Music guides
A little know-how. A better atmosphere.
Practical ideas for choosing music, planning the day and finding a sound that fits your business.
A better everyday atmosphere
Choose background music for your business
Choose background music that suits your business, with a practical checklist for sound, licensing, total cost and everyday use.
Give your day a rhythm
Plan music through the day
Plan background music around your business hours, choose stations for each period and turn a daily draft into a practical weekly venue schedule.
Choose what gets heard
Vocals or instrumental?
Decide whether lyrics fit your business soundtrack. Compare speech, task and audience needs, then hear instrumental examples for cafés, offices and reception.
Know what happens next
Stations or ordered collections
Understand continuous station playback and finite ordered collections in Open Hours. Choose the right option for a long shift, a selected track or a scheduled slot.
Listen from the room
Set music around conversation
Set business background music around normal conversation. Check customer seats, service points and speaker positions, then revisit the level during a quiet and busy period.
Keep the week, change the date
Plan music for special dates
Use a special-date override for different music or a closure in Open Hours. Understand venue timezones, whole-day rules, drafts, overnight carry and saved playback.
Daily operation · Staff handover
Music at shift handover
Check the playing device, programme, saved-schedule mode and temporary changes at staff handover. Keep a short music note the next operator can use.
Daily operation · Playback recovery
Recover venue playback
Distinguish paused music, a finished collection and scheduled silence from a playback fault. Check the speaker path and use the right Open Hours recovery control.
Daily operation · Musical variety
Check repeated music
Check whether a repeated song comes from the programme, a restarted collection or similar sounds. Keep a short shift note and choose the next useful change.
Choosing a service · Internet outages
Music during an internet outage
Check local storage, the actual playback device and outage limits before choosing business music. Understand why a streaming buffer is not an offline programme.
Keep exploring.
Your business
Explore music for cafés, gyms, salons, shops, hotels and more. Find your business’s sound and discover our approach to simple licensing.
Music
Explore original background music for business. Hear station samples, compare genres and energy, then save your favourites and schedule music in your account.
Compare options
Understand the choices behind a business soundtrack, from the catalogue you want to the way you use it.
Country coverage
Understand Open Hours background music coverage country by country, then review the applicable offer for your venue.