Siris XM today has paid a large sum of money for playing background music without paying the copyright owners any using the music in their background music business.

The record companies: Capitol Records LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recordings Inc, Warner Music Group and copyrights owner ABKCO will receive a share of $210 for the use of their copyrights within the USA up to a date in 2017. Thereafter Sirus will be required to negotiate and agree new licenses with each copyright holder.

This comes as quite a shock for an industry where businesses will only survive if their integrity is trusted by their customers and that the music they are playing is fully, and legally licensed for the use for which they sell it to their customers as part of their business service.

Will Sirus pass this cost to their clients remains to be seen but I would think it is doubtful considering their clients had already purchased services with licensing included (in certain circumstances).

The problem business clients have with organisations similar to Sirus is that to use their service proprietary equipment is needed to be purchased or leased over a period of time, so its not so easy to get out of a service contract if you have invested heavily in hardware.

Details of the Sirus XM service with proprietary hardware required to play their fixed radio channels is located here.

Shuffle and move features land on the Melody Pods Android background music player.

It sounds like a new dance trending. But no, it’s the two features added this week to the Melody Pods Android music layer.

Every one’s a shuffling

So, you have your music playlist playing in a rotation or a number of playlists playing in rotation in a schedule in your business.

But things get a little predictable when you hear the same track each day at the same time. You even get to know what track is next on the list if you hear the same playlist again and again.

Whilst it is straight forward to get your music changed whenever you wish at Melody Pods by simply pressing the ‘shuffle’ button you will be able to breath more life into that playlist that you still feel is right for your business.

Move tracks to a specific order of play.

Now, try doing this with your ipod for your gym sessions!

All the ipods I have ever used I have found to get your tracks in any particular order requires an in-depth knowledge of iTunes and how to sync a change across to an iPod, iPad or iPhone to then play in the order you need. You simply can’t do this in the device itself.

So, with this release of the Melody Pods Android app we have an ‘up’ button and a ‘down’ button which then enables you to change the order of the tracks you wish to play.

Not only that, your order can be saved to a playlist so you have your music, how you like, for every class you take.

So in browse view, the latest Android music player looks like this in a 7″ ‘phablet’ device. Cute and perfectly formed.

If you would like to talk to us about how we can create a collection of music ready to be placed in the background of your business please enter your details below and we will be pleased to work through your requirements.

Whilst your reception maybe busy with clients entering and leaving, it may be a similar situation with your broadband service.

With administration teams managing the operations, ordering stock supplies, sending files and documents to your accountant and having online dialogues with clients your broadband maybe very busy,

but the only time you will realise is when your streaming service takes a coffee break and stops playing because it can’t compete with the rest of the traffic on your network.

How do you fill the gaps between the music playing in your business if you use a streaming service?

Are you generous and offer your clients free WiFi? They will be browsing Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or other multimedia rich locations that will deluge your broadband with traffic as well.

This is why, whilst streaming services can be handy when you don’t have the budget for tablets to play music in your reception and (if your business is of this kind) your treatment rooms it will be a compromise to a business class download and play background music service.

With Melody Pods we offer both streaming and download and play service offerings.

We advise clients, if they don’t have the initial budget for tablets, to use the streaming service to get a feel for what music works for them in their environments (as long as their networks are up to streaming consistently all day).

Is offering your customers free WiFi killing your background music streaming service?

Once they are certain they have the right ambiance they can then invest in populating their business locations with tablets and get us to set up their music system to get the right music to the right parts of their business.

So why not talk to us today about how best you can get business class background music served in your

business that wont take a coffee break when things are busy, serve you with music in your receptions and serve different playlists of music in each of your treatment rooms.

Have you a Chrome OS laptop? Melody Pods is now available for you to use and download music for background use in your business.

The benefit of a Chrome OS laptop is that you will have a large hard drive so will be able to download a lot of music to play.

So much so you could potentially have enough music to never hear the same piece of music for the whole working week or longer if you wish.

From a laptop (depending on which hardware you are using) you may have additional benefits such as a digital audio output using USB or ethernet connectivity to a sound amplifier and speaker system running through a large business area.

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