OBS Studio - Scrolling Music Text with Spotify, iTunes, Winamp, Foobar, VLC

Ever wanted to know how some streamers have their current music playing shown on their stream? This guide will show you exactly how to add Spotify, iTunes, Winamp, foobar2000 or VLC now playing text into your OBS Studio Scenes.

Using this simple software, you can easily add scrolling text showing exactly what song and artist you are listening to so your viewers don't need to ask!

⏩ *Timestamps:*
0. Introduction 0:00
1. Downloading & Installing 1:18
2. Setting up Title, Artist, Album Format 2:55
3. Adding Snip to OBS 4:54
4. Setting up Scrolling Text 7:12
5. Setting up Scrolling and Text Width 7:49
6. Outro 8:52

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[KingSolrac]

This is how a YouTube tutorial should be. HIgh quality and straight to the point! Thank you very much!

[slavejura]

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for making these OBS and Twitch videos. They are immensely helpful in setting up my stream ^.^

[mana]

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Keep up the good stuff

[AustinSlack]

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[KingSolrac]

September 2019 this video still works amazing, forgot how to do it so I came back here! THANKS!

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[mackshizzle]

Awesome video Pete! Looking forward to watching more!

[bradleyreesecorcoran]

so much thanks! you cover every little detail to make a streaming channel look and feel "professional" as one can be. haha truly appreciate what your doing!

[supsett]

To put "enter" as separator format you type in "$$n"
^This places Artist under the song name.
you're welcome ;)

[zazorah]

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[AdamCouser]

I don't seem to have the text document?

[EricMichaelLP]

Great tutorial! I was so bummed out at the new OBS, and had no Idea how to get the scrolling text to work! But your tutorial was all I needed! :)

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