Song requests

If your host enabled DJ Wishes, you get to ask for music. The host and the DJ see the list live — so your request arrives right away, with nobody having to collect it.

How to get there

Via the widget on the home page. Scroll down to the card Request a song with the subtitle Tell the DJ what you want to hear. The button is called Request song.

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① The card Request a song among the other cards on the home page. ② The Request song button opens the form. The card is only there when your host switched the widget on.

Via the tool rail. In the row Event info & tools you will find the tile DJ Wishes. The page itself is then headed Song requests.

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The second route: the DJ wishes tile in the Event info & tools rail.

Via a QR code. Your host can put up a QR code for this tool — handy at the entrance or on the tables.

Via the digital invitation. If the Our Playlist section is switched on, you see the songs there as a numbered list. The Request a song button below it opens the very same form inside the invitation, without you leaving the page.

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① The Request a song button at the end of the section – it opens the form as a window on top of the invitation. Above it the requests so far are listed with numbers; here places 6 to 12.

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The window opens on top of the invitation, in the same design. Only the song title is required; your name decides whether the request reaches the DJ under your name or anonymously. Submit request saves it, Close returns you to the same spot in the invitation.

Requesting a song

1. Open the song requests.

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   The empty form. Only the song title is required — artist and note help the DJ find the right track.

2. Enter the song title (the placeholder suggests Dancing Queen). It is the only required field.

3. Optional: Artist (optional) — ABBA, for instance. Helpful when a title exists more than once.

4. Optional: Note (optional) — for the cake cutting, for example.

5. Only if you are not signed in to the gallery does a fourth field appear: Your name (optional), with the hint so it is clear who asked for it. Leave it empty and your host later sees Anonymous. If you are signed in, the field is missing — Photogala then uses your gallery nickname.

6. Tap Submit request. While it is sending, the button reads Sending…

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   A fully filled-in example: ① Song title *Dancing Queen* (required), ② Artist *ABBA*, ③ Note *for the cake cutting*, ④ Submit request. This guest is signed in, which is why the Your name field is missing.

7. You then get the confirmation Request submitted! with the note that your track is on the list and the DJ sees it live. Request another song takes you straight to the next one.

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   ① The sentence repeats your title back to you – so you can see that exactly this song arrived. ② Request another song clears the form for the next one.

Careful when going back

The confirmation is not a screen of its own that you can call up again. Leave the page and it is gone — your request stays saved, of course, and shows up again under Your requests.

How many requests you have

Every guest has a quota. Unless the host sets something else, it is five requests; they can choose any value between 1 and 50.

What matters is the difference between set and not set:

• Your host set a value. Then a counter in the form 2 of 5 appears next to the heading Your requests. Once the quota is used up, the button turns grey and the line You have reached your limit of 5 requests. appears above it — with whatever number applies at your event.
• Your host set nothing. Then you see neither a counter nor a hint, and the button stays tappable to the very end. The limit of five still applies — it only speaks up when you submit the sixth request, as the error message All requests are taken for now — ask the host to raise the limit.

Withdraw a request and the slot is free again, in both cases.

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Quota used up: ① the line You have reached your limit of 5 requests., ② the Submit request button is grey and no longer responds. Top right the counter reads 5 of 5.

Every song only once

You cannot submit the same title with the same artist twice — the second attempt is rejected. Another guest may of course request the same song again.

Seeing and withdrawing your requests

Below the form sits the section Your requests with your own entries. Each row shows the title and, underneath, the artist and the note.

On the right of the row there is a bin icon — that is Withdraw request. One tap removes the entry immediately, without a confirmation prompt.

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① The counter 2 of 5 – it only appears when your host set a quota. ② The bin icon withdraws exactly that row, immediately and without asking.

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You can only see and withdraw your own requests. Other guests’ requests stay untouched — and you never get to see the event’s full list at all. Only the host does.

The list lives on this device

If you are not signed in, Photogala remembers your requests through an identifier that only lives in this browser on this device. Switch to another phone, to your laptop or to a private window and the Your requests section is empty — the requests themselves are still with the DJ, you just cannot withdraw them from there any more. Anyone who signs in to the gallery avoids this: the requests then belong to the account and are there on every device.

Example

You want to contribute two songs. For the first one you enter the song title Dancing Queen, the Artist (optional) ABBA and the Note (optional) for the cake cutting. After Submit request you get Request submitted!, and Request another song lets you send Time of My Life straight after. Your host explicitly set the quota to five, so the counter next to Your requests now reads 2 of 5. Later you accidentally type Dancing Queen by ABBA again — Photogala turns it down, because you already have exactly that title with that artist on the list. So you withdraw Time of My Life using the bin icon; the counter goes back to 1 of 5 and the slot is free for another song.

Who sees your request

The requests arrive in a table on the host’s side — with Title, Artist, Note, the column From and the time (Requested at).

• Instantly. New requests appear for them the moment you submit, as long as they have the view open. They do not have to reload the page.
• With or without a name. The From column shows the gallery nickname for signed-in guests, and for everyone else whatever they typed into Your name (optional). If that stayed empty, it says Anonymous.
• The name is frozen. If you change your nickname later, an already submitted request keeps the old name.

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This is how requests arrive on the host's side – the From column shows your name or Anonymous.

Troubleshooting

I cannot find the song requests. Then your host has not enabled the tool or has not allowed an entry in the tool rail. Ask them for the direct link or the QR code.

The Submit request button stays greyed out. Either the song title field is still empty, or your quota is used up. If there is a hint above the button, it is the quota; if there is nothing, the title is missing.

I get an error when submitting. Usually one of two reasons: you already requested exactly this song, or you have hit your limit. Withdraw an old request if you need room.

The Your requests section is missing. It only appears once you have submitted at least one request — and, as long as you are not signed in, only on the device you submitted it from.

My requests suddenly disappeared. You are probably on a different device or in a private window, or your browser cleared its storage. The requests are still on the DJ’s list.

Is my song guaranteed to play? No. The tool collects the requests and puts them in front of the DJ — it never plays anything by itself. What actually gets played is the DJ’s call.

Do I need an account? No, you can request songs without one. Signing in does have one advantage though: your requests then belong to the account instead of the device, so you see them everywhere and can withdraw them everywhere.

Related pages

Tools at the eventWhat other tools exist and where to find them.

The digital invitationThe playlist section with the Request a song button.

Find your seatFind your table and seat in the seating plan.

• For Hosts: Setting up DJ requests — enable the request list and follow it live.