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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Vincent commented
I came to the idea myself because I watch a lot of streams but sometimes the music to loud, to low or w/e. I found it an great idea to use an "Twitch Library or some business deal with Youtube/Spotify (Or something like that. I am pretty sure this is possible) " to add 2 faders below the stream.
One fader for the streamers voice, and one fader for the music.
Of course in the bigger streams there can be an option like No Music at all to just let the fader disappear.
I think a lot of people would like this function because it gives them the ability to watch what someone is doing, but also gives the opportunity to level the stream out to their wished levels.
In the screen shot in the File Attachment I made a really cheap paint picture to visualize what I am thinking. I am not a graphic designer and I assume Twitch got their contacts to make it look super solid!
I would like to hear from Twitch/Community what you think of my idea.