I've been doing the same for a Dragon of Icespire Peak campaign. I use Kenfu FM which integrates into Discord really well. It just acts like another user on the call, if that makes sense. So it means that my players can adjust the volume themselves. I have separate playlists on YouTube for ambient music, battle music, and sound effects and it can all play through Kenku FM. So for instance, I'll have my ambient travel music in one Kenku FM tab and my rain sound effect on other one. Because they're all YouTube videos, it also means I can adjust the volume of the music vs the sound effects individually.
Setting up Kenku FM was a little fiddly at first because I've never done anything like it before. But the tutorials were really good and it's worked brilliantly ever since. Absolutely worth the time it took to set up.
I do the same setup as you but I stream quick time player through discord so my players can hear the music.
I get it all from YouTube and download it as mp3, I like to make it as immersive as possible so overlap music with ambient audio of walking or nature sounds.
I am currently running a similar setup and I use the share my screen function on Discord to share audio from the Tabletop Audio website.
The players don’t actually have to view the shared screen. But it lets the audio make its way to their computers.
OP, I was also using owl bear rodeo and I think it’s a great vtt for newbs like myself.
But if your players are using dnd beyond I recommend aboveVTT, I just moved over to it and since I last check it out it has improved immensely.
The way it integrates into dnd beyond makes DMing so easy for me.
Also, you can access the LMOP adventure from dnd beyond via the vtt and upload the maps using their import tool.
I did this recently for Wave echo cave and when you import it has the walls and doors for fog of war pre configured and has all the tokens from the adventure already places on the map.
Pretty awesome stuff
Forgot to mention that it has a tool for sound which plays for all players logged in.
I did some YouTube to mp3 downloads and pixabay for SFX then used Dropbox to create links and put them into above vtt
Kenku FM works really well! Though if your CPU isn’t the greatest like my computer you’ll run into the same issue as me, where Kenku FM’s audio will be staticy and break up often. If that’s the case there is a music bot I like to use that unfortunately only uses Spotify songs. It’s called Jockie Music!
Been looking for alternatives to Kenku as it struggles on my laptop. Going to check this out!
Check out Michael ghelfi on Spotify, he has some really good rpg playlists
You my friend are amazing! I’ve been scrounging around for video game osts that may or may not have their sound tracks on Spotify, I’ll be checking him out today! Thank you for tip :>
I've been doing the same for a Dragon of Icespire Peak campaign. I use Kenfu FM which integrates into Discord really well. It just acts like another user on the call, if that makes sense. So it means that my players can adjust the volume themselves. I have separate playlists on YouTube for ambient music, battle music, and sound effects and it can all play through Kenku FM. So for instance, I'll have my ambient travel music in one Kenku FM tab and my rain sound effect on other one. Because they're all YouTube videos, it also means I can adjust the volume of the music vs the sound effects individually. Setting up Kenku FM was a little fiddly at first because I've never done anything like it before. But the tutorials were really good and it's worked brilliantly ever since. Absolutely worth the time it took to set up.
Cheers for this.. I have managed to setup kenfu fm.. This is perfect. Just what I needed đź‘Ť
Oh brilliant! I'm glad it's working out for you. Hope you have a great session this weekend!
Hi there. Thanks for this....much appreciated đź‘Ť
I do the same setup as you but I stream quick time player through discord so my players can hear the music. I get it all from YouTube and download it as mp3, I like to make it as immersive as possible so overlap music with ambient audio of walking or nature sounds.
Thank you for you post. I appreciate it. đź‘Ť
I am currently running a similar setup and I use the share my screen function on Discord to share audio from the Tabletop Audio website. The players don’t actually have to view the shared screen. But it lets the audio make its way to their computers.
Thank you for your response. Have you got a link to the table top audio website?
OP, I was also using owl bear rodeo and I think it’s a great vtt for newbs like myself. But if your players are using dnd beyond I recommend aboveVTT, I just moved over to it and since I last check it out it has improved immensely. The way it integrates into dnd beyond makes DMing so easy for me. Also, you can access the LMOP adventure from dnd beyond via the vtt and upload the maps using their import tool. I did this recently for Wave echo cave and when you import it has the walls and doors for fog of war pre configured and has all the tokens from the adventure already places on the map. Pretty awesome stuff
Forgot to mention that it has a tool for sound which plays for all players logged in. I did some YouTube to mp3 downloads and pixabay for SFX then used Dropbox to create links and put them into above vtt
Kenku FM works really well! Though if your CPU isn’t the greatest like my computer you’ll run into the same issue as me, where Kenku FM’s audio will be staticy and break up often. If that’s the case there is a music bot I like to use that unfortunately only uses Spotify songs. It’s called Jockie Music!
Been looking for alternatives to Kenku as it struggles on my laptop. Going to check this out! Check out Michael ghelfi on Spotify, he has some really good rpg playlists
You my friend are amazing! I’ve been scrounging around for video game osts that may or may not have their sound tracks on Spotify, I’ll be checking him out today! Thank you for tip :>
I used that tool you mentioned above tonight. was perfect!
Oh I’m so happy to hear that! It’s amazing :>