Broadcasting while listenin' to music?

[Admiral Boogie-Down]

'Oi mates!

Alright, so I am really likin' this broadcastin' feature, however, I find myself a lot of the times listenin' to music or listenin' to a youtube video on my second monitor while gamin'(I usually just check on it every now and then. Plus, it's outside of the game, so it isn't actually shown). So recently I have disabled broadcastin' since I'm not sure if it's allowed to broadcast while havin' these kinds of material playin' in the background, which is a shame cus' I'm completely open for people wantin' to watch my gamin'.

[TL;DR]
So the question is, am I, or anyone for that matter, allowed to play the sound of youtube videos or music while people watch through the Steam Broadcasting service?

Thanks in advance!
~Melee

[Trinity]

Im not sure if it records desktop noises unless you set it to. I think it only records game noise, but i'm not 100%.

[Admiral Boogie-Down]

@The American Brony (Great ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ username mate!)

I've checked on my own streams(mostly because of different Steam skins that doesn't show the broadcast interface in the Steam overlay so I can see the chat and whatnot), and it transmits all the sounds that you hear, which includes game sound(if you have that), microphone(if it's enabled), and everythin' else that you can hear comin' from your computer sound output.

[Skay]

Short answer, No you're not allowed to broadcast copyrighted videos/music.

[Admiral Boogie-Down]

Alrighty then ^^ Thanks for the clarification :)

[redfblack]

It's a very good question.

Who takes liability for this? Have Valve made any sort of statement regarding this? If not then they're going to have to address it soon..

You definitely can NOT broadcast music without explicit permission from the publisher.

Given that we can't control what audio streams are sent to our broadcast then I'm sure Valve have put a lot of people into murky legal waters and these people are probably mostly unaware of the situation.

[Admiral Boogie-Down]

@Red

Most likely. Not to mention that the FAQ of broadcasting says that the thin's that -can never- be broadcasted is movies, discussion of piracy(as well as cheats, hacks etc.), racism, obvious stuff, however music is not mentioned, no matter if it's within the Steam music player or not. It would be great if Valve could clarify this to everyone clearly so there won't be any unecessary copyright claims and whatnot. Or at least make all the audio broadcasted be from the microphone connected, as well as the game broadcasted at hand.

[JediMaster80]

Most likely, they won't care.
Otherwise you couldn't stream music games like Beat Hazard or Audiosurf.
Both use custom music the user plays.

There are also many games that also let you play your own music through them as well.

And since there is no recording of stream (as of now), they probably aren't going to do much about custom music.

[Misa]

I wanna listen to youtube and broadcast that music to others watching is that possible?

[Aristrotally]

Okay, I think I know how to make it sound understandable. Steam broadcast, shows only "In Game Audio, Video" Any outer audio will "NOT" Be recorded. Its not a matter with copyright. Its the same as twitch however you can ajust viewers to see desktop or other tabs is selected. So No.

How can you put music in your game?

Like I said, any outer audio "Other Tabs" Will not be heard. But if you were to put it in the game then yes!

Hope This Helped.

[Admiral Boogie-Down]

I know it's there now ^^ At the time of posting this question, broadcasting picked up all audio played at all times. Luckily they made this an option now x3

Thanks for posting this though in case others needed to know!

[Super_Sonic_D]

is it possible thru the browser on steam while playing games live