For pool halls
Reliable background music over the tables, a livelier mix at the bar, and one-tap walk-ons and announcements when league night arrives. VibeDeck runs it all from a single touch screen, offline, from your own music library.
A pool hall is really two rooms sharing one roof. Players at the match tables want music low and even enough to concentrate over a long rack; the bar crowd wants something with a bit more life. One amplifier serving both always ends up as a compromise that suits neither.
VibeDeck's multi-zone playback treats them separately. Point the table area and the bar at their own speaker outputs, give each its own playlist and its own volume, and run both at once from a single screen. On a big snooker club floor you can add further zones for a lounge or function room. The zones panel keeps a venue-wide play and pause to hand, so closing time is one tap, not a walk around the building.
Weeknight leagues are the heartbeat of a pool hall, and the nights when staff are busiest. VibeDeck is built so the music side takes seconds, not attention. Colour-coded atmosphere modes mean a practice-night vibe, a league-night vibe and a finals vibe each live on their own tile; tapping one cues it up, and it starts when you press Play, never before.
For finals and singles knockouts, give every player an entrance. Build a roster with each player's name, photo and walk-on song: one tap pauses the room, plays their entrance, then brings the background music back automatically. Signature cues handle the rest of the night, from a winner's sting to a last-orders jingle, ducking the music underneath and returning it on their own. Need to call the next frame or announce raffle numbers? Push-to-talk announcements duck every zone while you speak, then lift the music straight back.
Most halls open long before they get busy. A few regulars practising at 2pm do not want Friday-night energy, and nobody behind the bar should have to remember to change the mood at 7pm. VibeDeck's scheduling switches atmosphere modes by time of day on its own, including overnight windows for clubs that run late, and staff can override it at any moment and then hand control back to the schedule.
The sound stays professional without anyone touching a fader. Automatic loudness levelling keeps every track at a consistent volume, so a quiet acoustic number and a loud rock track sit at the same level over the tables. Adjustable crossfade blends song into song with no dead air between racks, and waveform trimming cuts rambling intros so every track earns its place.
VibeDeck is a local desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that plays your venue's own imported files: MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and OGG. There is no streaming, no buffering and no dependence on the internet during service, so a dropped connection on a packed league night changes nothing about the music.
Control stays where it belongs. Everyday playback is touch-first and simple enough for any member of staff, while setup and library management sit behind a PIN-protected Manage area. Licences are per machine, perpetual or subscription, and every plan starts with a free 14-day trial. If you want multi-zone for a tables-plus-bar setup, the Venue plan at £29 a month is the most popular choice.
Pool hall FAQ
Yes. With multi-zone playback each area gets its own audio output and its own volume, so you can hold a low, steady level over the tables while the bar zone runs livelier and louder. Zones play independently, and a venue-wide play and pause control in the zones panel lets you stop or start the whole hall in one tap.
You build a roster of players, each with a name, photo and entrance song. When a player is introduced, one tap pauses the room music, plays their walk-on, then resumes the previous music automatically. Entrance songs can be trimmed in the waveform editor so each one starts on the drop rather than a long intro.
Only if you want them to. Day-to-day playback controls stay simple and touch-friendly, while setup lives in a PIN-protected Manage area, so playlists, schedules and zone routing cannot be changed casually. Tapping a playlist only cues it up (load-then-play), so nothing blares out until someone deliberately presses Play.
Install VibeDeck, import your music and have zoned sound running before the first league match. Free 14-day trial on every plan.