Now Playing Album Artwork for OBS Stream

[Sebastian_Beca]

I’m using Djay Pro to stream music and have been able to grab current track info from the NowPlaying.txt file to include in OBS streams as suggested here. It works great and I’m curious if Djay Pro might also have the current track album artwork available?

I’m guessing if not, I might be able to fetch it from another web API like MusicBrainz.

[VictorWood]

I am using audio hijack on a mac to stream to an (n)ice cast server. with this combination I get artist song album and freetext transmitted ok. I don’t know OBS though or how it works.

[Emily]

Hi @Sebastian_Beca,

Thanks for reaching out about the album artwork for OBS streams with djay. My apologies for the delayed response here, but I’ve checked with our team about this and unfortunately the album artwork isn’t available via the suggestion you referenced in your post:

@Lukas_E

At the moment it is possible to get the title, artist, album and song duration through a workaround to OBS.

1. Add a Text Source in OBS
2. Click the Text Source to open its settings
3. Tick Read from File
4. Hit the Browse Text File Button
5. In the open dialog window use the keyboard combination “shift + cmd + g”
6. In the go to folder window paste the following path:
   ~/Music/djay/djay Media Library.djayMediaLibrary/NowPlaying.txt
7. Select the NowPlaying.txt file

Now OBS gets the information of the currently playing active deck (make sure the crossfader is moved to the deck you want to have the information from).

Please note that the NowPlaying file is not adjustable and will show the 4 elements. You could try to parse the information or adjust it directly in OBS.

However, I’ve added this suggestion to our internal request list for our team to look into how we might further improve the options here. I’ll keep you posted when we have any updates about this.