6 years later and we still need this

I also like this idea

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This feature is so needed. It's on mobile so why not pc. It really helps decrease power consumption, data/bandwidth usage, and helps increase performance for us multitaskers by eliminating video rendering in background for gaming and listening to streams.

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This only audio option is really important to add. Not only for people who only want to hear the audio without having to load the video, but it is also necessary to be able to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions due to video streaming, which is far for negligible. Thanks!

Hello, I live somewhere where the internet speed/mbps is low. Some of the people that I follow have streams are in 720 only or greater which causes the receiving transmission on my end to buffer and lag often. I mostly just want to listen, so having an audio only or video toggle would be nice.

tldr: it could be implemented, excluding advertisements of course .. a toggle for video or at least an option for low res so that those of us with lower bandwidth can listen without choppy or broken interception.

Should be easy to add as Twitch already has audio-only option in the Android app (and youtube-dl confirms that there is in fact an audio-only stream available), however it's not available as an option in the Web UI.

You have my vote - this is annoying. I have ****** internet and computer and it can't handle the video sometimes

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i agree too

Hello. Many people watch a stream in the background. They listen more than they watch. For weak computers and a weak Internet, it will be good if the “audio only” mode is added when the video is completely turned off. This mode is interesting to me from PC, not to mention those who listen to streams from phones. Thank you for understanding!

This. It's the first time I see something that important on phone and not on PC.

I agree

This would be pretty much the mirror opposite to watching a muted stream. In the stream resolution settings there would be an option to turn video output off and only listen to the audio (in high quality).

This would be really useful for people with low internet speed (also to reduce the use of bandwidth when a lot of people are accessing the service) or who want to do other resource demanding tasks that could otherwise suffer from having a high resolution stream run in the background.

Yeah, we definitely need this !

Please add this! I'm on satellite. I can only watch in 160p. So I use twitch as radio. Audio only would save me on my 100 gig data cap.

I whole heartedly agree with this person because sometimes you want to hear the person but don't care about the streams video quality because your using it as white noise or downloading and don't want the stream to impact your download too heavily

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Please add this