8 Of The Best Apps For DJ Livestreaming

Read on to discover the best software to use for DJ livestreaming, whether you want to livestream from your Mac or Windows computer, iOS/iPadOS device, or Android phone/tablet. In this article we’ll explain why you need such software, and talk you through our top choices from the many options out there.To get more news about 39bet-đua ngựa-máy bắn cá-tỷ lệ nhà cái-kéo cầu tài xỉu-baccarat, you can visit official website.

So why do you need software? Well, the software sits between your camera and audio and the platform or platforms you want to broadcast to. It handles the encoding of the visuals and sound, so that everything “arrives” at your chosen platform in the correct format.

It also lets you do all those cool things you see on some livestreams, such as our lockdown sessions (here’s a link to a recent lockdown livestream DJ set from me, on YouTube) – like adding titles and backgrounds, putting your viewers’ comments on the screen, switching cameras, mixing between microphone and music, and so on.
Somewhere in your set-up, this has to happen in some way or another. When you hit “Go Live” in Facebook or Instagram, for instance, what’s happening is that the platform’s own app – the one you use daily to scroll your feed – is switching into “livestreaming software” mode, taking over the audio and camera on your device, to do this job for you.

But of course, native apps are limited – it is hard to switch camera (other than sometimes between the front and back camera on a phone or tablet), or to add titles, or to show viewer comments, and all the rest. As soon as you want to break away from using your phone and starting doing more ambitious broadcasts, you need to use software other than your platforms’ own.

That’s where livestreaming software comes in. It is often called “video switching” software, because traditionally, such software was designed to do what expensive broadcast hardware used to do before computers got so powerful – namely, switch between video (and audio) sources before the finished “feed” was sent off to be broadcast.

2. OBS
OBS – short for “Open Broadcaster Software”, also sometimes known as “OBS Studio” – is a free video streaming tool for Mac and PC (and Linux). It is powerful, being able to do most of what extremely expensive apps like Wirecast and vMix can do, but without the outlay.

3. Streamlabs OBS
This is a solution based on OBS, and therefore free, but with the option of some paid-for additions. It majors on being easy to use, and claims to “auto optimise” your settings for your chosen platform or platforms. It comes with built-in widgets and themes to jazz up your broadcast.

4. Ecamm Live
Back in the day, it was actually hard to broadcast from your computer to Facebook Live – you had to use the mobile app. Ecamm Live bridged the gap. It was really simple, back then, but over the years it has developed into an easy to use but powerful tool. It has flexible cameras, scenes, overlay and titling, the ability to play pre-recorded video, add comments snd widgets – pretty much all of what you’ll need.

5. XSplit Broadcaster
Disclaimer: Unlike the other apps in this roundup, we haven’t tried XSplit Broadcaster, because it is Windows only, and we are Mac-based. That said, we have detailed feedback from our community on it. It is similar in approach to Ecamm Live, but while Ecamm Live is Mac only, this is one for PC users.

6. Switcher Studio
Not everyone wants to use a laptop or desktop computer to stream from. Maybe you own an iPad Pro, for instance, and think, “It’s as powerful as a laptop, why can’t I just use this?” Especially if you use an iPad and an iPhone, and have an old iPhone in your bedside drawer (you’ll know if this is you…), Switcher Studio could be the solution you didn’t know you needed to use all of these things together.

7. Larix Broadcaster
If you want to still use your phone (not a laptop) to broadcast from, but don’t want to be tied to any particular channel, and instead want to broadcast to service like Restream.io to send your signal to, say, Twitch and YouTube live at the same time, then there are actually quite a few options available to you that achieve this relatively simple task.

8. Yellow Duck
Yellow Duck goes to the trouble of actually fooling Instagram into thinking your computer is an Android device, just to let you stream from your desktop…
Now the eagle-eyed will have noticed we haven’t mentioned Instagram at all here. That’s because Instagram is a phone-based platform, and there is no easy way of using third-party software of any type, and definitely not your Mac or Windows computer, to stream to Instagram.