Ambient
Warm pads, soft drones and airy textures with no melody at all, 50 to 70 beats per minute. For a room that wants no tune to follow.
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Massage and spa
Music for the treatment room, the lounge and the front desk
Instrumental stations with no vocals and no ads, each room on its own station, run from the device in the room.
eleMusic plays original instrumental music in massage studios and spas in the US. Each device picks its own station, so a treatment room can hold a slow station with no beat while reception plays something lighter, and the therapist pauses or changes it from the device in the room. One access code connects every room, and whoever manages the account sees and controls the rooms from the web player. Nothing about a client is ever needed.
If you are a solo therapist, the room is yours and so is the music: one tablet on a small speaker, a station picked before the first client and paused between sessions from the same screen. The American Massage Therapy Association's 2026 fact sheet lists the settings where therapists work (many work in more than one): "Their office (40%)" leads, and "Spa or salon (20%)" and "Massage therapy franchise (13%)" come after clients' homes and therapists' own homes (read October 12, 2026).
If you own or direct a day spa, each treatment room, the lounge, reception and the changing area can run its own device or share an amplifier, and the desk sees every room in one panel. If you run a franchise location, check your brand's operating standards for music before you change what plays; we have not reviewed them and claim nothing about them.
Which stations suit a treatment room, and which suit reception?
For a treatment room, start with Ambient or Calm, the two slowest stations; Soft Piano (one acoustic piano) and Acoustic Guitar (one or two guitars, fingerpicked slowly) are the melodic alternatives. For the lounge, Classical or Soft Piano. For reception and retail, Light Jazz (an easy trio with brushes), or Tropical (steel pan, ukulele and marimba) where the desk wants something brighter. Pick by the sound you want in each room.
Calm
Slow, simple melodies on felt piano, electric piano and warm strings, with no beat, 50 to 70 beats per minute. For a room that wants a quiet tune.
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A room can stay on one station all day: each device plays its station in its own shuffled order and works through the station before starting over. Hear all 8 stations on the station preview page.
Can the music run for a 90-minute session without anyone touching it?
Yes. A room plays from the moment a station is picked until someone pauses it, on the device or from the Rooms panel. On the device, each track blends into the next over about 6 seconds, so there is no silence between tracks and nothing to press mid-session (a room that casts gets a short pause between tracks instead). Tracks run about three minutes, the median Ambient track 2 min 50 s, so a 90-minute session hears a little over 30.
Set the volume on the device or the speaker before the session, low enough that a quiet question from the table still carries; the Rooms panel changes only a Chromecast's volume. A client who prefers silence gets it: that room stays paused while the next one plays.
The device must stay awake with the player open; a tablet that sleeps stops, and some browsers then wait for a tap (how to keep a tablet playing all day). There is no timer or schedule today, so opening and closing is yours: Play all in the morning, Pause all at close. And the music streams, so each playing device needs a working connection; eleMusic does not promise an uninterrupted service (Terms, Section 7.5).
How do we set up six rooms, a lounge and reception?
Count devices, not rooms. A device is one stream: a tablet feeding the ceiling speakers in several rooms counts once. One tablet feeding an amplifier plays one station through every speaker on it; a different station in each room needs a device in each room, on the room's speaker by cable or Bluetooth. Sonos's Era 100 Pro application guide describes its day spa sample system as "Day Spa 3000 sq ft, 2 zones: reception/waiting area, six individual treatment rooms and bathroom/changing areas" (PDF read October 12, 2026). In eleMusic's terms, that layout is two devices.
Can we play different music in different massage rooms?
Yes, when each room has its own device; any number can join with the access code, and the plan sets how many play at once. The common layouts, at the prices listed on October 12, 2026:
| Layout | Devices | Plan | A month |
|---|---|---|---|
| One treatment room, one tablet on a small speaker | 1 | Solo | $15 |
| Two zones, each fed by its own device, as in the day spa example | 2 | Solo plus 1 extra device | $19 |
| Reception, the lounge and one treatment zone | 3 | Solo plus 2 extra devices | $23 |
| Four treatment rooms and reception, each on its own device | 5 | Practice | $24 |
| Six rooms, the lounge, reception and the changing area, each on a device | 9 | Practice plus 4 extra devices | $40 |
| A larger spa, a device in every space | 12 to 15 | Clinic | $49 |
Practice and Clinic are plan names based on device allowance, not a requirement about your business. Extra devices are $4 a month each on any plan. Annual plans cost ten times the monthly price, so two months are free. Prices in US dollars, plus applicable sales tax. See the price for every number of devices and how eleMusic works for speakers, casting and the Rooms panel.
Can we keep playing Spotify in the rooms?
This page is general information about US law and business music services. It is not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your practice, talk to a lawyer.
