100% royalty-free
Background music for cafés and restaurants without OneMusic fees
One flat price per zone, no floor-area or seat-count calculations. Compliance certificate included.
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Skip the extra steps — one subscription covers your music and your licensing. No separate OneMusic form, no annual paperwork to redo, no per-seat maths. Just royalty-free music your venue actually sounds good with.
Tailored to you.
Curated by pros.
350+ playlists built by real DJs for real venues — quiet acoustic for the morning coffee run, warmer background restaurant music through service, something with more lift for Friday night.
Control with ease.
Stay legal.
Swap out a personal Spotify or Apple Music account for something built for business — fully cleared for commercial use, fully yours to manage from the app.
Your Proof of Compliance
In New Zealand, playing music in a venue open to the public normally means a OneMusic licence. With Moodby, no separate OneMusic contract is required for the music in our catalogue: it is royalty-free and cleared for commercial use. We issue a compliance certificate automatically — sent to your account the moment you subscribe — so you can show OneMusic or any other body that your venue is covered.
No extra gear needed.
Works with any setup.
Works with your existing setup – plug into your sound system and play.
Moodby freed me from licensing headaches and generic playlists. It's a true 'set-and-forget' system that perfectly shapes our atmosphere. A game-changer for ambiance and peace of mind.
Moodby just works.
Henry Tadevosyan
Anais Restaurant, Australia
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Simple pricing per zone*. Everything included.
No add-ons. One plan includes the full catalog + all features — regardless of venue size.
*A zone is one independent stream (e.g., dining room, bar, lobby). Small café — 1 zone; restaurant + bar — 2 zones; hotel (lobby + restaurant + gym) — 3 zones.
FAQ
Yes — if you play music in a space customers can hear, that is a public performance, and in New Zealand it is normally covered by a OneMusic licence (the joint scheme run by APRA AMCOS NZ and Recorded Music NZ). The exception is music that is already cleared for commercial use. Moodby's catalogue is royalty-free and cleared, so no separate OneMusic contract is required for the music you play from us.
Not for the music in Moodby's catalog. The tracks are royalty-free, so the licence Moodby provides covers what a OneMusic licence would otherwise be required for. If you play other music in your store, such as radio or live performances, you'd need to check separately whether a licence applies.
Not legally. Consumer streaming accounts — Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube — are licensed for personal use only; their own terms exclude playing them in a business. Moodby is built for commercial use, which is the difference that matters if you are ever asked.
It changes through the day, which is the part a fixed playlist gets wrong. Quieter acoustic and instrumental sets work for the morning trade, something warmer and mid-tempo through lunch and dinner service, more energy late. Moodby has 350+ stations built for exactly that, and you can schedule the switch instead of doing it by hand.
One zone is one independent stream. A small café is one zone. A restaurant with a separate bar is two, if you want different music in each. A venue with a dining room, a bar and a terrace is three. If the same music plays everywhere, that is one zone no matter how big the room is.
Yes — 5 days free, no card required. You can set up your venue and try the stations through your own speakers before you decide.