Super awesome tip! I have always wondered how to get this going, as I didn't want to commit to a subscription service yet until I knew it was worth the time. Also, I really only play for myself or a select few friends/family anyway, so it is great to know how to get around these things. Keep it up guys!! Love the content.

Always appreciate your great info Phil!! Thank you so much!

Man!!! What a fantastic guide. Thank you so much. This has been super helpful. Cheers 😀

Thank you for this BRILLIANT video. I will certainly implement your idea with my next upload.

This is one of the most helpful videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you 😊

Digital Dj Tips always with tips worth gold! such a simple yet clever workaround.

Thanks for the video... very, very, very useful Information. And very clear and concise. Also the examples on videos that contains songs "noticed" by KZfaq and how to manage it, are very valuable. Indeed very good work. Thanks for sharing!!

The secret is here🤪🔥🔥 thanks Phil! Always watched your stuff and continue to learn a lot🙏🏾🙏🏾

Thank you Phil for that lifesaving tip!

this just gave me so much hope!! I LOVE KNOWLEDGEEEE

A great tip. Thank you Phil.

This is so helpful, thanks!

Going to try this, thanks so much!!

Hi man this is very helpful !!thank you 😊

Thank you for the guide 🙏

Brilliant Tip! Thanks!!

Thank you! Great info!

Super! Thanks For The Tips. Cheers

THANKS SO MUCH PHIL

FYI Guys, the tips he mentions in this video though in theory should avoid your live streams from being blocked, youtubes system often falsely still can block your live stream, even if the track is permitted to be uploaded with a yellow circle. Making it extremely difficult to prepare the right songs. And its also not the same for everyone. As a test I ripped a live stream dj mix from someone elses channel that ran on loop 24/7, I tried to live stream it as a test and wamn, it blocked my stream with the black screen of death meanwhile his runs just fine.

Smart tip. Thanks

Excellent video, very helpful as every single tip I get from you guys. I have a question. Can I upload that video test in private and still get the songa analyzed or it has to be public in order for KZfaq to do that?

Nice guide! Do you mind answering a quick question? What if the video description has links for donations or optional subscriptions like Patreon or something? Will KZfaq consider the video as monetized? Thanks again for sharing. Cheers!

Hi thanks for this tips ! so that mean for example James Hype ( his team I guess) test all his tracks before recording a boiler ? Thanks

Nice one!

Good idea

Mad cool! Thank you- Cheerio 🥂

Nice vid. What are the chances that the tracks (or at least some of them) change from being non-blocked to blocked in any period of time after publishing on KZfaq?

Any tips if you use beatsource? Wouldn’t be able to drag and drop as music files are in the cloud not hard drive

This really hampers the creativity

great vid! In theory, this should work for a drummer livestream who plays to copywritten songs correct? I have a decent audience but I dont want to get my channel taken down. I dont care about uploading the livestream after the fact.

Thanks for this Phil. Gonna give it a try. Is the process still the same in 2023 or have any details changed we should know about?

Great content! I'm kind of in between the two sides. I think it's import for artists that their music is protect. That's why we have laws. And me as an musician myself I would not want to go back to the time when everyone could post everything he wants on YT like wild west stealing content without any border. I know it's though for DJs. They totally act within the law and YT is saying: "nope dope. please have a moment to manage 35 content id claims every mix you post." But at the end of the day i think its more important to protect the music/art and the work of the people behind. Hopefully the algorithm will be developed

that was the thing i wanet to hear xD i need to upload and check it xD was thinking the same xD

also, i've been experimenting between twitch and youtube for various copyright things, and i'm starting to think youtube might be the next location for DJ's to start spinning their sets

Very valuable info! Thank you Phil! I am wondering: what if you wanted to go a step further and actually make that "test" set live for a day or two just to see if they gonna block it? Would that provide even extra confidence and eliminate that 1% of uncertainty? Do you have any info if affiliate links make copyright holders change their mind and block you later down the road when you are live or it does not make any difference? Thx!

Good post

Thanks for the tips I appreciate your efforts but as a DJ/Producer myself I really don't have time for music & anti social platforms drama and I really hope those aliens behind this nonsense will stop this drama because it is not beneficial for artists big or small neither for record labels (except for mega greedy music distributors) artists like me we spend thousands of dollars on music gear, samples, vocals, buying tunes from beatport etc.. to play it on club gigs. radio shows and live streams then we end up frustrated by such nonsense... I just hope it end up soon or at least to add audio finger prints to legally acquired tunes so it will not get blocked etc.... Happy Djing and listening to everyone

4:47 "if you want to replace...goodluck with that" man I feel that pain its so tideous.

