[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":523},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:en:industries":3,"music-samples:en":522},{"industriesIndex":4,"industries":23},{"reviewStatus":5,"seo":6,"eyebrow":9,"h1":10,"intro":11,"laterTitle":12,"laterBody":13,"later":14},"source",{"title":7,"description":8},"Background music by venue type","How Tunelay fits cafés, restaurants, spas and retail stores: venue-specific moods, daypart schedules, offline playback and multi-location control.","Industries","Background music shaped around your kind of venue","Every venue has its own rhythm. A café peaks before nine, a restaurant turns over between lunch and dinner, a spa needs an hour of calm without a single jolt, and a shop floor changes with footfall. Choose your venue type to see how Tunelay handles its day.","More venue types coming","We are writing dedicated guides for further venue types. If yours isn’t listed yet, request a demo — the product already works the same way.",[15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22],"Salons","Hotels","Gyms","Bakeries","Bars","Offices","Clinics","Yoga studios",{"cafes":24,"restaurants":156,"spas":279,"retail":403},{"key":25,"reviewStatus":5,"seo":26,"navLabel":29,"card":30,"eyebrow":32,"h1":33,"intro":34,"heroVisual":37,"painPoints":38,"moods":54,"schedule":79,"useCases":100,"scenarios":115,"setup":128,"faq":136,"related":149,"cta":153},"industryCafes",{"title":27,"description":28},"Music for cafés — scheduled by time of day","Background music for cafés that follows your day: bright mornings, focused afternoons, mellow evenings. Plays offline on a tablet and runs every branch from one dashboard.","Cafés",{"title":29,"body":31},"From the morning rush to laptop afternoons and a slower evening.","Music for cafés","Café music that keeps pace with your day",[35,36],"A café lives three different days between opening and closing. At eight it is queues, milk steaming and orders called across the counter. By early afternoon the room belongs to people with laptops and long conversations. In the evening it slows down, the lights get warmer and the last guests linger.","One playlist on repeat cannot serve all three. Tunelay lets you set the right mood for each part of the day once, then gets out of the way: the player on your counter tablet changes mood on time, blends tracks with a soft crossfade and keeps playing from its local cache even when the Wi-Fi gives up.","cafe",{"title":39,"intro":40,"items":41},"What usually goes wrong with café music","These are the problems most cafés run into with background music.",[42,45,48,51],{"title":43,"body":44},"Someone’s phone runs the playlist","The barista connects their own phone, the music follows their taste, and it stops when they go on a break or a call comes in.",{"title":46,"body":47},"The same twenty songs, all week","Regulars hear the same tracks every morning. Staff hear them eight hours a day and start skipping or switching them off.",{"title":49,"body":50},"Wrong energy at the wrong time","Upbeat tracks during a quiet reading afternoon, or something sleepy during the morning rush when you need the room to move.",{"title":52,"body":53},"Every branch sounds different","With several cafés, each team improvises. The brand feels different in every location and nobody knows what is playing where.",{"title":55,"intro":56,"items":57},"Moods that suit a café","Curated by our team and approved track by track. You can combine them into your own playlists.",[58,65,72],{"id":59,"name":60,"description":61,"tags":62},"morning-coffee","Morning Coffee","Acoustic guitar, light piano and brushed drums. Awake and friendly, never pushy during the queue.",[63,64],"Acoustic","Light jazz",{"id":66,"name":67,"description":68,"tags":69},"focus","Focus","Warm lo-fi and gentle instrumentals for guests who stay with a laptop for hours.",[70,71],"Lo-fi","Instrumental",{"id":73,"name":74,"description":75,"tags":76},"evening-lounge","Evening Lounge","Mellow lounge and soft grooves for the last hours before closing.",[77,78],"Lounge","Downtempo",{"title":80,"intro":81,"items":82},"A typical café schedule","A starting point you can adjust in minutes. The player switches automatically, with a crossfade between moods.",[83,87,92,96],{"time":84,"label":85,"mood":60,"body":86},"07:30","Morning rush","Light, positive, a little tempo to keep the queue moving.",{"time":88,"label":89,"mood":90,"body":91},"11:30","Late morning & lunch","Morning Coffee → Soft Dining","Slightly fuller sound for a busier room and short