Plugins like Rhythm integrate with the platform seamlessly. It’s just the nature of how Discord works. But the Rhythm creator also sees the death of their bot, along with Groovy, as sort of canaries in the coal mine for other cease and desist requests aimed at music bot creators. Yoav hinted that work is underway on something else “in the music space” that will tie to Discord in some way, but the specifics beyond that aren’t clear at this point.
“Which is why we started working on something new a year ago.” The same report also notes that the death of Rhythm comes only a few weeks after Google moved to kill off a similar music bot, called Groovy. “One way or another we knew this was due to happen eventually,” Rhythm creator Yoav told The Verge. 15 in response to a cease and desist legal demand from Google. The service will cease functioning on Sept. The music-streaming bot called, Rhythm, a third-party plugin for Discord servers that lets users stream in music (or really any audio) directly from YouTube, is going offline.
Discord, the Slack-like chat and streaming app that’s become a preferred gathering place for online gamers, is about to get a little less musical.