Hi Phil I have a question. Maybe you can try it at the office or you already know but, Can the Evermix Box 4 work with the numark Mixstream pro. Thanks! ☺️

Hi...excellent video...I was wondering if this is only true of uploaded your own material to KZfaq channel digitally, if this also works for if you are playing at a venue? Are there different rules for venues? Or if you go through this process before playing a request is that okay. Forgive the ignorance, I am like brand new and what clarity before doing anything. Thanks!

Thank you. I really want to make a mix that is not live and add ambient music in the background with a video to accompany. Ive seen alot of those type of music curated videos. Do you know if they have copyrighted issues?

So my controller has a built-in sound card can I just plug HDMI to my camera and go to work?

I remember watching this video. Is this still the recommendation in 2022 if I want to post relatively short DJ mix videos to KZfaq? Thanks!

hi the problem i have is when i play live the audio sounds awful in you tube yet when im dj ing it sounds normal how do i get round this?

and yet it happened a couple weekends ago. Not your fault, just youtube and dcma-ers making things hard. too bad, I really enjoy your live sets from crazy places :) Steves set last week was great too.

I'd be curious to know if there is an app that can alert a DJ if they are playing one of these "forbidden" tracks, so they can quickly skip to the next track! I know a lot of DJ's are crate digging and may not have a strict setlist they can instantly queue up and upload to test using this method.

Hi, I think the system has flaws, at least for me. But I can't figure out the cause, can you please help? It might be of some kind of utility for someone else. Long story short, I wanted to upload a mix. A week ago, I dropped the track selection (as you suggest) on iMovie, edited with a simple image, rendered it in the lowest quality possible, uploaded the whole thing on YT. Only one track had a yellow eye (only for Russia). Then I recorded the mix, dropped it in DaVinci Resolve, Edited with the video file from the dj set, rendered it in 1080p and 60 fps, uploaded on YT. This time, 4 tracks with problems: 2 with red eye (1 of which is the exact same one that gave me the yellow eye a week ago), 2 with yellow eye (for dozens of countries). My first thought was "well, they must've changed the copyright policies for those 4 tracks in this week". So I tried another thing. This time on CapCut. Image, lowest quality possible, file audio of the mix, uploaded on YT. Guess what: this time, the "copyright profile" of the video was the exact same one showed for the first test video of a week ago. The oddest thing is that it doesn't seem a problem of track identification: it gives the correct track ID every time. It just gives two different copyright policies for the exact same track. And it clearly isnt' neither a matter of time, nor a matter of the mixed version vs the original one. The only thing I can think of is that there is more than one version for some tracks (kinda like original mix and radio edit..?) in the main source used by the algorithm, and at the moment of copyright detection, depending on the quality of the file, it identifies one version or the other (with perhaps one having copyright problems and the other one not). I know it doesn't make much sense but nothing of all of this does. I mean, it's not a matter of time, It's not a matter of mixing, It might be a matter of video quality, but why in hell should it make youtube correctly identify the same track while giving two completely different copyright detections?! it's the same damn track!! I don't know, I think I'm going insane. Anyway, I've consumed a lot of your content in the past months so thank you for all your work, I hope you or someone else can help

Hello digital DJ tips How to Livestream on KZfaq without copyright and when I avoid copyright I mean that I won’t see the word copyright under the video

Ok phil so what if we shorten the time that’s blocked would that work or maybe remix it?

Hi phill. Thanks for this very clear video. My question: I uploaded a mix with the song "Sweet dreams" by eurythmics. My video is blocked because of this song. No problem, i Just cut IT out. But..... How is it possible there are lots and lots of video's on KZfaq with this song. I Just can't find the answer. Please help. Regards Walter

Would this work the same if you wanted to upload a prerecorded mix instead of going live?

Thank you! Great advice. One question (and i'm assuming the answer is no), Can you use beatport streaming tracks with this or do you need the digital copy? Thanks

Hey quick question, if KZfaq is unable to provide content ID for songs that I am using (about 20% of the setlist). Should I be fine? Or is it worth uploading the tracks again to check? Or is there another way to check for copyright issues?

Great guide, I watched and tried it out. I have several mix's on youtube all with varying copyright allowances. I tried a mix that had zero issues except can't stream in Russia. All was going well on youtube live as a test and then 45 mins in, wallop, the video is stopped as it had found a copyright issue. I think I was that 1% on that stream, tried it again the next day and I got banned for 1 week due to community guidance? No idea what that entails except that as part of my experiment to see what viewing figures I could get I called the mix "Ibiza live DJ mix", maybe that was the issue that I wasn't in Ibiza (wished I was though). So at present, would I trust youtube live to DJ on following an upload and checking copyright, Id say it is too easy to be that 1% with a likely stop of the stream mid set.

