Background Music Service for Business — Fully Licensed & Fully Managed
Stop juggling PRS applications, PPL forms, and playlist management. Moodby is the background music service that handles everything — licensing, curation, updates, and compliance — so you stream legally from day one with nothing to configure.
Licensing Fully Handled
PRS, PPL, ASCAP, BMI and all major collecting societies worldwide covered in every plan. No applications, no renewals, no surprise invoices
Works on Any Existing Device
No proprietary hardware required. Install Moodby on any smartphone, tablet, or media player already in your venue and start streaming in minutes
One Service, Every Venue Type
From a single-zone café to a 100-location hotel chain — the same background music service scales to any business size, with centralised control and per-zone independence
How it works
Licensed playlists to elevate any business
Moodby is not just a playlist tool — it's a complete commercial background music service. Curation, licensing, scheduling, zone management, and compliance are all handled within one platform. Every track in our 300+ station catalogue is cleared for commercial public performance worldwide, so every stream is legal the moment it starts — no setup required on the licensing side.
Moodby is not just a playlist tool — it's a complete commercial background music service. Curation, licensing, scheduling, zone management, and compliance are all handled within one platform. Every track in our 300+ station catalogue is cleared for commercial public performance worldwide, so every stream is legal the moment it starts — no setup required on the licensing side.
Licensed playlists to elevate any business
Small business
The simplest way for small businesses to stream music legally. Independent cafés, salons, shops, and studios get a complete background music service — licensed, curated, and running on any existing device — for one flat monthly price with no technical setup.
Medium-sized units
A background music service that grows with your brand. Multi-site restaurants, bar groups, gym chains, and retail operators get a single platform for all locations — zone-by-zone control, time-of-day scheduling, usage reporting, and automatic licensing compliance in one dashboard.
Enterprises
Enterprise-grade commercial music service for large operators. Manage 100+ locations from a single account, enforce brand-consistent audio across every site, and let licensing compliance run automatically — with custom enterprise pricing, flexible billing, and a dedicated account team.
Created to give companies
music‑licensing peace of mind
Created to give companies
music‑licensing peace of mind
Skip complicated fees—enjoy unlimited streaming using Moodby. One click, instant ambiance.
Created to give companies
music‑licensing peace of mind
Skip complicated fees—enjoy unlimited streaming using Moodby. One click, instant ambiance.
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
5000+
clients.
Worldwide
We manage the music so you can manage the business
Moodby is the background music service that manages itself. Licensing is automatic. Playlists update weekly. Scheduling runs without staff input. Stream seamless, high-quality music in any venue — online or offline — while you focus entirely on running and growing your business.
Playlists crafted by DJs
Professional music curators build every station in our service — matching genre, tempo, and mood to your specific business type, brand identity, season, and time of day. You never need to touch a playlist manually.
Constant updates
New tracks are added to the service every week by our curation team — so your background music stays current, your regulars always hear something fresh, and your venue always sounds like it cares about the details.
Multi‑location music control
Manage the entire music service across all your business locations and zones from a single account. Set permissions for staff, schedule zones independently, and monitor every stream — whether you have two venues or two hundred.
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
A background music service is a managed platform that provides businesses with legally licensed, professionally curated playlists for public playback. Unlike personal streaming, it includes commercial performance rights, handles licensing with collecting societies like PRS and PPL, and typically offers scheduling and multi-zone control. Moodby is a background music service covering all of these in one subscription.
When a business plays music publicly — in a café, shop, salon, gym, or any commercial venue — it is legally required to hold performance licences from music rights organisations. In the UK, this means PRS for Music (for songwriters) and PPL (for performers and labels). In the US, it means ASCAP and/or BMI. A background music service like Moodby bundles these licences into the monthly subscription, removing the need for businesses to apply separately.
PRS for Music represents the rights of songwriters, composers, and music publishers. PPL represents the rights of recording artists and record labels. Playing a commercially released track in a business setting triggers both rights simultaneously — which is why UK businesses need both licences. Moodby covers both within every subscription.
No. Moodby runs on any existing device — smartphone, tablet, laptop, or media player — connected to your venue's sound system. No proprietary hardware is required, and setup takes a matter of minutes.
Yes. Moodby's multi-location dashboard lets you manage every venue and every zone from a single account. You can set different playlists per zone, assign staff roles and access levels, and monitor all streams centrally — whether you have two locations or two hundred.
Personal streaming accounts are licensed for private use only. Using them in a commercial business setting — even a small one — is a copyright infringement that can result in enforcement action from PRS, PPL, or equivalent collecting societies. Moodby is fully licensed for commercial public performance from day one.
Every Moodby subscription includes: full commercial licensing (PRS, PPL, ASCAP, BMI and worldwide equivalents), access to 300+ curated stations, time-of-day scheduling, multi-zone and multi-location control, weekly playlist updates, staff access management, and online/offline streaming capability. Annual plans additionally include in-store messaging and a dedicated support manager.
Yes — Moodby offers a free trial with no credit card required. You get full access to the service and the complete station catalogue to evaluate in your venue before committing.
Yes. Moodby's scheduling tool lets you automate background music across the entire business day — setting different stations for morning, midday, and evening — without any manual input from staff during trading hours.
Any business that serves customers or employs staff in a shared environment benefits: cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels, retail stores, gyms, hair salons, beauty spas, dental clinics, offices, co-working spaces, airports, and more. Moodby has curated stations for every environment type.
Trusted by 5000+ businesses worldwide
The problem with how businesses have always handled music
What a background music service should actually be
That is exactly what Moodby is
We built Moodby because the existing options for business background music were all broken in the same way. Businesses could buy expensive proprietary hardware systems. They could try to navigate PRS and PPL applications themselves, pay multiple annual fees, and still not be sure they were fully covered. Or they could quietly play a personal streaming account and hope no one noticed — until they received a letter they couldn't ignore. None of these was a real service. They were workarounds.
Music is not decoration. It is a measurable component of the customer experience — influencing dwell time, purchase behaviour, perceived service quality, and the emotional memory customers carry with them after they leave. A proper background music service should handle every part of that: the curation, the licensing, the scheduling, the compliance, and the updates. Automatically. Continuously. Without requiring anything from the business owner beyond pressing play.
Our service covers PRS, PPL, ASCAP, BMI, and all major collecting societies worldwide within every subscription. Our curation team updates playlists weekly. Our scheduling system runs without staff input. Our platform works on any existing device — no proprietary hardware, no installation engineers, no capital expenditure. From a single-chair salon to a 100-location hotel chain, the service scales without complexity.
We built Moodby for business owners who know that the details matter — and who want a background music service that handles the details so they don't have to. No fine print. No PRS risks. No admin. Just the right music, in the right place, at the right time.
We built Moodby for business owners who know that the details matter — and who want a background music service that handles the details so they don't have to. No fine print. No PRS risks. No admin. Just the right music, in the right place, at the right time.
Moodby Manifesto — What a Background Music Service Should Actually Do
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