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A playlist plays one mood until you stop talking to change it. Bardio changes with the scene on one press, and you keep talking.

Composed, played and recorded by people, licensed, and credited in the app with a link to every source. No AI. It's Classic Fantasy: battles, taverns, dread, travel. For anything else, bring your own.

Yes. DnD, 5e or older, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, any TTRPG. Warhammer 40,000 and other miniature wargames too: bring your own music and press the scene.

The library in the box is Classic Fantasy. For horror, sci-fi or anything else, drop in your own music and Bardio sorts it into the same scenes, or into scenes you name yourself.

No. Bardio plays files on your machine. If you have the music as files, drop the folder in.

Not the kind you build. Scenes come ready; press the one that's happening. There are one-shot effects too, a door, a sword, a crowd, when you want them.

No AI music, no AI sounds. Every track in the box was composed, played or recorded by a person, and each one is credited in the app with a link to where it came from. The only models in Bardio sort your own music, one in the box and a sharper one as an optional download: you pick a few tracks for a scene and they find the ones that sound alike, on your PC, sending nothing anywhere and making nothing.

Yes, with credit. Every bundled track is under a licence that allows it in a stream or a recording: Creative Commons Attribution or CC0. Copy credits on the Packs page gives you the whole list, with licence links, to paste into a description. If a platform's automatic matching ever flags a track, that list is what you dispute it with.

Yes. Each campaign keeps its own scenes, presets, board order and theme; switch from the campaign menu.

No. Press the scene. That's the whole job.

A Windows PC, Windows 10 or later. It plays through the PC's speakers, or you hand the sound to a paired phone and whatever that is connected to, a Bluetooth speaker say; one device plays at a time. Any phone, tablet or laptop on the same Wi-Fi works as a remote; so does an Elgato Stream Deck.

No. Bardio runs fully offline. No account, no licence server. Remotes join over your local Wi-Fi, which doesn't need the internet either. On a venue network that blocks devices from seeing each other, a phone's hotspot works instead. It works on a laptop in a basement with no signal.

No. One purchase.

Nothing changes for you. Bardio runs on your own machine with no server to switch off, and your library is on your hard drive. The copy you installed keeps working.