Music

Vovó plays your own songs, from a folder on this computer, on the output device you choose, so OBS hears them as it hears any player there. The note at the window's right edge, under the chat, opens the player in the side bar, lit while a song plays. While the folder has no songs, the page offers Add songs… and Change folder… in place of the player.

The library

Each profile's songs live in a folder of its own: a new profile's is a folder named after it inside Music\Vovó (Music\Vovó\Old records), until you choose another in Settings, Music. Two lives with music of their own keep it apart this way, each profile seeing, playing and being asked for only its own songs; profiles may share a folder too. Put them there by hand, from another program, with Add songs… on the Music page, or by dropping files on that page; Vovó follows the folder as files come and go, and a file still being copied waits until it is whole. Each folder inside it is a playlist that follows its folder. Vovó never deletes a song: the folder's button in Settings, Music opens it for that. A synced folder (OneDrive, Dropbox, Syncthing) chosen as the music folder lets whoever helps add songs from afar. A folder chosen inside your Music folder is kept by its place there, so a backup finds it in whatever user's Music on another computer; one on another drive is kept whole.

Titles, artists, albums, lengths and covers come from the files' own tags; a file without tags is called by its name. Vovó plays what Windows plays (MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, WMA); other files are passed over, and the console says so once.

Playlists

Each profile has its own playlists, made in Settings, Music, or from the side bar's Playlists while the profile has none: New playlist opens one with its songs beside the library, to add from, carry to another place (or move with Ctrl and the arrows) and take out; Done keeps its name. A song's menu in the side bar adds it to one. Every change is a version, so undo brings a change or a deleted playlist back, and a duplicated profile has a copy of its own. A song whose file left the folder stays in the playlist as missing, and plays again once the file is back. The folders inside the profile's music folder are playlists too, made and changed in the folder itself. In the side bar, the search over Playlists finds a playlist or a folder by its name, and the one in a list opened finds its songs by title, artist or album, as the Library's finds songs; Play and shuffle still play all of it.

Playing

Shuffle, previous, play and pause, stop, next and repeat are under the song; the bar over them goes to a place in the song where it is let go, and the volume under them is the player's own. A press on a song plays it now; its menu plays it next, adds it to the queue, takes it out of the queue, or lets you hear it first. The queue plays first, then the playlist, the folder or the library the song came from. Previous goes back to the song before, or past its first seconds starts this one over.

The pad has a Music button (play or pause, next, previous, stop), which is how each gets a hotkey for the game in front, and vovo music does the same from a terminal. Vovó tells Windows what it plays as any player does, so the keyboard's media keys and Windows' volume flyout control it, and actions read it as media.track. While the player has a song, previous, play or pause and next sit under the preview Windows shows when the pointer rests on Vovó's taskbar button, so a song is skipped from over a game; they control this computer's player, whatever live the window shows.

Nothing plays by itself: not when Vovó opens, not after panic, not after a profile switch. Each profile remembers its song and where it was, paused. Panic fades the music out in a moment and pauses it, and play waits for panic to end. The audit says who played, paused or skipped.

The player

The folder, the device, the crossfade and the fade are each profile's, in Settings, Music: a live may play its music on a device of its own and cross its songs at a pace of its own. What plays is each profile's too, its song, its queue and its volume: switching profiles fades out what plays, where it played, and finds the other's paused where it was left. The music plays on Windows' default output, followed as it changes, until you choose a device: OBS must capture it, as its desktop audio or an Audio Output Capture, or the stream does not hear it, which pre-flight says. A device unplugged pauses the music where it was, until you play it again.

The crossfade brings the next song in as this one goes, over 1 to 12 seconds: as a song ends, and on a press of next or previous too, while a move along the bar never fades. Off, the next song starts the moment this one ends, with no gap. Pause and stop fade out over the time chosen there, from none to 3 seconds (none is a cut, which can click on air); panic always fades in a moment.

Hearing a song first

Listen first, in a song's menu, plays it only for you, on the private sound device (Settings, Notifications), while the live and its music go on: a strip under the player shows it, with a bar of its own, pause and stop. It waits for a private device OBS does not capture, other than the music's, or the stream would hear it too, and the menu says which is the case. Panic stops it.

The equalizer

Equalizer, under the volume, opens ten bands an octave apart, from 31 Hz to 16 kHz, each from −12 to +12 dB, under the curve they make together; its switch turns it on and off, here and in Settings, Music, and Flat puts every band back at 0. Each profile has its own, and each band let go is a version, so undo takes a move back. It shapes what goes on air and what you hear first, the two songs of a crossfade through one curve, and a band moved while the music plays is heard on air at once. Raising a band lowers the whole by the curve's highest point, so a boost never takes a song past full scale: the volume still says how loud.

To set it off air, hear a song first: only you hear it, through the curve, while you move the bands, and With the curve and Without compare that song alone; the live keeps the curve. The arrows move a band a decibel, Page Up and Page Down three, and a second click on a band puts it back at 0. A helper hears it in the 30 seconds your Vovó sends, and changes nothing.

From another Vovó

Whoever helps run the live from their own Vovó can run your music from there, when you allow it in the device's permissions (Settings, Remote access): only another Vovó, since a phone's page has no music. The note at its window's right edge opens your player in its side bar: what plays and its cover, the controls and the volume, the queue, your playlists and folders, and your library, searched on your computer as it is typed, so it never travels whole. What it does there is done here as that device, which the audit says; editing playlists, adding songs and the crossfade stay yours. Your pad's Music buttons are on its pad too, and take its hotkeys.

Listen first plays a song on that computer's own private device, 30 seconds at a time: your Vovó sends them from where its bar was clicked, through the internet too, encrypted like everything else. A click elsewhere on the bar, or play once the 30 seconds are over, asks for more. None of it reaches your live.

Song requests

Viewers ask for songs by a reward, by a chat command, or both, once you turn requests on in Settings, Music: off until then. The reward is one Vovó makes on your channel when you switch it on (Request a song, 500 points until you change it on Twitch), so its points go back when a request is discarded or finds no song, and stay once the song starts. The command is a word you choose, !song until changed, before the song's title or artist. A request finds one song, whatever the case and the accents, among those you allow: all the profile's songs, a playlist or a folder. None found, or several alike, is no request.

It waits in the bell, with Listen first, here or in the Vovó of a helper allowed to approve and run the music (never on a phone), unless you let requests go straight to the queue; approved, it plays after the requests before it, ahead of the playlist, with who asked beside it. One per person waiting or queued, 5 waiting at most, and a song not again within 30 minutes; taken out of the queue before it plays, its points go back. Vovó writes nothing in chat: actions hear each request as music.request, to answer there or show who asked for what plays, as the Song requests example does. Who asked is not kept once Vovó closes.

The music on your live is yours to have the rights to.