Question / Help Music echo during stream?

[gravitychan]

I've noticed lately that when using OBS 0.12.3 that the music will echo infinitely. I've used OBS for a while and this was never an issue before. I've muted my mic on OBS and even completely removed it so that it wasn't even set up, yet the music continues to echo. In order to test the music, I leave the stream unmuted and then turn off the music on Windows Media Player to see if it echoes, which it always does. Is there a way to fix this problem? Thank you!

 

[Gol D. Ace]

Please make a recording and check it. (You will most likely need VLC to hear the audio).

OBS will record your stream when it's unmuted causing echo.

 

[gravitychan]

Okay, I will try this and see if it echoes.

 

[gravitychan]

The music works fine when recording, but it echoes during streams. My mic shouldn't be picking up any audio.

 

[Sapiens]

Are you listening to your own stream? Don't do that. Leave it muted. OBS will record the audio from your browser and it will start looping.

 

[gravitychan]

Ah, I had a friend test the audio, I think having my stream unmuted (since I have to stream up on my browser to make sure it's working) was causing it to echo. It's working now, though!

 

[gravitychan]

Thank you! This is exactly what the problem was

 

[zZzKittiezZz]

I thought this was my problem but when I opened just obs and the streamelements media share page I still got an echo while just testing. I wasn’t even streaming and it was lagging on the streamelements page so was playing on both but at different times. Should I have streamelements Downloaded because I’m just using it from my browser... I’m lost please halp!!

 

[Keanshi]

I thought this was my problem but when I opened just obs and the stream elements media share page I still got an echo while just testing. I wasn’t even streaming and it was lagging on the stream elements page so was playing on both but at different times. Should I have stream elements Downloaded because I’m just using it from my browser... I’m lost please help!!
[I had this problem too but I figured it out I had the scene browser open in other scenes just tick shutdown source when not visible

 

[Priscille]

Hello, the topic is getting old, but I just come to bring an answer for people having this problem.
If you have an echo problem on your OBS it could be for this reason: If you use several Overlay where each one has a Media Request, each one will launch the Media Request individually. For example I was using 3 overlays for 3 different scenes, each with a Media Request, so the music played 3 times at the same time with a few seconds delay.

To avoid the echo, you need to have the Media Request on a separate Overlay to be played only once in your scenes. Other Overlays should not contain the Media Request.

The same problem can happen with Alert Box. You need a special Alert Box Overlay, separate from the rest to avoid echo.