Being able to have a 'Favourites' list and the ability to make custom playlists would be great!

There's been many times when I'm listening to a pre-made playlist and like one of the songs, but there's no way for me to save, like or favourite it so I can listen to it again later.

Custom playlists would allow us to tailor our own streaming experience without the worry of copyright or muted VODs. Instead of finding the tracks on Spotify and making a playlist there, it would be great to do this in the Soundtrack app where we can retain the functionality of having the current song being displayed below the stream player.

Spotify, YoutubeMusic and other platforms are able to provide licenced music via a 'fee for service' model, with pricing typically around the $12-16 price point.

Twitch's platform adds another layer of 'complexity' here, in that the music played would be heard by more than the single user to whom it is licenced under a standard subscription fee. In almost all case studies for music on streaming platforms, the main problem highlighted is the plays/count and artists not being compensated accordingly.

Suggestion 1:
Twitch provides a subscription based service enabling users to play mainstream music, without restrictions. This fee would perhaps/logically be slightly higher than a sub for other similar services in recognition of the 'replay' aspect of the track. For myself, I know I would be quite happy to pay $20-25/month, an increase of $10 approximately over a Spotify or Youtube subscription cost, for access to streaming said music without being muted.

Suggestion 2:
Twitch implements a subscription services, linked to Soundtrack?
I.E If I am streaming, and have a paid subscription - I can play mainstream tracks which are audible to other subscribed members. Individual users without a Soundtrack subscription would not be able to hear the audio?

The ability to control Twitch Soundtrack via the Twitch API, or a new API would open up options to allow broadcaster to better integrate the twitch soundtrack application into their streams and the viewer experience either via 3rd party applications and extensions that call an endpoint, or alternatively by monitoring the PubSub API for tracked topics such as channel points or bit donations.

Further more, this could also be exposed not just in the background via endpoints but also in the user interface, such as when creating channel point redemptions, allowing them to perform one of several pre-made boilerplate type actons such as "Skip current song", "Pick a Random genre", "Pick a random playlist", "Pick a random song" and allow streamers, be they devs or not, to have better incentive to use twitch soundtrack for their benefit rather than simply just avoiding potential issues with copyright.

This would be of benefit, since there will always be a contingent of users who decide that they will not take copyright seriously until it becomes an issue for them and by extension twitch itself. By making soundtrack something ingrained in the platform itself and extendible, this will encourage these users to also use soundtrack for the benefits they would gain rather than choosing not to due to the percieved nature of "giving in to the industry"

In short, such an extension of the application and its functions will make the app both more attractive from a feature point of view for broadcaster and viewer alike, while also helping protect twitch from potential issues in the long run from broadcasters who flaunt copyright and put themselves and others at risk.