Question / Help Stream music, mute Skype, Audio help

[KOKOStern]

I have a pretty interesting problem.

I stream a live show and what I usually do is call my co-caster via Skype and then talk a bit about the show before we actually start.

Now at some point I put up the stream, but I mute my microphone and the speakers.

The thing is - I want to play music for the viewers who are waiting for the show, but if I play music and enable the speakers, they will also be able to hear my co-caster talking to me via Skype (they won't hear me speaking cause I muted the mic in OBS).

Is there a way to only pass what's coming from the speakers (the music) but not from Skype? A way to decide exactly what audio gets out to OBS and what doesn't?

I want to play music to the stream, and have viewers hear only that, while I'm also talking to my co-caster on Skype at the same time.

Possible? Ideas?

 

[Niamor]

You can probably do that with Virtual Audio Cable.

 

[Lain]

Currently, the way it's designed is it gets audio from two places, the mic and the desktop. Getting sounds from specific applications only is something that I would like to do but is pretty difficult in practice. Some people use virtual audio cables, but virtual audio cables seems to be a bit buggy unfortunately with some of the output data. I'll have to download VAC and see if I can make some sort of workaround specifically for it to get it to work properly.

I do want to try to make it so certain applications can play audio directly to the stream, though. It's something I'm going to attempt to do in the future.