Background music for pubs and bars
You have been in the wrong room. You just could not say why.
It was the music.
Nobody walks out and tells you the playlist was wrong. They say it felt flat, or they were not in the mood, or they will get the next one somewhere else. Nine out of ten people have left a venue over the music, or vowed never to go back - and almost none of them said so on the way past the bar.
Illustrative - AI generated, not photographs of real customers.
Licensed background music for Australian pubs, bars, clubs, cafes and restaurants. Real people build the channels - and the same people answer the email.
The numbers
Ninety out of a hundred have left over the music, or sworn never to come back.
Ninety who left or never came back Ten who stayed
Ninety per cent of people say bad music has made them leave a venue, or vow never to go back. Ninety-seven per cent of venues already know their customers want to hear music. Only twenty-seven per cent say the music in their venue actually created a nice atmosphere. The distance between that second number and that third one is the whole opportunity, and it is sitting in your room tonight.
more sales at venues with music than at venues without.
OneMusic Hospitality, Presto Report
more weekday sales in pubs with music playing.
Independent hospitality research
Nobody on that list filled in a form on the way out. They just did not come back.
The second it lands
The song they already know is the song that makes them stay.
There is a half-second when a track comes on and somebody recognises it. Shoulders drop. They settle in. They order another one. That is not a taste thing, it is a belonging thing - a room full of songs nobody knows is a room full of people who feel like guests. So we build our channels out of the songs people already love, every commercial radio hit, and we deliberately leave out the obscure stuff that makes a person feel out of place. The variety is huge, so nobody gets sick of it.
The flow is so natural you will never feel the need to skip a track.
Three people just looked up
Dayparting, five PM to close
A rooftop bar over the Harbour Bridge, and the music moving with the light.
Morning is light and uplifting. The midday rush gets energy. Then as night falls it rolls into smooth cocktail and dance music - the perfect soundtrack to the view. More patrons. Longer stays. More drinks sold.
9:00 PM SMOOTH COCKTAIL AND DANCE
Illustrative - AI generated, not photographs of real customers. The hours are the real ones we set with you.
Nobody behind the bar touches a thing. The channels change themselves at the times we set with you, and a real person chose every one of them.
Human-curated music channels
Channels, not playlists. Every one of them built by a person.
An algorithm optimises for the next click. A music director builds for the next two hours in a room they have stood in. Ours are professionals, they are Australian, and they are the reason the flow feels right rather than nearly right.
- Professional music directors, not an algorithm.
- Every commercial radio hit - the songs people already know.
- Huge variety, so there is no fatigue across a long shift.
- Family friendly - every track free of swearing and explicit lyrics.
- Broadcast-quality processing for consistent volume, with no jarring jumps between tracks.
- Australian owned, operated and human-curated.
One venue, one day - the run sheet a music director writes for it
Doors
Light and uplifting, nothing anybody has to think about.
Mid-morning
Still easy, a bit more colour in it.
The rush
Energetic. The room is loud and the music holds the pace.
The flat bit
The one hour that decides whether the afternoon crowd stays.
Do not let 3pm drop. Warm, familiar, nothing clever - that hour is where you lose the afternoon. A note on the run sheet, in the music director's own hand
Knock-off
The lift. The songs everybody knows, and the first round.
The night
Upbeat, familiar, built for a full room.
Late and loose
The singalongs. The ones people put their arms around each other for.
Close
It winds the room down for you, so your staff do not have to.
11:00 PM - late and loose
Managed background music
It changes itself, and a person chose every change.
We sit down with you once, work out what your room does at each hour, and set the schedule to match. After that the channels change themselves at the times we agreed. Nobody behind the bar touches it, nobody forgets, and it is the same on a Tuesday as it is on a Saturday.
automatic channel changes in the day logged here.
actions required from your staff.
Want it different next month? Tell us. We change it at our end.
3:00 PM - the channel changed itself an hour ago and nobody noticed
The on-site music player
The internet drops out. The music does not.
A compact solid-state player goes in at the venue, and it holds the music. If the line goes down mid-Saturday the room never hears it. One-off to install, then it looks after itself.
Everything normal. Now cut the line and watch what the room does.
Two zones included
The front bar and the beer garden run different music at the same time. Most providers charge you for every zone. A third zone here is a small add-on.
The player
Compact, solid-state, installed and set up for you. It is the reason a dropped line is your problem for ten minutes and never the room's.
AI song search
A machine can fetch. It cannot choose.
Nobody remembers the title. They remember the film, or the year, or the feeling. So you can search for it that way now - and the machine that goes and gets it is a completely different machine from the one that picks what the room hears.
- What a Wonderful WorldLouis Armstrong
- Nowhere to RunMartha and the Vandellas
- I Get AroundThe Beach Boys
- Game of LoveWayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Illustration - the real list comes from your venue's own library.
The machine we do not use
An algorithm that chooses
It picks the next song for your room based on what got clicked somewhere else. It has never stood in your bar at three in the afternoon. That is the machine we do not use, and never will.
The machine we do use
AI that fetches
Somebody asks for a song in plain English and it goes and finds it. It does not decide anything. A person still built the channel it lands in.
Requests from their own phone
A customer picks the next song from where they are sitting, and your staff keep full control of what is playable - so nothing goes on that you would not have put on yourself.
Playing Across the Country
A live national feed of what is going off in other venues right now. Your room, plugged into every other room.
Music licensing for Australian venues
The app on your phone is not licensed to play in your bar.
Right now there is a good chance it is somebody's own phone on the back bar, plugged into the aux, on a personal account. Personal accounts like Spotify and Amazon Music are against their own terms of service to play in public, however good the playlist is. eJukebox is licensed for business. The music in your room is on the right side of the law and nobody there has to think about it again.
How music licensing works for an Australian venue - the two licences, which one is yours, and what changes when you leave a personal streaming account.
MusicBot Pty Ltd - Australian owned, operated and human-curated.
There is a brother site.
The same team put the screen in the corner to work as well - a guest photo wall, promo slides and announcements, on the TV you already own. Same room, same people.
Put it in for thirty days and listen to the room.
The complete system installed, hardware and installation covered, and nothing to pay while you listen. Tell us three things and we will build the channels around your room before we turn up.
- How many rooms are you filling with sound?
- What is playing in them now?
- When are your busy hours?
A person reads every enquiry - normally back the same day.