Discord has become the most used platform by users who want to communicate with each other while playing their favorite video games. To communicate with each other they can use a number of techniques including voice calls, video calls, text messages, media and files. But having music isn’t a bad option either, so Discord has the ability to add music to your voice chats, making the experience more immersive and entertaining.
That is why, if we want to enjoy music on our Discord server, we can do it by linking our Spotify account or by inserting a Bot. In this way, while we chat with our friends or play online, we can listen to music in a very simple way, as we are going to see below.
How to put music on Discord with Spotify
The only way we have available on Discord to play music without using a Bot is by linking it with our Spotify account, the popular streaming music platform. To do this, the first thing will be to open a free Spotify account , if we do not yet have it, for which we must click on this link to its official website . Later we click on the “REGISTER” button for which we can use our email or directly with our Google or Facebook. Once registered, we must access and choose any topic we want to hear.
Next, we open Discord and we are going to click on the gear icon that we find in the lower left, which will take us to the User Settings . Here, we click on “Connections” and look for the Spotify icon in the “Connect your accounts” tab.
This will open a browser window for us to enter our Spotify credentials and accept the terms by clicking the “Accept” button at the bottom of the screen.
Later, a notification should appear that says “You have connected your Spotify account to Discord” .
If we go to Discord we will check how the account has been linked and now we can start listening to songs in the application.
Bot to play music
In the event that we do not want to use Spotify, we can also choose different Bots through which we can play music on our server.
FreBoat
If we want to add music to our calls with Discord, we must configure a Bot called FredBoat . To do this, we must click on this link to your website and click on the Invite to Server button.
On the next screen we must choose the Discord server to which we want to add it and click on the purple Authorize button.
Next, we check the box for I am human .
Now we go back to Discord and click on the voice channel. Next, we only have to tell FredBoat which song we want the bot to play using the command:
play [URL]
For example, we can tell it to play a YouTube video by what it would be:
play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arYRWrsYnI
Unlike searching for a specific URL, we can also search for the song name by typing “play name of song”. It is possible to stop playback by typing “stop”. Additionally, it is possible to use commands to allow others on our channel to vote to skip the currently playing song.
If we want to know the complete list of all the commands that are compatible with FredBoat, just click on this link to its official website.
Vexera
This Bot allows Discord users to be able to add songs on their Discord server music channel. It has functionalities such as adding songs to a playlist, adding lists from platforms such as YouTube or Spotify through simple commands. It has many functionalities similar to music players like pause, resume, play, queue, back, delete, skip shuffle… and all from our Discord server.
To begin we must access the Vexera website . Here we must click on the link “Add to your Discord server” and then we must log in to our Discord account.
Next, a screen appears where we must select the Discord server to which we want to add Vexera and click “Continue”.
Once the server to which we want to add the Vexera Bot has been selected, it will ask us for access permission . We will automatically have administrator access, or uncheck the option if we do not want the Bot to have full access to our server. Finally, we press the “Authorize” button.
Now we only have to click on the “I am human” button on the next screen.
Now we go back to Discord and click on the voice channel. Next, we only have to tell Vexera which song we want the bot to play using the command:
play [URL]
For example, we can tell it to play a YouTube video by what it would be:
play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arYRWrsYnI
We can find the complete list of supported commands by clicking on this link to the developer’s website .
Ayana
Another essential bot to listen to music on our Discord server is Ayana. With it we can play all kinds of music and content from platforms such as YouTube (with search), SoundCloud, Twitch, etc. To get started, simply access the official Ayana website and click on the “Invite” button.
Later, we must select the Discord server to which we want to link it and click “Continue”.
On the new screen, all the permissions that we can grant to the Bot appear and if necessary, we can uncheck those that we do not want to grant and click on the “Authorize” button.
Finally, all that remains is to click on the I’m Human button.
With this we already have it added to Discord. Now we can tell Ayana what song we want the bot to play using the command:
play [URL]
For example, we can tell it to play a YouTube video by what it would be:
play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5arYRWrsYnI
If we want to know the entire list of Bot commands, we can find out by clicking on this link to its website .
