JDA Music Bot¶

jagrosh's Music Bot is made in Java with JDA, a Discord API wrapper for Java. It is one of the best music bots I've seen out there, it does what it says and does it in a simple way - stream music to a Discord voice channel.

Installing Requirements¶

To use this bot you'll need Java. To install it run the following:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Installation¶

We'll now download the latest version of jagrosh's Music Bot (the example below is most likely outdated).

sudo -iu discord
mkdir JDAMusicBot && cd JDAMusicBot
wget https://github.com/jagrosh/MusicBot/releases/download/0.2.2/JMusicBot-0.2.2.jar
mv JMusicBot-0.2.2.jar JMusicBot.jar

Configuration¶

Once downloaded we'll create the config file.

nano config.txt

Inside the configuration we'll add the following, make sure to add your own owner ID and bot token, and change any other setting that may best suit your needs.

token=<your_token_here>
owner=<your_owner_id>
prefix=%
game="DEFAULT"
status=ONLINE
songinstatus=true
altprefix="NONE"
stayinchannel=true
maxtime=0
updatealerts=false

You can now run your Music Bot.

java -jar JMusicBot.jar

Auto-starting¶

We'll now create a service so the bot can autostart on login, but before creating it we'll make a simple script that we can use to start the bot instead of running the Java command manually.

nano start.sh

Add the following text:

#!/bin/bash
java -jar JMusicBot.jar

And make the script executable:

chmod +x start.sh

We can now create the service file as an administrator user:

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/discord_jda_musicbot.service

Insert the following in the editor:

[Unit]
Description=Discord JDA Music Bot
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=discord
WorkingDirectory=/home/discord/JDAMusicBot
ExecStart=/home/discord/JDAMusicBot/start.sh
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Once saved, start and enable the service.

sudo systemctl start discord_jda_musicbot.service
sudo systemctl enable discord_jda_musicbot.service