

Last year, YouTube and the Recording Industry Association of America shut down other YouTube download sites and tools for violating copyrighted content, such as YouTube-DL, a Python library that helps developers and users download videos files. “Now with the shutdown of common Discord music bots we just have to do more work to find bots that aren’t shutdown.”

“I used to use Groovy so I didn’t have to listen to ads while listening to music,” junior Joshua Ikehara said. They’ve become key to the experience and bring so much fun and engagement to a community.” “As someone that was a very early user on Discord, it’s hard to envision Discord without music bots. “Now that we received the letter, all music bots will be getting them too in the following weeks,” Rythm creator Yoav said in a Discord message to The Verge. The Discord music bots were coded to scrape YouTube videos and other platforms to provide music for users in Discord voice channels. 30, and Rythm bot, with estimated 560 million users, closed on Sep. Groovy, with over 250 million users, officially shut down on Aug. Recently, popular music bots Groovy and Rythm have been forced offline for violating Google-owned YouTube’s third party terms of services of commercialization and profit. Known for its low latency voice chats, custom emojis and engaging variety of bots, Discord has become a popular choice for anyone wishing to create or join online communities.
