Opted for completely uninstalling and reinstalling a fresh OBS. I also installed the StreamUp plugin, which is kinda rad, and also reenables my Scene Folders. Really helpful for how I organize my scenes and sources. (I often find it helpful to do scene-as-source so I can put filters on my cam and easily transition between the effects.)

Music provided by twitch.tv/swu_bunker, ALWAYS an amazing stream from them.

Streaming from Temphaus has been okay. There's a bit of connectivity hiccups occasionally, particularly since I can't connect with a hardline. I'm using Beam (beamstream.gg) to multicast to Twitch, Kick and now LFG.TV with a "local" stream hosted at Beam itself.

What's the point of multicasting? Options.

Twitch covers our music licensing for streaming. But at affiliate level they take about 50% of sub revenue, and then chop about 20% out of that for the licensing. Truth be told, it's STILL cheaper than if I got myself a blanket music licensing setup for streaming under my own name. There are songs and artists we aren't allowed to play but that's always been the way with music streaming and online DJing.

Kick is still a rogue platform. They give a 95% cut of subs to the streamer, but there's no "walk-in" traffic for DJs to grow there.

Beam is a newer platform and has a positive vibe to it. They have some good ideas but again, unsure how the music licensing will play out there. IIRC they offer an 80% split on subs.

LFG.TV is the new kid on the block. Still lots of info to be gathered about them but they are specifically for DJs. There's some hope there.

I think I'm going to be doing back-to-back with Whimsical Blasphemy on Sunday afternoon / evenings on Kick! More info soon.

Multicasting has been going well enough using Beamstream to split the stream to Twitch and Kick. I finally got things set up where I can see all three chats at the same time easily. But I have been wanting to do platform-exclusive streams as well.

Go give Whim a follow at https://kick.com/whimsicalblasphemy today!

Yeah, I know, everyone has a shitty attitude when you try talking about it. But I got it to work.

My primary laptop (Windows 11) bricked on me. While it's in the shop, I'm using my old laptop (Linux Mint). So I installed Lutris, updated the Vulkan stuff for Linux, made sure my driver supports my Kepler Nvidia chipset, and installed VDJ in Lutris. Took a little bit of tweaking but nothing major, if you're good at hunting down error solutions it was NOT difficult or arcane. It seems to run fairly stable.

I had to manually map my DJ2GO2 Touch USB controller. Which hilariously required me to install Windows 10 on a Virtualbox in Linux so I could download the map XML from VDJ. Back outside the virtualbox, I opened VDJ with Lutris and manually built a new map. (USB channel names don't seem to get interpreted the same way in Linux vs. Windows, so the regular map wouldn't work.)

The DDJ-400 still needs to be manually mapped and I'm not really looking forward to it. But once it's done I will put links somewhere so people don't have to reinvent that wheel.

Installed OBS 30 as the latest version depricates the Kepler NVENC stuff (I blame Nvidia, not OBS). The old Alienware laptop has a Geforce 750 mobile card so I had to run an older driver than I'd like. The new Vulkan stuff doesn't work with Kepler chips, so had to run the 470 version. Once I got everything settled, I was able to do a window grab of the VDJ video output in OBS, route the audio out properly and it looks good. Stress testing to come tonight.

Twitch and Kick streams you can find me hanging out in:

• twitch.tv/djart3misia
• twitch.tv/viktornovatron
• twitch.tv/opheliadarkly
• twitch.tv/joevirus
• twitch.tv/thenewordermelb
• twitch.tv/djrecoveryrate
• twitch.tv/djellafine
• twitch.tv/spy_hapa
• twitch.tv/radiointhew00ds
• twitch.tv/mxoread

I'll update this list soon, it's all people I regularly tune into. Good company and music.

Socials:

• https://mp3j-sark-shop.fourthwall.com
• https://mstdn.party/@mp3jsark
• https://bsky.app/profile/mp3jsark.bsky.social
• https://pixelfed.social/mp3j_sark
• https://mewe.com/mp3j_sark.44

Streaming Platforms:

• https://www.twitch.tv/mp3j_sark
• https://kick.com/mp3j_sark
• https://beamstream.gg/mp3j_sark/profile