lunch visits.",{"time":93,"label":94,"mood":67,"body":95},"14:00","Laptop afternoon","Low-distraction instrumentals so guests can work and talk.",{"time":97,"label":98,"mood":74,"body":99},"18:00","Winding down","Warmer, slower, ready for a quiet close. At closing time the music fades out on its own.",{"title":101,"items":102},"How cafés use Tunelay",[103,106,109,112],{"title":104,"body":105},"One tablet at the counter","The player runs on the Android tablet most cafés already have, connected to whatever speaker you use — Bluetooth, AUX\u002F3.5 mm, USB or HDMI. Staff can pause, play or turn it down right on the tablet.",{"title":107,"body":108},"Staff stay in control, within limits","Baristas can pause for a delivery, skip a track or turn it down. You set the maximum volume, and settings sit behind a four-digit manager PIN.",{"title":110,"body":111},"Separate branches, one schedule","Write a group-wide weekly schedule once. Give the branch near the university a longer focus afternoon, or a Sunday brunch mood, as an exception.",{"title":113,"body":114},"Quiet after closing","Opening hours are set per location. When the café closes, the music fades out over ten seconds and stays off until opening — no one has to remember.",{"title":116,"intro":117,"items":118},"Example scenarios","Illustrative situations based on how cafés typically run — not customer stories.",[119,122,125],{"title":120,"body":121},"The Saturday brunch","Weekends start later and get busier around eleven. Add a Saturday and Sunday exception that starts with Morning Coffee at nine and moves to a livelier brunch mix at eleven, while weekdays stay unchanged.",{"title":123,"body":124},"The router restarts mid-morning","The internet drops for twenty minutes during the busiest hour. The player keeps going from its cache; the dashboard shows it as offline and back online once it reconnects. Guests notice nothing.",{"title":126,"body":127},"A new branch opens","The manager installs the player on the new tablet, reads the six-digit code from the screen and enters it in the dashboard under the new location. The group schedule applies straight away.",{"title":129,"steps":130},"Setting up a café",[131,132,133,134,135],"Install the Tunelay player on your Android tablet or Windows PC.","Add the café as a location in the dashboard and set its opening hours.","Pair the player by typing the six-digit code it shows on screen.","Pick a schedule — start with the café template — and let music download.","Set a maximum volume and a manager PIN for your staff.",[137,140,143,146],{"q":138,"a":139},"Will it work with the speaker we already have?","If your speaker connects to a tablet by Bluetooth or cable, it should work. During your demo we check your setup with you remotely.",{"q":141,"a":142},"Can different branches play different music?","Yes. Branches share a group schedule by default, and you can add exceptions for a single location or a single date. The exception always wins.",{"q":144,"a":145},"What if a barista turns the volume all the way up?","They can’t go above the maximum you set for that zone in the dashboard.",{"q":147,"a":148},"Does the music stop when the Wi-Fi is slow?","No. Tracks are cached on the device in advance and new downloads wait until the connection is good, without interrupting playback.",[150,151,152],"industryRestaurants","featureScheduling","featureOffline",{"title":154,"body":155},"Hear how your café could sound","Tell us your opening hours and how many branches you run. We’ll show you a schedule built around your day.",{"key":150,"reviewStatus":5,"seo":157,"navLabel":160,"card":161,"eyebrow":163,"h1":164,"intro":165,"heroVisual":168,"painPoints":169,"moods":185,"schedule":206,"useCases":225,"scenarios":240,"setup":252,"faq":260,"related":273,"cta":276},{"title":158,"description":159},"Music for restaurants — lunch, dinner and bar","Restaurant background music that changes between lunch and dinner service, with separate moods for the dining room and bar, smooth transitions and offline playback.","Restaurants",{"title":160,"body":162},"Separate moods for lunch service, dinner and the bar.","Music for restaurants","Restaurant music that shifts with every service",[166,167],"Lunch and dinner are two different restaurants under one roof. Lunch is quick tables, business guests and a room that turns over fast. Dinner is longer, warmer and more personal, and the bar often has its own life late into the evening.","Good restaurant music stays in the background: present enough to fill silences between tables, never