Our in-store background music service makes it simple to select, download and play music.
We are a great new way to serve the right music to each of your locations. With beautiful background music & a complete service that has a low total cost to deploy and run.
Great music selection
With thousands of pieces of music covering the key genres for background use in business, Melody Pods can create you a special music collection for your business today. Melody Pods’ music is selected from a range of professional artists who create music specifically for licensing for business use.
We will set everything up for you to run yourself or we can manage the system for you, giving you regular updates of new music.
We will work with you to understand the sound that evokes the right moods in your clients and supports your business objectives.
Using sound branding models from the leading research we have devised our own methodology to identify music styles for defined personalities across the complete sales cycle to enhance the customer experience.
From using tempo to increase throughput to sound, melody and instrument use to create a blueprint for music that works in your business.
Check out samples of our music library now: click here.
Setup & managed for you
There are more ways that one to use music in your business with Melody Pods. Creating playlists to select manually can work where customers want choice, or your music matches each personal service you offer clients.
But also, playlists can be set to play at particular times of the day and scheduled to play automatically across a seven day calendar so the right music plays at the right time of day.
Taking control means you can choose to change the music any time you wish.
Simply login, and change music within playlists easily. Adjust timings on a playlist schedule or replace an overhead message across the whole week with one change.
The system will then send the change to all the required devices connected.
Easy download & play or stream
Melody Pods offers a number of ways to connect and play music.
From a simple to connect online radio streaming service where you can choose playlists to play manually, to downloaded music.
Play music locally across one, or multiple locations or different locations within your business such as a hotel with a gym, restaurant and spa.
So with Melody Pods your music can be downloaded to your locations to play, so that you aren’t reliant on a consistent bandwidth across the Internet at all times to keep that music playing.
No extra licenses to pay
Our apps are free to download so within minutes you can be downloading and playing Melody Pods’ music and say goodbye to future costly licensing bills.
Our music is sourced from musicians that have given us the legal right internationally to license their music copyright and recordings with no additional royalty societies involved.
They have not signed these pieces of music across to other societies to collect for royalties for them. Simple.
Low cost to buy zero maintenance hardware, no lock in.
Using existing PCs or laptops to play from a browser can’t be cheaper to get you going.
For more advanced features, plug in a tablet, Android or IOS again enables you to use existing technology you may have, or invest at low cost (with Android) to provide a dedicated machine to play and manage you music playing.
With Melody Pods technologies, you aren’t having to commit to technology and hardware that locks you in to a music service provider.
The up-front cost of purchasing hardware to connect to a music service impacts on the return of investment you can achieve over the first year or two of a service.
So using highly available and mature technologies that are easy to purchase and require zero maintenance, simple and fast to replace means your business time is not lost on over complicating non core activities.
Melody Pods is easy to connect and uses technology that your local sound system installation and support contractor will be comfortable to work with.
Schedule your music choices by time of day and day of week
Create Schedules for all the different weekly cycles your businesses and zones have. Some may be influenced by the working day whilst others more influenced by day and night for example. Apply your playlists across your working week. Now you are ready to serve up your music!
Apply your music playlists to a schedule that defines your sound branding by time across a seven day rotating period.
Those zones and locations you want to auto play your music selections can now be set with their own unique access keys to be locked into the schedule and any changes you make on the fly. You may only need one schedule but for diverse businesses you will likely need more than one schedule to fit to various zones and locations.
Schedule your overhead messages and adverts across your locations
Managing your audio messages with Melody Pods means you have complete control over what messages play, when they play and where they play.
Manage your sales and service messages across every location, using different messages for different zones, with changes updated in minutes.
With our playlist and scheduling system you can add or change a message at the same time of day across the whole week for example within seconds, and have the update sent to each device within minutes.
Now you have your music defined within playlists and across the working week you can now set out what schedule works for what part of your business.set locations and zones to 7 day music schedule.
Connect multiple zones & locations using low cost, no lock-in hardware.
Connecting multiple locations and zones can often mean compromise with dated batch download technology, or having to accept less reliable streaming services.
Let your teams have a little music choice, or provide them with a complete hands off music service.
But with Melody Pods’ technology for Android and IOS we can cover a number of key ways to get music delivered to your locations.
Where you have a large network you want to manage centrally and provide a hands off solution in the locations, Android mini PC products work very well.
With products that have analogue out sockets you can connect through to each location’s overhead speakers and tee off to telephony systems for music on hold systems as well.
Talk to us today about how we can help design and implement a fully managed music network today.
