multiple audio channels
Streams should be able to encode audio into separate audio channels, so that users can independently mix/select audio for each channel. For example, one channel could be music, another could be the streamer's voice, and another for the game/application's audio. In this example, if you were already playing music that you wanted to listen to, you could disable the streamer's music. Or, if you have trouble hearing the streamer's voice, you could turn that up. Or, if you don't want to hear the streamer or music, you could mute them and just listen to the game. I think it would also have a secondary benefit that you could independently remove audio channels in cases of copyright violation, so that the rest of the vod is still good even if there happened to be flagged music on one channel.
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Michael_KindGottes commented
Maybe this needs more attention to be heared?
Everyone who wants this feature could tell one or more of their favorite Streamers about this idea to spread it. And maybe make them vote here. -
szityin commented
This feature would be very, very appreciated. If the viewers (and I) would be able to at least choose between audio channels (since most streamers already are using two audio channels; one where you can hear everything, and one without music, for the vod tracks), it could enhance the experience a lot.
I really hope we'll see this in the future.
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szityin commented
It would be lovely indeed. Since a lot of streamers already uses two audio channels (One for live and one for the vods, and without music playing), adding an option for the viewer to chose between audio streams in live streams would come in handy as a streamer an also as viewer.
Adding separate volume controls for the channels sounds more appealing, but it might be difficult to perfectly synchronize the audio streams together.
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KavernaTV commented
I hate to watch streamer with good content and bad music choice.
It would be nice if my viewers could control if they want to hear my music or not without affecting other viewers that do want to hear music.
Maybe a colaboration with OBS or provide some audio channel or layer that user can disable.
That would such a good feature for the community if it could be achieved!
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hey_key commented
Since Twitch streamers can control their microphone and audio track separately, it would be great if the viewers also had 2 volume sliders to adjust them separately. This would help with multi stream audio clarity, or if the viewer and streamer has very different taste in music.
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cialis438 commented
Simulcasting is now prohibited,
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/simulcasting-guidelines?language=en_US
so the feature that allows listeners to turn off some audio is really needed for me.
(I used to simulcast video games "with my voice" and "without my voice" so that listeners could choose their preference)I believe this is the hottest feature request (689 votes!) but I'm not seeing any comments or progress reports from admin. Is there any progress on the situation?
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samuello94 commented
Streamers should be able to play their music directly from Twitch so viewers can choose to mute it.
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TheAcrylicFusion commented
Being able to individually adjust volume of game, streamer voice, music, etc would be beneficial to people with auditory sensitivity, PTSD, and several others.
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cialis438 commented
This feature seems really helpful!
I am considering inviting guests to voice chat (VC) with me while I am gaming (the VC audio will also be on the stream), but I am hesitant because I can't avoid the guests hearing their voice twice from theirselves and the stream. This kind of "echo" makes it difficult to continue speaking, so I want to give them a option to listen to streamed audio without VC.
I believe this is an important feature that it deserves to be charged for. I could not be happier if you would consider implementing it! -
Arpanzo commented
I want to add a way for the viewer to manage the various audio tracks, each viewer can customize it as he prefers, in order to hear everything well
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Vandanuru commented
Integrate the microphone and background music of a streamer as two distinct input/output channels that can enable viewers to individually adjust the volume levels of each channel according to their preferences. By providing this feature, viewers who enjoy higher background music levels can select accordingly, while others who prefer no background music at all may mute the background music volume. This implementation can result in increased satisfaction among viewers, and alleviate the need for the streamer to constantly adjust background music levels, thereby increasing overall efficiency.
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Vrexia commented
I stream with community sound effects using bot commands. Some people like these, some people don't. I have them set to channel 6 and do not save them to my VODs. I would like my viewers to have the ability to mute on a channel by channel basis on the live stream as well, so everyone can have the best of all worlds.
We can already stream content in this manner, please allow viewers to also control the volume of the different channels on their end.
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SunnyGoesBrrr commented
A streamer has the possibility to set his microphone and his music to 2 audio tracks as is already done, but in the stream itself you only have the option of making the entire stream loud or quiet, a good option here would be to play the music separately turn it down OR just want to listen to the music and turn the streamer down.
example:
You set your Spotify playlist (or local music) & your microphone in OBS. The viewer on Twitch now has another speaker icon when hovering over the speaker icon with the mouse. If he makes the first loudspeaker symbol quiet, only the microphone of the streamer (& potentially the game sound or something) is turned down but the separate music remains loud. The same with the second loudspeaker symbol, only the music is turned down and the streamer remains loud. Of course, if the viewer presses the loudspeaker symbol, both will continue to be muted. The advantage of this would be that the viewer can listen to his music himself and is not "forced" to listen to the music from the streamer.
Example of how it could look like in a stream: https://imgur.com/a/phSdWuI
(not me but i have permission to use this scene/picture, i just edited the second volume thing) (ps: yes ik that the last button is from a plugin and can be ignored.. xD)Thanks for reading
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vdv_JakeTheDog commented
Love the idea, has Twitch moved forward with it since it being mentioned here for five and a half years?
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AmigaLive commented
When can we see this available?
This actually describes the feature I need!This was requested initially at Nov 5, 2016
but the feature is already half way there since we can have VOD tracks already...
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Playaveli commented
Great idea!
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AmigaLive commented
Option for viewers to be able to select to view the live stream with only the VOD track layers configured previously by the streamer.
The VOD track can already be adjusted in OBS by the streamer for the VOD.
We need this same feature but adjusted for a near real-time playback.
If configured properly by the streamer, viewers can select only listen to the game audio and not have to hear the streamer yelling their lungs out, Text-To-Speech, background music, alerts, etc.. -
Gambloide commented
As someone who almost always has multiple streams open I actively interact with, this would be the BEST thing Twitch could ever do for me as a viewer. Listening to multiple people talk is not a problem, but if they all play music it becomes a problem.
OBS already allows to stream and record multiple audio tracks. Any media player with audio track selection lets a user switch between them.
Currently Twitch merges those tracks, supposedly at their ingest or transcoding, servers, making it impossible for users or extensions to balance the audio of the individual tracks.
I am aware this is a high-risk feature request, because users WILL complain about the mic being muted when it was them muting the mic on their end, or the music being too loud, when they turned it up on their end.
This means there is a lot more work to this than simply retaining the audio tracks and updating the player to support more than one volume slider. A lot of usability testing would have to be put into this, testing e.g. if putting all track levels at the same level in the client whenever a stream starts would make it acceptable to prevent false accusations of the streamer having messed up VS the annoyance of users to have to change the settings to their preferred balance every stream.
I was thinking of making an extension which would allow viewers to at least switch between the live stream and VOD audio tracks when they watch a stream, because of how common it has become to have the VOD not include music.
But it appears there is no official endpoint available for developers to get the VOD audio track and get it with a latency/delay matching the live stream.
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nuvvz commented
100% agree, we need this asap. At least 2 volume options, one for background music from whatever source (you would just add a Spotify app for example) and another one for the rest of the stream audio like its now. Instead of one "speaker" to modify whole stream volume we would have additional "speaker" to adjust music volume and thats all. Simple as that. Life changing feature - you like the streamer but dont like his music? Just mute it and watch the stream and wait for your own song or play it on your own
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thefubsydude commented
Echoing others that have stated that the main benefit for me with this feature is that I would be able to watch a streamer while playing a game, without their game audio interrupting my game audio.