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Tunelay
Restaurant interior in the evening: wooden tables, brick walls and strings of warm bulbs

Background music for hospitality and retail

The right music for every hour of your business

Tunelay plays curated background music in your café, restaurant, spa or shop — scheduled by time of day, cached on the device so it keeps playing offline, and managed for every location from one calm dashboard.

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Early access. We are onboarding a small number of venues first.

Platforms

  • Android tablets· Available
  • Windows PCs· Available
  • iOS (iPad)· Coming soon
  • Linux· Coming soon
Illustrative interface with demo data — not a real customer.

Illustrative stock photo — not a Tunelay customer. Photo: Diego Arenas de Rodrigo / Unsplash

Listen to the atmospheres

Moods built for real venues

Each mood is a curated playlist, approved track by track by our team, and tuned for a particular moment in a venue’s day.

Preview clips are added once their promotional rights are documented.

Morning Coffee

Warm acoustic guitar, soft piano and brushed drums for the first espresso of the day.

  • Acoustic
  • Light jazz

Samples coming soon

Calm Spa

Slow, even instrumentals with no sudden peaks — made for long treatments.

  • Ambient
  • Instrumental

Samples coming soon

Evening Lounge

Deeper grooves and mellow keys as the lights go down.

  • Lounge
  • Downtempo

Samples coming soon

Boutique Energy

Bright, confident rhythms that keep a shop floor moving without shouting.

  • Indie pop
  • Nu-disco

Samples coming soon

Soft Dining

Unobtrusive jazz and bossa that leaves room for conversation at the table.

  • Jazz
  • Bossa nova

Samples coming soon

Focus

Steady, low-distraction instrumentals for laptop afternoons.

  • Lo-fi
  • Instrumental

Samples coming soon

How it works

Three steps from silence to the right sound

No technician, no new hardware. Tunelay runs on the Android tablet or Windows PC you already use.

  1. 1

    Choose your atmosphere

    Pick moods for morning, lunch and evening, or start from a ready-made schedule for your type of venue.

  2. 2

    Pair a player with a code

    Install the player, read the six-digit code on its screen and type it into your dashboard. The player is linked to the right location in a couple of minutes.

  3. 3

    Schedule it and let it play

    Music downloads to the device in advance and follows your schedule — even when the internet drops.

Try the interactive pairing demo

What you get

Quiet technology that keeps the room sounding right

Everything a busy manager needs to stop thinking about music, and nothing that gets in the way of service.

Made for your kind of place

Different venues, different days

A café at 8 a.m. and a spa at 4 p.m. need very different sound. Find the setup that fits yours.

More venue types — salons, hotels, gyms, bakeries, bars — are coming to this site soon.

Illustrative stock photos (Unsplash), not Tunelay customers. Photos: Henry Williams, Yanhao Fang, Dominik Neuner, Jie Yeu Teoh.

A day in sound

Your music follows the rhythm of the day

Set it once. The player changes mood on time, with a gentle crossfade, and goes quiet when you close.

Warmly lit café bar with a long counter, speakers and shelves of records at the back
Illustrative stock photo — not a Tunelay customer. Photo: Mạnh Ngô / Unsplash

  1. Opening

    Morning Coffee

    Acoustic and light — awake, never loud.

  2. Lunch

    Soft Dining

    A little more pace for a full room, still leaving space for talk.

  3. Afternoon

    Focus

    Steady instrumentals for guests who stay a while.

  4. Evening

    Evening Lounge

    Warmer and deeper as the day winds down.

  5. Closed

    Silence

    A ten-second fade-out at closing time. Nothing plays until you open again.

Times are an example — you set your own.

The product

A dashboard for managers, a player for the counter

These are illustrative screens of the Tunelay interface with demo data.

Illustrative interface with demo data — not a real customer.

For groups and chains

Six venues, one calm overview

When you run several places, the hard part is knowing what is actually happening in each of them. Tunelay shows every location on one screen.

  • One weekly schedule for the whole group, with exceptions per location or per date
  • Online/offline status, last check-in and now playing for every player
  • Every staff action — pause, skip, volume, "Play anyway" — recorded in the history
  • Per-location opening hours, so each venue goes quiet when it closes
Explore multi-location control
Illustrative interface with demo data — not a real customer.

Pricing

Simple, per-location pricing

You pay per location per month — not per track or per listener. Prices for our first release are being finalised; tell us how many locations you have and we will send you a written quote.

  • One unit: a location
  • No hardware to buy
  • Quote before you commit
Estimate your locations

Pilot programme

Help us shape Tunelay

We are building Tunelay together with hospitality operators. Pilot venues get hands-on onboarding, a direct line to the people who build the product, and real influence over what we do next.

  • Remote setup support by phone or remote desktop
  • Feedback sessions with the product team
  • Early access to new features as they ship
Apply for the pilot

Licensing, explained honestly

Playing music in a business is different from listening at home

Personal streaming accounts are generally licensed for private listening, not for playing music to customers. Public playback in a business can require separate permissions, which depend on the music, the country and how you use it — in the Czech Republic these are typically handled by collective management organisations such as OSA and INTERGRAM.

Tunelay is a software and service subscription for running music in your venues. It does not by itself replace any licence your venue may need. Our catalogue’s rights position is under legal review, and we will publish its exact scope once counsel has confirmed it in writing.

Read the licensing note

Questions venue owners ask first

All questions

What devices does Tunelay run on?

The player runs on Android tablets and Windows PCs. Most venues use a tablet they already own, connected to their speakers by Bluetooth or cable. Other platforms are on our roadmap.

What happens if the internet goes down?

Music is downloaded to the device ahead of time, so playback continues from the local cache. The player syncs again when the connection comes back.

Can my staff change the music?

Staff can pause, skip, change volume up to a maximum you set, and switch to another approved mood until the next scheduled change. Unpairing and settings are protected by a manager PIN.

Can I upload my own music?

No. To keep quality and rights under control, only our team adds and approves tracks. You build schedules and playlists from the approved catalogue. You can upload your own announcements.

Do I still need a licence from a collecting society?

Possibly — it depends on your country and how you use music. Tunelay does not replace those licences. See our licensing note, and check with your local collecting society.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is per location per month. We are finalising prices for the first release; request access with your number of locations and we will send a written quote.

Let your venue sound the way it feels

Tell us about your venues and we’ll show you Tunelay with your own opening hours and dayparts.

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