This is a great tutorial, thank you so much. So, as you mentioned, it can be weird to have your VODs have no music at all if the original video had music. Something else interesting you can do (that I thought about after watching your video) is set up a third audio source on a virtual cable C, don't monitor it, and set it to only be on the VOD track. So, for example, set up a playlist of public domain music, and send that only to the VOD! You have to be pretty sure that audio source is working correctly since you won't be monitoring it during the stream, but you can still look at the volume on the meters to make sure it is still playing correctly and at approximately the right volume. Then you can have Spotify or whatever playing on your live stream, and public domain music on the VOD. I tested it and it works. It's like magic! Of course if you're rocking out to something on the live stream and the VOD is chilled out public domain beats it may come off a little weird, but it's better than silence, I think :)
@@CammyCam What I did was play spotify on my live stream via Cable A and then set up something like one of the lofi public domain live stations on youtube to play through Cable C from my browser. I've also reversed that and played music from my browser on Cable A and a public domain author like Streambeats off of Spotify on Cable C. I think to play two different Spotify playlists at the same time, you would need two Spotify accounts and have one playing through a browser and one playing through the Spotify desktop app and split the inputs that way (I think you'd need two accounts because the app and the brower would try to sync with each other on one account.) As you say, it could be done with downloaded music locally the same way, but I've never bothered to do that since there seems to be plenty of publicly available streams or playlists of public domain music on TH-cam.
If you can’t hear Spotify after following the steps, LET ME HELP! So basically OBS is hearing Spotify, not you. So you need to go back to sound preferences, under the OBS app, put “CABLE output” under input. And then as output, put whatever headphones you have. Now go to OBS, make ANOTHER audio output capture and as Device put “Cable Input”. Go to advance settings for the new audio output capture put “monitor only (mute output). Now you’re essentially listening to OBS while it’s listening to Spotify. Adjust the volume so you don’t get any weird playback. I did this with the free Audio software he recommend in the video. Hope this helps!
If you're having trouble trying to listen to Spotify through your headphones you have to monitor the output inside of the streaming service program you're using. So for OBS or StreamLabs you need to monitor the input and mute the input.
How do you make it so the audio doesnt go through both desktop/headphones AND the vb-cable though??? I just want one program not coming through my speakers. I shouldn't have to make a separate audio source for EVERY SINGLE THING with sound on my computer.
@@TheElectricRaichu when it comes to streaming you'd have to separate the audio. When you make a different channels for each audio piece and that is how you split it. Also it allows control over each scene because if you make a BRB scene you don't have to have your mic included in that so automatically mutes. As well as game audio. Update: I switched from streamlabs to obs because I wanted more functionality as well. If you don't have a problem with switching over to OBS I would definitely do so because they make it a lot easier and you can still hear the music without using V cable
@@soundisdayquan my issue is when i monitor my spotify source it comes thru my headset which is what my desktop audio source pulls from so it just plays thru streamlabs twice
@@leef9242 it's probably listening to the sound card/device. You may have to disable it on the settings. Currently, I'm not home but when I get home look at the menu and I can let you know what to do. Do you OBS or StreamLabs?
A good tip for avoiding awkward music-less vods is to get a 4th virtual cable just for copyright free music for the vod. Your twitch stream and yourself will not hear the boring copyright free music, but the vod will. Use an alternative internet browser like edge. Go to volume mixer and set edge's output to be the 4th virtual cable. Go to obs settings and set that 4th virtual cable to only play only play on channel 2 (or whatever channel your vod is)
I have seen plenty of videos about it, and they're always missing something, assuming we know something so they won't explain. Your is perfect, assumed nothing, explained it simple. Great video, in love
Very helpful. I am a new streamer and I don't understand a lot of this from the first playback. Suggestions: 1) list out the steps; 2) I guess sometimes you are referring to different scenarios, can you make it explicit?
