Play ANY SONG on Twitch Stream WITHOUT Copyright Strikes 

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 :)

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

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.

So helpful, was trying to figure this out myself for ages so thank you, saved me a lot of hassle!

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.

Hey, I really enjoyed your video. It was very informative even for someone who has been streaming for a year. Your RU-vid content is far above your current sub count. Keep grinding because your channel will pop off soon:D

Surprised this doesn't have a million views! Amazing! Thank you!

one of the few tutorials I've ever heard with good music

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!

This is an extremely underrated video, very helpful! (And well edited to boot)

thanks for explaining this so well. I'm trying to learn obs

This is great info. Thank You!

Thanks for the nested audio scene tip. Much appreciated 🙏. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="286">4:46</a>

Thanks mate not many videos talk about the tracks section and settings!

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 so much for the Information! It helped a lot!

Very useful, thank you!

Random comment- Refused by New Noise is an absolute BANGER. Thanks for the great video

Wait, did I just watch an explanation vid where the creator actually EXPLAINED the issue and how to fix it? They do exist...

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?

great video.. thanks a lot for that.. i didnt even thought about it.

Could you elaborate on how to do the last part. Having a separate audio scene routed into another scene.

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.

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Dude thank you so much. This is awesome info. #GOAT

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)

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 ☹

Great video tyler!

thanks. this vid really helped me out!

thank u for support

great video mate

Thanks for the advices!

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 ???

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?

step by step and i tested audio and i heard the music on the vod

What software do you use to edit and what resolution and bitrate is the output?

Refused popping up on Spotify = me subscribing

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.

nvm it worked my guys i clicked the wrong track for the vods your a goat

GREAT VIDEO

i want to hire you as my editor for my channel! Love the video man good work!

seeing "new noise" by refused as the sample is making me happier than knowing I can play music on stream lol

thank you so much

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.

what a lad

Refused - New Noise - BANGER

This is so awesome! I have a question though, I actually did an audio nested scene, added music, game and mic, then I added the scene to my sources. During recording all audio scenes worked perfectly, but on stream they were all muted. Can anyone help me understand my mistake?

👉 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.

Thank you so much for this! I have set it up. Though I am in a call in discord with a friend and looking at the bars in my obs and you can see her talking in the discord one and then also in the audio one which is where my game sound is coming through. Any idea how to fix that?

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!

hey man i followed all of your steps exactly and correctly but for some reason my vod is still playing the music

Makes sense, means every company would have to watch everyone’s stream at the same time lol

I rather find the perfect volume that is still nicely audible but doesn't get noticed by their scanner

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?

OK, I didn't knew you need to take a week off work to do all this. Holy.....

awesome video. where is this option in Streamlabs? I dont see the "twitch vod" area under stream

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 :)

So all I need is those virtual cables and then I can set them up?

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

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

Is there a way to do the vod track part if my audio is separated in wavelink?

So could I just disable vods when I want to play music during a stream and I'll be fine?

so that mean whenever i have to play music i have to open obs? even if im not streaming?

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

I did this, but I still have the problem that when my mic is on, it picks up the sound from the music and the music still plays in bits through. Do I just unchecked my mic for the twitch vod as well?

there's so much info in this video. is there a tutorial for slow people?

Thanks. I would like to start streaming on Twich all the music submissions I get for my playlists on Spotify. The idea would be to listen the submissions live with who ever wants to join. The work would be mostly done from Spotify. Do you thing this system could work?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="6">0:06</a> 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

So basicaly im sending all the audio from different sources (A,B,C,D) to OBS and from that i monitore all of those sounds from OBS thought my headset, so i need to have all of those sources in every scene and if not i cant hear them, for example : I go to my pause scene and i have discord source there, i can hear Discord sounds but also my stream can hear em.. so is there a way that i can have a source in the scene, hear it and in the same time mute em so they cant be heard on stream ?

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?

ok, i did this and it helped but now my sound alerts arent playing thru the VOD? is there a way to fix that or separate the audio so music is muted in vod but alerts arent? OBS btw.

But the question is how do i listen to the music i now have on the Cable Driver? because i cannot hear it anymore due to it being played on that audio source rather than my headset?

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...

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?

Is this possible if I'm using the Elgato Wave Link software to route audio?

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.

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?

I did everything but cant hear Spotify now. Help!

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

I have a question I have my own songs paid for beats created the lyrics released through distribution company and i want to create a 24/7 live stream but RU-vid is taking it down because there is a copyright claim which makes since because it’s under me. How can I use my own songs in live stream without it being removed.

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?

Is there a way to test this so we dont get banned! Is it do the same on a recording?

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.

my issue is different from everyone elses, whenever i try to play warzone with friends(who are on console) we have to use gamechat. but my obs isint picking up the game chat audio, only WZ. is there a way to fix this?

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.

so if i clearly understand people who are on my live stream they can listen all music with me and later it will not be aded to video and i will not get strikes?

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

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

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?

great video i have a problem tho the audio cable is not showing up in my output only in input

what if i record while i stream? will i keep a copy of my stream with music playing while my twitch VOD mutes music?

this can also be done without voicemeeter if you have wave link right?

The "sound" option doesn't appear in my sound settings when I right click

When I do this it seperates but I can no longer hear the music thought my headset. How would I enable this?

Can this be done with wireless headphones? the virtual cable says that it passes the audio passes through the cable outbput.

Any chance RU-vid Music App works as well as spotify??

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?

so i have foillowed every step in ur video but it still seems that i am hearing music in every vod that i do, any info would greatly help thank you

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

I'm a bit confused, how do i actually hear my music once its in a separate audio source without it coming on stream?