so loud or busy that guests lean in to hear each other. Tunelay lets you schedule the change between services, give the bar its own zone, and trust that transitions happen gently and on time.","restaurant",{"title":170,"intro":171,"items":172},"The usual problems in a restaurant","Music is rarely anyone’s job in a restaurant. That is exactly why it goes wrong.",[173,176,179,182],{"title":174,"body":175},"Dinner starts with lunch music","The switch to the evening playlist depends on whoever remembers. Often nobody does until the first tables are already seated.",{"title":177,"body":178},"Conversation fights the music","Busy arrangements and vocals with sharp peaks make guests raise their voices, and the room gets louder and louder.",{"title":180,"body":181},"The bar and the dining room collide","One sound system, one playlist: either the bar feels flat or the dining room feels like a club.",{"title":183,"body":184},"Abrupt stops and gaps","Tracks end in silence, ads interrupt free streaming apps, or the playlist simply runs out halfway through service.",{"title":186,"intro":187,"items":188},"Moods for dining","Chosen for low distraction and an even level, so guests can talk without raising their voices.",[189,196,200],{"id":190,"name":191,"description":192,"tags":193},"soft-dining","Soft Dining","Unobtrusive jazz, bossa and acoustic standards for lunch service.",[194,195],"Jazz","Bossa nova",{"id":73,"name":74,"description":197,"tags":198},"Warmer, slower and richer for dinner, with more space between notes.",[77,199],"Soul instrumental",{"id":201,"name":202,"description":203,"tags":204},"late-bar","Late Bar","A touch more groove for the bar zone after the kitchen closes.",[78,205],"Nu-jazz",{"title":207,"intro":208,"items":209},"A typical restaurant schedule","Two services, two zones. The dining room and the bar can follow different schedules on separate players.",[210,213,218,221],{"time":88,"label":211,"mood":191,"body":212},"Lunch service","Light and steady for quick tables and business lunches.",{"time":214,"label":215,"mood":216,"body":217},"15:00","Between services","Soft Dining (lower volume)","Quiet background for prep and the occasional late guest.",{"time":97,"label":219,"mood":74,"body":220},"Dinner","The room changes character; so does the music, with a slow crossfade.",{"time":222,"label":223,"mood":202,"body":224},"21:30","Bar zone","The bar player moves up a gear while the dining room stays calm.",{"title":226,"items":227},"How restaurants use Tunelay",[228,231,234,237],{"title":229,"body":230},"Service changes on time","The switch from lunch to dinner is part of the schedule, not someone’s to-do list. A crossfade of up to twelve seconds makes the change feel natural.",{"title":232,"body":233},"Dining room and bar as zones","Pair one player per zone. Each zone has its own schedule and maximum volume, and the dashboard shows both side by side.",{"title":235,"body":236},"Special evenings without rework","A private event or a holiday menu becomes a one-day exception for that location. The normal week resumes the next day automatically.",{"title":238,"body":239},"Short announcements, carefully","If you want them — for example a last-orders reminder in the bar — upload a recording and schedule it. The music dips underneath and comes back up.",{"title":116,"intro":241,"items":242},"Illustrative situations to show how the product behaves — not customer stories.",[243,246,249],{"title":244,"body":245},"Friday dinner, full house","At six the dining room player crossfades into Evening Lounge. At half past nine the bar player alone switches to Late Bar, so the dining room stays conversational.",{"title":247,"body":248},"A private party on Tuesday","The manager adds a date exception for that location with a livelier playlist from 19:00 to 23:00. On Wednesday the regular schedule is back without anyone touching it.",{"title":250,"body":251},"A server pauses the music for a speech","They tap pause on the tablet. The action appears in the dashboard history with the time, so the manager knows why the room went quiet.",{"title":253,"steps":254},"Setting up a restaurant",[255,256,257,258,259],"Add the restaurant as a location with its opening hours.","Create zones — for example Dining room and Bar — and pair one player in each.","Assign lunch and dinner moods to each zone’s schedule.","Set a maximum volume per zone and a manager PIN.","Optionally upload announcements and schedule them for the bar zone only.",[261,264,267,270],{"q":262,"a":263},"Can the bar play something different from