PRS increases prices for small businesses who are I trouble as it is.
A typical cafe is now charged £600 per year!
Setting up a music sound system on a budget.
Choose a playlist for your Melody Pods background music radio streaming service
Released this week are new features that help you manage your background music radio more effectively.
From now on you can choose to play any of your created playlists in your account. So you can create different collections of music to match the time of the day for example.
Or you can create playlists specifically for where you are playing your radio streaming and create playlists for other areas of your business where you are using the download and play Melody Pods music player.
Additionally each track is identified by the track title and the album name so that if you find tracks you want to remove from a radio streaming playlist you can go back into your playlist manager view and remove them.
Background music radio streaming is a great way to get up and running simply and quickly. You may choose at a later date to get a tablet and download the music so you aren’t at risk of busy or congested networks to play your music all day. With the cost of a tablet included in a return on investment of less than a year against traditional music licensing methods it makes a lot of sense.
Talk to us today about how Melody Pods can create you a music playlist for your business.
Sirus pays $210 for unlicensed background music
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.
Background music player new features: shuffle and move
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.
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