For sports bars & pubs
Zoned background music your team can actually run mid-service. VibeDeck puts the bar, the dining area and the beer garden on one touch screen, plays your own music library fully offline, and stays simple enough to use with one hand while the other pulls a pint. No laptop balanced on a shelf, no phone passed around behind the bar.
A good pub is never one room. The bar wants energy before kick-off, the dining area wants conversation-friendly background music, and the beer garden wants something sunny that does not fight with the traffic noise. With VibeDeck's multi-zone playback, each area gets its own playlist, its own speaker output and its own volume, all driven from one touch screen behind the bar.
The zones panel shows every area at a glance, with venue-wide play and pause for the moments that need it: silence for a minute's applause, or one anthem across the whole pub when the winner is lifted. Colour-coded atmosphere modes mean staff are not reading tiny text mid-rush; they tap the amber tile for Match Day, the green tile for Sunday Lunch, and get on with pouring.
Pubs live on a daily rhythm: mellow through the morning coffees, brighter for the lunch trade, building through the evening, then winding down after last orders. VibeDeck's scheduling switches atmosphere modes at the times you set, including overnight windows, so the closing playlist can run past midnight and the morning mode is already playing when the cleaners arrive.
Match days do not follow the timetable, and neither must you. Any member of staff can override the schedule with a tap when the early kick-off changes the mood, then hit "resume schedule" and let the day carry on as planned. Nobody has to remember what was supposed to be playing at 4 pm.
Shouting over a full bar does not work, and neither does turning everything off to make an announcement. Push-to-talk ducks the music in every zone while you speak through your mic, then brings it straight back the moment you release: last orders, a food order going cold on the pass, a taxi at the door, the next quiz round.
For the set pieces, signature cues fire one-shot stings over the music with automatic ducking: a goal horn for the big screen, a jingle for the quiz, a closing-time sting that regulars learn to dread. If your pub runs darts or pool nights, player walk-ons give every local hero a proper entrance, with a roster of photos and entrance songs ready to tap.
VibeDeck is a local desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that plays your pub's own imported files (MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and OGG). Nothing streams, so nothing buffers, and a broadband wobble during a match-day rush changes nothing about what your customers hear.
Automatic loudness levelling keeps every track at an even volume, so a quiet acoustic number is not followed by something that rattles the glasses, and adjustable crossfade keeps the room from ever falling silent between songs. Waveform trimming lets you cut long intros so the goal music lands on the first beat. Licences are per machine, perpetual or subscription, and every plan starts with a free 14-day trial.
FAQ
Yes, that is the point of the design. Tapping a playlist cues it up rather than blasting it out instantly; staff press Play when they are ready. Day-to-day controls sit on big touch tiles, while everything you would not want changed mid-service lives behind a PIN-protected Manage area, safe from casual taps.
No. VibeDeck is a local desktop app that plays your pub's own imported music files from the machine behind the bar, so playback keeps going even when the internet does not. There is no streaming and no buffering, whatever the router is doing on a busy Saturday.
Yes. Multi-zone playback gives each area its own playlist, its own speaker output and its own volume, all controlled from a single zones panel with venue-wide play and pause. Multi-zone is included on the Venue plan at £29 per month, and every plan starts with a free 14-day trial.
Install VibeDeck, import your music and have zoned background music running in an afternoon. Free 14-day trial, no commitment.