StreamElements media player

What is it?

The StreamElements media player is a Tab you can add. It exists of an overview of your StreamElements media requests and a built-in media player to play the requests. On top of that there is a feature included that will automatically resume playing media requests if they get interrupted by another sound alert.

Prerequisites

Make sure Stream buddy is already connected to StreamElements in the Connections screen.

Set it up

Go to Tabs and add the new tab of type StreamElements media requests.Here have to setup some things:

  • JWT token In order to use media requests, Stream buddy does need the StreamElements JWT token. You can quickly go to the correct StreamElements webpage to copy it by pressing the link in the explanation.

  • Resume after (seconds) If you media stops playing because a new alert comes in, you can automatically resume it after a set amount of time. Specify the amount of seconds or leave empty if you don’t want media to resume automatically.

  • Delay new request Set a delay before the media starts playing. This can be used for example if you first want your alert to finish playing before starting the media player. This can also help to avoid your alerts being paused automatically because of media starting to play while the alert is playing. Do keep in mind that if you set this too short and an alert is still playing, the alert will be cut off.

  • Song request command Provide the command you use for song request through the chat. If provided the media queue in Stream buddy will reload when this command is used. And the media will start playing automatically.


Using the media player

Once you press the Play button, the media player will be in play mode, and as soon as a new media share comes in, it will automatically start playing. You can press that button again to put the player in Pause mode. The player will not play any requests until you press Play again. There is also a button to skip the currently playing media request.

There are two tabs where you can see the currently queued up requests and a History tab where you will see the last 100 requests that played.

Some things to note:

  • Requests that came through a donation will have a little dollar sign in front of them.
  • Replaying requests is done locally in Stream buddy. So if you queue up a bunch of requests to replay, and you restart Stream buddy, that list will be cleared. Reason for this is that StreamElements cannot replay requests with the starting time and duration of the original request but just plays the whole track, so it’s done locally to avoid that.
  • It is possible that a YouTube request cannot be played because of region locking or remote playing being disabled. In that cause you will get a message “This request cannot be played” in the media player and you manually have to skip this request.