TL;DR: Avoid using default system audio output in OBS, only listen to it by yourself on your side. Set two separate recording devices in OBS with one being vb-cables A and other vb-cable B in OBS, set all desired tracks to vb-cable A, set all undesired track to vb-cable B. Untick Twitch VOD track for vb-cable B. Can't say if profit, still avoid copyrighted content I'd say ... Plan B with free vb-cable edition: Just set all as in video and listen to same track on your phone... :( Long version: It's not explained properly, because the way you show on video the setup will cause ppl actually hear nothing in their headphones while audio does exist on-line. Anything you want to hear at your side must go to main output source, say your headphones. Call it „Main“. Main plays on-line and sticks to VOD, always, unless you untick it in advanced audio preference in OBS and causing your VOD bein completely deaf. If you separate the undesired VOD audio stream into vb-cable and add it to OBS, it mixes with „main“ on-line, so viewers can hear everything while streaming while no vb-cable track plays in VOD, all great. But you can hear only „main“ and not the vb-cable, so no music for you. To hear vb-cable, you have to tick to hear it under recording devices in OS system, but this step causes the „Main“ output in OBS to hear it the same way you do and you are back to where you were at the beginning. To solve the issue one must completelly drop the „Main“ output off OBS and not use it at all. Then you need to set multiple vb-cables each containing proper audio stream routet to it in OS and correctly untick undesired tracks per each vb-cable in OBS advanced audio setup to route each specific audio-track correctly in OBS. So you completelly abandon „Main“ output and hear that one only on your side. OBS is crunching only vb-cables setup this way. Confusing eh? Well that happens if not explained properly. In the video is not mentioned that you need at least 2 of these vb-cables. One vb-cable, say „A“ for everything desired and one VB-Cable „B“ for everything unwanted in VOD audio track to separate it later as explained by unticking in options. And for this my dear, you can’t use the vb-cable free edition which provides only 1 cable for you ☹
Man I would really like a video for this lol or maybe u could show me some time and I’ll toss a couple bucks your way… I don’t mind paying for an extra cable I’m just confused af cuz I’m not super computer savvy and very new to all this
@@Khimari Hi is there a chance that you can give us a videotutorial on how to do it? :) I want to use the 2 VB-cable i bought but dont get what you mean in the text. :D
Hey, I really enjoyed your video. It was very informative even for someone who has been streaming for a year. Your TH-cam content is far above your current sub count. Keep grinding because your channel will pop off soon:D
Hey, when I use spotify, I cant hear the music, what did I do wrong lol? Or is that how its supposed to be? Idk since when I changed the output to the cable, it wont let me hear the music playing. Any help would be great. Thanks!
👉 If you still have trouble hearing your music after setting it to the cable output... Remember OBS is listening to Spotify, not you. So go to sound preferences, under the OBS app, put “CABLE output” under input. And then as output, put whatever headphones you have. Now go to OBS, make ANOTHER audio output capture and as Device put “Cable Input”. Go to advance settings for the new audio output capture put “monitor only (mute output). Now you’re essentially listening to OBS while it’s listening to Spotify. Adjust the volume so you don’t get any weird playback. - comment from D. Cain.
idk, i did everything you said and i have the free, and A and B, and when i set up the output as A, and then go to OBS Studio and set up A as the input, I still dont hear the music. Even tried as the output even though it wouldnt make sense to, but still 0 volume from which ever source i tried to do. in this case tried setting it up with spotify. But you still did a great job of explaining it so thank you for that, ill just have to troubleshoot why im still not getting audio
Its so hard explained so i dont understand what you mean man... I can do it so my stream HEAR music but i dont, but i want to listen to music too... Can you explain it better please? Like i think a lot of people doesnt get it... Thank you
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wait but once i go into the settings and change my input device to one of the vb cables, i myself cant hear the music in my headset... any specific way to fix that ???
Follow this video exactly, you won't be able to hear anything yet. Then create a NEW AUDIO INPUT CAPTURE, monitor that for yourself, while your viewers listen to the OUTPUT, which is muted for you. Make sure they're on the correct channels.
Tehnevo can you describe this for me, i cant find it out. I got the vcables, i made a new input capture, monitored for myself but what does it do? I still cant hear my music. And if i were to make a capture for myself, wouldnt they still be able to hear it in my desktop audio? I need my desktop audio for gameplay audio so im confused.
Ok so don’t pick on me, but isn’t the idea of not playing copyrighted music on your stream/VODs so that you’re not making money off of someone else’s music? If this is the case then this feels just feels like a way to “get away with it”. You’re still breaking copyright rules/laws because during the live stream when you’re playing the music, you could very well be benefiting from it financially. Please correct me if I’m wrong ❤
is there a way to have ALL audio to output via my speakers, but exclude spotify/chrome from my VODs? Seems like i can either have one or the other... Currently, I can (probably) have music streamed to Twitch, and disabled on VODs, but I can't actually hear it!
Hi, thank you so much for the very helpful video! I just have one question tho: when i switched the output to virtual cable, i couldn't hear it anymore from my headset. how can i still hear the music? thank you in advance xoxo
I think I am almost done with everything that I need to do but the only thing I am confused about is how to make it to where my desktop audio doesn't pick up my music
Thank you for the informative video, but I'm confused on one thing. How am I supposed to listen to my own Spotify if I've changed the source that it's playing on? Following the video step by step made it so my stream and VOD audio is fine, but I, myself, am not able to hear my own Spotify.
Havent had this working for me. But just stumbled across your video. Going to give it another go and see if it actually works oit this time around. Appreciated 🙌🤘
Thank you, but how do I hear the music in my headphones? After i switched the output im not sure how to get it back while keeping the output on the cable
@@paul9978 only thing i found is to change that Audio Monitoring (in advanced audio properties) on whatever your music source is to "Monitor Only (mute output)" but if you do that then the music will still come through your main speakers/headset and STILL get recorded in the VOD. So what the hell..
You have to also separate your music speakers from the one obs will transmit to stream through, uploader left out that note, that you need to monitor to a different device from the one obs streams from since you cannot stream from, listen to stream only music, and monitor from the same speakers
Did all of this, but still getting the music when "Monitor Output" is on. Can't listen to the music otherwise! How do you hear the music on stream without it being picked up due to monitoring?
