Which music sources does the bot play?

Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Deezer. Paste a track, album or playlist link, or type a name and pick from the autocomplete list. The player does not depend on YouTube, so it is not affected by the takedowns that closed Rythm, Groovy and others.

Do I need to write code or host anything?

No. Create a bot on BotGhost, invite it to your server, and enable the Music module for the ready made commands, or drag the music blocks into your own commands in the builder. BotGhost hosts the bot and the audio nodes, so there is nothing to install and nothing to keep running.

Is the music bot free?

Music is a BotGhost Premium feature. Premium starts at $10 a month for a single bot and covers the Music module, every music block in the builder, the audio filters and the rest of Premium. The bot itself, the builder and everything that is not music stay free.

What commands come with the Music module?

Play, pause, resume, skip, stop, now playing, queue, volume, wipe queue, connect, disconnect, loop, remove, seek, forward, shuffle, filter and DM song. Each one can be switched off, restricted to roles, or rebuilt in the builder if you want it to behave differently.

Can I build my own music commands?

Yes. The command builder has 19 music blocks: create a player, add to queue, play, pause, resume, stop, skip, previous, seek, replay, set volume, set loop, set autoplay, set autoleave, remove from queue, shuffle, search tracks, apply audio filter and clear filters. Combine them with conditions, buttons and menus like any other block.

Can I restrict music commands to a DJ role?

Yes. Module commands take role restrictions in the dashboard. For your own commands, put a role condition in front of the skip or stop block, or build a vote skip where anyone can request and the block only runs when enough people have voted.

Can the bot react when a track starts or the queue ends?

Yes. The event builder has 33 music events, including track started, track finished, queue finished, track added to the queue, volume changed, loop changed, and the bot connecting, disconnecting or being moved between voice channels. Each event carries variables like the track title and author so you can post, log or DM whatever you like.

Does it support loops, autoplay and leaving when nobody is listening?

Loop off, track or queue, with an optional loop count. AutoPlay queues similar tracks when the queue runs out. AutoLeave disconnects the player when the queue ends. All three are blocks you can toggle from a command or a button.

What audio filters are there?

Bass boost at three levels, treble boost, nightcore, daycore, vaporwave, slow motion, chipmunk, 8D, karaoke, low pass, distortion, tremolo and vibrato, plus custom equalizer, pitch and speed settings. Stack them, and clear them all with one block.

Can I show what is playing in a message?

Yes. There are variables for the current title, artist, link, duration, position, remaining time and progress percentage, the next track, the queue length and total duration, the loop mode, the volume, and whether the player is playing, paused or connected. Drop them into any message or embed.

Is it my bot or a shared bot?

It is yours. Your name, your avatar, your invite link. Members see your bot in the voice channel, not a shared bot that sits in a million other servers.

BotGhost

Music module and 19 builder blocks

Discord Music Bot Maker

Play Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Deezer in your voice channels from a bot that carries your name. Ready made commands from the Music module, or build your own player with the same blocks, buttons and events as the rest of your bot.

Create your music bot See the blocks

No coding required
Your bot, your branding
Hosted for you
Included with Premium

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Nightfall BotAppToday at 22:14

Now playing

Neon Tides

Aurora Fields

SpotifyRequested by Mika

1:123:33

Volume 80%Loop Queue7 tracks, 26:40 left

PreviousPauseSkipShuffleLoop

Up next

1AMLate Bloom Juno Park4:01
2SCStatic Hearts The Marlowes3:12
3DZGlass Orbit Kova5:20

Four sources, one search box

Paste a link from any of them or type a name and pick from the suggestions. Pick a source to see what it accepts.

music

Suggestions as you type

SPNeon Tides - Aurora Fields
SPNeon Tides (Acoustic) - Aurora Fields
SPNeon Tide Pools - Kova

/playquery: neon tid

Paste a linkhttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQ...

A playlist link queues the whole thing in order, up to the limit you set on the block.

Or search by name

Suggestions show up as a member types, as track and artist. Results are cached for ten minutes so a busy server is not searching the same song a hundred times.

Direct links skip the search and queue straight away. Text searches return up to ten matches to pick from.

The Music module, switched on in one click

Eighteen slash commands, each with its own role restrictions and an off switch.

