Original music for the hours a café keeps: the early regulars, the lunch queue and the quiet stretch after it. Every track is made with AI music tools and reviewed by hand in Darlington. None of it is registered with PRS for Music, PPL or any other collecting society, and the paperwork comes with it.
Nobody behind the counter builds a playlist. Give the player your opening hours and busiest time once; it works out what suits each hour. A café's day, roughly:
Regulars, the grinder, the steam wand. Mornings lean towards the Acoustic Collection: the sound of fingerpicked guitar, brushed snare and the occasional swell of cello. Folktronica sits beside it, soft voice over cut-up beats. Nothing that asks to be listened to before the first coffee.
Chillhop Sessions was made for this: the British take on lo-fi, dusty jazz chords and head-nod beats. If the words compete with a meeting at table four, one tap on Instrumental only and nothing sung plays.
When the queue reaches the door, the room wants momentum, not volume. Broken Beat is West London bruk, syncopated and jazz-inflected, and keeps a room moving without asking for attention. Too much, or not enough? Calmer and Busier are on screen.
Two till four, a few tables and the dishwasher. Chill Out lives behind conversation rather than in front of it, Terrace Sessions brings soft pads and no urgency, and Golden Hours lifts a bright afternoon with the sound of hand percussion.
From mid afternoon the evening end of the library gradually takes more of the weight, so a café open past five hears more of it. Trip Hop Nights, slow breakbeats under tape hiss, was made for café floors as the light goes. After you close it plays on for up to an hour while you clear down, then pauses itself.
Like a voice in the room now and again? The optional DJ voice speaks a line or two every few tracks, with the music dipping underneath. Off unless you want it, and included at no extra cost.
Every track is made with AI music tools on paid commercial plans, then listened to in full and reviewed by hand in Darlington. It is original work, not a cover or a copy, and none of it is registered with PRS for Music, PPL or any other collecting society anywhere in the world. SoundPour keeps dated production records for the catalogue.
PRS for Music and PPL collect for the writers, publishers, performers or record labels who are members of PRS for Music or PPL, or of their partner societies abroad. Nobody behind a SoundPour track is a member of PRS for Music, PPL or any other collecting society.
So the music sits outside the PPL PRS repertoire; what that means for your café is between you and PPL PRS. The café music licensing guide explains how it works, the free licence checker walks through your music sources, and how much is a music licence? has PPL PRS's figures.
Searching for royalty-free music for your café? SoundPour is royalty-free too, but the term describes how a track is paid for, not whose music it is. How SoundPour is different ↗
Every subscription includes the Documentation Pack from day one: a written licence, in your business name, to play the music at your premises, and a Declaration of Provenance covering your catalogue, ready for PPL PRS or your accountant. It is a factual account of what the music is and where it came from. It does not answer for your café. Your position depends on every music source on the premises, not only ours, and that is a matter between you and PPL PRS.
£149 for your first year at the early sign-up price, then £249 a year from year two, for one venue. SoundPour is not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add. That covers every collection, new music as it lands and the Documentation Pack.
During the private beta the first 60 days are free from the day the music reaches you. After that it is £149 for the first year, or the licence ends and you stop playing it; nothing bills automatically. There is a short written agreement before any music is sent, and if you change your mind within 30 days of your first payment, we refund it in full.
Start the demo on Chillhop Sessions, then use the time of day buttons to jump from morning to afternoon. It is a small, compressed sample so the page loads quickly; your café gets the whole library at full quality.
£149 for the first year at the early sign-up price, then £249 a year from year two, for one venue, with no VAT to add. The first 60 days of the private beta are free, and nothing bills automatically. That is SoundPour's price only; whether TheMusicLicence applies to your café as well is between you and PPL PRS.
No, nor with any other collecting society. What that means for your café is between you and PPL PRS, and our café music licensing guide explains how it works.
A laptop, tablet or phone with a browser, plugged into your speakers. No app, no box, and it keeps playing if the broadband drops.
A few basic details and a short written agreement, then a private player with the full library for your café. No card, no commitment.
Start your free betaor email us directly: hello@soundpour.co.uk