The public Movie Nights page is an experimental archive inferred from music heard in the room. It can suggest films and group soundtrack tracks, but it is not an authoritative record of what was screened. Albums, singles, or unrelated music can be mistaken for a film.
A venue display can also show a brief Now Showing card when current film state has been set or accepted.
What patrons see
- the current film title when one has been set;
- a reverse-chronological archive of possible earlier movie nights;
- artwork when a suitable public image is available; and
- an expandable soundtrack list when tracks were identified.
An empty soundtrack does not mean the film was silent. Music identification can miss short, quiet, dialogue-heavy, live, or uncatalogued audio. A title in the archive also does not prove that a film was shown.
How a screening is identified
The service can use recurring soundtrack metadata and other limited venue context to suggest that a film is playing. This inference can produce false positives. If current state is wrong, an authorized operator can set or clear Now Showing and can revert a mistaken detection.
The public archive remains a beta view while detection quality and correction workflows improve.
flowchart LR SIGNAL["Public soundtrack metadata"] --> CANDIDATE["Possible screening"] CONTEXT["Limited venue context"] --> CANDIDATE CANDIDATE --> REVIEW{"Usable current state?"} REVIEW -->|Yes| LIVE["Now Showing and possible archive entry"] REVIEW -->|No| CORRECT["Operator clears or reverts it"]
Data and privacy
The archive contains film titles, dates, artwork, and identified track metadata. It does not identify who watched a film or who caused a track to play. Protected operator corrections are not exposed as a public activity log.
Reliability
- A live song may take priority over the film card on a shared display.
- Missing artwork falls back to a text-first presentation.
- An operator can set or clear current film state and revert a mistaken detection.
- Archive entries can be incomplete or wrong and should be read as experimental detections.
Related: Setlist · Venue displays · Public API