- Welcome back to another Two Minute Tutorial
where we aim to give you the best tips and tricks
for your stream in under two minutes.
In this video, we're going to be talking about
exactly how you can add information from Spotify
showing the title, the artist,
maybe even the album art of the track
that's going to be playing so you can display it
on your stream and you no longer
have to have your viewers asking you
what song is playing.
By the end of this video, you'll know exactly
how to add all of this information into your stream design
and overlay and I'll show you some personalization tips
so you can change the font style, positioning,
and add a scrolling text effect, too.
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Okay, so the first thing that we need to do
is head to the link at the top of the description
to download a super lightweight program called Snip,
which is going to allow us to take
that information from Spotify and display it
on stream using our streaming software,
something like OBS or Streamlabs OBS.
So click the link at the top of the description.
It'll take you to a page like this,
where you can download the zip file for Snip.
One thing I will mention is that Snip
has gone through a massive rework
in the last six months, so the reliability
is much better with Spotify detection.
So if you've used it in the past before
and it hasn't worked out for you,
I would encourage you to download it again,
because as I say, it's gotten much better
in reliability with Spotify.
So download the zip and extract it to a folder
that you know where it's going to be on your PC.
So I'm going to extract mine into a folder
I've already created called Snip.
And then all we have to do is double-click
to start running Snip.
It will pop up with a webpage asking you
to log in to your Spotify account,
just so it can connect to the Spotify API.
Now once you've connected your Spotify account
to Snip and you have it running,
you should see a couple of new files in this folder,
one called snip.txt, and one called snip_artwork.
All we need to do is drag the .txt file
into our streaming software.
So for me, that's OBS Studio,
and onto the scene where we want to display
the Now Playing information.
So I drag that, drop it on top,
and you can see now, I have this text source,
which is exactly the song and artist
that are playing on Spotify.
So if I skip song on Spotify, you should see
that also, the text updates to reflect the new song
and new artist that's playing, too.
If you want to customize the font
or the size or anything like that of the text
that's displaying on-screen, all you have
to do is right-click the text source,
go to properties, and then in here,
you can choose a different font, different font style,
different font size.
I will use something like Monsterrat SemiBold.
Click OK, and you can see
it's now using the new font instead.
And of course, you can drag this around
and position it exactly where you want.
If you want to have the text scrolling
because you have a section of your overlay
where you want to display this text constantly,
all you have to do is right-click the text source again,
come up to filters, and add a scrolling filter
to the text effect.
So you can just leave this name to scroll.
All you have to do is set the horizontal speed
to something that you like, something around 25,
and then I would recommend using limit width
and just playing around with the width limit.
This means that if you have a super long title,
it's not going to go all the way across your overlay
and, you know, hide something that you don't want
to be hidden.
So I'm going to limit my width to something around 400.
And you can see here, there is a little issue
where the artist name goes right next
to the track name again.
So we just need to fix that in the Snip options.
So come down to the system tray, right-click on Snip,
and go to Set Output Format.
And then here, you can see exactly
how it displays the track name, what the separator
is between the track and artist,
and the artist format.
So what I like to do is usually just add a couple
of spaces after the artist and a vertical pipe
and a couple more spaces and click save.
And if we now change track name again,
you should see it update, and you can see here
that there is now a space and a vertical pipe
between the artist name and the track name.
Finally, if you also want to display the album artwork,
again, just go down to the Snip icon, right-click,
and make sure that you have this option enabled.
Save album artwork, and then just make sure
that in the album artwork size,
you're using whichever size you want to display it,
small, medium, or large.
And then you come back to the Snip folder
and you simply do the exact same thing.
You drag across the Snip artwork
onto the scene where you want it to display.
And you can see, this is the album art
for the current track that is playing.
If I skip to another song, the track name
and the artist name updates and so does the album artwork.
So you can arrange that really however you want
to arrange it, make it look really appealing
in your stream overlay.
But yeah, that's basically it.
Hopefully, you found this video helpful.
If you have, please do give it a thumbs up.
That helps more than you know.
And if you can share this video with a friend
that is also looking to improve their stream,
I would greatly appreciate it.
I'd also recommend checking out the rest
of the Two Minute Tutorial series
or some other videos on the Gaming Careers channel,
'cause we upload all kinds of content
helping you learn to livestream
and improve your content.
Thanks as always this month to the patrons
that have supported the channel.
If you haven't yet checked out the Gaming Career podcast,
we have now got two episodes live,
second episode talking to the developer of OBS.
It's a really interesting story, hearing about
how he has built something incredibly popular
for the streaming community.
So definitely check that out.
It's linked in the description down below.
And I'll catch you guys in the next video.
Peace.