The Best Way to Listen to Music with or Without Friends on Discord

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A comprehensive guide for playing music in a Discord voice chat

Co-authored by Darlene Antonelli, MA Reviewed by Luigi Oppido

Last Updated: March 12, 2025 Fact Checked

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Using Apps

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Using Spotify

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Using Music Bots

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Do you want to play music on Discord? You can play and listen to music in a variety of ways, with or without friends. Read on to learn more.

Easily Play Music in Discord

Play music on Discord hassle-free by using apps. Press the icon with a bunch of shapes on it and search for "music apps". Select a music app that you like, from Lofi, which plays an assortment of atmospheric sounds to Lofi music, and Rythm, which offers a bunch of different radio stations that you can join.

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Using Apps

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Click the Apps icon. It's a 2x2 grid of a tilted square, triangle, heptagon, and star that you can find next to the chat field in a DM, group message, or channel on any server.
- You can use apps to listen to music on your computer and mobile.
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Search for a "music" app. Type "music" in the search bar and press Go to see a list of music apps on Discord.
- The most popular music apps are Lofi, Rythm, and TuneIn Radio & Podcasts.^{[1]
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Click or tap an app that you want to use and select Launch. The app will load.
- You will still see the chat in the background of the music app, so you can listen to music without sacrificing your chatting ability.
- For some apps, like Lofi, you can tap various parts of the screen to adjust the sounds of background noise, like a running river, rainfall, and chirping birds. You can also change the volume using on-screen volume buttons to lower or increase the overall Lofi sounds.
- Others can click or tap Join in the chat channel or DM to listen along with you. You do not need to be in a voice chat to listen to music together.
- Click or tap Leave to close the app.

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Using Spotify

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Connect Spotify to Discord. In order to play your Spotify playlist through a voice channel on Discord, you need to have the two services linked. To do this, follow these steps:
- Open Settings.
- Select Connections.
- Select the Spotify icon.
- Login with your Spotify account.
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Share your music with others. Once connected, you're ready to share your Spotify music on Discord. There are a few different ways that you can do this, but you first need to play a song/playlist on Spotify:
- Find a chat with someone, then right-click their name and select Invite to Listen Along.
- Create a jam from your playlist to get a link, join a voice chat, share your URL and others can listen along as well as suggest or remove songs.
- Join a voice chat and have others hover their mouse over the channel and select Play on Spotify.

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Using Music Bots

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Find and invite a music bot. You can use sites like https://top.gg/tag/music to search for good music bots.
- FredBoat is a good music bot that plays music from Vimeo, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Deezer, Dailymotion, or Twitch.
- Once you find the bot, you can invite it to a server where you have admin privileges. If you don't have admin privileges, using an app to play music might be a better option for you.
- Some servers that you join might already have music bots added; just ask an admin if one already exists that you can use.
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Enter the command to play a song. The various bots have different commands, so what works for one may not work for another.
- For example, to start playing a song on FredBoat, type the command /play, then paste the URL of a song. The URL must be from Vimeo, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Deezer, Dailymotion, or Twitch. However, if you don't have a URL, you can simply enter the song name and the bot will display all the songs matching that title.
- Many music bots also link to a website that details more commands that you can use.