Twitch, Amazon Music, Audio Fingerprint and DMCA Solution
Recently a lot of streamers have been getting DMCA notices for streams that are 2-3 years old. 50 Cent - In Da Club has been flagged on many channels along with other music from RIAA. This is a problem because streamers are now scared of getting punished or banned off the platform for listening to the music they want to listen to. This is not good for the longevity of the platform if it wants to survive the entertainment industry.
To be brutally honest, Twitch is not good for the music industry at all. If a streamer has 10,000 viewers and is listening to a song it only counts for one single stream/play/view instead of 10,000 which is what the music industry wants. They want to be able to claim more streams and plays on their songs as that's how they make money.
Twitch is owned by Amazon, which also owns Amazon Music. Amazon needs to purchase rights to a larger range of music for their Music platform. Amazon is a TRILLION DOLLAR market cap company so I think they have more than enough funds to be able to purchase some streaming rights to more songs.
With a wider range of music to play on the Music app, Twitch could implement Amazon Music within a broadcast and can then count viewers towards streams for the Music played.
This will only work if the streamer is listening to the music through Amazon Music. If they are listening to a copyrighted song that's not on Amazon Music, then they should not broadcast unless they want the possibility of getting a DMCA notice. Amazon and Twitch can only enforce what is within their control.
Another solution would be for Twitch to implement and use other music platforms such as Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Music and their streaming rights for music.
Another solution is to use audio fingerprint matchers like Shazam to identify what music is being played in the background. Then counting the streamers viewers as listeners to whatever song is being played.
Overall, Twitch needs to be able to match the music that's being played in a live stream and count the number of viewers/listeners the streamer has. If they cannot solve this streamers will not be able to broadcast while listening to their favorite music without getting a DMCA.
I do not believe anyone within the past few weeks should have any sort of strike or punishment on their channel for past music DMCA/copyright notices.

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DaemonEros commented
Es un camino viable a la realización de un sistema completo de satisfacción para el usuario, al poder aportar de manera activa en la ambientación musical de los streams. Una manera de buscar que el viewer interactúe con mayor interés en los streams. Briando una herramienta de votación, para que en la encuesta se decida qué música será la siguiente, y que el software logre aplicar la música directamente en el sonido transmitido desde la plataforma. Esto puede favorecer a los mismos streamers, que pueden ser fuente de información de las preferencias musicales entre su comunidad y los usuarios.
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Piuizando commented
Integrate amazon music with twitch live, Only subscribers of amazon prime can listen to the music that stream is broadcasting.
Same system as the watch party, with pause and choice of music from subscribe -
Tsaion commented
Well written. This needs more votes.
I had an idea myself but this is much more detailed.
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DrBrainTickler commented
I also must point out the twitch handles this in a far more reasonable way than other platforms do. YouTube it's disgusting for example. I recommend everyone boycott YouTube in general. Twitch and Amazon Are family, they actually care and they've got the money to back up how much they actually care.
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DrBrainTickler commented
The copyright flagging is indeed absurd. All of these copyright trolls should not be enabled. They should be forced to come after each individual person just like any other legal issue and it should not be the job of any social media platform to police the internet.
Additionally, all of the musicians and other content creators of varying forms of which would cry theft because we put their work in our stream, they should be thanking us because we are advertising for them for free and the world is not going to know about them or get addicted to their work unless we are allowed to share it with each other. When we share it, our comments are on top of it or other distractions and it's enough for people to get addicted to the work but it is not the best way for them to consume it so they leave and go buy it or watch it on YouTube without stream interference and at their leisure... The copyright trolls need to be marked and thrown under a bridge, buried or forced to go back to eating their bowl of raw sewage that they think is so valuable and leave the rest of us alone.
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KensonPlays commented
That would make it worth a switch to Amazon Music to me.
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ssinisters commented
With the issue of DMCA it is understandable why it had to be done but for some creators music is a part of the stream. It is a tough siuation but maybe an inclusive deal with Spotify can be something to look foward to. there can be a partnership with spotify where you can link it up with your twitch profile.
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ghoek commented
Integration with Amazon Music so Unlimited subscribers can stream music on their Twitch channel without getting flagged/muted. If it requires an additional fee to cover licensing etc, so be it.
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joaomacae commented
Então ja que a nova lei de copyright ja esta em vigor, eu pensei em usar o amazon music, ja que a plataforma twitch é da amazon e la eles tem os direitos das musicas
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joaomacae commented
Então ja que a nova lei de copyright ja esta em vigor, eu pensei em usar o amazon music, ja que a plataforma twitch é da amazon e la eles tem os direitos das musicas
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Rux_ commented
Think about when you are listening to your favorite music while watching your favorite streamer... Then they raid someone who is listening to music that clashes with yours. You either left their stream, or shut off your own music, right? With talks about cracking down on the usage of copyrighted music on Twitch. I would like to offer an idea that is similar to Discord and their integration with Spotify and their listening parties.
Let the streamer play music through Spotify, and allow viewers to join in and listen to the music that their favorite streamer is listening to. Those same viewers could also decide to listen to their own music, if they would like. I don't know all the logistics that would go into separating music from the stream for the broadcaster. Same could be done with Amazon Prime music, YouTube music, and the like.
Tell me what you think. I would love this to become a thing in the future. Let the discussion begin.
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Voidstalker33 commented
I had the same Idea and searched to see if I could stream music from Amazon Prime and found myself here as I myself have been a Prime member for years, my only fear/problem would be that if Amazon did agree to let Prime members stream Prime music is that it would be if you use the separate payed for Prime music rather than the music collection you can listen to free without that separate fee.
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Joe Delan commented
It would make sense...
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Anonymous commented
This would be awesome. I was actually about to post this as an idea and found yours. The way it could work would be making a playlist and then having twitch/amazon handle the mixing into your stream for prime subscribers. Using streamlabs, this could also be used to handle song requests according to rules set by the streamer. It would promote Amazon Prime and Prime Music a lot so I am sure Twitch/Amazon have a large interest in this to happen.
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wrath39 commented
bump
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wrath39 commented
Basically the name says it all, yes twitch has come out with a twitch music library; however, I find the content to be very sub par. Instead, since twitch now has the function to link to your Amazon account it would be interesting to see if they could make the music on your stream available to those who are Prime subscribers as long as you us Amazon Music.
I'm not sure if this is possible as I'm not positive if twitch can split the audio portion of the stream. I know they can mute the audio completely but I'm sure there would have to be a separate plugin for the streaming software such as xsplit and OBS. I do know that in OBS you can add an additional audio output device and I would be fine with wearing earbuds to hear my music, but it would be nice for those viewing the stream as well.
Again not sure if this is possible and I'm not a quote "streamer" with the exception I stream once in a blue moon. But I watch streams constantly and it sucks that the past broadcast will be muted if a streamer decides to play music (not from the twitch library) when they're live.
Let me know what you think,
-wrath39