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Chrysophylaxs
Chrysophylaxs

Reputation: 6583

Discord music bot not working

When I run the following script ("node musicbot.js" in cmd) and "!play ytlink" within discord itself, the bot joins the voice channel and logs both the command and the link in the console. Yet, the music does not start playing. I have installed ffmpeg, ytdl-core, and discord.js.

Can someone help me out? I do not know which part is messing it up.

const Discord = require("discord.js");
const ytdl = require("ytdl-core");
const config = require("./config.json");
const bot = new Discord.Client();

let queue = [];

function play(connection, message) {
    let audio = ytdl(queue[0], {filter: "audioonly"});
    let dispatcher = connection.playStream(audio);
    dispatcher.on("end", function() {
        queue.shift();
        if (queue[0]) play(connection, message);
        else {
        connection.disconnect();
        message.channel.send("The queue has ended");
        }
    });
}

bot.on("message", function(message) {
    if (message.channel.type === "dm") return;
    if (!message.content.startsWith(config.prefix) || message.author.bot) 
return;

    let arguments = message.content.split(" ");
    let command = arguments[0].toLowerCase();
    arguments.shift();
    console.log(command);
    console.log(arguments);

    if (command == "!play") {
        if (!arguments[0]) {
            message.channel.send("Please provide a YouTube link!");
            message.delete();
            return;
        }
        if (!message.member.voiceChannel) {
            message.channel.send("Please join a Voice Channel first!");
            message.delete();
            return;
        }
        queue.push(arguments[0]);
        message.member.voiceChannel.join()
        .then(connection => {
            play(connection, message);
        });
    }
});

bot.on("ready", function() {
    console.log("Ready");
});

bot.login(config.token);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 17317

Answers (1)

Aidan el Goste
Aidan el Goste

Reputation: 379

Ok, I have two solutions for you. This first one is a block of code I have used and I can say it works from experience.

It requires ffmpeg, opusscript and ytdl:

function play(connection, message){
    var server = servers[message.guild.id];

    server.dispatcher = connection.playStream(ytdl(server.queue[0], {filter: 
"audioonly"}));

server.queue.shift();

server.dispatcher.on("end", function() {
    if(server.queue[0]) play(connection, message);
    else connection.disconnect();
});
}

This second option which I would highly recommend is a node module that has many more advanced features that are hard to implement such as:

  • musichelp [command]: Displays help text for commands by this addon, or help for a specific command.
  • play |: Play audio from YouTube.
  • skip [number]: Skip a song or multi songs with skip [some number],
  • queue: Display the current queue.
  • pause: Pause music playback.
  • resume: Resume music playback.
  • volume: Adjust the playback volume between 1 and 200.
  • leave: Clears the song queue and leaves the channel.
  • clearqueue: Clears the song queue.
  • owner: Various owner commands/actions. (W.I.P)

It is easy to install and get started, here is the node page with all the information about installation etc.

Upvotes: 1

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