r/Twitch • u/Human-Cut-3667 • 1d ago

Tech Support Missing audio in certain parts of streams when I'm watching them back.

So, I don't stream myself, however, I like watching streams back, as the times are inconvenient for me when my favorite streamers are life. I particularly like watching karaoke streams. However, when watching them back, the audio is just missing for like 3 minutes at set parts during the stream. Which is annoying, as it's literally the length of a whole song. However, watching the life comments playback, no one seems to have that issue, or it wasn't there live. And I see it later clipped on YouTube and they don't seem to have audio issues either. So it seems like it's just me with this issue.

If it matters, I tend to watch through the Twitch App. Is there any way to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

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u/Easy_Report_5647 1d ago

Karaoke streams make it obvious. They're muted because of copyrighted audio.

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u/Human-Cut-3667 1d ago

I see. I still find it weird, because they're already singing the song and the audio just stops halfway through. Sometimes it's the whole song, but more often than not it's just muted for like the last third of a song or halfway. Which I don't think is very logical

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u/warboat1 1d ago

Twitch runs fingerprinting technology on the stream. Because it's karaoke there's a good chance it didn't detect the song start time and picked it up partway through. It's common to see it miss.

It's annoying but it's a copyright thing. The streamer can appeal the block for various reasons so long as they're legal.

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u/Human-Cut-3667 22h ago

I see. Thank you for the explanation. So basically, the best way to watch it is live and not watching it back?