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Sources: University of Texas (USA), Radford University (USA), Gallup Organization (USA), Journal of Marketing (USA), Journal of Services Marketing (UK), UK music licensing companies PPL and PRS, Entertainment Media Research (UK), France music licensing company SACEM, IPSOS Media (FR), Mac Gill University (Canada)

Sources: University of Texas (USA), Radford University (USA), Gallup Organization (USA), Journal of Marketing (USA), Journal of Services Marketing (UK), UK music licensing companies PPL and PRS, Entertainment Media Research (UK), France music licensing company SACEM, IPSOS Media (FR), Mac Gill University (Canada)

Sources: University of Texas (USA), Radford University (USA), Gallup Organization (USA), Journal of Marketing (USA), Journal of Services Marketing (UK), UK music licensing companies PPL and PRS, Entertainment Media Research (UK), France music licensing company SACEM, IPSOS Media (FR), Mac Gill University (Canada)

Sources: University of Texas (USA), Radford University (USA), Gallup Organization (USA), Journal of Marketing (USA), Journal of Services Marketing (UK), UK music licensing companies PPL and PRS, Entertainment Media Research (UK), France music licensing company SACEM, IPSOS Media (FR), Mac Gill University (Canada)

Soundsuit music is licensed for commercial and public use (such as in restaurants, airports, etc.).

On the contrary, consumer music services like Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, Youtube, etc. are only licensed for private individual use.

If you as a owner use Soundsuit in your business, you comply with the law.

Yes, you do need to pay GEMA/SACEM/AKM/etc. fees for your business even if you use Soundsuit.

These national copyright offices (e.g.GEMA/SACEM/AKM/etc.) charge establishments like cafés, restaurants or stores to be authorised to play music at Point-of-Sale. The fee is proportional to the surface of the establishment itself.

Learn more about the fees, that as business owner in Germany, you need to pay:
GEMA fees for use of background music in a commercial location >

Learn more about the fees, that as business owner in France, you need to pay:
SACEM fees for use of background music in a commercial location >

Paying these fees makes you as a business owner comply 50% with the law. To comply 100%, you also need to use a music service which is legal for commercial use. Such as Soundsuit!

Soundsuit owns agreements with – and reverses significant fees to – several institutions which represent and protect the rights of music creators.

In Germany: GEMA and the GVL. Learn more about GEMA >

Solutions like MP3 playlists, consumer CDs, or B2C online music services (e.g. Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, YouTube, etc.) are not legal for commercial use in a business.

These solutions are only and strictly licensed for private use (e.g. a person at home with his friends or family), but not for commercial or public use (e.g. in a café, hotel, airport, etc.).

A solution like Soundsuit is fully licensed for commercial and public use.

To comply 100% with the law, you as a business owner needs to use a professional music service, that complies with the broadcasting of music in commercial and public places. Soundsuit is licensed for this specific use – broadcasting of music in commercial and public places – and pays then more royalties to artists, than B2C music services like Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube Music and others do. Consequently Soundsuit is more expensive than B2C services. Soundsuit is then more fair to artists and record companies. Because fully legal!

To learn and understand more about this differences between the use of music in a private sphere and in a commercial or public place, read this great article from the Wall Street Journal:

Article from the Wall Street Journal >

Absolut. Übertragen Sie Soundsuit-Musik von Ihrem Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Smartphone). Schließen Sie Ihr Gerät einfach mit einem Stereokabel an Ihre Hi-Fi-Anlage an. Verwenden Sie ein 3,5-mm-zu-2-Stecker-Cinch-Audiokabel, das Sie in jedem Elektronikfachgeschäft leicht finden können. Der 3,5-mm-Klinkenstecker wird in Ihr Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Telefon) eingesteckt. Und der Cinch-Stecker wird an den AUX-Eingang Ihres Hi-Fi/Stereoanlage angeschlossen.

Absolut. Sie können Soundsuit direkt über Bluetooth spielen. Oder streamen Sie Soundsuit-Musik von Ihrem Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Telefon) über Wi-Fi mit Sonos- oder Chromecast-Audio-kompatiblen Lautsprechern. Oder schließen Sie Ihr Hi-Fi einfach mit einem Stereokabel an.

 

Um Ihr Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Smartphone) an Ihre Hi-Fi-Anlage anzuschließen und den Soundsuit auf Ihr Gerät zu streamen, verwenden Sie bitte ein 3,5-mm-Stecker-Cinch-Audiokabel.

Sie finden ein solches Audiokabel in jedem Elektronikfachgeschäft.

Der 3,5-mm-Klinkenstecker wird in Ihr Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Smartphone) eingesteckt. Und der Cinch-Stecker wird an den AUX-Eingang Ihres Hi-Fi angeschlossen.

Stream Soundsuit music from your device over Wi-Fi using Sonos wireless speakers or Chromecast-audio compatible speakers.

Soundsuit is a professional service for businesses. It does not target the consumer market.

