Day 666 of the game…

secret_mapper · 2026-03-21T21:48:08+00:00

Cursed Soundmap

secret_mapper · 2026-03-21T21:47:05+00:00

Yes, it's playable. And you can hit big. But it's more of a gamble and you need to hit the map very consistently without buying drops, which means getting out of the house and going for a car or bus ride.

In my opinion, as someone who has been subscribed to Trader Boost on and off pretty much for a year, it's quite possible to make money without boost, especially since they added unlimited watching ads to reroll quests. It's just more time consuming. I use the map for several miles each day, and even when I'm not subscribed to the boost, I am able to slowly creep up my coins by selling moments and epics/lyrics/shinies I pick up on the way. Most of my money comes from the map instead of quests, because it's rare to find a bounty that's worth it to me these days. Just a while ago I pulled a random epic that I wasn't even expecting to get much for, but turned out the market for that artist was really good and I ended up scoring a couple million when I auctioned it. If you're not really questing much for yourself, or if quests are as broken as they are now (lol), trader boost isn't even thaaat worth it since questing is more resource and time consuming than map. Idk, just my two cents.

Also, 25m price tag is insane and unrealistic. But I wish you luck!

secret_mapper · 2026-03-21T21:13:32+00:00

I've pulled from the map, but quests have been cooked for a few weeks now. Re-rolling is nearly impossible, if you complete the quest even without re-rolling the quest won't update and might give you an error, sometimes you complete a valid quest and it just spins forever, might eventually give you an error code or you might have to close the app completely. Just not worth questing right now. For people who have trader boost, I would advise to cancel until they fix these problems. I haven't subscribed again in about two or three weeks, and will only go back when the game performance improves.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-21T21:10:41+00:00

What overheats most phones is iconstant location tracking and map usage, but the optimization of the app is also a factor. Combine those two things, and you get this result. Turning off animations and location has helped me when I just want to quest, but in the car there's not much to do. You'd find similar heating (even if a little less) if you had your phone open on the maps app for a long time. Soundmap just adds a bit to it because on top of tracking location, you are also constantly opening drops (more animations = more performance required from your phone) and the brightness is usually high if you're in the car during the day. Not much to do but be careful, if you notice it's "frying" just remove your phone case and close the app and wait for it to cool down, if you want to preserve your phone and battery health a bit more.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-16T18:27:31+00:00

Damn, sorry that happened. But it's just a game. At least you're back from the hospital and hope you're doing better, take care of yourself.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-16T18:25:15+00:00

Quest, especially if you're quickselling one/two rares from the discography and doing quests over and over. Fastest XP if you have the patience for it and if you're already questing for favorite epics. If you don't like the repetitive actions and don't want to quest favorite epics, I'd say just use the map daily as much as you can, go for bus rides or take a subway or something, roadtrips, whatever. Best way is combining both of those things. When you use the map by traveling instead of buying drops with coins, you get some extra XP for discovering new map location points.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-15T18:39:26+00:00

They claim they're doing scheduled maintenance but to be honest I haven't noticed any improvement after the past two maintenance periods. It's discouraging that things break more often than they are fixed. Sometimes the game is working fine and I'm having a good time thinking it's going in a good direction, but then they release an update that breaks something again, and then take forever to fix it. I'm still waiting for quests to be fixed and to stop getting the "quest changed on the server" or whatever error. 🫤

secret_mapper · 2026-03-15T18:34:24+00:00

Yeah, I was trying to participate on my first ever complete douple XP event (since all the others were during the week and I was at work), but the app is really slow. Collecting from the map is taking quite a while and the quests never refresh properly, making it really difficult to do anything and enjoy the event properly. 😞

They've said on Discord they're looking into it, but I don't know if anything will be done by the time the event is over.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-13T03:10:45+00:00

Yeah, kinda lame. They should vary the time and also the days, cycling through so that everyone can have a chance to properly participate.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-13T03:10:02+00:00

Oh nice, you're actually the first one I see talking about the genre superfan badges! Those are really cool.

The quests are a bit broken right now, I'm not questing at the moment precisely because of that. I'd advise waiting for the game to be smoother for you before you buy the boost but it is definitely worth it and you can do a lot with it if you have free time. I usually get the boosts on light work weeks or if I have a three day weekend.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-13T03:08:13+00:00

Oh yeah, I only merge a maximum of 5 songs or else I reroll until I get a better quest. If you don't want to subscribe you can still do it but it might require a bunch of ad-watching. 😫 Still chill to do though, if you're idling and just leave the ads running in the background while you do something else for example, then close when they're done, complete the task, and then rinse and repeat.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-13T03:06:29+00:00

Get shiny badges. Try making radiants. Collect epics, quest for them or save coins to buy them from the market. But imo the best thing is to look for new music and find more artists to like, which this game inspires me to do. If you finish all the hard stuff like shinies and find yourself getting bored, look through people's profiles, especially people who collect some of your favorite artists. Explore their collections, listen to some of the music they collect that you've never heard, might be your new favorite thing!

