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Streaming sound

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Abd al Rahman
KS Backer
Sheet Author
API Scripter
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Hello, due to copyright questions, I can understand that it should not be possible to upload own sounds. But what about streaming sounds to other players directly from my computer?
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Riley D.
Roll20 Team
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Unfortunately, there's no really "good" way to do this via the technology stack we have available. I know that some folks have tried setting up another window and then using the TokBox voice chat and choosing a "virtual soundcard" as the "input" -- so basically whatever music was playing on their computer was getting piped through the voice chat. But that's definitely not as good quality-wise as using SoundCloud.
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Nicholas G.
KS Backer
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The way I did it was to run an Icecast server from my home machine, and then have the players load that URL into WinAmp, VLC, whatever. It worked decently well, and the quality is much better than trying to stream over the voice chat, since it just sends the original music file out rather than recompressing with a voice codec. The cost is about a 10-second lag when changing tracks. Running a server on the user's computer with a web application is probably no-go, but it might be something you could do with centralized hosting.