Playing music in a public place
If you own or public space is responsible for a restaurant, cafe, bar, hotel or other and play music files, you can do so either with:
(A) public radio (AM / FM) or
(B) or CD music library or
(C) or Internet radio
(D) Jukeboxes
Whatever the technology used, you are required to have a public license to play music, is the law. The fee you pay for the license, however, dependingThe technology you use. In Britain, the licenses are issued PPL, formerly known as the Phonographic Performance Limited.
If you are), using the radio (AM / FM, the technique is quite simple, just set up a receiver and a set of speakers in your place and you start it. Similarly, if you play your CDs.
If you are) and iTunes to play music from your music library (for example, you can connect to connect a portable device (eg iPod) to yourSpeaker system or you may also have a dedicated computer or media center (eg, Boxee, Apple TV) for your speakers. This has the potential to appeal to your customers, as it gives the opportunity to play the song title / artist when you connect your computer to a TV display name. If you prefer, you can do, and your customers in an interactive way, which allows requests for specific songs, or using iTunes tracks Spotify DJ to do together. This will obviously only allow customers to interact with a device compatible with the system (for example, if you use iTunes or Spotify, the user of the remote control or Spotify app app on your iPhone or iPod Touch should be added to the playlist). This may seem restrictive, but can be a good way to attract and retain certain types of customers for your business.
If you have a TV screen connected to the audio system, you will also want to ensure that the correct display of track information. If yourMusic library is missing this information or the album cover, it would be from this experience for your customers. There are simple ways to solve this problem though. For example, there are software tools that allows you to automatically update the music library with the correct song information and album art in iTunes right.
If not all the problems, but does not want to do things digitally, there's always internet radio. This may be yourlocal radio, if Internet services such as Last.fm or registered These options require much less maintenance of power but are less invasive, than if you had an interactive library.
If you want to be customer engagement and low maintenance, however, a juke-box trade to be the ideal solution. Devices such as juke-box juke-box or with simple background music.
The royalties to PPL jukebox are designed for easy and jukeboxjuke-box with the institutions for music, the fee for the latter should be higher. The license fees PPL-jukebox for technologies that do not (eg, radio, or a library of CDs and Internet radio) for all items subject to the same and therefore have identical costs. The fees, however, depends on the location where the recordings can be heard.
