> ## Documentation Index
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# Music

> Play music in Discord with song searches, Spotify links, shared queues, playlists, audio filters, and server controls.

Scrump Music lets members play songs together in a Discord voice channel. Search by song name, paste a supported Spotify link, build a shared queue, save personal playlists, and control playback without leaving Discord.

## Start playing music

<Steps>
  <Step title="Join a voice channel">
    Join the Discord voice channel where you want to listen. Scrump uses your current voice channel when you run a music command.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Play a song">
    Run `/play` and enter a song name, an `https://open.spotify.com/...` link, or a shortened `https://spotify.link/...` sharing link in the `search` field.

    ```text theme={null}
    /play search:Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley
    ```

    Scrump joins automatically when it can. You can also run `/join` first.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Manage the shared queue">
    Run `/queue view` to see what is playing and what comes next. Use its buttons or the player, skip, loop, and queue commands to manage playback.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save songs for later">
    Create a personal playlist with `/playlist create new`, then add searches, Spotify tracks, or the song currently playing.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>You must be in Scrump's active voice channel to make playback changes. Some server-wide actions also require **Move Members** or a configured DJ role.</Note>

## Music guides

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Play songs and Spotify links" icon="circle-play" href="/features/music/playing-songs">
    Search by name, use Spotify links, and view lyrics or the current song.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Queue and playback controls" icon="list" href="/features/music/queue-and-controls">
    View, shuffle, remove, skip, loop, pause, and seek through music.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Personal playlists" icon="compact-disc" href="/features/music/playlists">
    Create, edit, share, reorder, and fill reusable playlists.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Filters and audio" icon="sliders" href="/features/music/filters-and-audio">
    Use bass boost, 8D audio, reverb, nightcore, speed, and volume controls.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Settings and permissions" icon="shield-halved" href="/features/music/settings-and-permissions">
    Configure DJ roles, skip voting, song limits, announcements, and 24/7 mode.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Troubleshooting" icon="circle-question" href="/features/music/troubleshooting">
    Fix common voice, search, Spotify, queue, playlist, and plan errors.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What music responses look like

Routine confirmations and user errors are short messages that only you can see. Scrump uses richer displays when the information benefits from them, including the queue, now-playing view, lyrics, playlist contents, and public skip votes.

When Scrump cannot complete a command, the message should explain what happened and give you a useful next action, such as joining the active voice channel, starting a queue, or choosing a valid playlist.

## Free, server plans, and Scrump Blue

Every server can use the core music commands. Plus, Pro, and Scrump Blue add higher queue limits, improved target audio quality, filters, speed, volume, and queue looping.

Scrump Blue belongs to a user rather than a server. Its queue benefits apply only while that Blue user is participating in the active voice channel. Blue does not unlock server-only controls such as 24/7 mode or the server song blocklist.

See [settings, permissions, and plan access](/features/music/settings-and-permissions) for a full comparison.