You have to use a different speaker that isnt a source in obs already as your monitor, i can make a video response to this or draw a diagram, the uploader left that sidenote out
I use this, clips/vods wont have music but this doens't stop DMCA So I wouldn't label it as such. I've still recieved claims. They can live scan the website for music being played and if your picked up, you get claimed.
There has been a lot of speculation of live takedowns and talk that it could be on the horizon for everyone soon But regarding this work-around, I don’t believe there has been any live takedowns other than movies/TV/live events except for special cases when they were done manually. This has been successful for me personally so I wanted to share this method hoping it could save someone from also having their own stream content muted when trying to make videos. I’m praying Twitch is working on more tools for creators to help these future claims, but only time will tell.
@@creator-keys Yeah my first twitch got banned because I forgot I was streaming when I took a break and started watching anime. Banned while live. Never had that issue with music on live streams though so I think you are correct that this method should be safe for the time being.
I'm new to this. Please help. After selecting the virtual cable for the spotify app, the spotify music now is separated on another track, but I myself can't hear the song anymore.
Hey I had to figure this out by myself. So basically, on the app setting on sound preferences. For the OBS APP- Put ‘cable output’ under Input. Put whatever headphones under Output. Go to OBS. Make another audio output capture, as Device, put Cable input. This basically lets you hear what OBS is hearing which was Spotify. Now you can hear Spotify with it.
still doesn't explain how streamers play ANY songs and by that i mean just fire up spotify and jus play whatever the hell, and they don't have a problem, like last time TobiasFate playing Alestorm on stream and he has no problems whatsoever, so please explain that instead of telling me how to rout stuff left and right
0:06 was that "comment that below" about the "friends" part? Jokes aside, this video helped me out, with just one cable was enough; since I can't pay for the additionals anyway, lol
Somebody help me please, ive been stuck on this spotify part this whole time, i cant figure out why i cant hear my own music when i put the digital aux as the output? so now no one can hear music at this point? Smh my head
The VOD Audiotrack function was never intended to greenlight streaming of copyrighted materials just to primarely exclude twitchs own "Soundtrack" licensed audio song library in your twitch VODs. It can also be a good idea to not include various sound alerts of various origin. (especially if you are in your first 60 days of affiliate grace period)
seriously though... you cant hear the seperated tracks? i mean yeah... it half works... but i cant hear spitify now or my discord without going back to my main audio...? so...? got a fix for that?
I'm a DJ of 25yrs and all my music is given to me for free but the labels Is there a way to contact these platforms succ as FB and IG and tell them the music is given to me to perform to audience (via my radio show)? Thanks in curious about your thoughts. Cheers
I'm 100% sure I misunderstood something, but if you're changing your audio for spotify to the Cable one, doesn't that also mean you won't be able to hear your spotify? I did exactly what the video told me to do, and now I can't hear my spotify unless I change it back. What exactly am I supposed to do?
I followed this step by step, but now I don't get to hear the music. I can see it playing, and the viewers will probably hear it. But what about me? I'm worried changing the output to my headphones will let the music end up in the vod.
I lazily use desktop audio instead of inputting every program's audio into obs. Right now, my stream can hear my spotify, but if I monitor it to hear it mysaelf, it is played through my desktop audio, which goes to vod channel on obs. Anyone have a workaround besides adding every programs audio into obs?
the answer was to make a "desktop audio" virtual cable like he did in the video. Set your computers main output to be that virtual cable. Then monitor that cable in OBS. That way you can just leave every program's output in the volume mixer at "default" (except discord & spotify). He does that in the video but doesn't explain why. Hope this helps anyone. Great video though
Hello! Brand new streamer here, I got it all worked out. But when I go to play my Spotify I'm not able to hear it anymore though OBS is picking everything up from the songs. Any suggestions?
The big problem for me... is that now I have done this and purchased the additional two channels, I cannot hear the separated audio channels myself.. am I missing a setting?
Hello. I am not very tech savvy, and I had a very hard time following the video step-by-step. I cannot hear the Spotify at all, and I tried to read the comments to figure if I did something wrong, but I cannot understand anything being said. Do you, or someone you'd recommend have a video on a much slower and easier to comprehend step-by-step with how to hear the Spotify?
@@kawaiibrittanii Ah that's why! I've since discovered the reason some are having trouble is because of the amount of Virtual Cables they're using. To use the method as shown you'll need to download multiple virtual cables from that website. So I apologize for not stressing this more in the video. Try that and see if it works!
I have a dual pc setup which has the goxlr compress all my audio into one channel. Music, mic, and discord is all on gaming pc, and gets sent to my streaming pc with streamlabs on it. Will this still work? Or will I have to play spotify on the streaming pc?
