry and may vote only once per battle.
| Round | Votes needed |
|---|---|
| Round 1 | 4 |
| Round 2 | 5 |
| Round 3 | 6 |
| Round 4 | 7 |
A battle ends when a song reaches its target. Otherwise the round may remain open for up to 4 days. At the deadline, the higher score wins. A tied score goes to the song that reached that total first; 0–0 uses bracket position.
You can hide battles from your own Vote feed and restore them later.
4. Earn and spend points
Points have no cash value and cannot be transferred.
Fixed earning amounts
| Action | Points |
|---|---|
| Accepted vote | +1 |
| 4-song champion / runner-up | +10 / +2 |
| 8-song champion / runner-up | +21 / +5 |
| 16-song champion / runner-up | +32 / +12 |
| Eligible Listening Post reward | +15 |
| Valid Song Tree branch | +1 |
Review Room reviewers and Song Tree branches may also receive creator-funded rewards when an active offer is available.
Main spending amounts
| Action | Cost |
|---|---|
| Standard tournament entry | Dynamic — check the live quote |
| Listening Post promotion for 7 days | 10 |
| Listener Pick for 30 days | 5 |
| 4-song Special or Remix Tournament | 15 |
| 8-song Special or Remix Tournament | 30 |
| 16-song Special or Remix Tournament | 60 |
| Review Room funding | You choose the review reward and budget |
| Song Tree creator reward | You choose the reward and funded branches |
The standard entry price is recalculated around 07:00 and 19:00 UTC from active battles: 0–15 = 5 points; 16–25 = 7; 26–50 = 10; 51–60 = 12; 61–70 = 14; 71–80 = 16, then +2 for every further 10 battles. Increases apply on entering a higher band; decreases wait until the count is two battles inside the lower band. Always confirm the live quote; if it changes during submission, review and confirm the refreshed price.
Creator-funded Review Room and Song Tree budgets are reserved in advance so advertised rewards are backed by points.
5. Enter and manage tournament songs
Open tournaments are shown as Join In. Standard genre tournaments use 4- and 8-song brackets; 16-song brackets are used for Champions Rumbles and eligible user-created events.
Submission supports Suno, Udio, YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify links.
To enter:
- Open an eligible lobby.
- Enter the title and artist name.
- Paste a supported song link.
- Add optional description, AI tool and artwork.
- Review and confirm the live entry quote.
Your song must be AI-generated, fit the genre or brief and be material you have the right to use.
Competition tracks
Jazz & Blues splits into Jazz and Blues; Wildcard into Anything Goes and Anything Else; and Electronic into Instrumental and Vocal Electronic. Each stream has its own lobbies and numbering. Both tracks in a pair share their parent Progress standing; Wildcard and Electronic also share parent Rumble queues, while Jazz and Blues have separate Rumble queues.
Reuse a song
From your profile, Submit Again creates a fresh eligible tournament entry while leaving the earlier entry unchanged. The normal entry cost applies.
Edit or withdraw
You can edit title and artist name on your own entry. An approved lobby entry can be withdrawn before the tournament starts, with the fee you paid refunded.
Masked Artist
Masked Artist is currently available. Turn on Submit Anonymously and upload an MP3 of up to 30 MB. The private copy is used during the tournament so the external source and your identity stay hidden. When the tournament completes, the private copy is deleted, your identity is revealed and the saved canonical song link takes over. The option is also available through Submit Again.
6. Follow tournaments and join discussion
Tournament pages show the brief, genre, size, prizes, entrants, rounds, battles, bracket, champion and discussion. In eligible Special or Remix lobbies, Working on an entry is a public, renewable three-day signal that never reserves a place. Started standard events may show a neutral Common Thread subtitle drawn from several entries.
Use Hot to show support for another member's song. You cannot Hot your own entry. Hots affect discovery but do not count as battle votes.
Signed-in members can comment, reply, edit their own comments, mention others and use reactions such as Thanks, Agree and LOL where available. Profile Praise Walls do not use the LOL reaction.
