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How to broadcast the audio of your YouTube live stream (with little data)

Tutorial · Updated

Open your YouTube video or YouTube Live in a Chrome or Edge tab on a computer. In your AltarPage studio, tap "Zoom or Meet", tick "Bring the meeting's sound into the broadcast", tap Go live, and share the YouTube tab with "Share tab audio" on, then allow the microphone. Listeners hear the sound on your link, with about 22 MB an hour instead of video data.

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Step by step

  1. Open the video. On a computer, open your YouTube video or YouTube Live in Chrome or Edge, and let it play.
  2. Open your studio. In another tab, open yoursite.altarpage.com/admin/cast (Admin → Go live).
  3. Bring in the tab's sound. Tap Zoom or Meet and tick Bring the meeting's sound into the broadcast. It works for any tab's sound, YouTube included.
  4. Only relaying?. Pull the My microphone slider down to 0, so only the YouTube sound goes out.
  5. Go live and share the YouTube tab. Tap Go live, choose the YouTube tab, turn on Share tab audio and tap Share, then allow the microphone.
  6. Share your link. Send your listeners' link on WhatsApp. Members listen with the screen locked, and can give, send prayer requests and say they gave their life to Christ.

Why do this?

Many members can't afford an hour of YouTube video, and YouTube's audio stops when a phone locks unless they pay for YouTube Premium. Your AltarPage link plays just the sound, about 22 MB an hour, keeps going with the screen locked, and puts Give and prayer requests under the player. Every broadcast becomes a replay on the same link and on your station.

Only your own videos

Broadcast only your ministry's own videos and live streams, or ones you have written permission to broadcast. Music in them follows the same rules as any broadcast: see do churches need a licence to stream music?.

From a phone

Phones don't let one app record another app's sound, so this needs a computer. On a phone, use the way below instead.

No computer? Let AltarPage show when you're live on YouTube

Add your channel under Edit my site → Links & videos → YouTube channel and tap Check now. When you go live on YouTube, your site and AltarPage Live show Live now, followers are told, and Give and prayer requests sit around the broadcast. Members still watch on YouTube, so it uses YouTube's data, not the low-data audio.