the dining room?","Yes. Each zone has its own player and its own schedule, managed from the same dashboard.",{"q":265,"a":266},"How do the transitions between services sound?","Tracks are blended with a crossfade you set per playlist, from no crossfade up to twelve seconds, so moods change without abrupt stops.",{"q":268,"a":269},"Will there be ads between tracks?","No. Tunelay never inserts advertising. The only spoken audio is announcements you upload and schedule yourself.",{"q":271,"a":272},"Can we turn the music off for a private event?","Staff can pause it on the tablet at any time, or you can schedule an exception for that date in the dashboard.",[25,274,275],"featureMultiLocation","featureAnnouncements",{"title":277,"body":278},"Plan the sound of your next service","Share your service times and zones, and we’ll show you a restaurant schedule built around them.",{"key":280,"reviewStatus":5,"seo":281,"navLabel":284,"card":285,"eyebrow":287,"h1":288,"intro":289,"heroVisual":292,"painPoints":293,"moods":309,"schedule":330,"useCases":352,"scenarios":367,"setup":378,"faq":386,"related":399,"cta":400},"industrySpas",{"title":282,"description":283},"Spa background music — calm and uninterrupted","Calm spa and wellness music with even loudness, long quiet transitions and no ads. Plays offline from the device, so a treatment never ends in silence.","Spas & wellness",{"title":284,"body":286},"Even, unhurried sound with no sudden jumps in volume.","Music for spas and wellness","Spa music that never breaks the calm",[290,291],"In a spa, music is part of the treatment. A guest lying on a massage table for ninety minutes notices everything: a track that is suddenly louder than the last one, a gap of silence, a voice cutting in to advertise something. Each of those moments undoes some of the calm you are selling.","Tunelay is designed for exactly this kind of listening. Tracks in our calm moods are normalised to the same loudness, transitions are long and soft, nothing interrupts the music unless you scheduled it yourself, and playback runs from the device’s own cache so the music does not depend on the reception in the treatment rooms.","spa",{"title":294,"intro":295,"items":296},"What breaks the calm","Small sound problems feel big when a guest is completely relaxed.",[297,300,303,306],{"title":298,"body":299},"Volume jumps between tracks","Music collected from different sources is mastered at different levels. One quiet piece, then one much louder, and the guest’s shoulders tense again.",{"title":301,"body":302},"Silence mid-treatment","A playlist ends, a streaming app logs out, the Wi-Fi in the back rooms drops. Silence in a treatment room is surprisingly loud.",{"title":304,"body":305},"Interruptions you didn’t choose","Free streaming services play ads. Notifications from a phone used as a player come through the speakers.",{"title":307,"body":308},"Reception and treatment rooms need different sound","Reception can carry a little more presence; treatment rooms need something almost weightless. One player for everything rarely works.",{"title":310,"intro":311,"items":312},"Moods for wellness","Slow, even instrumentals with long phrases and no sudden peaks.",[313,319,325],{"id":314,"name":315,"description":316,"tags":317},"calm-spa","Calm Spa","Soft pads, piano and strings at a slow, steady pace for treatment rooms.",[318,71],"Ambient",{"id":320,"name":321,"description":322,"tags":323},"still-water","Still Water","Nature-inspired textures and minimal melodies for relaxation areas.",[318,324],"Minimal",{"id":326,"name":327,"description":328,"tags":329},"warm-reception","Warm Reception","Gentle acoustic instrumentals with a little more presence for the front desk.",[63,71],{"title":331,"intro":332,"items":333},"A typical spa day","Fewer changes, longer crossfades. The mood shifts so slowly that nobody notices the moment it happens.",[334,338,342,346],{"time":335,"label":336,"mood":327,"body":337},"09:00","Opening","A light welcome for early appointments.",{"time":339,"label":340,"mood":315,"body":341},"10:00","Treatments","Treatment-room zones settle into slow, even instrumentals for the rest of the day.",{"time":343,"label":344,"mood":321,"body":345},"13:00","Relaxation area","Minimal textures for guests resting between treatments.",{"time":347,"closed":348,"label":349,"mood":350,"body":351},"20:00",true,"Closing","Silence","A ten-second fade-out once the last guests have left.",{"title":353,"items":354},"How spas use Tunelay",[355,358,361,364],{"title":356,"body":357},"Even loudness, track