Playback8 commands

/play
Search or paste a link and start playing
/pause
Pause the current track
/resume
Resume a paused track
/skip
Skip to the next track
/stop
Stop playback and clear the queue
/seek
Jump to a time in the track, like 1m30s
/forward
Move forward by an amount of time
/loop
Loop the track, the queue, or turn it off

Queue6 commands

/np
Show the current track with a progress bar
/queue
Show the queue, a page at a time
/remove
Remove a track by its number
/shuffle
Shuffle the queue
/wipequeue
Clear everything that is waiting
/dmsong
DM the current track link to yourself

Player4 commands

/connect
Join your voice channel
/disconnect
Leave the voice channel
/volume
Set the volume from 0 to 200
/filter
Apply an audio filter to the player

Want /skip to work differently? Rebuild it in the builder with the blocks below. The module and your own commands run side by side.

Nineteen music blocks in the builder

The same drag and drop builder as every other command. Open a block to see what it asks for.

Player6 blocks

Playback8 blocks

Queue4 blocks

Audio2 blocks

Every option takes a variable, so a slash command option, a button, a select menu or a stored value can drive the player.

Commands the module does not ship, built from blocks

Four things people build in the first week. Each one is a handful of blocks.

TriggerSlash command /skip
Anyone can run it. The command decides what it does next.
ConditionDoes the member have the DJ role?
Yes goes straight to the skip block. No goes to the vote.
ActionAdd one to the skip vote variable
A server variable that resets on the track started event.
ConditionThree votes yet?
Below three, reply "2 of 3 votes to skip". At three, continue.
ActionSkip Track and announce it
Skip, then reply with the next title using the next track variable.

Thirty three events your bot can react to

Start an automation from anything the player does. Pick an event to see what people build on it.

Event builder triggers33 music events

Playback

Queue

Settings

Voice

Player lifecycle

Selected event

Track starts playing

The classic. Post a now playing card every time a new track begins, without anyone running a command.

1Event: track starts playing.
2Send an embed to #music with the title, author and a link, plus Skip and Pause buttons.
3Delete the previous now playing message so the channel stays clean.

Variables this event gives you

{event_track_title}{event_track_author}

Audio filters, stacked however you like

Thirteen presets plus custom equalizer, pitch and speed. Toggle a few and watch the shape change.

Apply Audio Filter

Bass Boost level

Custom settings

Custom EqualizerSet each band yourself.
Custom PitchShift pitch without changing speed.
Custom SpeedFaster or slower playback.

Player output

BassMidTreble

Active filtersBass Boost

Filters are blocks, so a /filter command with a choice option, or a row of buttons under the now playing card, is a few minutes of work.

Put the player in any message

Twenty two music variables. Type them into an embed, a reply or a DM and the bot fills in the values.

Now playing

{music_current_track_title}Title of the current track
{music_current_track_author}Artist
{music_current_track_url}Link to the track
{music_current_duration_formatted}Length, as 3:33
{music_current_position_formatted}Where playback is, as 1:12
{music_remaining_time_formatted}Time left in the track
{music_position_percentage}Progress, 0 to 100
{music_position_formatted_with_duration}Both, as 1:12/3:33

Queue

{music_queue_length}Tracks waiting
{music_queue_next_track}Next title
{music_queue_next_track_author}Next artist
{music_queue_total_duration_formatted}Total time queued
{music_queue_is_empty}true or false
{music_queue_formatted_list}A numbered list of every track

Player state

{music_is_playing}true or false
{music_is_paused}true or false
{music_is_connected}true or false
{music_loop_mode_text}Off, Track or Queue
{music_volume_percentage}As 80%
{music_autoplay_status}Enabled or Disabled
{music_autoleave_status}Enabled or Disabled

music

Nightfall BotAppToday at 22:14

Now playing: Neon Tides

by Aurora Fields, requested by Mika

Position:1:12/3:33
Up next:Late Bloom by Juno Park
Queue:7 tracks, 00:26:40
Loop:Queue
Volume:80%

AutoPlay Enabled. Link: https://open.spotify.com/track/4uLU6hMC...

How it compares to shared music bots

The honest version. Shared bots are quick to invite. Yours is quick to invite and does what you say.

Feature	Your BotGhost bot	Shared public music bots	Coding your own
Runs under your own bot name and avatar	Yes	No	Yes
Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Deezer links and search	Yes	Varies	Yes
Not dependent on YouTube	Yes	Varies	Varies
Queue, loop, seek, shuffle, volume	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audio filters	Yes	Varies	Yes
Build your own commands with 19 music blocks	Yes	No	Code
33 music events for automations	Yes	No	Code
DJ roles, vote skip, request channels	Yes	Limited	Code
Hosting and audio nodes included	Yes	Yes	No
Cost	Premium, from $10 a month	Free tiers and paid tiers	Server bills and your time

Shared bot features vary by bot and plan. Checked September 2026.

