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Steam Background Recording records desktop audio too

steamopen Feature RequestAudioStreaming
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13121 · opened 2026-04-26 by kabinbr1 · updated 2026-05-21 · 2 comments · github
Kkabinbr1 2026-04-26 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1773426488

  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora Kinoite

  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No

  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

  • Steam Logs: Arquivo compactado.tar.gz

  • GPU: RX 9060 XT 16 GB

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When enabling the steam background recording to record games in the background steam simply records desktop audio too, on windows it does not do the same so i think this is unexpected behavior

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Enable background recording in the steam settings
  2. let a game run for a while with a youtube video or spotify running a song/video in the background
  3. watch the replay
Kkabinbr1 2026-04-27 github

there is a warning on steam saying that recording only game audio is not supported on the linux platform, so i guess this is more of a feature request than a bug report.

Mmaciozo 2026-05-21 github

I would also very much appreciate the ability to select the audio stream being recorded. I have all my audio going through EasyEffects, which means that Steam ends up recording the filtered audio.

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