Use Report for content that needs moderator attention. Use Help & Feedback for an Issue, Question or Idea.
7. Use The Review Room
The Review Room is for detailed feedback, not competition.
List a song
From the Songs section of your profile, choose List in The Review Room for an eligible tournament or standalone song.
Set:
- Points per review
- Total budget
Use positive whole points. The budget must divide evenly by the review reward, can fund no more than 100 reviews, and is reserved in advance. A song can have only one active listing at a time.
You can also add a standalone song to your profile without entering it into a battle, then list that song for review.
If you close a listing before every funded slot is used, the unused reserved points are returned automatically.
Write a paid review
A review must be at least 250 characters. You cannot review your own song and can earn the funded reward only once for each song.
When a valid review is posted, the advertised points are paid to the reviewer.
Each review starts a flat discussion thread. Replies continue the conversation without using another paid review slot.
Reported reviews can be investigated by moderators. Where appropriate, the owner can be refunded and a reviewer can be warned or have Review Room reviewing access suspended.
8. Grow a Song Tree
Song Tree is a non-competitive creative lineage system.
Plant a root
Only the owner can plant a song as a root. You can plant an eligible tournament song or standalone song and optionally add an invitation describing the kind of response you would like.
There is no vote, bracket, winner or deadline.
Add a branch
Choose Grow from this song, select one of your own songs or add a new standalone song, then choose the relationship:
- Inspired by
- Remix
- Sampled
- Reworked
- Continuation
- Response
- Other
Add an optional note explaining the connection.
A branch has one direct parent inside that tree. The same song cannot appear twice in the same tree. Every branch can itself become a parent, allowing deeper generations.
The ancestry trail shows the route back to the root. Tree View shows the broader structure.
Song Tree rewards
Every valid new branch earns 1 point from One Last Song.
The owner of any Song Tree song can also reserve an optional extra reward for a chosen number of direct branches. That creator-funded reward applies only to direct children of that song, not to later descendants.
If every funded reward is claimed, branching stays open and the standard 1 point continues. Closing an active reward returns any unused reserved points.
9. Build a Listening Post playlist
The Listening Post is community curation around five-song playlists.
- Create a draft.
- Choose eligible songs from your own catalogue or songs you have Hotted.
- Add a title, Sleeve Notes and optional cover.
- Complete the playlist with five different songs.
- Spend 10 points to promote it for 7 days.
You may have up to 5 paid promotions active at once.
OLS Hits! and listener rewards
One Last Song publishes OLS Hits! volumes whenever five distinct eligible tournament winners are queued. They run for 7 days, cost no member points to create, and use the current reward and claim limits.
For an eligible promoted playlist or OLS Hits! volume, listen to all five songs for 2 minutes each, then select Collect Reward for 15 points.
You cannot claim from your own playlist or one containing your own submitted song. Paid promotions can fund up to 20 listener rewards, and each listener can claim up to 20 Listening Post rewards per UTC day.
If there are no paid promotions, free daily fallback playlists may appear for discovery. They do not offer the paid reward and do not count toward Curator Progress.
10. Dig through The Crate
The Crate replaced One Last Radio and refreshes daily with up to 25 eligible playable songs.
Choose Today's Mix or a daily genre crate. The mix and most genres target 25 songs: 10 Trending, 5 all-time favourites, 5 recent champions and 5 Listener Picks. Hip-Hop & Rap, Jazz & Blues and R&B & Soul target 15: 6 Trending and 3 in each other category.
Genre crates group repeat appearances, cap each creator at three songs and lower priority after an appearance in the previous three days. Categories can flex; Wildcard includes former Any Genre songs. Ineligible, masked, opted-out or broken tracks are excluded.
You can see selection reasons, use sleeve or list view, Hot or discuss songs, report broken links and review recently played tracks.
From your profile, Manage my Crate songs lets you test or replace playback links or opt songs out.
A Listener Pick costs 5 points for 30 days and places an eligible playable song in The Crate's Listener Pick pool. It may be your own song or one you have Hotted. It does not guarantee daily inclusion.
