How to Use the Twitch Music Library on iPhone or iPad

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Twitch has a music library of songs that are available to streamers royalty-free that can be used with broadcasts. Unfortunately, the music library isn’t built into the streaming service, and the website is down without any indication on when it will be functional again. In the meantime, you can play NoCopyrightSounds in the background of your broadcast or you can buy a whitelist license for $5 to use Monstercat’s songs. If you use a song that’s not from NoCopyrightSounds or Monstercat, Twitch may mute your broadcast while the unaccepted song plays. This wikiHow will teach you how to use the Twitch music library on your iPhone or iPad by playing songs by NoCopyrightSounds or by purchasing a whitelist license to use songs with Monstercat. Since Twitch doesn't include a music player, you'll need to use Spotify, since that will continue to play music when the app is minimized.

Steps

Using NoCopyrightSounds on Spotify

Open Spotify. This app icon looks like waves on a green circle. You can usually find this app on the home screen.

Search for NoCopyrightSounds in Spotify. The playlist is titled NoCopyrightSounds and the author of the playlist is NCS. If you don’t have the Spotify app, you can download it for free in the App Store. You can sign up for a free Spotify account or you can pay a monthly subscription to remove ads.

Tap a playlist to select it. The list of songs in the playlist will appear.

Tap Play or Shuffle Play.

Open Twitch. This app icon looks like a white speech bubble with quotation marks inside. You can usually find this app on the home screen. When Spotify is minimized, the music will still play.

Start your live chat. You’ll have to choose a category like “Just Chatting” to begin. The microphone will pick up the songs playing from the speakers, so you’ll have background noise. If you have headphones plugged into your iPhone or iPad, you’ll hear the music, but the microphone won’t pick up those sounds.

Buying the Monstercat License

Purchase a whitelist license to use Monstercat at https://www.monstercat.com/account/services/?vendor=twitch. If you have a Twitch Gold account, this is free.

Click Continue in the Gold Subscription box. You’ll see this under the listed features of the Gold Subscription.

Enter your payment information. You may need to confirm the purchase.

Open Spotify. This app icon looks like waves on a green circle. You can usually find this app on the home screen.

Search for the “Monstercat” artist. Any songs under this artist, as long as you’ve purchased a whitelist license or Gold Subscription, are acceptable to include in your Twitch broadcasts.

Tap Play or Shuffle Play.

Open Twitch. This app icon looks like a white speech bubble with quotation marks inside. You can usually find this app on the home screen. When Spotify is minimized, the music will still play.