Controls

Your live-ops page - pause, skip, open or close the queue, and linked queue mode.

Controls is the page you keep open while you’re live. It shows what’s playing right now and gives you the big buttons: pause, resume, skip, and the queue switch.

The essentials

Open or close the tip queue - closing it stops new tips coming in; your tip page shows your “Queue closed” message instead of the form.
Pause and skip - pause TTS or media playback (tips keep queueing), skip whatever’s playing. Your mods can do the same from chat with the bot commands.
Watch the current media - see what’s playing without looking at your stream output.
Move around in the current video - drag the playback bar under the preview (or focus it and use the arrow keys) to jump back or forward on your overlay. The bar covers the part of the video the tip pays for: it starts at the viewer’s chosen start time and ends at your maximum playback time (or the video’s end, if that comes first). Rewinding replays part of it, and the video still stops at the same end point. There’s no pause on the bar - Pause media pauses the queue, and resuming plays the video again from the start.
Video on stream - toggle whether requested videos are visible on the overlay or audio-only.

Normally TTS and media run as two separate queues with separate controls. Linked queue mode merges them into one stream: each tip plays as a single unit - alert, TTS, then its media - in order, one at a time.

In linked mode the mod commands change from !tts skip / !media skip to just !skip, !pause, and !resume.