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title: Controls
description: Your live-ops page - pause, skip, open or close the queue, and linked queue mode.
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**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.

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## 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](/chat-bot/tippage-bot#mod-commands).
- **Watch the current media** - see what's playing without looking at your stream output.
- **Video on stream** - toggle whether requested videos are visible on the overlay or audio-only.

## Linked queue mode

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`.

:::note
In linked mode, pausing mid-unit and resuming replays that unit from the start - both the TTS and the media. That's deliberate: the viewer paid for the whole moment, so they get the whole moment.
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