Twitch VOD Track
Send separate audio mixes to your live stream and VOD recordings. Or take it further by routing different tracks to different streaming platforms when multistreaming.
What is Twitch VOD Track?
Twitch VOD Track is a feature that lets you send two separate audio tracks in a single stream: one heard by your live viewers, and a different one saved in your Twitch VOD recording. The most common use is omitting licensed music from the VOD so it doesn't get DMCA-muted after the broadcast ends.
The full mix heard by viewers watching your live broadcast: Music, alerts, game audio, microphone, everything.
A separate mix saved to your Twitch VOD: Typically without copyrighted music or alert sounds, so your recordings stay monetizable and uninterrupted.
More than just Twitch VOD
Streamrun supports the multi-track audio embedded in your OBS stream and lets you assign different audio tracks to each destinations. Not just Twitch's live vs. VOD split.
OBS
Multi-track audio stream
Streamrun
Twitch (live)
Track 1: live audio
Twitch (VOD)
Track 2: no music
YouTube
Track 1+2 mixed
OBS stream with two audio tracks. Streamrun assigns the right track to each destination, including the separate Twitch VOD track.
Use Cases
Common scenarios where separate audio tracks make a real difference.
DMCA & Copyright Protection
Play music during your live broadcast while saving a music-free mix to your Twitch VOD. Your live viewers enjoy the full experience; your recordings stay safe from Content ID mutes and takedowns.
Live → full mix with music · VOD → no music trackClean VOD Without Alert Sounds
Stream alerts, donation sounds, and overlay audio events add energy to a live broadcast, but might interrupt VOD viewers who don't have the same context. Leave those sounds only to the live audio track.
Live → alert sounds · VOD → game + mic onlyMulti-Language Multistreaming
Broadcast to multiple platforms simultaneously with language-specific audio on each. Send your English commentary to Twitch and a Spanish track to YouTube. All from a single OBS session with two audio tracks configured.
Twitch → Track 1 (English) · YouTube → Track 2 (Spanish)Platform-Specific Audio Mix
Different platforms have different audiences and policies. Send a full production mix with branded jingles and sound effects to Twitch while delivering a clean, dialogue-focused mix to a secondary destination like a podcast feed or corporate livestream.
Primary → branded full mix · Secondary → clean dialogueSponsor-Safe VOD Archive
Sponsor reads and promotional audio segments may expire or become outdated in long-term VOD archives. By routing a separate track that excludes sponsor audio to your VOD, you can keep your recorded content evergreen without re-editing after the stream.
How to Set Up Twitch VOD Track in OBS
Three steps: enable the feature in OBS, configure your audio tracks, then assign them in Streamrun.
Enable VOD track in OBS global.ini
To enable Twitch VOD track support for custom destinations other than Twitch, you need to modify a setting in the OBS configuration file.
- 1.Close OBS if it is running.
- 2.Open your OBS
user.inifile. Its location depends on your OS:- Windows:
%APPDATA%\obs-studio\user.ini - macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/user.ini - Linux:
~/.config/obs-studio/user.ini
- Windows:
- 3.Add the following setting under the
[General]section:
- 4.Save the file and restart OBS. The VOD track selector will now appear in Settings → Output → Streaming.
Configure audio tracks in OBS
Assign your audio sources to Live and VOD tracks in OBS. This is where you decide what goes into each track, allowing you to create different tracks to build the mixes you need.
- •In Settings → Output → Streaming, enable Twitch VOD Track and select the desired track (e.g. Track 2).
- •In the OBS audio mixer, click the gear icon to enable or disable audio sources per track. For example, disable your music source on Track 2.
- •For multi-language setups, add a separate audio input for each language and enable it only on the corresponding track.
Assign tracks per output in Streamrun
In Streamrun Editor, click an Output element and choose which audio track it receives. This is where you go beyond the basic Twitch VOD split and route tracks to any platform.
- •Edit your configuration in Streamrun editor
- •For each output, select the audio track that should be forwarded to that platform.
- •Twitch is currently the only platform that supports a separate VOD track. For other platforms, select either the Live or the VOD track, or use a mixed track.
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