Halloween playlist / guides

• Guide · parties

  How long should a Halloween party playlist be?

  A practical guide to Halloween party playlist length: how many tracks a Halloween party needs, and which of the two fixed-length mixes to use. The tracks here average 2:46.

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• Guide · trick-or-treat

  Trick-or-treat playlist by number of houses

  How much music a trick-or-treat route needs: about one track per house, with a table of houses to minutes and the Candy Bowl playlist (9 tracks) for porch duty.

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• Guide · videos and streams

  Halloween music for YouTube and streams

  How to use free Halloween music in YouTube videos, Shorts, TikToks and Twitch streams: the credit line to copy, what Content ID means here and what not to do.

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• Guide · picking music

  Cozy vs scary: how to pick Halloween music

  Which Halloween playlist is cozy and which is spooky? A scale from brightest to darkest, based on measured tone, with the biggest sudden loudness change in each playlist.

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• Guide · printable

  Printable Halloween run of show

  A printable Halloween night schedule from 3 PM to 3 AM with a playlist for every stop. Use the print button for a clean one-page version.

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