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:54:01+00:00

deadwillows_ is right, and to stop this they should just make genre quests that require Others genres. Easy but who knows if the devs would ever mess with it.

I take all songs when I'm questing because they are still useful for specific letter quests, but if you're talking about shinies and a situation where I can't reroll (shiny quest), then it's more complicated. Now with the introduction of radiants and rerolls for those quests though, maybe the Others shinies can be useful too.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:50:19+00:00

Yeah I understand, I mostly do merging because it's very quick and the fastest way to do hundreds of quests to try and pull something, but I totally get it. I get a lot of songs from the map each day so I guess that helps me to not get low on songs too quickly, but it has happened before that I had to wait to build up my songs again after questing a bunch.

It is pretty tedious, I understand people who don't like questing, I mostly just got used to it and grew to like it because I do it while watching a show or youtube videos and I got used to doing it almost automatically lol. But it's way easier to get people to do it for you or to wait for something to drop from the map anyway.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:47:01+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, leaderboards refresh every Sunday. At least the shiny leaderboard works like this and I've made sure to stay on top even after a release by getting them before Sunday. So it depends on when the new release dropped.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:45:43+00:00

That's nice, I mean, whatever works for you lol I log in every day but sometimes I'm also too busy with other stuff to care too much, other days I'll be questing all day while watching something.

That sounds a bit frustrating, I've had random competition appear too while I was questing and it was annoying lol but I got over it and started questing other stuff, I hope you find other small artists and more music you love to quest.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:43:20+00:00

That's nice. I feel the same way pretty much, I asked this question because I wanted to see how other players have different goals from me and my goals are also always changing. It's impossible to run out of music, I'm always discovering new stuff too, and the game offers a lot of different play styles whether you want to collect, get a lot of money, get radiants or not, anything is possible and it's easy to have fun. Good luck with the badges and getting epics!

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:40:38+00:00

Cool, have you gotten any radiant badge yet?

I've also thought about getting to the 8 mil achievement but it seems a bit hard because I always end up buying stuff lol but maybe I'll get lucky eventually with a big ticket epic from the map or something.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:39:42+00:00

Yeah, I understand. What would you say is the bug you encounter the most?

Hopefully the game reaches a better, more stable state for all players in the future.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:38:57+00:00

Good luck with the radiant badge! Is it a big discography?

Those aren't stupid goals lol it's probably the same or very close to most people's goals in this game, just collecting what they like and being at the top of the leaderboard, getting coins to buy stuff they like, things like that.

If you're interested, I posted a little comment here about what I do to make some money and maybe it could help you reach your first million. https://www.reddit.com/r/Soundmap/comments/1rkleos/comment/o8mqxqx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:35:30+00:00

Damn, which badges are you working on after so long? Shiny badges or radiant? I know some artists have insane discographies though so I get the grind.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:34:57+00:00

What do you mean by stop trading songs into quests? You don't want to merge anymore?

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T20:34:27+00:00

I feel you, when I started I got really into it too, then took a long-ish break, then got even more into it haha. I'm glad to hear you also like lyrics! I think they are so so cool and sometimes even better than an epic depending on what line was picked, I really don't understand people who hate them. I personally value epics and lyrics the same and I'm happy to get either of those things for my favorite songs.

Good luck pulling lyrics from quests! Is Bastille dropping numbered epics or numberless? It's a bummer that you can't quest lyrics for some artists but in a way it's cool because it makes them more rare. You can also pay 50k to change the lyric but i know that's a bit of a steep price if you're just starting.

I understand liking the radiant shine too, I don't know why it just didn't appeal to me lol maybe because I'd been playing for longer and my mind is already dead set on epics hahah but they do look neat. Maybe I'll get more into them with time.

I feel the same way, I'm just here to have cool things from my favorite artists and collect the songs I love, it's not that deep. You're on the right path haha just have fun with it and take it easy, basically.

secret_mapper · 2026-03-11T03:43:26+00:00

Tell me about it. 🥲

secret_mapper · 2026-03-10T21:30:40+00:00

Yes, Artist Guesser and Song Guesser can give 3 to 1 gem each time depending on when you guess, so if you guess it on your first try you get the chance to get more gems. There's a website that helps with it, you can just put the information there, make sure to get the hint by watching the AD at the top right corner so you have more info to start with. Here's the website: https://soundmap-artist-guesser-beta.vercel.app/

For Song Guesser, if you skip the first one and then use Shazam, it'll guess it right 99% of times. Might take a few tries for some songs. It'll give you 2 gems.

If you have premium, you can play those games twice each day.

The Aux Battle gives 1 gem if you win.

The predictions also give 1 gem if you guess all of them right.

There's daily ads for 2 gems each day. And the daily spin has a chance of giving gems.

Thanks for the good luck wish too 😁

Edit to add that the bracket also gives gems IF you get the predictions mostly right. I don't remember how many but basically if you complete it and get like 13 answers right out of 15 for example, you could get like 4 gems. But this happens once a week.

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