A clear licence
Understand which music, spaces and uses the offer covers, with relevant country information alongside it.
Background music for business
Music for veterinary reception. Room for conversation.
In veterinary reception, someone may be checking in with a carrier while another owner collects their animal and asks about the next visit. Choose music around those exchanges. OpenHours offers original instrumental programmes you can compare for the public reception area; the veterinary team decides where music belongs and when to pause it. These are ordinary background-music choices, not music therapy or programmes tested for animal care.
See pricing ↗Plans for one venue in these countries: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States. A card is required for the trial; cancel any time. Conditions for each country
Weekly schedules with special datesOriginal music, licensed for businessOne plan per venue
The music and the licence, together
Good music.
Less to worry about.
Your business needs the right atmosphere and a clear way to use the soundtrack. The catalogue and its business licence come together, with the scope and cost explained before you subscribe.
How simple licensing works ↗Plans available in: Australia · New Zealand · United Kingdom · United States
A price you can see
One plan per venue, monthly or yearly, with the price shown before you sign up. No separate licence for every song or play.
A$19.99 · NZ$24.99 · £9.99 · $14.99 / month
See pricing ↗A schedule that runs the day
Plan opening, busy hours and wind-down once. Special dates handle holidays and closures, and gap music covers unscheduled time.
Find your kind of sound
Compare three reception sounds
Explore stations and collections for your space. Listen to public samples here; full business playback requires the applicable account access and licence.
Explore the station concepts. Audio previews will appear as recordings are ready.
Soft focus
Ambient · Instrumental
First light
Acoustic · Instrumental
The piano room
Piano · Instrumental
A rhythm for the working day
Match the moment, not just the genre.
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Arrivals with owners and animals
Compare Soft focus for a calmer ambient texture with First light for warmer acoustic detail. Start with one programme in the owner-facing reception area. Check the desk, entrance and waiting seats with a colleague before using it during arrivals. A pleasant sample on headphones does not establish that the same sound works throughout your reception.
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Checking in and collecting an animal
Appointments, collection details and the next visit need space in the conversation. Keep the playback controls within reach of the person at reception. If they have to compete with the music, lower it or pause it. Increasing the volume to cover barking, a door or a busy moment can make the exchange harder to hear; music is not a way to resolve those interruptions.
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A doorway into another room
Reception music can carry through an open consultation-room door or into an adjoining animal area. Walk that boundary with the team and decide which spaces should hear the programme at all. Do not assume that a reception choice belongs in consultations, kennels or treatment rooms. If one speaker system reaches several spaces, one browser stream cannot set a different programme for each room.
Save a daily schedule in your account. The venue player follows it while the browser stays open and your device stays awake.
Sketch your day’s music ↗Make it work in your space
Choose music for the way you actually operate.
Compare texture before writing a timetable
Soft focus is ambient, First light is acoustic and The piano room is piano-led. Use their public samples to compare the texture, then review the authorized programme in the actual reception setting. The samples are finite excerpts, not a complete listening assessment or permission to play music for clients. None of these programmes is offered as an animal-calming intervention.
Make quiet periods an explicit choice
A gap between appointments does not need a more noticeable soundtrack. Decide whether reception should keep the same low background, use a different programme or pause. The public day planner lets you draft editable periods using the related programmes; its suggested hours are a starting point, not your clinic’s appointment timetable or a veterinary protocol.
Leave the next receptionist a usable handover
Note the current programme, the device and the usual pause control, along with any room where the team has chosen silence. Saved schedules need an open, awake, connected playback browser. Leave that device available to the next person rather than assuming music will continue after the browser closes. A handover note should describe operation, without putting client or animal records into the music plan.
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A few useful answers
Questions about music in veterinary reception
Is this music therapy for animals?
No. These are instrumental background programmes for reception. OpenHours does not claim that they reduce an animal’s stress, change behaviour or support treatment. Decisions about sound in animal care belong to the veterinary team; an ordinary reception programme does not replace that judgement.
Should I choose ambient, acoustic or piano?
Compare Soft focus if you want an ambient texture, First light if acoustic detail better matches reception, and The piano room if you prefer piano. Keep the same listening position when comparing samples. Choose by the sound and the needs of the reception desk, rather than assuming a genre is suitable for a species.
Can I play different music in reception and consultation rooms?
A single browser stream plays one programme. It does not provide independent room programmes or automatic speaker-zone control. Check what your existing speakers actually cover and let the veterinary team decide whether adjoining rooms should hear reception music. Do not plan separate room playback around a feature that is not present.
What if the music gets in the way of a conversation?
Lower it or pause it at the source. Check the exchange from the visitor’s side of the desk as well as the receptionist’s. Background music does not make a conversation private and should not be used to mask details that need a more suitable place to discuss.
Are the samples enough to start using music in the clinic?
The public player is for comparing finite samples. To check venue use, create an account, enter the actual country of the premises and review the applicable private offer and catalogue conditions. Selecting English, Spanish or French changes the page language; it does not choose a country offer.
Can the team use these pages in another language?
The reception advice, sample controls and account entry are available in English, Spanish and French. The private player, music library and commercial documents currently use English. Check that the person taking over playback can use those controls before making them responsible for the reception device.
What does royalty-free business music mean here?
Our direct licence includes the covered catalogue and business uses in your subscription, without a separate royalty invoice from us for every covered track or play. It does not mean unrestricted use or automatically remove local requirements. Your country offer explains its scope before purchase.
How much does it cost?
Each plan covers one venue and one stream, billed monthly or yearly, and starts with a 7-day free trial. The pricing page lists the price for each country before you sign up.
Can I use a preview in my business now?
No. Published samples are for listening on this website while you assess the sound. They do not grant venue-playback or redistribution rights. Playing music in your business needs an active plan.
Is the service limited to the language I’m browsing in?
No. Your preferred language, the country where music plays and the type of use are separate. We are building for businesses globally and reviewing local offers as they become ready. Tell us your location and needs in the enquiry form.
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