Need some fun and all discord member’s attention on the channel, learn how to add Rythm bot to Discord, and make every member listen to high-quality music in the voice channel.
In this article, you will learn how to setup Rythm bot discord and other best music bots for discord.
What is Discord music bot?
Discord music bots are mainly to deliver the best and crystal music experience on the discord voice channels.
Through discord music bot you can play music on your server through different resources like Youtube and Spotify.
You can also create your own bot by yourself by visiting the discord developer portal.
In this article, you will learn how to add a music bot to discord and the best music bots for discord.
The best music bots for discord are
- Rythm Bot
- Groovy Bot
- Fredboat
How to Add Rythm Bot to Discord
Music bots are easy to add and setup, which can be done in a few simple steps. But before adding rythm bot to discord make sure of the following points.
- You must be the owner of the server or have admin rights to make changes in the server.
- Make sure you connect a few members in the voice call of the channel to see how the music works.
- Create a new role and give this bot at least the permission to read.
STEP 1:- Open your Discord dashboard and click on the server where you want to add rythm music bot.
STEP 2:- Click the link to open the Rythm website, and once the website is up look on the right-hand side to find and lick + Add to Discord.

STEP 3:- A new window will come up which will ask you to select a server from the drop-down. Click on Select a server and choose the server where you want to add rythm bot to discord and click continue.

STEP 4:– In the next box it will ask you for the Admin permission, give authorization, and click on Authorize.

STEP 5:- It may ask you for the robot captcha confirmation, verify, and now you have successfully added rythm bot to your discord server.
Discord Rythm Bot not working?
Multiple users had multiple issues with the discord music bot like the discord rythm bot not working. Let’s have a look at a few of the problems with solutions.
Many users complained that they are not able to play their YouTube mix playlist and getting an error of “Failed to Load”, which is because the YouTube mix is currently not supported by Rythm.
Though there can be many problems while using a music bot, you can try a few below instructions, depending on your problem.
- Make sure the link preview is on, or else rythm may send blank messages on discord. To enable link preview to go to discord settings > Text & Images > Enable “Show website preview info from links pasted into chat”
Discord rythm bot not working - If your rythm commands are not working properly please ensure that you are using the correct prefix.
- If you rythm start lagging you can try changing the discord server location.
- Is your rythm not playing any sound, ensure rythm is not muted or the volume level is very low. You can do this by making a right-click on the rythm bot from the left-hand side of the member’s list.

If still you have the issues, you can kick out rythm and join again. Go with discord and PC restart as well.
Discord Rythm Commands
You can experience great music with amazing rythm music bot commands. Below you will find a few important command lists.
Please use exclamation! Mark before the command, for example:- !play
play Plays a song with the given name or URL.
disconnect Disconnect the bot from the voice channel it is in.
np Shows what song the bot is currently playing.
ping Checks the bot’s response time to Discord.
skip Skips the currently playing song.
remove Removes a certain entry from the queue.
Resume Resume paused the music.
settings Change Rythm’s settings.
move Moves a certain song to the first position in the queue or to a chosen position
forward Forwards by a certain amount in the current track.
skipto Skips to a certain position in the queue.
removedupes Removes duplicate songs from the queue.
volume Check or change the current volume.
Get Complete Rythm music bot commands from the official site of Rythm.
Groovy Music Bot for Discord
This is another amazing option for playing music on the channel through a bot on discord. It does not have any limitations as rythm had in adding playlist.
Recently before writing this article, I tried both Rythm and Groovy and I found Groovy giving a more clear and crystal performance.

The process of adding groovy music bot to discord will be the same which you read above.
There is only a basic change in commands as here you need to use –dash before the command.
Few of Groovy music bot commands are
-play [link or search query]
-play file
-join
-queue
-next
-back
-clear
-jump [track position or title]
-loop track
-loop queue
-loop off
-lyrics
For a complete command list of Groovy music, bot visit Groovy Commands.
Fredboat Music bot
Fredboat is another free music bot for discord that provides high-quality music to your discord channel.
The Fredboat supports live streams and playlist like Groovy and can play music from Twitch, sound cloud, YouTube, and direct links.
The process of using this music bot for discord is also the same which is mentioned above.
FINAL WORDS
So now you have learned how to add rythm bot to discord as well as about Groovy and Fredboat.
I would request you to try all the 3 bots as they are the best music bots for discord and please let me know which worked best for you.
I am currently using Groovy, if you let me know with another best option, I will surely try and recommend others.