Solution like Soundsuit is fully legal for businesses to play music at point-of-sale.

On the contrary other solutions like iTunes, CDs, MP3 collection, Spotify, Deezer or Simfy are illegal at point-of-sale. This is because these solutions use music that is licensed only for private broadcast but not for public broadcast (please refer to “mechanical rights” issues).

Soundsuit is an intelligent music service dedicated to professionals. Because business owners are busy at work, they need a music service at point-of-sales that does all the work for them. This is why Soundsuit was developed. Now with the minimum of inputs or interactions, business owners benefits from a great soundtrack for their store, and this all day long.

How? Soundsuit continuously computes the right song, for the right time of the day, matching the business profile that is defined by the user. Soundsuit also learns from any interactions with the player. Day after day, Soundsuit then delivers a very personal soundtrack.

You may not know about all the newest artists, songs and music genres trending out there, but your know everything about your business and your customers! And this is why, when you are setting up the „interior design of your store“ in the settings of the Soundsuit app, you are actually helping Soundsuit technology defining the matching „music genres“ for your business.

Here is a simplified overview of how we map genres to interior designs:

New-York | Urban Chic
Nu-Folk, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Rock, Nu Soul, Trip Hop

Berlin | Modern Minimalist
Electro-Pop, Electro, R&B, Hip Hop, Future House

Stockholm | Scandinavian
Downtempo, Dream Pop, Pop, Nordic Beats

Paris | French Bohème
French Pop, French Chanson, French Downtempo, French House

St. Barths | Tropical Chic
Tropical Dance, Nu Dancehall, Balearic House, R&B, EDM

Ibiza | Clubbing
Deep House, Electro House, Electro, EDM

New-Orleans | Heritage
Jazzy Pop, Nu Folk, Indie Pop, Old Time Songs

Christmas Spirit
Christmas inspired Pop, Jazz, and Old Time Songs

Please do not hesitate to select multiple store interior designs in your settings to make our music technology mixes for you the genres and sub-genres that will match your business best. And you will have never to worry again about knowing if R&B is the right music genre for your store and customers. Let Soundsuit take care about all these details!

Soundsuit requires very little interactions with the user and offers a real lean back experience. The intelligence of Soundsuit makes it autonomous in providing the right music for a given store, at each specific time of the day. Like a private in-store DJ, but without the DJ.

Soundsuit does not require you as a user to know about all music genres out there, and to do all the work setting them up optimally for your needs. We help you doing this! In a very meaningful way: when you are setting up the „interior design of your store“ in the settings of the Soundsuit app, you are actually helping us defining the matching „music genres“ for your business.

Here is a simplified overview of how we map genres to interior designs:

New-York | Urban Chic
Nu-Folk, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Rock, Nu Soul, Trip Hop

Berlin | Modern Minimalist
Electro-Pop, Electro, R&B, Hip Hop, Future House

Stockholm | Scandinavian
Downtempo, Dream Pop, Pop, Nordic Beats

Paris | French Bohème
French Pop, French Chanson, French Downtempo, French House

St. Barths | Tropical Chic
Tropical Dance, Nu Dancehall, Balearic House, R&B, EDM

Ibiza | Clubbing
Deep House, Electro House, Electro, EDM

New-Orleans | Heritage
Jazzy Pop, Nu Folk, Indie Pop, Old Time Songs

Christmas Spirit
Christmas inspired Pop, Jazz, and Old Time Songs

Please do not hesitate to select multiple store interior designs in your settings to make our music technology mixes for you the genres and sub-genres that will match your business best. And you will have never to worry again about knowing if R&B is the right music genre for your store and customers. Let Soundsuit take care about all these details!

Soundsuit is a professional service for businesses. It does not target the consumer market.

Solution like Soundsuit is fully legal for businesses to play music at point-of-sale.

On the contrary other solutions like iTunes, CDs, MP3 collection, Spotify, Deezer or Simfy are illegal at point-of-sale. This is because these solutions use music that is licensed only for private broadcast but not for public broadcast (please refer to “mechanical rights” issues).

Soundsuit is an intelligent music service dedicated to professionals. Because business owners are busy at work, they need a music service at point-of-sales that does all the work for them. This is why Soundsuit was developed. Now with the minimum of inputs or interactions, business owners benefits from a great soundtrack for their store, and this all day long.

How? Soundsuit continuously computes the right song, for the right time of the day, matching the business profile that is defined by the user. Soundsuit also learns from any interactions with the player. Day after day, Soundsuit then delivers a very personal soundtrack.

Soundsuit requires very little interactions with the user and offers a real lean back experience. The intelligence of Soundsuit makes it autonomous in providing the right music for a given store, at each specific time of the day. Like a private in-store DJ, but without the DJ.

Yes, Soundsuit is fully compatible with Sonos. Soundsuit is actually a certified partner of by Sonos, and can be connected – as a „Music Service“ – to all Sonos speakers: Play:1, Play:5, Play One, etc.

