Best Discord music bots still working in 2023

With Groovy and Rythm being the first Discord music bots to shut down after receiving legal notices from YouTube, we will present you with the best alternatives in this guide. You will find our list of the best Discord music bots still operating at the moment, with some still using YouTube as a source for music.

Of course, this is subject to change. Still, some of these leaders in the Discord bot industry are multi-purpose, offering moderation, role management, games, custom commands, and many more features, so they will remain available in 2022, even if YouTube support is removed at some point.

Let's get down to it, then, with the best Discord music and radio bots.

Best Discord music and radio bots in 2022 (Rythm and Groovy alternatives)

Mee6

Mee6 is not just a music bot, it is a full-fledged bot solution for your Discord server, as it allows you to handle moderation, set custom commands and reaction roles, and even set Twitch, YouTube, and Twitter alerts. It also offers welcoming features that you can take advantage of to set your server's rules, topics, and ongoing events.

Mee6 also adds levels and XP to your discord server so that you can incentivize gamers to get involved in the community to grind experience, level up, and top the leaderboard. It also acts as a full-featured music bot and birthday bot, allowing you to set timers and music quizzes.

The bot is used on over 16 million servers, including Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, xQc's jungle, and MrBeast Gaming. As you can tell, it is prevalent, not just as a Discord music bot but as an overall solution for Discord servers.

MEE6 can play music from Soundcloud, YouTube, Twitch, and many other sources as a music bot. It also offers music quizzes, with the bot playing small song samples while your friends try to guess the song titles.

Hydra

Hydra bot offers customization options, a feature-rich command set, multilingual language support for more than ten languages, a song request channel, and support for various platforms. Choose to get the Hydra Bot Premium for your server. You can get global volume control, autoplay, audio effects, 24/7 playback, unlimited saved playlists, release vote locks, and access to more Hydras.

Hydra is a great music bot and one of the best available, but note that YouTube support was removed on September 13th, 2021.

Fredboat

Fredboat is a free Discord music bot that you can add and use to your Discord server. FredBoat can play music from YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, direct links, and Twitch, and it also supports playlists and live streams! You can also type in the name of your song, and FredBoat will find it for you instead of linking directly to it.

Below you will find all the basic Fredboat commands:

Probot

Probot is a great multilingual bot (it supports more than 13 languages) that can be used as a welcomer bot that offers ready-to-use and customizable designs, an auto-moderation, and an auto-responder bot also offers anti-raid protection. Probot guarantees 99.99% uptime and offers a leveling system for text and voice channels. The bot is used by more than 4 million servers and offers more than 50 commands.

It also works as a music bot with a complete set of music commands. However, it is not clear whether the bot still supports YouTube music.

Chip Bot

Chip bot is a free high-quality Discord music bot that promises to stream music at the best quality. It also offers a fantastic amount of control with a built-in equalizer and several customization options. The best part about Chip is that its music functionality comes absolutely for free.

For $12.50, you can use Chip Premium on every server you own, unlocking the following features:

– Change volume
– 8D Filter
– Bass boost
– Speed
– Pitch
– Nightcore mode
– Demon mode
– Tremolo settings
– Vibrato settings

– Bypass vote locks
– No command cooldowns
– Access to early beta/testing features (Nothing cool guaranteed)
– Cool role in our Official Discord Server to show how awesome you are!

Chillbot

Chillbot is the most popular Lofi radio bot on Discord, making it the best Discord music bot for lovers of low-fidelity music. Chillbot promises 24/7 uptime and high-quality music. All you have to do is join a voice channel and type !c, and the bot will start playing your favorite lofi music.

Lofi Radio is yet another Discord music & radio bot that you can use to listen to lo-fi music and a great alternative to Chillbox. It will be active on your server 24/7 with high-quality, lag-free lo-fi music.

BMO

BMO bot is a feature-rich Discord Bot with over 360+ commands to explore for your entertainment. BMO is not limited to streaming HD Music, but it also offers other entertainment avenues, such as Gambling, Games, Image Manipulation, multiple utilities, NSFW content, and more!

Vexera

Vexera is a free multi-purpose bot used on more than 300,000+ Discord servers as a greeter, moderation, and music bot. Vexera can also handle auto-role assignments, memes, games, image manipulation, user permission, and more.

Premium Vexera ($3.00/month) features include:

• HTTP streams (.mp3 URLs, etc.).
• Volume control (+volume).
• Bass control (+bass).
• Queue dumping (+dump).
• Playlists (+playlist).
• Autoplay (+autoplay).
• Donator command (+donators).

Pro Vexera ($5.00/month) features include:

• A separate instance of Vexera.
• Guaranteed uptime and stability.
• Ability to have two Vexeras running on your server.

Vexera is a great all-around solution beyond serving high-quality music on Discord servers.

24/7 Music Discord radio bot

With this 24/7 Discord music bot you can get 24/7 music from multiple sources, and live streams. Play any live stream or radio station and get many features in the premium. Check out the supported sources to know which music you can listen to without interruptions.

How do Discord music bots work?

Discord music bots download and stream music directly from video and music streaming platforms, directly to your Discord server. Essentially they allow you to create your own radio station within your Discord server and serve multiple users with music.

However, most of them violate the streaming platforms' ToS by serving content they don't own the rights to, costing the platforms and artists money. That is unless they have acquired permission from the streaming platforms to stream their content.

As far as we know, no Discord bot has followed the legal path as it would be costly to get the rights for all the music, video, and streaming content on YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, Soundcloud, and other platforms.

Conclusion

In this guide, we presented you with the best alternatives to Groovy and Rythm, past leaders in the industry of Discord music bots. Don't forget that these bots may receive a legal notice from Google sooner or later, so YouTube support may be removed if it hasn't been already.

Make sure also to check the rest of our Discord guides.