Question / Help Method to send audio to stream but not to me?

doobdoob

New Member
I want to play music while I play for my viewers, but I don't want to hear the music myself because it's distracting and prevents me from hearing in-game communication. Is there a way to send audio from a media player like WMP only to my stream?
 

Grimio

Member
It should be possible. I think I know how but this is as hacky as it gets. You will need Virtual Audio Cable: http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm it is not free though.

You will have an extra device in your playback and recording devices. Those are connected with each other and are to be considered the same device. Which means when you feed something into the recording VAC device, it will output it from the playback VAC device.

You will need to forward your default playback device to the recording VAC device(tools for this are included with VAC), then you configure your music player to use the VAC playback device instead of your default playback device.

Then you select the VAC recording device as your microphone in the OBS setting. Next, mute the audio in OBS as you will play all the sound from the microphone device. You should be done now.
Oh, and if you want to talk to the viewers, you will need to forward your microphone to the VAC recording device as well.

This method is not guaranteed to work, but I have tested a similar setup in Xsplit.
Note that this method will cause a slight sound delay.
 

doobdoob

New Member
You make it sound so simple. :) I'll keep trying to see if I can get this to work, but thank you for your quick response and knowledgeable answer.
 

loko

New Member
open your volume mixer and turn off sound of media player/winamp.
I just cut off all the sound/main speaker and still the sound off the playing youtube video got streamed which you also
see in the obs prog sound bar. So just turn off winamp there and u dont hear it but they do.
 

Grimio

Member
loko said:
open your volume mixer and turn off sound of media player/winamp.
I just cut off all the sound/main speaker and still the sound off the playing youtube video got streamed which you also
see in the obs prog sound bar. So just turn off winamp there and u dont hear it but they do.
No, that doesn't work.
 
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