This should still give you the same solution, it's all about telling OBS what specifically to listen to. Splitting the audio in OBS itself will give you the same effect as this regardless if you user a mixer or 2nd PC.
help, I only have one virtual cable and monitoring the source makes the music to output on my normal speakers which makes still record on the vod, how can I listen to the music if its in another source, help please, I don't know what am I missing
Hey I had to figure this out by myself. So basically, on the app setting on sound preferences. For the OBS APP- Put ‘cable output’ under Input. Put whatever headphones under Output. Go to OBS. Make another audio output capture, as Device, put Cable input. This basically lets you hear what OBS is hearing which was Spotify. Now you can hear Spotify with it.
Wait at 3:48 does that mean no matter how your sources are set up the 1 st column will be all for the stream you are showing, and the second column will be all STRICTLY for the vods?!
So I followed this to a T. Why can’t I hear my own music when Spotify is set to one of my three VB Audios? It shows in stream labs that it’s playing but I specifically cannot hear it at all.
Hey everything seemed to work just fine but I’m struggling to get my music to play on my end during the stream.. I currently have everything from the monitor to my headphones but everything else is split between the different channels. Any help would be great
You forgot to mention how when you get this virtual audio cable you can't hear anything on your headphones that is played to it! I moved my music to it but can't even hear it myself so what's the point?
go to advanced audio properties in obs and enable audio monitoring as "monitor and output" like he has in the video. However, this means your desktop audio must be on a virtual cable exactly as he does in the video or else your vod will hear the monitoring (music). Basically your speakers/headphones cant be in obs as a source or else ALL of the audio monitoring that goes to your speakers will also play on the vods.
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This is a great tutorial, thank you so much. So, as you mentioned, it can be weird to have your VODs have no music at all if the original video had music. Something else interesting you can do (that I thought about after watching your video) is set up a third audio source on a virtual cable C, don't monitor it, and set it to only be on the VOD track. So, for example, set up a playlist of public domain music, and send that only to the VOD! You have to be pretty sure that audio source is working correctly since you won't be monitoring it during the stream, but you can still look at the volume on the meters to make sure it is still playing correctly and at approximately the right volume. Then you can have Spotify or whatever playing on your live stream, and public domain music on the VOD. I tested it and it works. It's like magic! Of course if you're rocking out to something on the live stream and the VOD is chilled out public domain beats it may come off a little weird, but it's better than silence, I think :)
@@CammyCam What I did was play spotify on my live stream via Cable A and then set up something like one of the lofi public domain live stations on youtube to play through Cable C from my browser. I've also reversed that and played music from my browser on Cable A and a public domain author like Streambeats off of Spotify on Cable C. I think to play two different Spotify playlists at the same time, you would need two Spotify accounts and have one playing through a browser and one playing through the Spotify desktop app and split the inputs that way (I think you'd need two accounts because the app and the brower would try to sync with each other on one account.) As you say, it could be done with downloaded music locally the same way, but I've never bothered to do that since there seems to be plenty of publicly available streams or playlists of public domain music on TH-cam.
If you can’t hear Spotify after following the steps, LET ME HELP!
So basically OBS is hearing Spotify, not you. So you need to go back to sound preferences, under the OBS app, put “CABLE output” under input. And then as output, put whatever headphones you have.
Now go to OBS, make ANOTHER audio output capture and as Device put “Cable Input”. Go to advance settings for the new audio output capture put “monitor only (mute output).
Now you’re essentially listening to OBS while it’s listening to Spotify. Adjust the volume so you don’t get any weird playback. I did this with the free Audio software he recommend in the video. Hope this helps!
THANK YOU! Oh my god
Thank you for clarifying! This process can be a bit confusing 😅
I don't have these options, when I go to input for OBS it only has my Mic, for output it has all options
nvm, I had the cable set to don't allow for input. I fixed it
So you need 2 VB-Cables essentially?
Great video. The part that stuck out to me the most was nesting your audio sources into their own scene. I would have probably not thought of that.
Really appreciate it! Happy to share my time saving methods 👍
If you're having trouble trying to listen to Spotify through your headphones you have to monitor the output inside of the streaming service program you're using. So for OBS or StreamLabs you need to monitor the input and mute the input.
could you explain more in detail i dont understand cause i cant hear music trough my headset
How do you make it so the audio doesnt go through both desktop/headphones AND the vb-cable though??? I just want one program not coming through my speakers. I shouldn't have to make a separate audio source for EVERY SINGLE THING with sound on my computer.
@@TheElectricRaichu when it comes to streaming you'd have to separate the audio. When you make a different channels for each audio piece and that is how you split it. Also it allows control over each scene because if you make a BRB scene you don't have to have your mic included in that so automatically mutes. As well as game audio.
Update: I switched from streamlabs to obs because I wanted more functionality as well. If you don't have a problem with switching over to OBS I would definitely do so because they make it a lot easier and you can still hear the music without using V cable
@@soundisdayquan my issue is when i monitor my spotify source it comes thru my headset which is what my desktop audio source pulls from so it just plays thru streamlabs twice
@@leef9242 it's probably listening to the sound card/device. You may have to disable it on the settings. Currently, I'm not home but when I get home look at the menu and I can let you know what to do. Do you OBS or StreamLabs?
