Creators who pay for music streaming services like spotify, pandora, apple music ect. should be allowed to play music from those platforms on stream. They pay to use a service that allows them to listen to music uninterrupted, and artists and labels get paid for the streams played. It makes sense. Partnering with a music streaming service could be beneficial for twitch as well. Limiting creator's choices in the content they're allowed to use, and punishing them for something they may already pay for isn't right. Please excuse me if i seem ignorant. but it doesn't make sense to me. Let creator's play music, if they pay for the service, they're paying to play the song. Even people who use these apps for free still contribute to the artists and the labels by streaming. it's free advertising for the artists. if everyone is required to add a widget or something is implemented to show the artist and the song and where to stream it how is that not beneficial for all? Allow creators to express themselves through music.

Music license companies put their videos on Youtube and make money through Youtube. They need to be watched in order to make money. There is no problem when everyone watched its videos individually but a streamer share their videos with crowd of people it is problem because this is loss of earning for them. My suggestion is that when the streamer share a music from Youtube, available number of streamer' spectator be reflected music views. In this way even if streamer does not have any right of broadcasting, music license companies lose anything also they make a profit with the help of streamers. Law should protects intellectual property rights but should not punish streamer for something that everyone reachs free.

Proposal: All DMCA strike appeals within 30 days, or another concrete time period. Twitch must have an avenue for creators to submit proof of license for copyrighted music, which should also have a mandatory maximum 30 days review period. Note: This should be accompanied by an additional 'bad actor' appeal option.

An example from my experience: I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, but I have purchased lifetime stream rights to broadcast a song made by a small creator. I have provided twitch with that information. I have appealed every muted audio...for months. I even received a strike from a song listed on Pretzel Rocks which specifically only hosts royalty-free music, so no one should be listed as a DMCA copyright holder...Anyway, Twitch has not removed the mute or added a block on this particular claim for months.

I did get a response that said the issue had been "escalated internally" but nothing has been done on the user end and I continue to get muted audio at the beginning of my streams. This is fair use under the scope of the DMCA laws and restrictions. The point is to protect artists but if you pay the artist for the music, you should have a way to notify twitch you own a license for that music and not get strikes for it.

I recently found a loophole with your Soundtrack plugin that allows anyone to use Spotify without any DMCA takedowns/risks. The Soundtrack FAQ states that Voicemeeter is not compatible with Soundtrack, which isn't totally true. If people have Voicemeeter set up in a way that their mic, desktop audio, Spotify audio, etc are in different sources, they can turn those different sources into different tracks. That is how my OBS is set up. Now if I use the plugin, I can make every one of those tracks EXCEPT the SPOTIFY source go into track 6, not allowing the Spotify to go into my vods, meaning I don't get DMCA striked. I am not sure if this will 100% work. I also do not know if I have to have the Soundtrack app open for the OBS plugin to work.

I also do not know if this is still against DMCA guidelines.
Drill

When choosing what game you're about to stream on Twitch, it would be easy if Twitch could start keeping track of or have a record of which (major) games will copy strike their in-game music or sounds. Having to accept a checkbox stating 'this game does not allow streaming of its in-game music' would really be beneficial and stop hundreds of strikes from happening in the first place.
If streamers knew before hand and had to accept immediately-muted VODs for those games, it would probably save a lot of time on everyone's end.
If you accept the box, your VOD will just be auto muted completely. If you don't want that, then you know which games and companies can't be trusted, and we as gamers/streamers won't support the companies that don't support us.