What's a fam? It's your boy, Kirk Nugent,
and I'm excited to be back on the StreamYard channel with another video. Today,
we're going to be talking about background music,
playing background music in your live streams.
This is something that people do when you're having those discussion type live
streams. You want to set the tone, you want to set the vibe.
You want to play some music in the background. It's low.
This is a practice that you're going to want to do for your live stream to be
able to level up, and right at the outset,
I want to talk about something to be careful of something that you need to keep
in mind if you've never thought about it before,
or there may be some of you who have run up against this thing already and you
know what I'm about to say. It could be summed up in one word,
and that is copyright. Copyrighted
music will get you flagged playing copyrighted music,
using copyrighted music in your live stream,
is the quickest way to get your video, not only flagged,
but in some cases you will be pulled down.
I've had my live stream actually stopped midstream on Facebook
because of some copyrighted music. And so when you have guests come through,
you gotta be, make sure that even if they have the ability to play music,
that that music is not copyrighted. If you have Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora,
you want to make sure that music that you play is owned.
So any of those platforms, that's not your music. And by owned,
I don't mean like I bought it and so I own it. No,
you have to physically own the copyrights for that music.
There are 20 different places that StreamYard has put together in a blog post
that we're going to link in the description of the video.
This is the page itself,
but there are 20 different places to find music for live streaming free and paid
and we want to make sure that you are able to take advantage of that,
so we're going to link to that in the description below,
that's going to give you your resources. That's going to give you a place,
a starting point to find the music. And then once you found the music,
there are several ways to be able to bring your music in. Now,
one of the ways of course is with hardware. You may have an audio interface.
You may have a Rodecaster Pro or something like that,
that you can play music through and you just select that as your mic and you
bring that in. And if that's your way kudos,
but some of you have seen the voice meter banana. And if you've seen that video,
you know, that you can bring in audio that way.
And so you can definitely check that out.
We're going to put a card to that video right here for you to check that out.
Those are for my Windows users, but for my Mac users,
you may use a program called back Loopback And so Loopback is also a program
that you can use. And we will link to that card.
A really cool guy did a video on using Loopback with StreamYard.
So we want to make sure that that is available to you.
And so these are some of the ways that you can use hardware and software to
bring background music into your live stream.
But I want to show you a way in this video today of how you can bring music in
without using any other hardware, any other software, just using StreamYard,
let's dive into it. So here we are in StreamYard,
and I'm going to go ahead and enter the studio.
There's a couple of settings that I want to show you real quick as we get into
what we're about to do here.
And you want to make sure you have these settings set right for your system.
So I'm going to turn my camera off, go to Cam/Mic,
and go to audio and make sure that echo cancellation is turned off and my stereo
audio is turned on and you want to make sure that that is set for yourself and
for your guests so that when that music plays,
it's not fighting in the background with your echo cancellation, right?
So that's one setting. Now we have that set.
I'm going to go ahead and enter the studio.
I already have my other machine over here in the studio,
and I'm going to just go ahead and click these three buttons, hit,
edit Mic settings and make sure echo cancellation is turned off.
I will also have to make sure that my guest has on headphones to be able to do
this so that we can play that music in the background.
Next thing we're going to want to do is select a video.
Now you're going to want to put together a video and you want to use whatever
video editing software you use. It could be iMovie, you could be Adobe Premiere.
It could be Final Cut. It could be WeVideo.
It could be any one of these platforms,
but put together a video of the playlist of songs that you know are copyright
free, right? Use the resources that StreamYard has given us,
put together a playlist of those songs and put them into a movie, right?
It's got to be an MP4 file, and you're going to see why in a second.
I have a video from my band that I'm pulling up on screen right now.
Let's see if we can find that video. This is the video right here, my band,
my vocalists from my church.
I'm going to actually change this and MOV to MP4. This is a little hack.
This is a bonus that I'm going to show you real quick.
I'm literally just hitting that. Hit enter, say, use MP4 and that's done.
So now I'm going to go ahead and pull up uh,
the one quick setting that we want to look at here real quick is automatically
add shared screen slash videos to stream.
We want to make sure that that is unchecked so that we don't automatically add
it into the system. Make sure that that is unchecked. So that was unchecked.
We come here to share,
we go to video file and we're going to browse to that location,
downloads. Here it is. B Van, go ahead and pull that in.
And it's going to sit at the bottom, ready to go. So here it is.
And it's ready to go. I can add it to the stream.
So now that we have that there,
I'm going to go ahead and add my video to the stream and add the other video to
the stream and we have two videos on the screen now.
So essentially mimicking what it would look like with two guests.
If you had two guests on the stream.
So now we're going to go ahead and add the video to the screen.
And you can kind of hear that I'm going to pull this down a little bit.
You're going to want to do this too,
because it's supposed to be background music. Now here's the clincher.
This is the hack. This is the whole video right here in a nutshell.
You want to make sure that you don't have any one of these three
items selected all three of these options for shared screen or
shared videos.
If you have any one of these three selected then the will
display for all to see, but in order for you to drop it in the background,
all you need to do is move to any of these.
Any of these layouts that StreamYard has here for our screen,
any of these is going to have that video in the background.
It can still be heard, but nobody can see it.
And that is a great little hack to be able to play that music in the background
while your show is going so that you can have that
effect for your live show. So there you have it,
you've been able to see how you can do a background music with hardware, right,
with your Rodecaster Pros and different platforms like that,
USB audio interfaces.
You've been able to see how you can do background music by going and checking
out those two videos,
VoiceMeeter Banana and Loopback for my Windows users and my Mac users.
But you've also been able to see how you can add background music using this
little hack that we've shown you today. No software, no hardware required.
We're just using what StreamYard has given us and listen,
it's all in the software. It's all in the platform.
We haven't pulled any tricks out of our sleeves.
And so all you've got to do in terms of prep work is make sure you have a video
that has non-copyrighted music in it that you can add to the
stream and use one of those layouts that doesn't display the video. Man,
it has been my absolute pleasure to be here with you. for these videos.
Drop us some messages in the comments,
let us know how you have been using music in your live streams.
We want to hear from you. And if you haven't already make sure you like, share,
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all kinds of content.
All kinds of live shows that it has a ton of value and we want to make sure that
you are aware of that and did you can take advantage of it because this is all
this channel is here for. So it's your boy, Kirk Nugent, Geek Speaker, Preacher,
excited about this partnership with StreamYard,
excited about the content that we're going to create together here in this space
and I'm excited to see you in another video. Later.