A good tip for avoiding awkward music-less vods is to get a 4th virtual cable just for copyright free music for the vod. Your twitch stream and yourself will not hear the boring copyright free music, but the vod will. Use an alternative internet browser like edge. Go to volume mixer and set edge's output to be the 4th virtual cable. Go to obs settings and set that 4th virtual cable to only play only play on channel 2 (or whatever channel your vod is)
I have seen plenty of videos about it, and they're always missing something, assuming we know something so they won't explain. Your is perfect, assumed nothing, explained it simple. Great video, in love
The amount of good advice and fixes with a mix of knowledge with audio settings I had no clue existed makes this video so Amazingly Helpful!!!
Very helpful. I am a new streamer and I don't understand a lot of this from the first playback. Suggestions: 1) list out the steps; 2) I guess sometimes you are referring to different scenarios, can you make it explicit?
TL;DR:
Avoid using default system audio output in OBS, only listen to it by yourself on your side. Set two separate recording devices in OBS with one being vb-cables A and other vb-cable B in OBS, set all desired tracks to vb-cable A, set all undesired track to vb-cable B. Untick Twitch VOD track for vb-cable B. Can't say if profit, still avoid copyrighted content I'd say ...
Plan B with free vb-cable edition:
Just set all as in video and listen to same track on your phone... :(
Long version:
It's not explained properly, because the way you show on video the setup will cause ppl actually hear nothing in their headphones while audio does exist on-line. Anything you want to hear at your side must go to main output source, say your headphones. Call it „Main“. Main plays on-line and sticks to VOD, always, unless you untick it in advanced audio preference in OBS and causing your VOD bein completely deaf. If you separate the undesired VOD audio stream into vb-cable and add it to OBS, it mixes with „main“ on-line, so viewers can hear everything while streaming while no vb-cable track plays in VOD, all great. But you can hear only „main“ and not the vb-cable, so no music for you. To hear vb-cable, you have to tick to hear it under recording devices in OS system, but this step causes the „Main“ output in OBS to hear it the same way you do and you are back to where you were at the beginning.
To solve the issue one must completelly drop the „Main“ output off OBS and not use it at all. Then you need to set multiple vb-cables each containing proper audio stream routet to it in OS and correctly untick undesired tracks per each vb-cable in OBS advanced audio setup to route each specific audio-track correctly in OBS. So you completelly abandon „Main“ output and hear that one only on your side. OBS is crunching only vb-cables setup this way.
Confusing eh? Well that happens if not explained properly. In the video is not mentioned that you need at least 2 of these vb-cables. One vb-cable, say „A“ for everything desired and one VB-Cable „B“ for everything unwanted in VOD audio track to separate it later as explained by unticking in options. And for this my dear, you can’t use the vb-cable free edition which provides only 1 cable for you ☹
Man I would really like a video for this lol or maybe u could show me some time and I’ll toss a couple bucks your way… I don’t mind paying for an extra cable I’m just confused af cuz I’m not super computer savvy and very new to all this
@@asaprandy I'll think about a guide, it is confusing I know, gimme some time.
Thank you for the clarity!!
@@Khimari Hi is there a chance that you can give us a videotutorial on how to do it? :) I want to use the 2 VB-cable i bought but dont get what you mean in the text. :D
I'm having this issue, could you expand upon the resolution? Main output and all that?
Hey, I really enjoyed your video. It was very informative even for someone who has been streaming for a year. Your TH-cam content is far above your current sub count. Keep grinding because your channel will pop off soon:D
Hey, when I use spotify, I cant hear the music, what did I do wrong lol? Or is that how its supposed to be? Idk since when I changed the output to the cable, it wont let me hear the music playing. Any help would be great. Thanks!
This comment means so much, thank you!
Wait, did I just watch an explanation vid where the creator actually EXPLAINED the issue and how to fix it?
They do exist...
Nope you must be seeing things they certainly do not exist
one of the few tutorials I've ever heard with good music
Thanks! Love this music!
For those of you watching using OBS 30.1.2, you need to first select the encoding option then "twitch VoD Track to 2" option.
This is an extremely underrated video, very helpful! (And well edited to boot)
That means a lot! Hope it helps 🤝
So helpful, was trying to figure this out myself for ages so thank you, saved me a lot of hassle!
👉 If you still have trouble hearing your music after setting it to the cable output...
Remember OBS is listening to Spotify, not you. So go to sound preferences, under the OBS app, put “CABLE output” under input. And then as output, put whatever headphones you have.
Now go to OBS, make ANOTHER audio output capture and as Device put “Cable Input”. Go to advance settings for the new audio output capture put “monitor only (mute output).