In 3 kurzen Schritten, werden Sie Soundsuit auf Ihrem Sonos System streamen:
Hinzufügen eines Musikdienstes zu Sonos >

Sonos is broadcasting Soundsuit music based on the settings that you selected on the Soundsuit web app (i.e. soundsuit.fm/play): business type, customer age, decor/atmosphere, etc.

If you are changing your settings on the Soundsuit web app (i.e. soundsuit.fm/play), then Sonos will play Soundsuit according to these updated settings with a short delay of three songs in the playlist. This means that, after you saved your new settings on the Soundsuit web app (i.e. soundsuit.fm/play), it will take to Sonos three songs to reflect the new music direction you defined. from the 4th song on, your music direction will be the one you just saved on the Soundsuit web app (i.e. soundsuit.fm/play).

Important remark: the Soundsuit music played via the Soundsuit web app (i.e. soundsuit.fm/play) and the Soundsuit music broadcasted one the Sonos speakers may differ. This is not a mistake or a technical issue. both music streams do actually match the central settings you defined on the Soundsuit web app (i.e. soundsuit.fm/play). However the titles may not play in the exact same sequential order on both platforms (Soundsuit.fm vs Sonos), due to technical constraints.

Please try first unplugging from power all of your Sonos devices. Then reboot your Internet router. Then please go back and plug in one of your Sonos devices, and wait a minute or two to finish booting up before moving on to the next speaker to plug it in.

That might take care of your issue, but if not, please submit a system diagnostic to Sonos within 10 minutes of experiencing the lost connection issue, and directly call in to Sonos to get their assistance.

You may have not yet activated the „crossfade“ function for your Sonos system.

Crossfade creates a smooth transition between songs by fading out the last few seconds of the current song, and fading in the next song in the Queue. The icon will be illuminated when crossfade is enabled.

Using the Sonos app for iOS or Android:

On the Now Playing screen, tap the „3 dots“ button to access more options.
Tap the icon next to Crossfade.

Using the Sonos app for Mac or PC:

At the top of the Sonos app, click the crossfade icon.

For more details, please refer to the following Sonos page:

How to crossfade songs on Sonos >

Absolutely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

1. Open the URL soundsuit.fm/play in the (Google) Chrome browser. And log in.
2. In the Chrome menu list, click on „Cast“.
3. Then select the speaker in the given list, on which you want to cast/play Soundsuit music.
4. You’re done. Soundsuit Music is now playing on the speaker you selected!

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly on all speakers, that are compatible with the Chromecast-Technology. Renowned brands like JBL, Onkyo, Raumfeld, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, NAD, Pioneer, Vizio, Philips, Grundig, Toshiba, etc. offer Chromecast compatible speakers.

Please visit the Google Chromecast homepage to discover the complete choice of brands and speakers that is offered to you.

Speakers with Chromecast built-in >

Very Likely. Soundsuit can be played wirelessly also on older speakers, if these ones are equipped with a Chromecast dongle.

Chromecast Audio is a small streaming device that plugs into the AUX input of your speaker (RCA, or 3.5mm, or optical input), making your speaker Wi-Fi enabled.

Once set up, simply use your iPhone®, iPad®, Android phone or tablet, Mac or Windows laptop, to stream Soundsuit to your old good speakers.

Learn more about Chromecast Audio >

Watch how to setup the Chromecast Audio device >

 

Absolut. Übertragen Sie Soundsuit-Musik von Ihrem Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Smartphone). Schließen Sie Ihr Gerät einfach mit einem Stereokabel an Ihre Hi-Fi-Anlage an. Verwenden Sie ein 3,5-mm-zu-2-Stecker-Cinch-Audiokabel, das Sie in jedem Elektronikfachgeschäft leicht finden können. Der 3,5-mm-Klinkenstecker wird in Ihr Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Telefon) eingesteckt. Und der Cinch-Stecker wird an den AUX-Eingang Ihres Hi-Fi/Stereoanlage angeschlossen.

Absolut. Sie können Soundsuit direkt über Bluetooth spielen. Oder streamen Sie Soundsuit-Musik von Ihrem Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Telefon) über Wi-Fi mit Sonos- oder Chromecast-Audio-kompatiblen Lautsprechern. Oder schließen Sie Ihr Hi-Fi einfach mit einem Stereokabel an.

 

Um Ihr Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Smartphone) an Ihre Hi-Fi-Anlage anzuschließen und den Soundsuit auf Ihr Gerät zu streamen, verwenden Sie bitte ein 3,5-mm-Stecker-Cinch-Audiokabel.

Sie finden ein solches Audiokabel in jedem Elektronikfachgeschäft.

Der 3,5-mm-Klinkenstecker wird in Ihr Gerät (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet oder Smartphone) eingesteckt. Und der Cinch-Stecker wird an den AUX-Eingang Ihres Hi-Fi angeschlossen.