Question / Help Nowplaying music

[Ascel]

Hi all. Want to know, how can i show my currently plaing music from iTunes while streaming with OBS. If u can, tell me it clearly, im asking for my friend, i'm not streaming myself. Thank you!

 

[micechal]

Very simple. You need some software, which will output currently playing song to a txt file, for example Spotify. Add new text source in OBS and set it to display text from file, which is created by spotify. OBS will in real-time catch any changes made to file and display them :)

 

[Ascel]

Can't he use this plugin http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying/ for soft, no spotify?

 

[micechal]

I don't think so, because OBS recognizes only .txt as text file input (afaik).

 

[Ascel]

Ty for ansvering, hope it will help my friend :)

 

[Staretta]

I use AMIP for winamp, and according to their download page, they have a plugin for iTunes as well.

http://amip.tools-for.net/wiki/amip/download

 

[Ascel]

Thanks, it has really helped.
Next question, how can he create creeping line with this text?

 

[Warchamp7]

Just enter a speed for scroll in the Text Source options

 

[Ascel]

Thank you.

 

[micechal]

You friend can also change his music player to Foobar2000, because it's lightweight and there will be more resources for streaming and playing a game. With Foobar he can use Now Playing Simple: http://skipyrich.com/wiki/Foobar2000:Now_Playing_Simple, which outputs now playing song to a txt file and is lightweight :)