Question / Help Is It Possible To Have Audio In my Stream, but NOT In My Recordings?

[Dawty]

Title pretty much covers it. I want to have background music playing in the on my stream, without it being recorded (so that OBS only records my voice + game sound). Don't know if it's possible but would love to hear otherwise.

 

[koala]

There are some guides about splitting and handling audio:

How to split, exclude, seperate Audio sources off your stream or recording

Its fortunately quite easy to exclude an Audio source from your stream or recording. But there are a few things we cannot do. So let us take a look at the different sources we may have available: Good Voice-Communication (Teamspeak, Skype...

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Voicemeeter Banana - Audio Management for 1 and 2 PC Streaming Setups

With the Software Voicemeeter Banana by the guys from VB-Audio Software you can manage several Audio In and Outputs to give you the options to decide which sound should go onto your stream or recording and which goes to your speakers, headset or...

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[Windows 10] Seperate audios and distribute to 3 tracks: to hear, to stream and to record

Important: this guide only works on Windows 10. No idea if it could work on Windows 8 since I've never used Windows 8 or 8.1. But I'm sure Windows 7 and below can't. Important: make sure you know basically how to configure Windows 10 (especially...

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Windows 10 App Volume Device Preferences

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

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