Music needs to be licensed via the South African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) unless the music you are playing is not licensed to SAMRO for performing royalty collection. For most music you hear on a CD or on the radio you can assume it is either licensed directly to SAMRO or they collect for artists signed to other collection agencies in other countries and use SAMRO specifically for collection in South Africa. SAMRO is the only performing rights society in South Africa which makes things easy to compare to our service.
For example, a single small restaurant can pay as much as a three to four thousand Rand per annum for the rights to play any music, either from the radio or from CDs or an mp3 player connected to a hi-fi or a mobile device playing music. Added to this you have a need to purchase a rotation of CDs for use each month.
With Melody Pods we not only provide the supply of a regular rotation of music to your business but also include the license in the monthly fee so there is no need to pay anyone else any additional costly licenses per month. As long as you use our royalty free music you are free from paying any performing rights licensing collection agency any additional licensing fee. You simply do not need to pay for what you are not using.