Personal streaming accounts are licensed for personal, non-commercial use, which is why business music services exist. Spotify's own support page says so, and salons are on its list:
Spotify is only for personal, non-commercial use. This means you can’t broadcast or play Spotify publicly from a business, such as bars, restaurants, schools, stores, salons, dance studios, radio stations, etc.
Spotify Support, "Spotify for public or commercial use", read October 12, 2026
Our Spotify guide and our streaming guide (Pandora, Apple Music, YouTube, SiriusXM) quote each service's own terms; the words do not change by business type.
What eleMusic says about its own catalog: eleMusic does not register its generated catalog with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC or GMR. The certificate describes our catalog and your subscription; it does not determine your practice's legal obligations. Other music, radio, TV and on-hold audio are outside its scope. You are responsible for licensing any other music or audio you play. Ask your own lawyer if you are unsure. The Terms and the certificate say "practice" for every customer, a studio or spa included. The certificate page explains what the document does and does not say, and our PRO letter guide covers a letter from ASCAP, BMI, SESAC or GMR.
ASCAP's list of license classes, read on October 12, 2026, includes "Fitness Facilities" and "Business - Music in the Workplace", names no spa, salon or massage class, and ends "Don't see your business type here?". We quote it so you can see it, not to say what it means for your rooms. Whether a closed room with one client differs from reception, and which organizations represent the music you play today, are questions for your own lawyer. Our guide Do you need a license to play music in your business? sets the four organizations' own license names side by side.
The subscription covers background playback through the eleMusic player inside your location. It does not cover "DJ sets, live performances or events", any use where the music is "a featured attraction rather than background ambience" (a sound bath, or a class built around the music), use "in or with video", music on hold, or a second location, which needs its own plan (Terms, Section 9.2 and Section 8.5).
eleMusic is PRO-free: it never registers its tracks with ASCAP, BMI, SESAC or GMR, so there is no performing rights fee for the music you play through eleMusic. Radio, TV, music on hold and any other music you play still need their own licenses. We cannot control or verify what others register, and we do not promise that no PRO or other person will contact you or make a claim. The certificate describes our catalog and your subscription; it does not determine your practice's legal obligations. The certificate is not a license from any performing rights organization and is not legal advice.
ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR are trademarks of their respective owners. eleMusic is not affiliated with or endorsed by any performing rights organization.
Does eleMusic need anything about our clients?
No. No microphone, no patient information, ever. Our Terms say "patient"; for a studio or spa, read it as client. No names, intake notes or appointment details go anywhere in eleMusic: not the location name, room labels, flagged-track notes or support emails. Name rooms by place, such as Room 2, Lounge or Front desk, never after a client or a therapist.
eleMusic provides background ambience only, makes no health or clinical claims, and under the Terms must not be used as part of care or treatment (Terms, Section 12). The Terms also ask you not to make, or attribute to eleMusic, any health claim about the music, in your own advertising included (Section 12.3): describe it as instrumental with no vocals or ads, which is all we claim ourselves. A medical spa or a physician-run clinic is a healthcare location on this site, whatever plan it picks; our healthcare page sets out the patient-information boundary.
Ready to hear it in a room?
Listen to the stations on the room's own speaker, then start a trial for your location. 14-day trial. Card required, nothing due at checkout. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the card is charged the plan price when it ends. Already set up? Sign in to manage the rooms or connect a room with its access code. For another layout, email hello@elemusic.fm with the rooms and devices in mind; leave out anything about a client.
Sources
- AMTA: Massage Therapy Industry Fact Sheet (settings where massage therapists work), accessed October 12, 2026
- Sonos: Era 100 Pro application guide, day spa sample system (PDF), accessed October 12, 2026
- Spotify Support: Spotify for public or commercial use, accessed October 12, 2026
- ASCAP: Music License Agreements and Reporting Forms (license classes), accessed October 12, 2026
- eleMusic Terms of Service: what you may do (Section 9.1), accessed October 12, 2026
- eleMusic Terms of Service: what the license does not include (Section 9.2), accessed October 12, 2026
- eleMusic Terms of Service: patient information and product scope, accessed October 12, 2026
- eleMusic Terms of Service: the 14-day trial (Section 14.3), accessed October 12, 2026
- eleMusic Terms of Service: one plan for each Location (Section 8.5), accessed October 12, 2026
Hear it in your own rooms.
Eight instrumental stations and one access code, on a tablet or laptop in each room, or cast to your TV. From $15 a month for one device; Practice covers up to 5 devices for $24.
New locations start with a 14-day trial. A card is required and nothing is due at checkout. A reminder goes to the billing email before the trial ends, and you can cancel in Manage billing or by emailing hello@elemusic.fm. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the card is charged the plan price when it ends. See the Terms of Service and the Refund and Cancellation Policy.