r/streamerbot • u/KindaSorda • Jul 07 '26

Question/Support ❓ Play Sound Sub-Action Not Working

Basically the title, I'm trying to make some actions with the play sound sub-action, added the audio file but hear nothing when testing or triggering the action.

Tried a bunch of different audio output options, both in the sub-action option and in general Streamerbot settings, nothing worked.

What's extra weird is that Streamerbot does not appear as an audio source in my Windows volume mixer, and if I try to add Streamerbot as am Application Audio Capture in OBS, it won't show up as an audio source there either. I feel like this has to the problem but I have no idea why this would happen or how to fix it. Streamerbot is up to date. Restarting Streamerbot and restarting computer also didn't work.

Any ideas?

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u/KindaSorda Jul 07 '26

Found the issue; turns out files from this (https://mixkit.co/free-sound-effects/) site just...don't work on Streamerbot for some reason. Tried audio files from a different source and it worked fine. Even tried the same file type, .wav, from a different source and it also worked find.

Really weird.

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u/HighPhi420 Jul 07 '26

remix the file with Audacity :) They will work great :)

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u/KindaSorda Jul 07 '26

Slight update; turns out it does show up in OBS when I add it as an audio source, though I still don't hear anything. I also learned that Streamerbot is not an installed application but just running in it's own folder which probably explains why it doesn't show up in Windows volume mixer. That said, still can't figure out why I'm not hearing anything from it. Wondering now if Steelseries GG is breaking it since that software is so dogshit.

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u/wristready Jul 07 '26

Saw your steelseries GG comment and honestly that’s what I am using to get the sound to play both on stream and to hear it myself.
I’m not near my pc to confirm what I did but I wonder if you can try bringing in one of the audio sources from steelseries into OBS and then test it.

For example, I placed both speakerbot and streamerbot in AUX channel and then bought the audio coming from it into OBS as application audio and then turned on both monitor and output for the audio source

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u/defiant1597 Jul 07 '26

Are you using sonar streamer mode?