Changelog

New features and improvements across 24/7 and pre-recorded live streams, trivia, polls and giveaways, Live Studio, playlists and the API.

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  1. Improved

    Steadier imports, ad breaks and camera

    File imports from YouTube, Google Drive and Dropbox now finish reliably. YouTube ad breaks go out more consistently. Your camera recovers on its own after a network drop or an unstable connection.

  2. New

    Audio Playlist Manager

    Manage a long audio playlist in one place. Search it, sort it, drag tracks into order, preview them, rename them, move or remove several at once, and import or export the whole list. The same track can now appear more than once.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  3. New

    Import and export questions for Crossword and Closest Guess

    Build your question set in a spreadsheet and load it into Crossword or Closest Guess, the way Trivia already works. Export it to edit elsewhere. The built-in question bank is bigger, and a question no longer repeats within one game.

  4. Improved

    YouTube imports keep their original quality

    A video imported from a YouTube link used to be re-encoded, which cost you audio quality. An import that already fits your plan limits now arrives untouched.

  5. New

    Import a YouTube playlist or channel in one step

    Paste a link to a YouTube playlist or channel, see the videos it holds, and tick the ones you want. They import together, each with its own progress, and you can cancel at any point.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  6. New

    Image slideshow layer

    Add a layer that moves through your images on a timer, with a crossfade between them. Drag images into order; the slideshow loops, shuffles, and can switch to the next scene when it ends.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  7. New

    Ambient music and slideshow template

    A ready-made template that pairs an audio playlist with an image slideshow, for music streams that run 24/7. The Winter LoFi Countdown template is back as well.

  8. Improved

    Higher limits for scenes, layers and playlist files

    A project now holds up to 300 scenes, 800 layers, 600 files in one playlist and 7,000 playlist files in total. A project already above a limit keeps working, but cannot grow past it.

  9. New

    Rename files in bulk through the API

    One API call renames a whole group of files. The response tells you which renames worked and which did not.

  10. New

    Fallback cover art for audio playlists

    Pick one image to show whenever a track has no cover art of its own. The setting sits beside the cover image size in the audio playlist sidebar.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  11. New

    Shuffle playback for audio and video playlists

    Turn on shuffle and your files play in random order, with a new order on each loop.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  12. Improved

    Steam streams restart after weekly maintenance

    Steam's weekly maintenance used to end an unlimited-duration stream for good. Those streams now reconnect on their own for up to three hours.

  13. New

    Custom Plan

    A plan for agencies and broadcasters. Run ad breaks on your YouTube streams, stream to your own destinations, work through the API, and set every limit to your own numbers. Ask for a quote from the pricing page.

    See the Custom Plan
  14. New

    Hide the replay when your stream ends

    Turn on the option in Advanced settings and your YouTube replay goes unlisted as soon as the stream finishes. Publish it again from YouTube whenever you like. Facebook does not offer this.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  15. New

    4K and 60 FPS upgrades

    Most paid plans can add 4K resolution or 60 FPS. The pricing page shows what each one costs.

    See pricing
  16. New

    Public API and API keys

    Run LiveReacting from your own code. Create and revoke keys on the Developer page, then work with projects, scenes, layers, files, folders and streaming destinations, and start, stop, schedule or cancel a stream. Each account allows 150 requests a minute.

    Read the blog post
  17. New

    Portrait and square output

    Pick the shape of your stream: landscape, portrait or square. Set the video bitrate for the project too. Portrait suits anything made to be watched on a phone.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  18. New

    Build a video playlist in a spreadsheet

    Import a playlist from a CSV or XLSX file, ad breaks included, and export the current one to edit it elsewhere. A spreadsheet template is included.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  19. New

    Audio visualizer layer

    Add a layer that moves with the sound of your stream, in bar, wave, line or circular style. Point it at all your audio or at one layer, and set its colors and how strongly it reacts.

  20. New

    Invite a client to connect their YouTube channel

    Send a channel owner a link and they connect their YouTube channel to your account themselves, with no password to hand over. You stream to it as if it were your own, and the invite page carries your name and logo.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  21. New

    Knockout mode for Trivia

    Turn on knockout mode and only the players who got the last round right go through to the next one. Everybody plays round one.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  22. New

    Ad breaks in videos and playlists

    Mark where the ad breaks go in a video, and see them on the progress bar and in the playlist. While a break runs, your stream can show a placeholder video.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  23. New

    Super Chats and memberships in the chat overlay

    YouTube Super Chats, Super Stickers, new memberships and gifted memberships now arrive with the rest of your chat. A paid message stands out on the overlay in its own color, with the amount.

  24. New

    Folders, search and bulk actions in the file manager

    Upload many files at once, sort them into folders and find any file by name. Select several to move, rename or delete them together.

  25. New

    More YouTube options before you go live

    Set the YouTube category, mark a stream as made for kids and turn DVR off, all from Advanced settings. You can also add the stream to your YouTube playlists.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  26. New

    Video playlist layer

    Add a layer that plays a list of videos in order. Add videos, drag them into place and shuffle them in its manager.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  27. New

    Run several 24/7 live streams on one subscription

    Run more than one live stream at the same time on one 24/7 subscription. Each stream you add brings more storage, and the price per stream drops as you add them.

    See pricing
  28. New

    Import a whole Google Drive folder of videos

    Paste a link to a Google Drive folder and every video in it imports in one step. Each file shows its own progress, and you can stop a transfer while it runs.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  29. New

    Game results, leaderboards and round data

    After a broadcast, open the results window to see the leaderboard, what happened in each round, and which players answered and how fast.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  30. New

    Audio playlist layer

    Add a layer that plays a list of audio files one after another, for background music and long streams that run without you.

    Learn more in the Help Center
  31. New

    Viewers answer Trivia on a separate web page

    Some platforms have no live chat, or no way for LiveReacting to read its comments. On those streams, share a link and your viewers pick their answer on a web page with the game controls. The page can show the question and the timer as well.

    Learn more in the Help Center

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