On Hold Messaging Services for companies that want more business

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Get a quote and free no-obligation consultation

  1. Find out what costs may be involved
  2. Request a free custom script and sample audio
  3. Talk to our experts about compatibility with your communications platform
  4. For call centers/contact centers: discover new technology for Queue Music solutions
  5. No obligation; it takes only 15 to 30 minutes to get the right music on hold messages solution

Hold music and message solutions for every communications platform.

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Music options

The best on hold music for business is here in any genre or style. Streaming live or audio files for any communications platform. 70+ hit music stream your favorite artists in your public spaces or on your phones.

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Voice options

Hear your professional human voice recordings in 3 business days. Need it faster - like, now? Our new AI feature for on hold messages gives you access to generative-AI clones of those human voices. They also can speak 68+ languages, accents and dialects for you in 5 seconds!

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Streaming solutions

Start streaming on hold music for your business. Our cloud and on-premise streaming solutions free tech teams of sourcing handling audio files. There’s no file size limit to worry about. All content is fully licensed. Now streaming in Microsoft Teams Phone with a free trial.


Our on-hold messaging services support hospitals, credit unions, equipment dealers, healthcare providers, and businesses with contact centers.

When major brands need a higher level of customer care, they choose Easy On Hold®.
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On Hold Message and Music Options

On hold music for downloading

Tired of amateur sounding “royalty free” songs on hold music for your business? Browse samples from our huge library of on hold music for business. Download mp3, wav or any other file format required as business hold music for your phone platform. Includes licensing. NEW: Easy On Hold now offers Cover Tunes, a unique solution that lets you play cover versions of popular songs for your music on hold and queue hold features.

Streaming hold music

Explore the benefits of live streaming custom hold music, including scheduling the music to automatically change. For example, Christmas and Holiday music that only plays on certain days or months of the year. Works with Microsoft Teams Phone, Asterisk, Avaya, Cisco. Nextiva, TPX and many more, including VoIP phone solutions and contact centers.

Streaming business music

Ad-free, profanity-free and licensed for business use, with specially-curated channels for contact center music on hold. For background music in your office, restaurant, hospital, retail store. Stream the business hold music that fits your brand. Control one or hundreds of locations from one secure portal for on hold messages and music.

On hold messages

Have you tried on hold messaging services for your business? Work with our talented team to deliver engaging and informative messages on hold recordings. We provide scripts and recordings for on hold messages for businesses, regardless of size. We work with industries including healthcare, dental offices, credit unions, equipment dealers, restaurants, veterinary clinics, and many more.

IVR, auto-attendant voices

That first impression of your business is too important to ignore. Our experienced voice prompt and greeting recording service will enhance your brand. For a single brand voice across all platforms we cloned our human voice talent using advanced AI technology. Our IVR voice and on hold messaging services ensure you’ll never need to “mix and match” voices. 68+ languages and dialects.

Overhead announcements

Inform visitors and customers with announcements in your business environment with our professional voice services. Broadcast business hours, news and promotions over your speakers, along with great music. Create custom schedules by the hour, day, week, etc. We'll help write customized scripts that reflect your brand's unique voice and offerings.

Your trusted partner for all music and messages on hold

See how businesses like yours have transformed their caller experiences with Easy On Hold

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Easy On Hold is a fantastic addition to our phone system. Our merchants enjoy the engaging music and messages. The integration was seamless, and they have great customer service.

- Lisa Hetzel

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Service and content is top notch and easy to use. I've been impressed by their follow through; they periodically check the service to ensure it's working with your system.

- Sean Kennedy

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Now that we have Easy On Hold, I am able to create greetings and upload them into our Mitel phone system within minutes. We also use messages when we put callers on hold or when they are put into our hold queue. With this simple change our phone answering has picked up and our reviews have also been better.

- Vangard Truck Centers

★★★★★

Talk to the music on hold experts


Get a quote and free no-obligation consultation

  1. Find out what costs may be involved
  2. Request a free custom script and sample audio
  3. Talk to our experts about compatibility with your communications platform
  4. For call centers/contact centers: discover new technology for Queue Music solutions
  5. No obligation; it takes only 15 to 30 minutes to get the right music on hold messages solution

Tested and certified: The music on hold software global business leader is Easy On Hold®.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Easy On Hold

Learn how Easy On Hold® combines professional voices, licensed music, streaming audio, custom messaging, and platform integrations for business communications.

  • What is text-to-speech IVR, and can it sound natural instead of robotic?

    Text-to-speech AI voice technology turns written scripts into spoken greetings, prompts, announcements, and other phone-system audio. Easy On Hold® provides professional AI voice options and human voice talent, so businesses can choose the right sound for each application. Easy On Hold offers AI for IVR as well as AI voices with music production.

