24/7 Music Bot¶

Installing Requirements¶

The 24/7 Music Bot we're going to use requires Node.js and ffmpeg, to install them:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs ffmpeg

After executing these two commands, we will have access to the npm and node commands.

Installation¶

To install the 24/7 Music Bot, we will first clone the project from its repo from the discord user:

sudo -iu discord
git clone https://github.com/moonstar-x/discord-music-24-7.git

This will create a discord-music-24-7 folder which will have everything we need to install our bot.

We can no access the folder and install the dependencies:

cd discord-music-24-7
npm install

Configuration¶

Inside the config folder there is a settings.json.example file, we'll rename it and edit it:

mv settings.json.example settings.json
nano settings.json

In here, change the settings to your own liking.

After everything is set up, you can start up the bot with:

npm start

Auto-starting¶

Because we want this bot to run on system startup, we'll create a service to make it run when the computer turns on.

Create the service file with:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/discord_247_music.service

Insert the following in the editor:

[Unit]
Description=Discord 24-7 Music Bot
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=discord
WorkingDirectory=/home/discord/discord-music-24-7/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Once saved, start and enable the service.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start discord_247_music.service
sudo systemctl enable discord_247_music.service