# How to make a mystery drop for your fans Fans and creators · https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-mystery-drop · Updated 2026-11-09 Picture your closest fans, a few hundred people in your Discord, each holding an alarm they can't see inside. All they know is that you made it and something is coming. Then their phones ring together, the curtain opens, and it's your new album, or a secret link to hear it a day before anyone else. If you make music, that's a mystery drop in LFG Alarm, a social alarm clock for iPhone, Android and lfg.gm in a browser. ## What a mystery alarm is A mystery alarm hides what's inside until it rings. Fans who join see a curtain where the name, wallpaper, sound and your note would be. They can see that you made it and how many others are waiting. If you also switch on **Hide the trigger too?**, they don't know when or why it will ring, or where its link goes. Mystery alarms are friends alarms, never public ones, so they don't show in Discover, where anyone can browse public alarms. That's what makes them right for your inner circle: you share the link where your real fans already are. ## Two ways to make one **Ring when the track goes live.** Make a drop alarm on your own SoundCloud profile, so it rings the moment your new track is public. Upload it as private first, and switch it to public, or schedule the release, when you're ready. Fans hear it the minute it's out, with **Play the drop** to play it right there. **Ring at a time you choose, with a secret link.** Make a time alarm for your release moment. On SoundCloud, upload the track as private and copy its secret link from **Share**. Only people with that link can hear it. Paste it as the alarm's **Call to action link**, the link that opens when someone answers the ring, and switch on **Hide the trigger too?** so the link stays out of sight until then. When it rings, your fans tap through to an early listen nobody else has. The link can be anything you like: the private track, a pre-save page, a merch drop, a ticket sale. ## Set it up 1. **Make the alarm,** a drop alarm on your profile or a time alarm, and give it a look in the studio. Fans won't see it until it rings, so make the reveal worth it. 2. **Turn on Make it social and pick Friends.** Under **How people get in**, keep **Anyone with the link rides**, so any fan you send it to can join. 3. **Switch on Keep it a surprise,** and **Hide the trigger too?** if you want the time kept secret as well. 4. **Write your Keeper's note,** the message pinned on the alarm. On a mystery it stays behind the curtain too, so make it part of the reveal: "You were first. Thank you for waiting." 5. **Copy the alarm's link** and post it in your Discord, your close friends story or your mailing list, with your tease in the post itself: "Something I've been sitting on for a year. Tap this." The link looks like `lfg.gm/a/`. The surprise locks once fans join, so they always get the mystery they signed up for. You can still change a time alarm's time, and riders are told. ## Make the reveal land - **Post the link days ahead.** The alarm can only ring phones that joined, and a growing count of who's waiting is something to post about. - **Give it a time people can be there,** like the evening, not 3am, unless 3am is the point. - **Treat it as a surprise, not a vault.** The curtain keeps the reveal for the ring, but a fan's phone holds the alarm so it can ring offline. If the early listen is for the inner circle only, use SoundCloud's **Reset secret link** once the track is public, so old copies stop working. ## Ask your AI to set it up If you use an AI app such as Claude or ChatGPT with the LFG Alarm connector, it can make the alarm and hand you the link. **Try this.** Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or another AI agent that has the LFG Alarm connector (https://mcp.lfg.gm), not into the LFG Alarm app. The person needs the LFG Alarm app on their phone. > Make a mystery alarm for my fans for Friday at 8pm, friends only so anyone with the link can join, with this link when it rings: [your SoundCloud secret link]. Keep it a surprise, hide when it rings too, and give me the link to post in my Discord. Why it works: It gives the time, who can join, the link to open and how much to hide, which is everything the alarm needs. Connect LFG Alarm to your AI app first: see [AI agents](https://lfg.gm/agents). ## Questions ### Why can't a mystery alarm be public? A public alarm can reach anyone, and nobody on it could see what it was before it rang. Keeping mysteries to friends alarms means everyone on one got the link from someone they know. For a release every fan can find, use a public drop alarm. See [ringing every fan when your track drops](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-artist-drop-alarm). ### What do fans see before it rings? A curtain, your name, how many are waiting and what it's waiting for. With **Hide the trigger too?** on, they don't see when it rings or where its link goes either. ### Do fans need SoundCloud? No. The track plays in LFG Alarm, and a secret link opens in their browser. ### Can I make one for my crew only? Yes. Under **How people get in**, pick **I approve each one** and add people by username or email instead. ## Sources and further reading - [SoundCloud Help: Sharing a private track or playlist](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003450427-Sharing-a-private-track-or-playlist-within-SoundCloud) - [SoundCloud Help: Schedule a release date](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055603414-Schedule-a-Release-Date) - [Sharing and reach: private, friends and public alarms](https://lfg.gm/wiki/sharing-and-reach) - [How LFG Alarm works with SoundCloud](https://lfg.gm/lfg-alarm-with-soundcloud) - [Getting fans to your listening party or show](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-listening-party-alarm) LFG Alarm is not affiliated with SoundCloud. ## Keep exploring - [KST to your time: convert a Seoul drop and set the alarm](https://lfg.gm/kst-to-my-time.md): Convert any Seoul drop time to yours and ring the whole fan chat at once. - [How to get an alarm when someone posts on X](https://lfg.gm/alarm-when-someone-posts.md): Describe the post you are waiting for; Rocco rings you when it lands. - [Ticket drop alerts, sneaker drop alerts and restock alerts that ring](https://lfg.gm/drop-and-restock-alerts.md): Ring your phone, and your whole group’s, before a ticket on-sale or sneaker release, when a brand posts the announcement, or when your restock monitor fires. - [How creators can catch a trend before it peaks](https://lfg.gm/creator-trend-alarms.md): Rocco watches X, YouTube and Twitch, and Zapier or Make rings you only when a topic shows up across several sources, so you make the reaction video first. - [How to get an alarm when an artist drops new music on SoundCloud](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-new-release-alarm.md): Tell Rocco the artist or paste their SoundCloud link, and he rings you the minute a new track or album goes up, ready to play right away, credited to the artist. - [For artists: ring every fan the moment your SoundCloud track drops](https://lfg.gm/soundcloud-artist-drop-alarm.md): Make a public drop alarm on your own SoundCloud profile, put its link in your bio, and every fan who joins rings together when the track goes live, with your note on it. ## About LFG Alarm LFG Alarm is a social alarm clock for iPhone, iPad and Android. It rings for times and for moments (a post on X, a stream going live, a token price, a wallet buying, an event starting), and one shared link makes every phone that joined ring together. Rocco, the cat inside the app, keeps watch and wakes you up. - Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gm.lfg.app - Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821089085 - Use it from an AI agent: add the MCP server https://mcp.lfg.gm as a connector, then ask in plain words. - Every page for agents: https://lfg.gm/llms.txt