However, Youtube sent notices to both Groovy and Rythm to shut down the bots as both services violated YouTube’s terms of service for modifying YouTube’s services and creating commercial services based off existing YouTube architecture, according to a report on Groovy bot’s closure by The Verge.

It’s honestly not that impressive a feature, and Discord music bots were light-weight solutions for communities that wanted to be able to listen to audio (regardless of source) together while engaged in other activities.

Youtube on Discord: From Watch-Alongs to Music PlaylistsĪccording to a report from The Verge, Discord will begin integrating YouTube into select Discord servers in a new feature called “Watch Together.” The Watch Together features mimics the screen broadcast feature many Discord users are familiar with, but the Watch Together feature will allow users to create playlists and easily plug in YouTube links for playback within Discord. Now, Discord has announced a partnership with YouTube to bring a new feature to Discord that’s meant to occupy the space that was created by music bots like Groovy and Rythm. Earlier this year, Discord rolled out their Stage Discovery feature which was meant to serve as a lecture/live speech option for community figures to speak in more formal speaking conditions than Discord’s default voice chat. As Discord seeks to provide more options for non-gaming entities to speak with their communities, features that exist in legal grey areas will be culled in-order for Discord to appeal to other entities in the social web space, like music bots. Discord’s been involved in rolling out new features that are meant to diversify how communities can interact with each other.

However, it seems that Discord wants to increase their involvement in how communities interact with each other as Discord’s been pivoting away as a VoIP solution for gamers to becoming the preferred platform for online communities. By Sebastian Lubbers in General | Sep, 24th 2021ĭiscord’s community has created some fantastic tools for servers that allow communities to engage in fun mini-games, listen to music together using music bots, or pull stats from services like FaceIt.

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