Gym music outside the SOCAN and Re:Sound repertoires
For repertoire music a Canadian gym owes both SOCAN and Re:Sound, billed together through Entandem, plus a licensed service on top. The Oktava catalog is registered with neither society — background music from it carries no tariff line, and CAD 250 a year is the entire bill, documents included.
Built for the floor: tempo first, silence never
The weights floor wants drive, the 6 p.m. rush wants more of it, and the Sunday morning crowd wants something steadier — so Oktava's gym channels are organized by tempo and scheduled by daypart. Set it once; the player shifts energy through the day on its own. Transitions are gapless and there are no ads, because thirty seconds of silence in a gym reads as something broken.
The player assumes your internet will fail eventually: channels cache locally, playback continues through the outage, and the log syncs after. That log, next to the named QR-verified certificate in your dashboard, is the answer to the licensing question — it shows that what played is from a catalog neither SOCAN nor Re:Sound has in its repertoire.
How it works
Sign up, install the player on the device feeding your speakers, pick tempo channels and the schedule. Certificate and playback log are ready in the dashboard the same day; cached audio covers connection drops.
What it costs
CAD 25 a month or CAD 250 a year per location — the whole music bill, against society fees plus a service subscription for repertoire music. Trial: 7 days, no card.
Questions, answered
Our router drops weekly. Will the music stop?
No — channels are cached on the device and playback continues offline. The playback log catches up automatically when the connection returns.
Gyms get billed by Entandem too?
Yes — repertoire music in a gym is licensable by SOCAN and Re:Sound like anywhere else. The Oktava catalog is registered with neither, so for it there is nothing to bill; radio or streaming at the same gym would still fall under the tariffs.
What about our group classes?
The subscription covers background playback — the floor, the lobby, the locker rooms. Classes where music is the main content are tariffed separately by the societies, and our licence doesn't replace that; we say so instead of hiding it in fine print.
This information is provided for general reference and is not legal advice.