Now you’re essentially listening to OBS while it’s listening to Spotify. Adjust the volume so you don’t get any weird playback. - comment from D. Cain.
idk, i did everything you said and i have the free, and A and B, and when i set up the output as A, and then go to OBS Studio and set up A as the input, I still dont hear the music. Even tried as the output even though it wouldnt make sense to, but still 0 volume from which ever source i tried to do. in this case tried setting it up with spotify. But you still did a great job of explaining it so thank you for that, ill just have to troubleshoot why im still not getting audio
What about streamelements
@@driftgaming3735 I don’t think I have stream elements. But I can take a look
Its so hard explained so i dont understand what you mean man... I can do it so my stream HEAR music but i dont, but i want to listen to music too... Can you explain it better please? Like i think a lot of people doesnt get it... Thank you
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So could I just disable vods when I want to play music during a stream and I'll be fine?
Surprised this doesn't have a million views! Amazing! Thank you!
Could you elaborate on how to do the last part. Having a separate audio scene routed into another scene.
wait but once i go into the settings and change my input device to one of the vb cables, i myself cant hear the music in my headset... any specific way to fix that ???
This. I need this
Random comment- Refused by New Noise is an absolute BANGER. Thanks for the great video
A man of culture I see 👌
Follow this video exactly, you won't be able to hear anything yet. Then create a NEW AUDIO INPUT CAPTURE, monitor that for yourself, while your viewers listen to the OUTPUT, which is muted for you. Make sure they're on the correct channels.
I dont know what it was so hard for anyone to explain this. Jfc
Tehnevo can you describe this for me, i cant find it out. I got the vcables, i made a new input capture, monitored for myself but what does it do? I still cant hear my music.
And if i were to make a capture for myself, wouldnt they still be able to hear it in my desktop audio? I need my desktop audio for gameplay audio so im confused.
I added a new audio capture for songs and its capturing the sounds. But I dont hear it through my speaker when I route spotify to the virtual channel.
Ok so don’t pick on me, but isn’t the idea of not playing copyrighted music on your stream/VODs so that you’re not making money off of someone else’s music? If this is the case then this feels just feels like a way to “get away with it”. You’re still breaking copyright rules/laws because during the live stream when you’re playing the music, you could very well be benefiting from it financially. Please correct me if I’m wrong ❤
you are 100% right. It's disgusting how this became common practice on Twitch and no one really seems to care
is there a way to have ALL audio to output via my speakers, but exclude spotify/chrome from my VODs? Seems like i can either have one or the other... Currently, I can (probably) have music streamed to Twitch, and disabled on VODs, but I can't actually hear it!
Same bro u figure out how to fix it?
same
Hi, thank you so much for the very helpful video! I just have one question tho: when i switched the output to virtual cable, i couldn't hear it anymore from my headset. how can i still hear the music? thank you in advance xoxo
I'm looking for this answer too. Did u find it?
same
@@LoloLovesLife
I think I am almost done with everything that I need to do but the only thing I am confused about is how to make it to where my desktop audio doesn't pick up my music
same
did you ever figure this out
SAME! that's why i'm here!
I had the same problem and ended up uninstalling Virtual Cables. Couldn't find the answer anywhere
Thanks for the nested audio scene tip. Much appreciated 🙏. 4:46
Hmmmm so it shows the music is playing but no one can hear anything and its max volume??? but u can see the volume meter moving as it has volume
I did everything but cant hear Spotify now. Help!
U have to use ur imagination 🤪
Thank you for the informative video, but I'm confused on one thing. How am I supposed to listen to my own Spotify if I've changed the source that it's playing on? Following the video step by step made it so my stream and VOD audio is fine, but I, myself, am not able to hear my own Spotify.
same problem
also looking for the answer to this!
did you find out
Havent had this working for me. But just stumbled across your video. Going to give it another go and see if it actually works oit this time around. Appreciated 🙌🤘
im not sure what im doing wrong but when i do it , it works for the stream but then i cant hear it in my headphones...
Refused - New Noise - BANGER
Thank you, but how do I hear the music in my headphones? After i switched the output im not sure how to get it back while keeping the output on the cable
Same here. Can't hear the audio in my headphones but see it picking up on obs
I'm a bit confused, how do i actually hear my music once its in a separate audio source without it coming on stream?
me as well, i cant hear my music but u can hear it on stream through obs
did u find any solution, meanwhile?
@@paul9978 only thing i found is to change that Audio Monitoring (in advanced audio properties) on whatever your music source is to "Monitor Only (mute output)" but if you do that then the music will still come through your main speakers/headset and STILL get recorded in the VOD. So what the hell..
You have to also separate your music speakers from the one obs will transmit to stream through, uploader left out that note, that you need to monitor to a different device from the one obs streams from since you cannot stream from, listen to stream only music, and monitor from the same speakers
anyone with the solution to this? Im stuck here and my VODs still have the music... help :c
So all I need is those virtual cables and then I can set them up?
thanks for explaining this so well. I'm trying to learn obs
For some reason it doesn't work for me, the OBS records the sound of spotify but I don't hear it realtime in my headphones. Any ideas?
nvm it worked my guys i clicked the wrong track for the vods your a goat
Glad it helped!!
