Hi everyone, I would like your enlightenment about music on twitch.

Sometime the game music can be irritating for both the streamer and viewers especially in grinding or long session, so I often put music in background instead. But for now I only got one CD that I know isn't mute when I stream due to copyright, its a cd from a youtuber that I bought and the person say that he doesn't mind people using his music for any project just mention him, which I do.

But now I try to find some other CD from my library to put while im streaming but after several tests, some song on the same cd are muted and other not (It was Time out by dave brubeck).

So my questions are

-Do you know how twitch determine mute song or album. -Do you personnally play music when streaming, would you recommend it or not -Do you know any good way to find royalty free artist or album

I think it's about that, again sorry for the long post, it's just a topic i'm really curious about.

Thanks for your further responses !

I sadly don't know allot about the way how Twitch is handling that. But to "prevent" to have a muted Video, you can still record the Stream and up it on YT for example.

With that you can usually have any music in, since YT doesn't care about that too much. At least on my side here. It just tells you that there's Copyrighted music in and that's it. Video still works. You'd only get problems when you're YT-Partner.

Anyways, let's get back to the topic.

• No, I don't know how twitch is handling it. But, Twitch has a Library for Music that you can play, check out http://music.twitch.tv/ for their stuff.
• I sometimes do it. When I do it, I usually do it with Song-Requests or I play the music for myself with some Settings in my Music-Player, so the Stream won't capture it. It really depends on how you want to handle it. If you have some active viewers I'd try to do Song-Requests for such stuff, since then you have some variety in the Music as well.
• Like I said before, http://music.twitch.tv , but YT also has one -> https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Hope I could help out ;)

Good luck with your Streams then

• Twitch handles copyright claims in a similar way Youtube handles them, where they have a library of music and your stream is checked across all of that library. The library will contain most of today's well known musicians, as well as the more popular older stuff. Basically anything that is still held under copyright by the top music publishers. There may be a few obscurities in there where some smaller companies or indie groups have asked for their music to be added to the library, but that is few and far between.

• Personally, not really, but if you don't like the game music go for it.

• As PreFiXAUT mentioned there is the music.twitch.tv where there is a quite large library of varying music that can be freely used on Twitch, however you may run into some problems if uploading them onto Youtube, as the licence doesn't necessarily carry over. NCS (NoCopyrightSounds) has a large list of music you can use on Twitch freely. Tobu (7obu) allows his music to be used as long as you provide a link to his social accounts (Youtube account at a minimum.) Other than that there are a few places that you can get subscriptions to use music royalty free, such as MonsterCat (Twitch's music library has a list of 50 you can use, however they have 100s of songs available,) depending on what music you like. A quick google should bring a few up. As a side note, PreFiXAUT mentioned the Youtube music library, however those are only free to use on Youtube itself as far as I am aware, and some are attribution licences where you have to provide a link/description of the song.

I heard Danny Baranowsky, composer of Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac, and Crypt of the NecroDancer, allows streamers and youtubers to use his music.

Thanks guys for your answers I really appreciate!

I did check some peoples on the twitch library, but I mostly found chiptunes artists, I will take a second look.

I started doing some tests with my music to build a library, but I especially put old jazz music from the 50's so if I avoid big name I should be fine. But i will keep an eye for independent artists who like to share their music.

Thanks again folks, have a nice day!

About free music, I can't say it's 100% true, but I tried some music, and some are muted. But OST from video games generally pass successfully (that's logical, or each time we play on Twitch, musics from games we are streaming would be cut off).

I can't confirm it's 100% true, but for the moment, my video games' OST playlist has no problem on Twitch.

Game OSTs will generally pass on Twitch, and most will pass on Youtube too. The main exception to this is Nintendo's First Party IP, Mario, LoZ, Metroid and such. Many of their newer game's OST's (starting at Mario Galaxy, possibly earlier) will usually get flagged. Any other game songs that have been in my streams seem to have passed (Barring the Lego game's music as most are movie soundtracks.)

Twitch's content ID can be really, really screwy sometimes. There are some songs that appear in games (Life is Strange OST comes to mind) that will get your VOD's muted. Makes no sense. Personally, I only play tunes at the beginning of my stream and on break. Never during the "actual stream."

It doesn't matter if it appears in a game or not, if the song has been added to the DMCA list it will be muted. From personal experience the Lego Batman soundtrack will get claims on it because they use the film's music score even though it's in a game.

The Life is Strange OST probably gets claims on it because it's licensed music, which means the game producers will have permission to use the music, but don't own the music. As such the producers of the music, DontNod Entertainment have probably requested it to be on the DMCA lists.