  • Can we use both human and AI voices without changing the sound of our brand?

    Yes. Easy On Hold® offers professional staff voice talent together with AI-cloned versions of those same voices. That means you can use a human voiceover when you want a directed, custom read or tricky pronunciation, then use the matching AI voice for fast updates or new messages without suddenly sounding like a different person. The human and AI versions are designed to work together, giving your business a consistent, recognizable brand voice with the flexibility and speed of AI. We call it the fusion of AI and human voice.

  • How does music streaming compare to the music that comes with business phone systems?

    Music included with business phone systems is often limited to a small selection of generic tracks or short files that repeat from the beginning. Easy On Hold® streaming provides professionally programmed, always-changing music for greater variety. Streams provide continuous playback, so callers hear a fresher, more polished experience. Streaming also makes it possible to blend music with custom messages and update or schedule content without repeatedly replacing audio files in the phone system.

    Learn more about the benefits of streaming hold music.

  • What should businesses look for in a licensed music provider for their office phone system?

    Look for a provider that understands both music licensing and business telephone technology. The service should provide properly licensed music for the intended business use, dependable delivery, a broad selection of music, professional messaging options, and compatibility with your phone system. It should also make it easy to update content without creating extra work for your IT department.

    Learn more about hold music licensing.

  • What makes Easy On Hold AI Voices so much better than other AI voice platforms?

    Easy On Hold® doesn't rely on a single AI voice provider. We source and curate the best voices from multiple AI platforms, then test them for pronunciation, clarity, consistency, responsiveness, and overall delivery before adding them to our voice library.

    For multilingual content, we go a step further by selecting AI voice models that are trained on native speakers whenever possible. That can make a major difference in pronunciation, dialect, rhythm, and natural delivery. Need Vietnamese, for example? You can choose a voice modeled on a native Vietnamese speaker rather than simply asking a generic AI voice to speak translated Vietnamese.

    The result is a carefully selected library of professional AI voices across more languages and speaking styles, without requiring you to search and test multiple AI platforms yourself.

  • What features matter most when choosing a business music streaming solution?

    Look for business-licensed music, reliable streaming, centralized control, multiple music choices, scheduling, support for multiple locations, and the ability to mix music with company announcements or promotional messages. For larger organizations, it is also valuable to create separate streams for departments, locations, queues, or audiences and manage them from a single platform. Easy On Hold® can provide customized audio by department or location, and granular scheduling by time of day, day of the week, weeks, months, date ranges, and campaigns.

    Learn about streaming music for your business.

  • Do you offer custom hold message creation for our company's phone system?

    Yes. Easy On Hold® creates custom messages tailored to your business and caller experience. Messages can include business hours, products and services, website resources, appointment information, promotions, seasonal announcements, frequently requested information, and other useful content. They can be professionally voiced and combined with licensed music to create a complete on-hold messages program.

  • How does Easy On Hold integrate with business phone and contact center platforms?

    Easy On Hold® specializes in getting professionally managed audio directly into the platforms businesses already use. Depending on the system, that may include automated audio delivery and scheduling for platforms such as RingEX, RingCX, and Webex Calling, or live streaming for Zoom Phone, Microsoft Teams, Cisco, Avaya, and other enterprise and contact center environments.

    These integrations eliminate much of the manual work traditionally involved in downloading, uploading, replacing, and managing audio files. Music, messages, and other content can be updated and scheduled through Easy On Hold while the integration handles delivery to the phone system, saving time, reducing administrative expense, and helping keep caller audio current.

    Explore Easy On Hold phone and contact center integrations.

  • Do you provide professional scriptwriting services for business phone hold messages?

    Yes. Professional scriptwriting is available for on-hold messages, greetings, announcements, IVR applications, and other business audio. Our writers can turn basic information about your company into concise, conversational messaging written specifically to be heard, not simply read. Scripts can then be produced using professional human voice talent or AI voices.

  • What should businesses look for in an overhead, in-store, or background music streaming service for retail and corporate office spaces?

    A business music service should do more than simply play songs. Look for properly licensed commercial music, professionally curated channels, reliable streaming, remote management, and scheduling that lets the music change by time of day, location, audience, or business environment.

    The right music can help shape the atmosphere in an office, retail store, showroom, restaurant, lobby, waiting room, healthcare facility, or other public space. Genre, tempo, volume, and even the time of day can affect how the environment feels to customers and employees.

    Easy On Hold® business music streaming makes it possible to manage those experiences across one or many locations, with different music programs and schedules for different areas or audiences.

    Learn more about the benefits of background music for business.

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