Where do I manage notifications?
Open your Profile page and scroll to the Notifications card. Every player sees this card. If you also run at least one league, you'll see a second League Admin notifications card below it. Every toggle is account-wide — it applies to every league you take part in or run, not one league at a time.
Each toggle saves automatically as soon as you change it. You'll see a small confirmation message next to the section heading. There is no "Save" button.
Notifications every player gets
Three groups of toggles control the notifications you receive as a player. All of them are on by default. Each one controls every channel at once — email, the in-app bell, and browser push if you have it enabled.
Round activity — keeps you in step with rounds you're playing:
- When a round opens for submissions
- When voting opens for a round
- When round results are available
Reminders — nudges if a deadline is close and you haven't acted yet:
- Reminder if you haven't submitted yet (sent about 24 hours before the song submission deadline)
- Reminder if you haven't voted yet (sent about 24 hours before voting closes)
If you already submitted or voted, the reminder is skipped. Reminders only fire once per round.
Chat mentions — when someone tags you or your league in a league chat:
- When someone @mentions you
- When someone replies in a thread you started or replied to (shares the @mention setting)
- When someone @mentions the whole league (
@league)
League Admin notifications
If you run a league, you'll get notifications about what's happening in the leagues you manage. These reach you as an in-app bell alert and a browser push (if you've enabled push) — there's no email for admin activity, so your inbox stays clear.
We deliberately keep admin notifications light. Rather than pinging you for every single submission or vote, we group the busiest activity into a few useful signals.
No per-player pings
For the four highest-volume events — invites accepted, invites declined, songs submitted, and votes submitted — you don't get a notification at all. The league page already shows who has submitted or voted, and the members page shows who has answered an invite, so a notification for each one would only add noise. You still get the full picture, without the flood.
Deadline warnings
If a round's submission or voting deadline is about 36 hours away and at least one player still hasn't acted, we'll send you a heads-up so you can nudge your league. You get one warning per deadline, and only when someone still needs to act — if everyone's already submitted or voted, there's nothing to warn about, so we stay quiet.
Other activity in leagues you run
A handful of events still notify you individually (or grouped into a short activity digest), because they're less frequent and worth knowing about on their own:
- When a player leaves the league
- When a player changes a submission they'd already made
- When someone joins the league
- When someone requests to join a league that needs approval
- When someone @mentions the League Admins (
@admin) in a league chat
Moderation and reports always reach you
If a player reports a comment or chat message in a league you run, you'll always get that alert. Report and moderation notifications are safety-critical, so they can't be muted — there's no toggle to turn them off, and they'll reach you regardless of your other settings. That's by design.
Browser push notifications
Browser push is a separate setting in the Push Notifications card. Click Enable and your browser will ask for permission. Once enabled, Music League can notify you about rounds, results, and comments even when the app isn't open.
A few things worth knowing:
- Push is per-browser and per-device. If you want notifications on your laptop and your phone, click Enable on both.
- If the status shows "Blocked by browser," your browser is blocking notifications at the site level and Music League can't re-ask. Open your browser's site settings for Music League, change Notifications from "Block" to "Allow" (or "Ask"), then reload the page and click Enable again.
- The Disable button turns push off for the current browser only. Other devices stay subscribed until you disable them there too.
Newsletter & Marketing
Below your notification cards there's a separate Newsletter & Marketing toggle. This controls promotional email only — news, tips, and offers from Music League. It's independent of the activity toggles above:
- Turning it off stops promotional emails but leaves your league activity emails (round openings, results, reminders, mentions) exactly as you set them.
- Turning off all your activity emails does not turn off marketing, and vice versa. They're separate switches, and so is the feedback-request switch below.
If you use the Unsubscribe button at the bottom of a marketing email, that flips only this Newsletter & Marketing switch — your league activity emails keep coming.
Whatever you choose here, account and security emails always reach you — password resets, email-address changes, account-unlock, and account-deletion confirmations. Those aren't marketing and can't be turned off.
Feedback requests
Once in a while we may email you a single question — how likely you'd be to recommend Music League to a friend — with a box to say why. It's one tap to answer, and you'll hear from us at most once every 90 days.
This has its own switch, independent of the two above:
- Unsubscribing from feedback requests stops the surveys and nothing else. Your round openings, results, reminders and mentions carry on exactly as they were, and so do any news and offers you've opted into.
- Turning off your activity emails, or your marketing emails, doesn't stop feedback requests — and unsubscribing from feedback requests doesn't stop either of those. Three separate switches.
Every feedback email carries its own unsubscribe link at the bottom, and your mail app's built-in Unsubscribe button on one of them flips only this switch.
Replies go to a real person, and we read them.
Email vs. in-app vs. push
For the player toggles, each switch controls all three channels for a given notification at once. If you turn off When voting opens for a round, you stop getting that as an email, you stop seeing it in the bell, and you stop getting a push for it.
League Admin notifications are in-app and push only — they never send email. So there's nothing to turn off in your inbox for admin activity; deadline warnings and other admin alerts arrive on the bell and, if enabled, as a browser push.
When the round schedule shifts
There's one deliberate exception to "each switch controls all three channels at once." When a League Admin changes a round's deadline in a way that shifts the rest of the schedule — moving the rounds that come after it — everyone playing in the league gets a single bell-only heads-up explaining that the dates moved and to check the league page. It arrives once per change (not once per shifted round), and it is the only notification that is intentionally in-app only for players: it never emails and never pushes, because the normal submit- and vote-reminders already carry the new deadlines to your inbox and phone. This explainer is always on — you'll see it on the bell even if you've turned off the "voting deadline changed" notifications.
A few notifications aren't user-configurable — they always reach you:
- League invitations — you'll always get the email when someone invites you.
- Replies from support — replies to feedback you submitted always reach your inbox.
- Moderation and reports — safety-critical alerts for League Admins always fire and can't be muted.
I turned notifications off but I'm still getting them
A few common causes:
- Another device is still subscribed. Push subscriptions are per-browser. Disable push on every browser and device where you previously enabled it.
- A message was already queued. If a notification was generated before you changed the setting, it may still arrive.
- Your browser has an old subscription cached. Click Disable in the Push Notifications card, clear the site's notification permission in your browser settings, then re-enable push if you want it back on.
- It's an always-on notification. Some notifications aren't covered by the toggles — invitations, support replies, and moderation or report alerts for League Admins. Those can't be turned off.
If none of that explains it, reach out to support with the notification you received and we'll take a look.