The 6 Best DMCA Free Music Services for Streaming

If you’ve ever found yourself with a DMCA strike, or portions of your stream’s VOD muted, it’s likely because of copyright issues with music. Music labels make a break deals with platforms more regularly that we’d like to think. One day your content is buzzing with great tunes and being consumed by thousands, the next it’s muted because a label has changes their conditions or decided they no longer wish to promote music on that platform. Many streamers choose to not play music to avoid this, however, music can play a big role in setting the mood and atmosphere for your audience.

So how do we combat this? It’s simple – use DMCA free (also known as copyright free, or royalty free) music that is legally cleared for use on a live stream, to avoid any issues with copyright infringement. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the best services for DMCA free music for use on Twitch live streams, including Epidemic Sounds, Streambeats, Streamlabs Music, Pretzel Rocks and Backing Track.

Epidemic Sound

Epidemic Sound is a professional level music library that I personally use for my DMCA free music needs including live stream and music for our promotional videos. Their entire catalogue is cleared for use on live streams, and content. The service offers a free trial, but requires a fairly priced paid plan if you intend on sticking with it. A neat feature from Epidemic Sound is the ability to search for tracks by mood, genre and bpm which can be helpful for finding the perfect music for your stream.

Not only that, you can download “stems” (individual tracks of a song) allowing you to pull tracks apart to customize as you see fit. Like all good DMCA music services, they also have their music added to Spotify, ready to create your “live stream playlist”. This is my personal pick for serious content creators. Available directly via your browser, or YouTube and Spotify.

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Streamlabs Music

Streamlabs Music is another service that offers a library of music that is cleared for use on live streams. The service is integrated with Streamlabs Desktop, so users who prefer the luxury of quick installations of Streamlabs overlays and widgets will find this handy. In the short time that I listened to the music available, it a bit “stock” quality, but still great for background sound to fill the void. The interface within Streamlabs Desktop takes a little bit to get use to, but hoping they can improve the experience in the future.

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StreamBeats

Well known creator Harris Heller and music producer Ryan King developed StreamBeats in response to continuous DMCA issues running rampart in the Twitch community. As creatives themselves, the music style and genres are perfect for streamers and content creators. They have ensured all their catalogue only includes DMCA free music for use on Twitch and YouTube meaning there is almost no chance of running into problems.

One of the best things in my opinion is most of their tracks have no vocals, making them incredible for background music. The library size is big enough to suit most content creators, and a premium sound for the low, low price of free. Available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music.

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BeardedBeats

BeardedBeats created by BeardedBlevins is one of the newer DMCA free music providers. it is available across most of music streaming services, but it’s kicked off with a huge range of genres and high quality beats. Setting itself apart from the rest of the DMCA music providers is the option to join the “BeardedBeats Creator Access”. This is a great addition for those who are video editors or posting content on YouTube. With the Creator Access, BeardedBeats give you access to download their music files (MP3) directly for use it your videos – completely free.

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Pretzel

Another streaming service that offers a library of DMCA free music for live streams is Pretzel. One of the original saviours of live streamed music, Pretzel offers a free tier with a limited library of curated music, as well as paid plans with access to one of, if not the largest library of tracks. Pretzel Rocks also offers the ability to create custom playlists, and a standalone music player and cool Twitch integrations such as “What’s playing?” automated chat-box responses and integration into popular streaming tools such as Streamlabs Desktop and Stream Deck plugins.

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Backing Track

For the metal, synth, rock and fans of the 80s in general, Backing Track is your place to go. This DMCA free music is the creation of EposVox and IceOrb. These are some of the coolest, hard-hitting tracks out there. It appears they’ll be expanding into more genres in 2023 and we can’t wait. Backing Track is available for free basically everywhere – Spotify, Pretzel, YouTube, Apple Music and Amazon.

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When it comes to finding DMCA free music for your live streams and content creation, it’s important to use a service that offers tracks that are cleared for use on live streams. All of the services mentioned in this post, offer a wide variety of tracks that are cleared for use on live streams. Each service has its own unique features, so it’s worth taking a look at all of them to see which one best fits your needs.