after track","Every track in the catalogue is normalised to the same target loudness before it is approved, so the volume you set stays the volume guests hear.",{"title":359,"body":360},"Long, quiet transitions","Set the crossfade for your calm playlists up to twelve seconds. Tracks melt into each other instead of ending and starting.",{"title":362,"body":363},"No interruptions by default","There are no ads. Announcements are optional and off unless you upload and schedule one — you might use them in reception only, never in treatment rooms.",{"title":365,"body":366},"Independent of the Wi-Fi","Music is cached on the device, so weak reception in the back of the building does not matter once it has synced.",{"title":116,"intro":241,"items":368},[369,372,375],{"title":370,"body":371},"A ninety-minute massage","The treatment-room zone plays Calm Spa with a ten-second crossfade. Over ninety minutes the guest hears one continuous, level stream of sound with no gaps and no voice.",{"title":373,"body":374},"Different speakers in different rooms","Reception uses a Bluetooth speaker, the treatment rooms a wired AUX system. Each player simply plays through the output its device uses, and staff can pause or turn it down from the tablet whenever a guest asks for quiet.",{"title":376,"body":377},"A late-opening evening","On Thursdays you open until ten. A recurring exception extends the treatment-room schedule, and the player goes quiet after closing as usual.",{"title":379,"steps":380},"Setting up a spa",[381,382,383,384,385],"Add your spa as a location and set opening hours, including late evenings.","Create zones for reception, treatment rooms and relaxation areas as needed.","Pair a player in each zone using the six-digit code on screen.","Choose calm moods and set long crossfades for treatment rooms.","Set conservative maximum volumes so staff can only adjust within a quiet range.",[387,390,393,396],{"q":388,"a":389},"Are there any ads or voice messages in the music?","No ads, ever. The only voice content is announcements you upload and schedule yourself, and you can keep them out of treatment rooms entirely.",{"q":391,"a":392},"Why does loudness matter so much?","Tracks mastered at different levels cause sudden volume jumps. Our catalogue is normalised to one loudness target, so the level stays steady.",{"q":394,"a":395},"Can treatment rooms have a different volume from reception?","Yes. Each zone has its own maximum volume and schedule.",{"q":397,"a":398},"Which speakers does it work with?","Any speaker setup the device can use: Bluetooth, AUX\u002F3.5 mm, USB or HDMI. The player plays through whatever output the device is set to, and staff control pause, play and volume.",[150,152,151],{"title":401,"body":402},"Bring a steadier calm to your spa","Tell us about your rooms and opening hours. We’ll show you how a full day would sound.",{"key":404,"reviewStatus":5,"seo":405,"navLabel":408,"card":409,"eyebrow":411,"h1":412,"intro":413,"heroVisual":416,"painPoints":417,"moods":433,"schedule":454,"useCases":471,"scenarios":486,"setup":497,"faq":505,"related":518,"cta":519},"industryRetail",{"title":406,"description":407},"Music for retail stores — one sound, every outlet","Background music for shops and store chains: a consistent brand sound in every outlet, energy that follows footfall, scheduled in-store announcements and remote status.","Retail stores",{"title":408,"body":410},"One consistent brand sound across every store, with announcements.","Music for retail","One brand sound across every store",[414,415],"In retail, music is part of the brand, just like the lighting and the shop window. A customer walking into any of your stores should recognise the same character — and it should not depend on which sales assistant is on shift or what is saved on their phone.","Tunelay gives you one schedule for every outlet, with energy that rises and falls with footfall, short announcements that duck the music automatically, and a dashboard that shows which stores are playing and which need attention.","retail",{"title":418,"intro":419,"items":420},"Where store music goes wrong","The more stores you run, the less you know about what each of them sounds like.",[421,424,427,430],{"title":422,"body":423},"Every store has its own playlist","Staff choose the music locally. The brand sounds premium in one store and like a gym in another.",{"title":425,"body":426},"Flat energy all day","The same tempo at ten on a quiet Tuesday and at five on a busy Saturday. Music that ignores footfall either drags or