@@creator-keys so does this only work for clips do I have to turn off save recorded streams ?
I rather find the perfect volume that is still nicely audible but doesn't get noticed by their scanner
Did all of this, but still getting the music when "Monitor Output" is on. Can't listen to the music otherwise! How do you hear the music on stream without it being picked up due to monitoring?
You have to use a different speaker that isnt a source in obs already as your monitor, i can make a video response to this or draw a diagram, the uploader left that sidenote out
@@Diddz Please do, it bothers me :D
I found a way to do this without any routing, 100% music in VOD with no mute and 100% strike free
Refused popping up on Spotify = me subscribing
seeing "new noise" by refused as the sample is making me happier than knowing I can play music on stream lol
I use this, clips/vods wont have music but this doens't stop DMCA So I wouldn't label it as such. I've still recieved claims. They can live scan the website for music being played and if your picked up, you get claimed.
There has been a lot of speculation of live takedowns and talk that it could be on the horizon for everyone soon
But regarding this work-around, I don’t believe there has been any live takedowns other than movies/TV/live events except for special cases when they were done manually.
This has been successful for me personally so I wanted to share this method hoping it could save someone from also having their own stream content muted when trying to make videos.
I’m praying Twitch is working on more tools for creators to help these future claims, but only time will tell.
@@creator-keys Totally Agree (Ps big fan of the GoW1 top plays haha)
YOU SAID THE MAGIC WORDS 😭
Thanks a ton bro, I’m still enjoying the YT grind!
@@creator-keys Yeah my first twitch got banned because I forgot I was streaming when I took a break and started watching anime. Banned while live. Never had that issue with music on live streams though so I think you are correct that this method should be safe for the time being.
i have a problem which i cant listen to my music
Is there a way to test this so we dont get banned! Is it do the same on a recording?
Worth noting: This will ONLY work in Windows 10 (previous versions don't have per-app audio device output settings).
This needs to be pinned.
update your toaster bro
I'm new to this. Please help. After selecting the virtual cable for the spotify app, the spotify music now is separated on another track, but I myself can't hear the song anymore.
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Hey I had to figure this out by myself. So basically, on the app setting on sound preferences. For the OBS APP- Put ‘cable output’ under Input. Put whatever headphones under Output. Go to OBS. Make another audio output capture, as Device, put Cable input.
This basically lets you hear what OBS is hearing which was Spotify. Now you can hear Spotify with it.
@@D__Cain Thank you so much!
hey man so i have done what you did in the channel but now i can't hear the music? is there something i have done wrong? haha thanks man :)
Great video, thank you very much! I was looking for something like this but all of the others only show you how to separate the audio.
Appreciate it! Happy to help
Makes sense, means every company would have to watch everyone’s stream at the same time lol
hey man i followed all of your steps exactly and correctly but for some reason my vod is still playing the music
Thanks mate not many videos talk about the tracks section and settings!
so that mean whenever i have to play music i have to open obs? even if im not streaming?
still doesn't explain how streamers play ANY songs and by that i mean just fire up spotify and jus play whatever the hell, and they don't have a problem, like last time TobiasFate playing Alestorm on stream and he has no problems whatsoever, so please explain that instead of telling me how to rout stuff left and right
OK, I didn't knew you need to take a week off work to do all this. Holy.....
How do we get this to stop being picked up on our Desktop Audio?
so i put spotify on to the Virtual cable, and when i went to listen to the music, i couldnt hear anything
why is this?
Great video tyler!
Appreciate it man!
0:06 was that "comment that below" about the "friends" part?
Jokes aside, this video helped me out, with just one cable was enough; since I can't pay for the additionals anyway, lol
Somebody help me please, ive been stuck on this spotify part this whole time, i cant figure out why i cant hear my own music when i put the digital aux as the output? so now no one can hear music at this point? Smh my head
so, twitch does not care if we play music while streaming form spoti they care only if its on my vods?
The VOD Audiotrack function was never intended to greenlight streaming of copyrighted materials just to primarely exclude twitchs own "Soundtrack" licensed audio song library in your twitch VODs. It can also be a good idea to not include various sound alerts of various origin. (especially if you are in your first 60 days of affiliate grace period)
great video mate
Thank you so much
So I cant hear the music too?
seriously though... you cant hear the seperated tracks? i mean yeah... it half works... but i cant hear spitify now or my discord without going back to my main audio...? so...? got a fix for that?
when i change something like spotify to my different virtual cable, i can no longer hear it at all. What do I do for that?
I'm a DJ of 25yrs and all my music is given to me for free but the labels
Is there a way to contact these platforms succ as FB and IG and tell them the music is given to me to perform to audience (via my radio show)? Thanks in curious about your thoughts. Cheers
I'm 100% sure I misunderstood something, but if you're changing your audio for spotify to the Cable one, doesn't that also mean you won't be able to hear your spotify? I did exactly what the video told me to do, and now I can't hear my spotify unless I change it back. What exactly am I supposed to do?
