Youth hockey
Youth hockey music, from your phone.
Sideline DJ is a game-day music and announcement app for youth hockey. The parent in the booth runs the goal horn, player announcements, goal songs, penalty and faceoff music from an iPhone, on a screen that follows the game from warm-up to the final buzzer.
What does Sideline DJ do at a youth hockey game?
It turns the booth into a few big buttons. Before the game it reads the lineup and plays a hype song. When your team scores, one tap fires the horn, calls the scorer by name and number, and plays a clean goal song. It plays a penalty song, a faceoff song until the puck drops, break music between periods and a final song, and stays quiet when the other team scores.
Setup happens once, at home: add your roster by hand or from TeamSnap, pick your age group and horn, and connect Apple Music for songs. See every feature.
Pre · P1 · Break · P2 · Break · P3 · Final
The hockey game, in order.
Teams that play two periods can set the game to two. Each part of the game shows only the buttons that part needs.
Warm-up to puck drop
The last minutes before the game, when the teams are on the ice.
- Lineup reads the players who are at tonight's game, in your lineup order.
- Lineup over a hype song reads the same lineup with music underneath.
- Hype song plays warm-up music. Tap it again for another song.
- Puck drop fades the music and starts period 1.
Four buttons during the period
They sit where your thumb rests, with Fade & Stop right below.
- Goal fires the horn right away. Pick the scorer and the assists, their call plays, then the goal song.
- Opponent counts the other team's goal and fades any music. Nothing plays.
- Penalty plays a penalty song while the player heads to the box.
- Faceoff plays a song until the puck drops. Fade & Stop brings it down.
Between periods
While the ice is cleared or the teams switch ends.
- The break screen plays a period break song, one song per tap.
- Back to play fades it out and moves to the next period.
The final buzzer
The last sound of the night matches the result.
- A win plays a victory song.
- A loss, a tie or a win by four or more plays a mellow good-game song for the handshake line.
Every game
What every hockey game gets.
A call for every player
Every player gets a recorded announcement made for them, with their name and number in a clear announcer voice. Goal and assist calls rotate through different wordings. Until a recording is ready, the phone's own voice reads the name.
Good sportsmanship
No song for the other team's goals. At a four-goal lead the horn and call-outs switch off by themselves, and they come back when the gap is three or fewer.
Clean edits only
The explicit filter is locked on for youth age groups and can't be switched off, whoever is holding the phone.
Apple Music
Songs come from a curated clean catalogue, by moment and genre, and play from the DJ's Apple Music. No subscription? The horn and every announcement still work.
TeamSnap optional
Bring in players, games and attendance from TeamSnap, or add players by hand, paste a list or upload a CSV. How TeamSnap works.
Rink PA and weak signal
Connect by cable or Bluetooth. The horn and recorded announcements are saved on the phone, so they play with no signal. Apple Music songs need a connection.
Questions
Youth hockey questions.
What does the Faceoff button do?
It plays a short song during the stoppage, until the puck drops. Fade & Stop brings the music down when play restarts.
Can Sideline DJ run a two-period hockey game?
Yes. Hockey games default to three periods with two breaks, and a team can set its games to two periods instead.
What does the Lineup button do?
It reads the players marked as attending tonight, in your lineup order. Lineup over a hype song plays music underneath.
What plays when a hockey game ends?
A victory song on a win. On a loss, a tie or a win by four or more, a mellow good-game song for the handshake line. The victory song is still one tap away after a big win.
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Running music at a ringette game? It has its own game screen, with Start of play and a Hype button. See the ringette game screen.
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