Gallery of Templates

What's Now Playing has quite a bit of flexibility in what kind of output you can generate to the point that there are nearly infinite possibilities. For a complete list of all available templates with descriptions, see the Template Reference.

The text versions are meant to be used to feed other systems and are rather basic. E.g., the basic text template generates:

Utah Saints - Something Good '08

Picking that template, configuring a text source, configuring a scroll filter on that source, and then writing to it via OBS WebSocket allows one to do:

For the HTML templates, there are generally two varieties, one that uses WebSockets (start with ws-) and those that do not. WebSocket varieties are more likely to get updates closer in sync with the rest of your display. However, older software stacks may not support WebSockets.

AAdditionally, the templates are typically named to have 'fade' or 'nofade'. 'Nofade' generally stay on the screen for the duration of the song. 'Fade' will appear for a while and then disappear, only to reappear when the song changes:

Here are some pictures of the bundled HTML template files being used with an OBS stream.

• cover-title-artist:

• mtv:

• mtv-cover:

The software writes output in UTF-8. That covers the vast majority of characters that one may hit. Be aware that OBS and other software may need to have their settings, such as fonts, changed to support non-ASCII characters!