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The easiest way to play music on Discord is to use a music bot in a voice channel. With Scrump, members can search for songs, paste supported Spotify links, share a server queue, save personal playlists, and control playback with Discord slash commands. This guide explains how to set up and use Scrump as a Discord music bot. For the complete command reference, open the Scrump Music documentation.

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How to add a music bot to Discord

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Add Scrump to your Discord server

Visit scrumpbot.com/invite, choose Add to Server, and select the server where you have permission to add apps.
2

Check voice permissions

Make sure Scrump can View Channel, Connect, and Speak in the voice channel. It also needs permission to send its queue and now-playing responses in the text channel where members use commands.
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Join a voice channel

Join the voice channel where you want the music bot to play. Scrump connects to the channel occupied by the member who starts the queue.
4

Play your first song

Run /play, enter a song and artist in the search field, and select the correct autocomplete result.
Scrump normally joins automatically when you use /play. Run /join if you want the bot to connect before choosing a song. Paste a full Spotify URL into the /play search field. Scrump accepts HTTPS open.spotify.com links for tracks, albums, artists, and playlists.
Scrump uses Spotify to identify the title, artist, album, artwork, and intended recording. It then matches the music through its playable catalog instead of streaming audio directly from Spotify. This means a valid Spotify item may occasionally be unavailable to play.
Use the complete https://open.spotify.com/... address. Shortened spotify.link URLs, spotify: app URIs, and HTTP links are not supported.
Read Playing songs and Spotify links for every supported URL format, collection limit, and troubleshooting step.

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How to manage a Discord music queue

Every listener in Scrump’s active voice channel shares the same queue. Run /queue view to see the current song, upcoming songs, requesters, loop mode, and navigation controls. Common Discord music queue commands include:
  • /queue shuffle to randomize upcoming songs
  • /queue remove song to remove one entry
  • /queue remove my-songs to remove songs you requested
  • /skip current-song to skip or start a public skip vote
  • /player pause and /player resume to pause or continue playback
  • /player stop to stop playback and clear the queue
  • /now-playing to show the current song and progress
You must join Scrump’s active voice channel before changing playback. Clearing the queue with /queue remove all and changing server music settings require Move Members or a configured DJ role. See Queue and playback controls for looping, multi-song skips, cleanup commands, and Pro or Blue seeking controls.

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How to make a Discord music playlist

Scrump playlists belong to your Discord account and can be reused across servers. Create an empty playlist:
Add a song by title or Spotify link:
Save the song currently playing:
You can also use /playlist create from-queue to save the current song and queued songs in their existing order.
/playlist songs add saves one song. If you provide a Spotify album, artist, or playlist link, it saves only the first resolved track. Use /play to add a Spotify collection to the server queue, then /playlist create from-queue to save the resulting queue.
Use /playlist my-playlists to find your playlists and /playlist view to see their contents. The personal playlist guide explains editing, reordering, sharing, removal, and storage limits.

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How to use Discord music filters

Scrump supports bass boost, rotating 8D audio, reverb, nightcore, playback speed, and volume changes.
Filters, speed, volume, and full-queue looping require an enhanced queue. A server with Plus or Pro receives enhanced music access. A Scrump Blue member also enhances the active queue while that member is participating in its voice channel. The Music filters and audio guide explains each effect, normalizing volume and speed, and Discord voice-channel bitrate limits.

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Discord music bot permissions and DJ roles

Most members can search, queue, and control music while they are in the active voice channel. Server-wide management actions require Move Members, Administrator, or a configured DJ role. Use these commands to manage trusted music roles:
Server managers can also configure skip voting, song announcements, allowed track durations, imported playlist size, per-user queue limits, and server song blocklists. See Music settings and permissions for commands and plan requirements.

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Is the Scrump Discord music bot free?

Core playback, song searches, Spotify links, queues, current-song looping, and personal playlists are available for free. A standard queue supports up to 250 songs and targets 64 kbps audio. Server Plus and Pro provide queues of up to 10,000 songs, target up to 256 kbps audio, and unlock filters, speed, volume, and queue looping. Scrump Blue gives similar queue benefits while the Blue member participates and expands that user’s personal playlist storage, but it does not unlock server-only features such as 24/7 mode. The actual audio quality is capped by the Discord voice channel’s bitrate. Review the Music plan comparison before choosing a server plan or Scrump Blue.

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Why is the Discord music bot not playing?

If Scrump joins voice but you cannot hear music:
  • Confirm you are in the same voice channel as Scrump.
  • Check that Scrump is not server-muted and has Speak permission.
  • Check your Discord user-volume setting for Scrump.
  • Run /player resume in case playback is paused.
  • Try a well-known song to determine whether one recording is unavailable.
  • Use /leave, then start a fresh session with /play.
If Scrump rejects a Spotify link, use a full HTTPS open.spotify.com track, album, artist, or playlist URL. If a command says there is no active queue, start a song with /play before using now-playing, lyrics, skip, seek, or add-now-playing commands. See Music troubleshooting for queue limits, playlist errors, plan requirements, missing audio, and friendly recovery steps.

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Discord music bot FAQ

Yes. Scrump accepts full Spotify track, album, artist, and playlist URLs in /play. It uses the Spotify information to identify and match playable music rather than streaming audio from Spotify itself.

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How do I play a Spotify playlist on Discord?

Paste the full https://open.spotify.com/playlist/... URL into /play. Scrump adds resolved songs until it reaches the Spotify resolution, queue, server playlist, per-user, duration, or blocklist limit.

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How do I see what song a Discord bot is playing?

Run /now-playing to see the current song and progress. Run /queue view to see the current song together with upcoming requests.

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Can everyone add songs to the Discord queue?

Members in the active voice channel can normally add songs. Server managers can limit the number of songs each member may queue and block songs that should not be played.

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Can I save a Discord music queue as a playlist?

Yes. Run /playlist create from-queue to copy the current song and upcoming queue into a personal playlist, up to your playlist storage limit.

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How do I keep a music bot in Discord voice 24/7?

Run /24-7 to toggle Scrump’s persistent voice mode. This feature requires a server with Plus or Pro; Scrump Blue alone does not unlock it.