#Ask Phil, does the non monetization rule effect super chats/donations?

I have two KZfaq accounts. I uploaded these same tracks into both of them. On the first account I see yellow icon for all the tracks. On the second account some of the tracks have red icon and KZfaq says that video cannot be seen and monetized. How is that possible that this same track might be blocked on one of the accounts and not on the others?

Does this only work on YT or can it be used on TT or IG thanks

So does this mean if KZfaq lists the songs as “no impact” on all of them, can you monetise? Or is it better to just keep it non-monetised?

Good info but it still kinda sucks that this is what has to be done. My favorite sets I've ever done are 60% planned and 40% spontaneity. Hell I love doing a set where all I know is what song I open with and what I end with and then I just go for it.

What if you're live streaming an event with other DJs and cannot use this method to test which tracks work or not?

after i stream live to youtube it always flags me, removes video and gives me a strike. How do I stop this from happening?

I uploaded a private audio-only version of my mix to test copyright and it was judged viewable everywhere except Russia. I spent a day making the video for it, but with exactly the same audio. When I posted that video, it was judged completely blocked worldwide. KZfaq recognized the songs correctly in both, but I'm only blocked on the one I spent all the time making the video. What am I missing? I don't understand since it is exactly the same audio and it recognizes the songs in both.

is it possible to monetize a dj mix if all copy rights issues are solved?

#ASK Hey PHILL! Can I just get my phone placing it next to the speaker and just play 30 sec of each song then just upload that? I mean if that works it would be marvelous

Is there a way to actually just pay to use music? What if this isn’t a live set, it’s just a recording of a dj set? No one seems to have a video on this

This method still didn't fully work. Prior to uploading my mix, I did the checks and it passed except for 1 track but the moment it went from unlisted to public, a whole bunch of tracks suddenly got blocked. KZfaq seriously doesn't want DJs to be on their platform which is a huge shame.

The biggest set in my life has a song that’s blocked in Russia…. only 2% of my audience…. Will it mess me up in the algorithm or will I be fine?

This video is 2 years old. Is it still working the same?

Does this still work in 2023? Thanks!!

Yt should Let you monetize your videos AND if they have that copyright issues, just give some earnings to the original Artists AND everybody Is happy

Questions that anyone can answer please. 1. how is it i see dj house music with thousands of view and i only get around 100 views. am I uploading it to the wrong place on youtube? can someone answer please.

Video cannot be monetized? Does that mean you won't get paid for your content?

I had a livestream on another channel of mine get blocked during the actual stream, and a copyright notice & strike that said this content goes against KZfaq 'Spam, deceptive practices, & scams policies'.. and that if I do it again I will not be able to stream, upload or comment for 1 week. This was using music that I had previously uploaded like in this video and then livestreamed in a DJ Set so please be careful when streaming. I have also had a quite successful Channel for DJ streams get deleted for good because of livestreamed dj sets. I find Twitch has been great for livestreaming.

does this still work?

Has any DJ monetized on KZfaq with mixes?

It sucks you have to preplan so much and do all this first just to see which tracks are ok.

Every last song on my list said blocked!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a cousin that streams on YT, and he can't go longer than 2 hours and 30 minutes, as YT takes down his show, it is always at that mark.

👍👍👍👍

So no freestyling

I don't understand why some labels are so anal about copyright. Don't they realise they need DJs to play their songs for them to sell and become popular???

[WITHOUT copyright issues] ?? All copyright from KZfaq has been apply anyway. Correct the title please. Your tips are only for heavy copyright claims (red ball), but ever YT putting a warning. Thanks. PS.: No one real DJ, want to make a 2 hour test video (edit, render and upload) to get what song are with red ball...

They can regulate music no problem. Cant regulate anything else apparently

@ digital dj tips.All though you can’t use monetisation with KZfaq,are you able to use buy me a coffee.or any other gifting services? sorry for questioning a post over 2 years old.but I’m sure you guys are the right people to ask these sort of questions

Pretty sure KZfaq doesn't monetize live DJ streams while they're happening. Now they'll just say you're involved in 'spam, deceptive practices, or scams' if you live stream that has any copyright detectability on it at all. The issue is not them just blocking your live stream from being seen, but them canceling the stream entirely, causing your streaming software to crash (and often the recording), and giving you a violation flag. As much of a drag having pre-prepared sets is, even that's not enough anymore. Twitch is completely reliable, though, and FB will let current listeners continue listening and even save a stream that gets flagged. The only reliable way to get around YT issues is to simply upload your recording later.

Thanks for the 💎 you continue to drop helping out the dj community 🦾🦾

Thanks Phil🫡

Nice 👍 happen to have any tips or tricks to avoid copyright via Instagram Live?