Streaming audio into a facebook group chat (or similar..but not zoom)

PolarityMan

So theres a thread on here about zoom but figured Id ask about FB.

Basically we want to ahve a band listening party so we can listen to a bunch of material and chat about it. I would like to stream the audio from my computer..either the DAW of VLC, so everyone can hear at the same time and still be able to chat over it.

We don't have zoom so FB chat, google hangouts, even skype might be an option but whats the ebst bet here. Do I really need to use OBS or can I use a virtual loopback from my interface?

WiresDreamDisasters

You can use ReaStream to send audio to OBS from any DAW. Then you can connect OBS to your Facebook page via the usual secret key method.

PolarityMan

cool, got it working. Can you do anythign about the 15 secs or so of lag though?

mike257

PolarityMan said:

cool, got it working. Can you do anythign about the 15 secs or so of lag though?

Not really, it's making a lot of hops on the journey.

This band used the delay as a looper and made a live video with it!

PolarityMan

Is that an FB statement, could I get better performance out of twitch or similar, or possibly running a local streaming server of some kind?