11. Create Special or Remix Tournaments
The Shop lets players create community events:
- Special Tournament — custom title and brief
- Remix Tournament — source track plus remix brief
Both use 4, 8 or 16 songs for 15, 30 or 60 points. Briefs are 20–500 characters and Remix sources need a supported link.
Creators can choose 0–7 preparation days, add a 0–100,000 point winner bonus, and optionally allow each player up to half the bracket. Multiple-entry events use a 0–3 day first-entry-only window and a 5, 10 or 15 point surcharge step. Later entries pay the live standard fee plus another step per tier; duplicate recordings are blocked. The draw avoids same-owner battles where possible. If they meet, voting continues but no battle-win points or Hit Maker credit are awarded; each song can still win its placement prize.
Full lobbies start automatically. Creators may ask admins to start early with at least 3/4/8 songs in 4/8/16-place events. Empty places become random first-round byes with no battle-win credit. After seven complete days accepting entries, the champion prize gains 1 system-funded point per extra complete waiting day until start.
You may have 10 open or active Special and 10 Remix Tournaments, counted separately. A launched event counts toward Event Promoter Progress.
12. Understand Champions Rumbles
Champions Rumbles reuse songs that have already won championships. Every Rumble is a 16-song, four-round tournament. The song is copied from its championship record, so its owner pays no new entry fee. Normal 16-song voting targets, deadlines and prizes apply.
Genre Rumbles
A championship from a 4-, 8- or 16-song tournament in a specific genre creates an opportunity in that genre's queue. Wildcard is treated as a specific genre.
An Any Genre championship does not create a Genre opportunity. Jazz and Blues use separate competition and Rumble streams, while older combined Jazz & Blues championships remain in a legacy combined queue.
Anything Goes and Anything Else remain together in one Wildcard Genre Rumble queue. Instrumental Electronic and Vocal Electronic remain together in one Electronic Genre Rumble queue.
Global Rumbles
Only a championship from a 16-song tournament creates a Global opportunity. This can include an eligible 16-song standard, Special, Remix or Champions Rumble result, including Any Genre.
Genre and Global queues are independent. A 16-song championship in a specific genre can therefore create one opportunity in each.
Queue order and activity
Each queue is considered chronologically using the championship completion time. A Rumble needs 16 valid selections.
The owner must have qualifying activity within the previous 45 days. Casting a vote or making a genuine direct song submission counts. The activity cache is refreshed weekly from the previous 60 days, so activity completed just after a refresh may not count until the next one.
Duplicate and preference rules
Before creation, the system checks that each opportunity is still unused, the account is not suspended and the recording is not excluded.
The same member's same-titled song cannot appear twice in one Rumble or be selected again while an earlier copy is waiting in a lobby for that scope. A later duplicate opportunity stays in its original queue position for a future Rumble.
From your profile, Manage my Champions Rumble Songs lets you switch a champion recording between Eligible and Excluded. Excluding it prevents future Genre and Global selections, but does not remove it from a lobby it has already joined or from an active or completed Rumble.
A Rumble winner is another champion. Because every Rumble has 16 songs, that win can create a new Global opportunity and, when the Rumble has a specific genre, a new Genre opportunity.
13. Build your Progress
Progress is separate from spendable points and is recalculated daily. Review Room and Song Tree rewards affect your points balance but do not currently add separate Progress badges.
Badge thresholds
| Badge | What it counts | Bronze / Silver / Gold / Platinum / Double Platinum / Diamond |
|---|---|---|
| Voter | Accepted votes | 10 / 50 / 200 / 750 / 2,500 / 3,750 |
| Entrant | Genuine direct approved submissions | 1 / 5 / 25 / 75 / 250 / 375 |
| Deep Listener | Completed Listening Post playlists | 1 / 5 / 25 / 75 / 250 / 375 |
| Hit Maker | Battles won | 1 / 3 / 12 / 40 / 125 / 190 |
| Champion | Champion Points | 1 / 3 / 10 / 25 / 50 / 100 |
| Event Promoter | Your tournaments that launched | 1 / 3 / 10 / 25 / 40 / 50 |
| Curator | Different paid playlists you promoted | 1 / 3 / 10 / 25 / 40 / 50 |
Reused entries and automatically created Rumble entries do not count as new Entrant submissions.
