How to exclude music from your Twitch VODs

Just wanted to make a quick lil' video for all the people that have been asking how to have music or other application audio during a stream without it going to the VODs. The new OBS just made this super easy.

IMPORTANT: Desktop Audio must be muted as it captures everything. You'll need to capture all audio sources separately.

If something changes and this no longer applies I'll update the information here.

Just remember that while the music will not appear in the VODs, and these will not be muted, streaming copyrighted content is still not allowed and can be detected by Twitch.

Have fun!

[davexmachina]

I don't usually do tutorials, but I've been streaming for a while so if someone wants to know something specific, drop me some suggestions, I might cover it in a video if I have the time to do it 👍

[isthatciri]

Absolutely brilliant. I appreciate you taking the time to do this! I found this from Reddit :D

[solidusblitztv]

This was the ABSOLUTE BEST tutorial I've found ! TYSM! All the suggested videos are long and out of date

[Nokterian]

Saw your comment somewhere on reddit, this is the easiest solution yet thanks for that so my VODs will not be copyrighted!

[EliteEricYT]

Omg thank you so much. I feel like this was much harder to do a few years ago? Also, you explained it so well and not as fast as lighting so much appreciated!

[chrisbushman]

Thank you! This is an important detail that was not in another guide I was looking up on how to play music on my twitch stream. Much appreciated

[heyykristavods]

ah thank you so much for this!! saw your link on reddit!

[jalissheikh]

tysm! just came over from reddit and this was amazing <3

[zestyzman]

TYSM! Very informative and easy to follow!

[BearPlaysGames_]

Informative, helpful and most appreciated of all, straight to the point. Thank you so much! No more copyright free bibbidly bops for me (I mean... I'm still gonna have em, just mixed in with actual music people like now)

[GlishaSo]

woah streaming for yearssss and now it come up to my mind like how so many ppl these days plays some dmca songs was so confused and than I see this what a king! so that mean now I can play randomly sometimes eminem etc and no troubles ? <3

[yokorose]

Dave is being a helpful person =O, oh this is good if use the other UI obs as its different from mine

[papichrono]

Thanks for this, man! It helps a lot. Just have a quick questiono tho. Does this also work when I'm streaming on Facebook?

[Sneakyfelinexoxo]

Hi, thanks for the awesome tutorial. I was able to find similar settings for Streamlabs OBS. It looks like you do have a separate track for in-game music, so I'm assuming we set desktop audio to zero so that it doesn't pick up the spotify audio as well right?

[aaronbong]

Thank you for this! You made it so simple! Do you have a suggestion on great DMCA Free Music?

[Domarikat]

Hey, I recently switched from twitch to youtube and saw this from a Reddit post and followed your link. I found the “seperate twitch vod track” setting on streamlabs OBS and was curious if it worked the same for youtube if you knew? YouTube also uploads the streams after your done like twitch. But would that setting still work?

[Kiwifart]

Hi thanks so much for the video!! do you know if it will mute music in clips too? or just the vods?

[Jeremiah]

This is amazing. Will it work with YouTube music as well?

[Metruriel]

Hey mate! Thanks for the video! Perhaps, do you know if it is possible to do this on Streamlabs? If so, how? Thanks in advance!

[TheGrandOptimst]

That was easy 🔴 will the vod that saves through OBS have the music?