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Every now and then I like to stream myself playing songs on the guitar. My workflow is as follows:

My main monitor is displaying the chords and lyrics of the song I'm currently playing, from the website Ultimate Guitar.
My second monitor is used to preview the stream and display chat. The software used for streaming is OBS.

This program works like this:

A shell script using a tool called kdotool (because I'm currently running CachyOS with KDE Plasma Wayland) looks at all active windows with Ultimate-Guitar.com in the name. If it finds one, it sends the name to a C++ program.
That C++ program cleans the string, and outputs a nice "Song" by Artist format to a text file.
There is a text source in OBS that is constantly looking at that text file. This way, the name of the current song being looked at is displayed on stream!