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Of course, both Spotify and Apple have been developing their own official group listening services, but creating something similar to overcome licensing issues around livestreaming is an interesting idea. “If the extension gets very popular”, he adds, “it could be extended to use even more services, and maybe even lookup songs on different music services, so the viewer/streamer could use different services but listen to the same songs”. And he has plans for possible future development too. There are a couple of other hacks Pequeno0 had to employ, particularly if a streamer changes a track mid-song.

This might be changed in the future to a better system to support more platforms”.

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I had to make a popup, and figure out how to send back the results of this popup to the extension to get the token to use for Spotify. “But usually logging in with Spotify happens in an iframe with OAuth. For example, it’s not possible to embed an iFrame in the Twitch extension”. Getting technical about how he connects the Spotify accounts of Twitch users, he goes on: “Getting to understand the Twitch API together with the Spotify API was problematic to start with. So I talked to a friend of mine, and we came up with this idea of synchronising music in a way that would still pay the artists”. So it was actually with them in mind that I started the project.

When the DMCA strikes hit, they were hit hard.

Twitch user Pequeno0 tells Torrentfreak: “I’ve watched a lot of ‘GTA V Roleplay’ on Twitch, and they used to play a lot of music, which fit the RP. That has resulted in plenty of Twitch users running into music licensing issues for the first time, Amazon being obliged to respond to any takedowns in order to avoid liability for copyright infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Basically it’s a way for the Twitch streamer and the Twitch viewer to sync their Spotify accounts.īoth record labels and music publishers have become more prolific in filing takedown notices against Twitch in the last year, of course, with the Amazon company yet to properly sort out licences for much of the music that swims around its platform. While the music industry continues to fight its copyright battle with Twitch – dropping DMCA takedown bombs from time to time on the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform – one Twitcher has created a possible short term solution for livestream gamers who want viewers to hear their chosen soundtrack to any gameplay. Business News Digital Twitch user develops Spotify hack to overcome music licensing problems on livestreaming platform By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 19 July 2021