A pub or bar goes through more moods in a day than most rooms: the quiet afternoon, the after work crowd, a Saturday that wants lifting, the wind down to last orders. SoundPour is original background music made for those hours with AI music tools, reviewed by hand in Darlington, and not registered with PRS for Music, PPL or any other collecting society.
Nobody has to pick: the player works out the hour from your opening hours and draws on every collection below, with the evening end taking more of the weight from mid afternoon.
Two regulars, a newspaper, someone on a laptop in the window. Golden Hours puts the sound of hand percussion over an unhurried house pulse, a little momentum without any volume. On a warm afternoon, Terrace Sessions is sun-warmed downtempo with no urgency, made for slow Sundays.
The room fills from five and the lights come down. Trip Hop Nights brings slow breakbeats under tape hiss and reverb. In a cocktail bar, Cocktail Hours is built for the first drink of the evening: bossa grooves and vibraphone, unashamedly smooth.
R&B Nights is slow-burn neo-soul, Rhodes chords and the voice used like candlelight, a natural fit for a wine bar. Garage Nights is shuffled, soulful UK 2-step for Fridays and Saturdays with the lights down low, and Liquid Hours is liquid drum and bass, warmer and slower than the name suggests. If the place fills up early, one tap on Busier lifts the room.
Techno Nights is melodic and hypnotic, never a rave, for the late lounge. Dub Hours is deep sub-bass and a great deal of space, slow and weighty for the stretch to last orders. If you run past your set closing time, the player carries on for up to an hour so the music never stops on the last table, then pauses itself.
Staff steer it with Calmer, Busier, Skip and Hold, and the optional DJ voice adds a line or two every few tracks, a little like a radio station without the adverts, 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, where most takes do not make the cut. What is left is original work, 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 royalties on behalf of 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 venue is between you and PPL PRS. The radio, a streaming service, TV sport, a jukebox, live music and DJs are separate sources, unaffected by anything we supply.
For the licensing question itself, see our pub and bar licensing guide, the licence checker or how much is a music licence?
Every subscription comes with 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. It sets out what the music is and where it came from, for PPL PRS or your accountant. It does not answer for your venue.
£149 for the first year at the early sign-up price, then £249 a year from year two, for one venue with a single sound system, with every collection included. SoundPour is not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add.
During the private beta the first 60 days are free, from the day the music reaches you. After that it is £149 for your 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.
The Hear it button opens the demo on Trip Hop Nights, and the time buttons under the controls jump from afternoon to evening in a couple of minutes. The demo audio is compressed so the page loads quickly; your venue gets the full library at full quality.
No. None of it is registered with PRS for Music, PPL or any other collecting society anywhere in the world. What that means for your own pub or bar depends on every music source on your premises, not only ours, and is a question for you and PPL PRS.
Partly. Royalty-free describes how a track is paid for (one fee rather than a payment each time it plays), not whose music it is. SoundPour works that way, and 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 pub or bar is between you and PPL PRS.
SoundPour supplies background music only. TV sport with the sound up, a jukebox, karaoke, DJs and live music are separate uses, unaffected by anything we supply, and the pub and bar licensing guide goes through each one.
A few basic details and we set up a private player with the full library for your venue, usually within 24 hours, with the Documentation Pack included.
Start your free betaor email us directly: hello@soundpour.co.uk