Champion Points
- 4-song title: 1
- 8-song title: 2
- 16-song title: 4
These are Progress measurements, not spendable points.
Genre Standing
Each genre requires both accepted votes and direct approved entries:
| Tier | Votes | Entries |
|---|---|---|
| Bronze | 10 | 1 |
| Silver | 30 | 3 |
| Gold | 60 | 6 |
| Platinum | 120 | 12 |
| Double Platinum | 250 | 25 |
| Diamond | 500 | 50 |
Jazz and Blues activity contributes to the combined Jazz & Blues standing. Anything Goes and Anything Else both contribute to Wildcard, while Instrumental Electronic and Vocal Electronic both contribute to Electronic.
Polymath
| Tier | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Bronze | Bronze in 2 genres |
| Silver | Bronze in 4 genres |
| Gold | Silver in 4 genres |
| Platinum | Silver in 6 genres |
| Double Platinum | Gold in 6 genres |
| Diamond | Gold in 8 genres |
Career ranks
Each rank also requires the previous rank. The seven global badges, highest Genre Standing and Polymath are separate families, each counted once at its highest tier.
| Rank | New requirement |
|---|---|
| Unsigned Act | Starting rank |
| Local Act | 1 Bronze family |
| Support Act | 3 Bronze families |
| Club Headliner | 1 Silver family and 4 Bronze families |
| Festival Act | 3 Silver families and Polymath Bronze |
| Breakthrough Act | 2 Gold families and 4 Silver families |
| Major Act | 1 Platinum family, 3 Gold families, plus Polymath Silver or a Gold community badge |
| Headliner | 3 Platinum families, 4 Gold families and Polymath Silver |
| Superstar | 2 Double Platinum families, 4 Platinum families and Polymath Gold |
| Legend | 5 Diamond families, 5 Double Platinum families, 6 Platinum families, Polymath Diamond and Genre Standing Diamond |
Open Progress for your current rank, exact next-rank checklist, nearest achievements, recognition dates and each genre's figures.
Your profile always shows a compact summary. Full Progress is private by default unless you enable Show Full Progress Publicly.
14. Notifications and weekly activity
Notifications can cover battle and tournament results, comments, replies, mentions, Listening Post activity, Review Room activity, direct Song Tree branches and Progress achievements.
Wider notification broadcasts use the site's active-user eligibility rules.
The Weekly Report summarises the community and preserves previous reports in its archive.
You can switch between light and dark mode at any time.
Change Log
- 26 October 2026 (UTC): Added dynamic entry pricing; expanded Special/Remix, multiple-entry, early-start, bonus and waiting-prize rules; documented OLS Hits!, genre Crates, profile song visibility, Common Thread subtitles and rank-family counting.
- 5 October 2026 (UTC): Updated Masked Artist availability and its private-MP3 workflow; documented the new Wildcard and Electronic competition tracks and clarified their Progress and Champions Rumble treatment.
- 28 September 2026 (UTC): Clarified Masked Artist's current unavailability; restored exact Shop limits, detailed Champions Rumble selection rules, Review Room funding limits and the complete Progress thresholds and career-rank checklist; clarified points-versus-Progress treatment for Review Room and Song Tree rewards.
- 24 September 2026 (UTC): Added full Review Room and Song Tree guidance; rebranded One Last Radio as The Crate and documented its current daily selection and creator controls; updated Masked Artist guidance; expanded points and profile guidance; corrected 16-song Champion Points from 3 to 4.
- 21 September 2026 (UTC): Updated the 10-point standard entry cost and separate Jazz and Blues competition streams.
- 14 September 2026 (UTC): Updated Shop and Listening Post limits and reward caps.
- 8 September 2026 (UTC): Rebuilt the guide around current user functionality, Champions Rumbles and Progress.