overwhelms.",{"title":428,"body":429},"Announcements are improvised","Store-closing reminders and promotions are shouted, forgotten or played from a phone, at whatever volume happens to be set.",{"title":431,"body":432},"No idea what is playing where","Head office cannot see whether a store’s music player is even on, let alone what it is playing.",{"title":434,"intro":435,"items":436},"Moods for the shop floor","Energetic without being aggressive, and chosen so they suit a brand rather than a club.",[437,444,451],{"id":438,"name":439,"description":440,"tags":441},"boutique-energy","Boutique Energy","Bright indie pop and nu-disco rhythms for busy shopping hours.",[442,443],"Indie pop","Nu-disco",{"id":445,"name":446,"description":447,"tags":448},"easy-browse","Easy Browse","Relaxed acoustic pop and soft electronica for quieter morning hours.",[449,450],"Acoustic pop","Chill electronica",{"id":73,"name":74,"description":452,"tags":453},"Warm, confident grooves for late shopping and calmer evenings.",[77,78],{"title":455,"intro":456,"items":457},"A typical store day","Energy follows footfall. You can give weekends a different curve from weekdays.",[458,460,464,467],{"time":335,"label":336,"mood":446,"body":459},"Relaxed for early visitors and staff setting up.",{"time":461,"label":462,"mood":439,"body":463},"12:00","Lunch peak","More pace for the lunchtime crowd.",{"time":214,"label":465,"mood":446,"body":466},"Afternoon","Back to a lighter feel for slower hours.",{"time":468,"label":469,"mood":439,"body":470},"17:00","After-work peak","The busiest stretch of the day, with a confident sound.",{"title":472,"items":473},"How retailers use Tunelay",[474,477,480,483],{"title":475,"body":476},"Group schedule, local exceptions","One weekly schedule applies to every store. A store with different opening hours or a local event gets an exception without changing the others.",{"title":478,"body":479},"Announcements that duck the music","Upload a closing-time reminder or a seasonal message and schedule it at fixed times or at intervals. The music lowers smoothly underneath, then returns.",{"title":481,"body":482},"Remote status for every store","See which players are online, when each last checked in and what it is playing — without calling the store.",{"title":484,"body":485},"Staff can help, not hijack","Sales staff can skip a track or adjust the volume within a range you set, and every action is recorded in the dashboard history.",{"title":116,"intro":241,"items":487},[488,491,494],{"title":489,"body":490},"Ten minutes to closing","At 19:50 every store plays your closing reminder. The music dips by the amount you set, the message plays, and the music comes back up for the last customers.",{"title":492,"body":493},"A shopping-centre store keeps longer hours","One outlet stays open until 21:00. Its own opening hours keep the music going there while the high-street stores fade out at 19:00.",{"title":495,"body":496},"A store’s player has gone quiet","The dashboard shows one player offline since this morning. Head office calls the store, and the team discovers the tablet was unplugged during cleaning.",{"title":498,"steps":499},"Rolling out to your stores",[500,501,502,503,504],"Add each store as a location with its own opening hours.","Install the player on an Android tablet or Windows PC in each store and pair it with its six-digit code.","Build one group-wide weekly schedule and add store exceptions where needed.","Upload your announcements and schedule them by time or interval.","Set maximum volumes and manager PINs so staff controls stay within brand limits.",[506,509,512,515],{"q":507,"a":508},"Can all our stores play the same music at the same time?","They follow the same schedule, so each store plays the same moods at the same times of day. Exact track order can differ between devices.",{"q":510,"a":511},"Can we record our own announcements?","Yes. You upload MP3 or WAV recordings and schedule them. Generated voice announcements are not available yet.",{"q":513,"a":514},"How do we know if a store’s player stopped?","The dashboard shows each player’s online status, last check-in and current playback, and flags players that need attention.",{"q":516,"a":517},"Can store staff play their own music?","No. Staff can only choose from approved moods and playlists. This keeps the brand sound consistent.",[275,274,25],{"title":520,"body":521},"Give every store the same signature sound","Tell us how many stores you run and how your days look. We’ll show you a group schedule in action.",[],1794750577033]