Just YES!!

Adding another strong use case for this: translated audio.

Live voice translation is now possible on the streamer's side, so a streamer can speak French, Spanish, or German while a translated voice track is generated in real time. With multiple audio channels, viewers could simply choose which language they hear. That would open international creators to viewers who don't speak their language, and the same channel support described above would make it possible.

As a longtime Twitch Partner, I think this would be one of the biggest growth unlocks for non-English creators.

Wanting to comment on this to keep this thread alive so they implement it! I keep on getting confused if someone ults in my game or in the streamers game in whatever game I'm playing.

yes this would be insane. what if i want to use myu own music or listen to my own stuff. i just want to be able to hear my music and not have it clash with the streamers' music

Yea, my suggestion goes also in that direction. I think it would be a big benefit for the streamer hence the platform, to keep logged in viewers that actually leave if they don't like the music a gaming streamer is playing but enjoy to watch the gaming stream, for example. Or don't like the voice but just the music they're playing, and so on. Multiple situations where we can need to mute one of the tracks if we had different ones (3 should be enough, though: mic, background music, game sountrack)
So, separate audio tracks are absolutely needed, please, it can't be that difficult ;)

Viewer-controlled separate audio tracks for voice, game audio, and music.

It remains difficult for me to understand why such a simple feature—one that largely builds on functionality already present within the platform and mainly needs to be properly exposed to users—has received so much support without being developed into an actual user-facing feature.

This is not intended as a demand, but as a goodwill request for the benefit of Twitch users and creators worldwide. It is a request for a feature that could improve the experience for the entire global Twitch community.

there are streamers that i frequently dont watch because the music they play isnt for me - but ingame sounds and speech are nice. So my perspective as viewer and streamer -> this is a heavily needed feature. And as VOD anyway already uses a different audio line this cant be that hard to implement.

This really needs to be a thing since it's super annoying when you want to listen to streamers and your own music whilst their music is also playing in the background.

I think adding an option to switch between the main and VOD audio track would probably be sufficient for most people though.

I upvoted this back in 2023 and it's still my most-wanted feature 3 years later.

This has already likely been listed by someone, but within the UI, the users could have the availibility to login to their Spotify/Apple muisc, and if the streamer hosts a listen party, users could join in and listen through their own Spotify, as to add music to their own playlists if they enjoy them. If the spotify is played through this channel element, Twitch would have the ability of closing off that source of audio and isolating it to only the streamer. As to simplify the process, as long as the streamers play their music purely through this element, and not as desktop audio. This would in turn, remove the issue of musical copyright all-together (as you would not be hosting their streaming of it, you would be providing an avenue for the user and streamer to "listen together" through an element, using a third party music streaming platform with the appropriate licencing to play the songs, which, may i add, is a feature provided by many existing platforms) this allows appropriate tracking of listens for musicians, which is a plus as-well.

YES! I was about to make a post about it.

I'm on Twitch for more than 11 years using it very frequently (352 days watched in one year like two years ago), and I'm tired of someone's music. I don't have anything against their taste in music or something, but I just got tired. I have my tastes too, and when I really like the streamer, I can't watch it for a few hours straight when he/she is listening to the genre that I really hate.

Not even talking that some streamers that I like don't know how to adjust thier volume, and sometimes the music is over their voice... It's okay on their end, but it's too loud on our end, and when you tell them the music is too loud, their got angry that again someone is pointing it out (lol).
Watching streams is also a great background noise when you are alone. I'm changed also and I love playing the games with in game soundtrack on while listening to the stream at the same time or just listen to my music.

Two audio channel sources that you can mute one would be awesome, and I need it so much.

This is the most needed QoL feature that viewers need. I often want to watch a streamer on my second monitor but listen to my own music and not theirs.

As a workaround, the streamer can setup OBS using the selective audio tracks for Twitch VOD.

Viewers can use a Chrome extension "Twitch DVR player"
Play the stream and on the bottom of the video you can see a progress bar from the plugin to rewind the stream and just click to rewind 5 seconds, it should play the stream using only the VOD audio tracks with just a 5 second delay from the active stream and will continue to update the stream and play non-stop.

(The same plugin in Firefox will stop playing once it reaches timestamp before the rewind was set, so its useless in Firefox)

TWITCH DEVS WAKE UP!!!!!!

this would be incredible useful. Especially on twitch as a "gaming" streaming platform. It would bring twitch to another level above it's competitors. And that without the need of costly 4k or higher framerate streams.

I literally came here to suggest the same thing.
Trying to balance my speech + background music to everyone's preferences is impossible, and I'd love it if viewers were able to turn the music (or my voice if they want!) off if they want to listen to something else.
And personally I have hearing issues, I cannot parse what someone is saying if the background music is too loud or if it has lyrics, so it would be an accessibility improvement too.

The idea of multiple audio channels on Twitch is such a game-changer—it would add so much flexibility for both creators and viewers. Whether it's separating game audio, music, or commentary, it gives everyone more control over their experience. I’ve seen how small innovations like this can make a huge difference, especially when exploring platforms like https://1wingeorgia.com/ where having a customizable user experience really stands out. It’s all about giving people options to tailor things to their preferences. How do you think multiple audio channels would improve the streaming experience for creators and audiences alike? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Hi! Give streamer the possibility to separate music and voice. The chatters that like to be part of group and discuss music can, and the ones that want to skip the music can also.

Would it be great to set independent volume sliders for speak, game, and music? Collaboration is needed with OBS etc. developers to create ability to broadcast multichannel audio to separate the tracks. People could listen to own music while watching their best streamer.

*Re-commenting this from another thread for a similar feature*

I very much would like to see this suggestion become a reality. Below are a few of examples of situations that I would personally find such a feature useful:

1) I watch a lot of commentary and game dev streamers; many of which who will have background music. There are many times when I'd like to limit the audio to just the voice of the streamer either for audio clarity or attention reasons.

2) While watching a streamer play games there are often times that I'd like that adjust the volume of the gameplay or the streamer to prevent one from drowning out the other.

3) Changing my audio output device (headphones, speakers, etc) comes with a different audio quality and treble/bass levels from the same stream. Of course this is caused by my devices, but is something that can make certain aspects of a stream difficult to discern. Being able to adjust the individual audio "tracks" as a viewer could provide a solution to this problem.

4) This feature could find a use as an accessibility feature by those who are hard-of-hearing or are hearing-impaired by allowing them to selectively adjust volume as needed.

5) As an accessibility feature for those that experience issues from certain auditory triggers. These could be SFX played on stream from events (such as raids, donations, etc.), gameplay audio, or a number of other sources.

Most of the above are personal examples where I would find the feature useful as a viewer and may not be applicable to all or many. However, I feel that there many other reasons that other users may have as to why this should be implemented.

* Found several other threads requesting the same or functionally similar feature: 47556494 , 48682055 , 39246595 , 46517305 , 37748812 , 44978509 , 43326663 , 40715557*

I came to twitch.uservoice for the first time to make this exact request, PLEASE Twitch!

OBS gives us 6 audio tracks, presumably one for streaming, one for VOD, and the others for...well, who knows?

I'd love to be able to set:
Track 1: Full stream audio
Track 2: Stream audio without music
Track 3: Only voice and game audio
Track 4: Only voice audio

Then, have a drop down on my stream (next to the sub button, perhaps) where viewers can choose which track they want to hear.

Setting this up in OBS is very easy, Twitch just needs to add/support this feature--and let streamers name their audio channels!