How many seconds can you legally stream music for (quiz related)?

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 12:59

I can't find the answer, Google fail.

I have mates who run quizzes on Facebook and they are getting turned off or in the case of one friend, a letter from Warner Brothers threatening him.
I think the problem is they stream too long so for instance they'll play the intro, 1st verse, chorus and then ask the question where most quizzers like myself need 5 seconds of the intro.

So has anybody got any idea how long of a song you can legally stream for before getting jumped on?

Thanks

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 13:34

I was hoping I was going to be able to tell them don't play more than 15 seconds for a quiz and you'll be OK.

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 14:30

Diddums said:
There are millions of royalty free tracks out there which can be used

Not easy when they want to play 15 seconds of Deep Purple Rat Bat Blue or 15 seconds of Oasis The Hindu Times etc.

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 18:47

arknor said:
isnt there a website you can join for a really small fee that gives you access to a pretty big selection of music you can use.

Any idea what it's called?
They are streaming from Spotify so that could be the problem.

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 21:30

SexyGreyFox said:
Any idea what it's called?
They are streaming from Spotify so that could be the problem.

@arknor
Any idea what the site is called?

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 21:40

mrbell1984 said:
Can you not just use YouTube? Artists get paid from there don't they?

They also get paid on Spotify, Apple Music etc so I’m not sure what the problem is.

The whole idea is they are live streaming and while doing the quiz they will play a bit of a track off their phone from Spotify.
You can imagine it is quite a bad sound and some people moan (can you hold it closer etc) but Facebook still stop it or Warner Brothers moan about it.
Playing from You Tube or Amazon Prime is still going to cause the same issue.
I've just done another music quiz but he kept it to all questions and pictures.

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 22:12

Dirk Diggler said:
Why not use Zoom?

If somebody coughs or says something simple like "Oh I know that" it switches to that person

It's a right pain.

SexyGreyFox · 26 Apr 2020 at 22:18

Dirk Diggler said:
Spotlight one user?

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362653-Spotlight-Video

OK I'll tell them to look at that.
i do know that 3 weeks ago quite a few didn't take part because they didn't want to install something else, one of them cited Zoom as being run by the Chinese

SexyGreyFox · 27 Apr 2020 at 17:51

dl8860 said:
I thought standard practice that everyone except the quiz master mutes while questions are being asked. You can selectively unmute for clarifications, but it works fine so long as everyone vaguely behaves

I'll pass it on - thanks