Having background music in your stream is a great way to keep your viewers
engaged, especially for those moments when you're not talking as much.
So in today's video, I'm gonna show you how to go ahead and add background
music directly inside of O B S studio without the need of having to do screen
capture or having other programs open.
Let's go ahead and dive in So the.
First thing you're gonna want to do is you wanna go ahead, open up your O B S studio.
We're gonna go ahead and find the scene where we're gonna want
to go ahead and add our music.
We're gonna come to sources and we're gonna press this plus icon.
We're gonna select Media Source.
We're gonna name this music, and then you're gonna press okay.
Now this is gonna go ahead and ask you to go ahead and locate
the file for the music that you want to include into O B S studio.
Now this is gonna be the best way to be able to do this because it
doesn't add so much strain on your CPU when you have other apps or
programs or browser sources open.
It does create a little bit of strain on your computer, not
giving you the best ability to stream and have the best quality.
So this is why we're gonna do it this way.
So you do need an MP3 file, right?
So what I'd like to use is I'd like to go ahead and use epidemic sounds.
I'll put a link in the description down.
And the reason why I like using epidemic sounds, cause I have tons
of options of music you can go and utilize and sound effects as well.
But the most important thing is that you won't have to worry about any copyright
claims because it is royalty free music.
And I like the fact that I can select my YouTube, my TikTok, my website, my Twitch,
my Facebook, my Instagram, and I can use this music across all those platforms
without worrying about copyright claims.
So this is what.
Personally like to use, and I went ahead and included a stream
playlist that I utilized with three hours of music that you can go
ahead and utilize for your stream.
And then it's a 30 day free trial sometimes to have 60 days.
But if you do want to go ahead and upgrade, it's $9 a month.
But again, you can get music from anywhere that you like.
So once you have your music, You then want to come to Audacity.
Now, audacity is gonna be the tool that we're gonna go ahead and utilize
to be able to put all of our tracks together to create one playlist
that can run on our OBS account.
So you'll go ahead and download Audacity.
I'll put a link in the description of this video as well.
And then once you have Audacity installed, you wanna go ahead and get it opened.
So once you have Audacity open, it'll look just like this.
So now we want to go ahead and get our music.
So you want to come back to epidemic sounds and you want to come to the
playlist or any of the songs that you found on Epidemic Sounds or wherever
it is that you may want to utilize.
And you wanna come and select this little download icon.
So we'll select download, we'll go to file format, we'll select
mp3, and then we'll his download.
Now I'm just gonna go ahead and download three songs and then you can
do this for as many songs as you like.
So I'll go ahead and download these three.
Once you have your songs downloaded, they'll download into your files.
And now we want to do is we wanna open up Audacity.
We want to come to file and we want to go ahead and import audio.
So we'll go ahead and go to the downloads where we went ahead and included that.
I'll go ahead and select all three hit open.
And you're gonna see here that they're all gonna open up just like this.
So what we want to do here is we want to go ahead and drag the bottom
one and just place it right after.
And then you can go ahead and delete, and then you'll do the
same thing for this one here.
You'll grab.
Bring it over, and then you can go ahead and add it directly here right after.
And then you'll do this for every song that you want to go ahead and add.
Now, initially it may be a little bit daunting to do this, but typically
you only have to do this once.
Once you have results on the playlist, you're gonna be able
to utilize it inside of OBS.
So let's say that these are the songs that I want.
I have my playlist ready to go.
Now you want to come to file, you want to come to export, and
you want to export as an mp3.
We'll name this stream playlist one.
I'll go ahead and sit, save.
I'll say, okay, we'll say okay again.
And now that's gonna go ahead and download all those songs into one file
for us to be able to use inside of obs.
So now that I have that, I'm gonna come back to O Bs studio.
I'm gonna come to Locate file, I'm gonna hit browse, and then I'm gonna
go to my desktop where I saved it.
Here it is, stream Playlist one.
I'm gonna select that I'm gonna hit open.
That's gonna bring in that file directly into o Bs, and then it's very important.
You wanna go ahead and select Loop.
Now the playlist that I shared with you has three hours worth of music,
but if you only want to have four or five songs, maybe 10 minutes worth
of music, if you hit loop, that music will just continue to play nonstop.
So I'm gonna his loop.
I'm gonna press, okay.
And you're gonna see here that now the music is playing, right?
So you typically want to have the music about somewhere around
here, about 30, not as loud.
You don't want it to overpower your voice.
So you can see here now the music by default's only gonna
be heard by your stream.
So in order for you to be able to hear that music, you want to come and hit
this little gear, this little three dots.
You want to come to advance audio properties and then you want to go ahead
and click where it says Music, which is the MP3 file we just went ahead and added.
And when it says monitor, you're gonna have three options.
Monitor only means that only you will hear it, your stream won't hear it.
Monitor and output means that you'll hear it and also your stream will hear it.
So if you want to just test to be able to hear how the music
sounds, once you do that, you'll be able to start hearing the music.
You can see it start playing here in the video as well.
So I'm gonna go ahead and turn that off for just a time moment.
I'm gonna leave it on monitor off, but that's how you're able
to go ahead and hear yourself.
If you wanna do the same thing for your mic, that's how you go ahead and do that.
Now, when you have your music, you have to add it to every single scene that you
want to go ahead and utilize that for.
So the beautiful thing is that when I have my countdown timer, You can
just press plus you can come to Media Source and you're gonna see here, it's
gonna say add existing, and then you can go ahead and add that music into
every single scene that you have.
And now you're able to control the volume and all of your
music directly inside of o Bs.
Now, if you wanna be able to go ahead and get more followers, more donations,
more subscribers, go ahead and watch this video right here where I show
you how to go ahead and set up alerts.
That way when people subscribe, donate, or follow, it pops up on.
Encouraging other people to do the same.
So go ahead and watch this video right here to learn how to set up alerts.
I'll see you guys in the next video.