What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

Early this year I had a problem with my computer. The SSD I was using as my primary drive for housing my Operating System basically died. It was a known issue (not to me, obviously) that caused the failure, and after getting my computer running off an old drive, I found I could still technically SEE the failed drive, I could somewhat navigate through higher level folders, but I couldn’t actually open anything or copy files to other drives.

Unfortunately, that failed drive was where I had a lot of my Twitch streaming assets. (I didn’t realize this until a couple days ago, sadly.)

A few months went by and I decided to buy a new SSD, and a license for Windows 11 (I was still on 10) just to get it over with, and sort of start over. Another month or so later, after getting situated and making sure I had what I wanted at a base level, I decided I might want to take a day off of work to stream because it had been well over a year since the last one. Which brings us to today’s prompt.

The last thing I searched for online was information regarding splitting audio sources in OBS Studio. Normally I had been using a program called Voicemeeter Potato to accomplish this, but after the rebuild I hadn’t decided yet to install it again. It felt like a hassle the last few times I needed to set it up, and I only wanted to isolate Discord voice call audio on the chance that I streamed with friends or family who didn’t want to be heard on my stream.

So far, I think I’ve found an option but I have yet to test it out. If it doesn’t work the way I hoped, I’ll probably just have to go back to Voicemeeter.

So, final word of advice, streaming is more complicated than you might think. If you’re considering doing it, be ready for lots of time spent setting up, adjusting, troubleshooting and problem solving. Even the best guides online can’t account for everything.