Welcome to RhythmWorks

Please use the getting started section for instructions on how to create a bot for RhythmWorks

Go to the Discord Development Portal
Click New Application
Give it a name
Go to the OAuth2 Section
- Check mark the "bot" option under "OAuth2 URL Generator"
- Enable the Following Bot Permissions (Next Section)
  - Send Messages
  - Read Message History
  - Connect
  - Speak
- Copy the Generated URL and paste it into your browser
- This will automatically launch discord and allow you to add the bot to your server
Go to the "Bot" Section
- Click "Reset Token" and copy it
  - You will need to save this in a secure place. This current version does not have a save functionality and you will have to type it in every time
- When you start the bot, paste the token into the prompt
Enable all three privileged gateway intents
Download Necessary Files
- Windows:
  - Download yt-dlp (Windows)
- Linux:
  - Download yt-dlp (Linux)
Place these files in the same directory as RhythmWorks
Keep the bot running while you want music to play
IMPORTANT - You will need to !stop the currently playing track or wait for the track to finish before you start playing a new song. If you don't, the two tracks will play overtop of each other

Other Important Notes

In Windows 11, because of smartscreen and their extra security features, if the bot appears to hang once you do !play in discord, you might have to unblock yt-dlp. Right click on the file, click properties, and near the bottom uncheck the box that says this file came from the internet and is blocked

!join

This will join the bot to your current voice channel

!play https://youtube.com/full-url

This will play the youtube audio from the URL

!stop

Completely stops the bot

!pause

Pauses the currently playing track

!resume

Resumes the paused track

!leave

The bot will leave the channel

Add save funtionality for Discord Bot Token
User Interface for the admin or whoever the person is who started the bot to have a heads up display and be able to control the bot