Curated
Parisian Café
Accordions, espresso steam, and the faint whisper of someone arguing about Camus.
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OneMusic Alternative for Cafes & Restaurants in Australia
Music that pays for itself. Once.
NoFeeMusic provides licence-free background music for Australian cafés, bars and restaurants who'd rather not receive sternly-worded letters from OneMusic or APRA AMCOS.
One simple yearly fee. Curated playlists. No licensing headaches.
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How it works
Three steps. None of them involve a lawyer.
Music licensing was designed by people who enjoy paperwork. We are not those people. Here is the entire process, start to finish, in roughly the time it takes to froth a flat white.
01
Pay the fee. Once.
Just $110 a year. No subscriptions, no per-stream guilt, no surprise letters from people in suits.
02
Choose a playlist.
Pick from our curated venue playlists. We keep them updated, so you don't have to build, manage, or babysit the music.
03
Stream it. Or download it.
Your music, your call. Loop it all day. Your customers will love it. Your staff will memorise it.
A note on quantity: 20 to 30 tracks on a sympathetic theme, looped tastefully. It is precisely enough music to keep your customers buzzing — and just enough to make your staff develop strong opinions about track seven by Thursday. (Sorry. Smiley face.)
Styles & moods
A playlist for every room, every hour, every mood.
Run a brunch-bright set for the lunch trade, then dim the lights and slip into a downtempo jazz lounge for the evening crowd. Same venue. Two completely different rooms. That's not magic — that's a well-chosen B-side.
Curated
Beachside Buzz
Sun-warmed grooves for sandy floorboards and people who order pineapple on things.
Beachside BuzzSuno
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Curated
Late-Night R&B
Slow, smoky, slightly dangerous. The musical equivalent of a second whiskey.
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Curated
Asian Soundscapes
Koto, kalimba, and ambient hush. Calm enough to make ramen feel ceremonial.
Asian SoundscapesSuno
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About
Who Are We.
For 30 years we've run an iconic Australian restaurant and learned that a well-curated soundtrack is the sonic equivalent of good lighting—or a garnish on a plate: a finishing touch that makes the experience special.
With a past life as a wannabe musician and sound engineer, we even released a best-selling CD of cool dinner party tracks - back when Café del Mar and Buddha Bar ruled the earth—and CDs were the only way to stream music. Trouble was, it was always other people's music - and we couldn't play the music without a hurdle of licenses in our own venue, but we could sell it.
Meanwhile, I had 40 years of half-finished songs, sonic doodles, and broken lyrics on a hard drive. Enter AI: part musician, vocalist, arranger, producer and sound tech that can take these fragments and create whatever soundscape we desire.
Now we've built a library of original, genre-hopping tracks we play in our own venues—no licensing fees, no royalties, no licensing officer wanting to track what we played in our venue.
People ask where we get our music . . . now you know the answer . . . and you can have it too.
Let's begin…
One fee. One playlist. One less thing to worry about.
Tell us about your venue — café, bar, restaurant or glorious confusion. Tell us who your customers are and how you'd like the room to feel.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask.
Will OneMusic come after me for playing your songs?
We provide a licence covering playback of NoFeeMusic-owned music in your venue. This means you do not need a OneMusic licence for that music.
Do I have to choose the songs myself?
Absolutely not. Think of us as a radio station that's been house-trained:
• No user logins, passwords • No tedious list of songs that you have to dig through to create your playlists • No ads • No sudden urge to ruin the mood
You stream our curated song list via web or app, press play, and get on with your life. Unlike Spotify or Apple Music, this won't attract the attention of anyone with a clipboard and a lawsuit to scare you.
We keep the playlists updated, but here's the truth: your customers didn't come for the music. It's garnish. Nobody orders it, nobody reviews it — but without it, everything feels slightly sad.
It's $110 a year, right? Can I pay monthly?
No.
This is a one-time, once-a-year, blissfully forgettable transaction. One line in your accounting software and you're done.
Because life is too short to reconcile 12 tiny payments and wonder why your bank statement reads like a bad subscription addiction.
Try it for a few weeks and if you don't like the vibe we will refund you in full.
Is this music AI slop?
Not unless "AI slop" now includes a decade of human noodling, tasteful chord progressions, and the occasional moment of accidental brilliance.
The process starts with real musical fragments — guitar, keys, ideas collected over years — then uses AI to expand and shape them into full tracks. From there, everything is refined, produced, and made listenable by an actual human with standards.
Think of it as collaboration, not surrender.
How can I support Australian Artists?
Short answer: talk to OneMusic and grab a license for your venue. They may send a device to sample the music you play so they can better direct royalty payments so build a playlist of your favourite Aussie atists.
Invite a band or soloist to perform in your venue - the best way, as they earn more from performing compared to royalties. You will need a OneMusic license for that too.
We are all for supporting Australian Artists but this service is designed for venues just looking for background music without the licensing hassles
You run the business. We handle the music. The licensing people go bother someone else.
The Agreement
In plain English.
Before you sign up, here's the whole deal in five lines. The full agreement is short, readable, and free of mystery legal hieroglyphics.
- One yearly fee per venue. No subscription traps.
- Play it in your venue — not in ads, videos, or social posts.
- We own all the music. No APRA AMCOS or OneMusic chase for these tracks.
- Don't renew? Access stops. No awkward break-up calls.
- Be a reasonable human running a venue. That's basically it.