Built for the servers that keep a voice channel busy

The same blocks, tuned very differently

Gaming servers

Music in the lobby, in a bot that also runs your LFG, your roles and your moderation.

One bot in the member list, not four
DJ role for the regulars
Vote skip for everyone else
Volume capped for late night sessions

Chill and study communities

A lounge station that runs itself.

A 24/7 playlist with AutoPlay
Low pass and slow motion for background listening
AutoLeave off so it never drops
Now playing posted to a channel

Listening parties and fan servers

Everyone hears the same thing at the same time.

Album links queue the whole record
Request channel for members
Track started announcements
Monthly top requesters from a variable

Creators and streamers

Your bot, your brand, on stage in your own server.

Your name and avatar in the voice channel
Staff only station command
Karaoke filter for community nights
Everything logged with events

Built on the platform behind millions of bots

Music runs on infrastructure that has been hosting Discord bots since 2018.

1.5M+

Users

Builders using BotGhost

10M+

Commands Created

Custom commands built by the community

2M+

Bots Created

Discord bots made with BotGhost

Playing in six steps

From a fresh bot to a station that runs itself

Create your bot and invite it

Enable the Music module

Open Modules and switch on Music. The play, queue, skip and the rest of the commands go live straight away.

Join a voice channel and run /play

Type a song name and pick from the suggestions, or paste a Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud or Deezer link.

Set roles and volume

Restrict skip, stop and volume to a DJ role in the command settings if you want, and pick a default volume.

Build your own commands

Open the command builder and drag in music blocks for a station command, a vote skip, or a request channel. Add buttons to the now playing message.

Automate with events

In the event builder, start from track started or queue finished and post, log or DM whatever you like.

Get started

How to make a Discord music bot

What changed in the music bot world, the two ways to add music on BotGhost, and what Premium covers.

What changed for Discord music bots

For years the answer to "which music bot" was one of a handful of shared bots that streamed from YouTube. Most of them are gone now, shut down after takedown requests, and the ones that remain are shared across millions of servers under a name that has nothing to do with yours.

The BotGhost player takes a different route. It plays from Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and Deezer, which have proper APIs for this, and it runs inside a bot you own. Your name, your avatar, your commands. Nobody else's traffic on it.

Two ways to add music to your bot

The Music module is the quick way. Switch it on and your bot has play, pause, skip, queue, now playing, loop, seek, volume, shuffle, filters and the rest, each with role restrictions and the option to turn it off.

The builder is the other way. Nineteen music blocks sit next to every other block, so a music command can check a role, count votes, read a slash command option, post an embed with buttons and store a variable, all in one flow. Most servers use the module first and rebuild the two or three commands they want to behave differently.

Create a bot and invite it with voice permissions.
Enable the Music module for the ready made commands.
Rebuild any command in the builder when you want it to work your way.
Start from a music event to automate announcements, logs and clean up.

Where the events earn their keep

Thirty three events sounds like a lot until you have run a music channel for a month. Track started is the now playing card. Queue finished is the tidy up. Volume changed is the cap for members who keep turning it up. Track stuck is the one that saves you from a "the bot is broken" ping at two in the morning.

Each event hands you the details as variables, so the message you post can name the track, the artist, the old and new volume or the loop mode without you looking any of it up.

About Premium

Music is a Premium feature. Streaming audio to voice channels costs real money in audio nodes and bandwidth, and Premium is what pays for them. It starts at $10 a month for one bot, and everything on this page, the module, the blocks, the events, the filters, is included.

The rest of your bot stays free. Commands, events, moderation, the builder and hosting do not need Premium, so you can build the whole server first and add music when you are ready.

Discord Music Bot FAQ

Keep building

Music is one part of the bot. Here is the rest of it.

Command BuilderWhere the vote skip, the station command and the request channel are built.Learn more Event BuilderThirty three music events, plus joins, messages, reactions and the rest.Learn more Moderation Discord BotKeep the music channel civil with warnings, Automod and escalation.Learn more Twitch Alerts Discord BotAnnounce when you go live, from the same bot that runs your music.Learn more Discord Bot HostingYour bot stays online around the clock. Nothing for you to deploy or restart.Learn more Music action docsEvery music block, option by option.Learn more

Ready to build your music bot?

Create a bot, switch on the Music module, and have your server listening together today. No code, nothing to install.

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