When I do this it seperates but I can no longer hear the music thought my headset. How would I enable this?
Thank you so much for the Information! It helped a lot!
I followed this step by step, but now I don't get to hear the music. I can see it playing, and the viewers will probably hear it. But what about me? I'm worried changing the output to my headphones will let the music end up in the vod.
What have I done wrong? I got it all setup and I can't hear the music myself.
I lazily use desktop audio instead of inputting every program's audio into obs. Right now, my stream can hear my spotify, but if I monitor it to hear it mysaelf, it is played through my desktop audio, which goes to vod channel on obs. Anyone have a workaround besides adding every programs audio into obs?
the answer was to make a "desktop audio" virtual cable like he did in the video. Set your computers main output to be that virtual cable. Then monitor that cable in OBS. That way you can just leave every program's output in the volume mixer at "default" (except discord & spotify). He does that in the video but doesn't explain why. Hope this helps anyone. Great video though
Hello! Brand new streamer here, I got it all worked out. But when I go to play my Spotify I'm not able to hear it anymore though OBS is picking everything up from the songs. Any suggestions?
i want to hire you as my editor for my channel! Love the video man good work!
Thanks so much 😄
@@creator-keys no problem!!
step by step and i tested audio and i heard the music on the vod
The big problem for me... is that now I have done this and purchased the additional two channels, I cannot hear the separated audio channels myself.. am I missing a setting?
So I downloaded the audio source. However when I change output I can no longer hear the music but it shows its still playing what did I do wrong?
Hello. I am not very tech savvy, and I had a very hard time following the video step-by-step. I cannot hear the Spotify at all, and I tried to read the comments to figure if I did something wrong, but I cannot understand anything being said. Do you, or someone you'd recommend have a video on a much slower and easier to comprehend step-by-step with how to hear the Spotify?
Hello! Did you download the free cable or purchase/donate for the multiple cables?
@@creator-keys I downloaded the free one, since I never touched anything to do with audio before.
@@kawaiibrittanii Ah that's why! I've since discovered the reason some are having trouble is because of the amount of Virtual Cables they're using. To use the method as shown you'll need to download multiple virtual cables from that website. So I apologize for not stressing this more in the video. Try that and see if it works!
@@creator-keys Oh I see... Thank you for clarifying!
Dude thank you so much. This is awesome info. #GOAT
Hope it helps!!
so i did it but is that normal when i play spotify, the stream can hear it but i cant even when im not streaming|| any help maybe or is that ok?
What about TH-cam? I Don't use Spotify.. Just CDs and the TH-cam browser.
thanks. this vid really helped me out!
Glad it helped!
I have a dual pc setup which has the goxlr compress all my audio into one channel. Music, mic, and discord is all on gaming pc, and gets sent to my streaming pc with streamlabs on it. Will this still work? Or will I have to play spotify on the streaming pc?
This should still give you the same solution, it's all about telling OBS what specifically to listen to. Splitting the audio in OBS itself will give you the same effect as this regardless if you user a mixer or 2nd PC.
there's so much info in this video. is there a tutorial for slow people?
This is great info. Thank You!
how do you still listen to music when you put output as cable
I'm not able to hear the music.
help, I only have one virtual cable and monitoring the source makes the music to output on my normal speakers which makes still record on the vod, how can I listen to the music if its in another source, help please, I don't know what am I missing
Hey I had to figure this out by myself. So basically, on the app setting on sound preferences. For the OBS APP- Put ‘cable output’ under Input. Put whatever headphones under Output. Go to OBS. Make another audio output capture, as Device, put Cable input.
This basically lets you hear what OBS is hearing which was Spotify. Now you can hear Spotify with it.
Wait at 3:48 does that mean no matter how your sources are set up the 1 st column will be all for the stream you are showing, and the second column will be all STRICTLY for the vods?!
Does this only apply to twitch or does this apply to youtube too?
Bro I can kiss you rn. I’ve been trying to play music without getting copyrighted and I love you bro 😂 instasub
So I followed this to a T. Why can’t I hear my own music when Spotify is set to one of my three VB Audios? It shows in stream labs that it’s playing but I specifically cannot hear it at all.
Hey everything seemed to work just fine but I’m struggling to get my music to play on my end during the stream.. I currently have everything from the monitor to my headphones but everything else is split between the different channels. Any help would be great
Having the same issue
great video.. thanks a lot for that.. i didnt even thought about it.
You forgot to mention how when you get this virtual audio cable you can't hear anything on your headphones that is played to it! I moved my music to it but can't even hear it myself so what's the point?
go to advanced audio properties in obs and enable audio monitoring as "monitor and output" like he has in the video. However, this means your desktop audio must be on a virtual cable exactly as he does in the video or else your vod will hear the monitoring (music). Basically your speakers/headphones cant be in obs as a source or else ALL of the audio monitoring that goes to your speakers will also play on the vods.
How do I still listen to my spotify now that its playing only through that virtual audio channel? My chat would hear it but I cant.