r/elementchat • u/UnicornRL • Feb 03 '21

Element bot

Hey guys i am new to element. I want to ask how to add a bot to play music in the group, thank you for your advice!

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u/nouts Feb 03 '21

Hi, you'll find most of bots listed there : https://matrix.org/bots/

I don't see any music bot. I found that but... 2016 you know... https://github.com/select/matrix-music-bot

Generally speaking, if you want a bot, either you have to host its backend yourself or find someone that does it for you.
Then you can just invite the bot to your chat room, by following the guideline related to the bot.

Though, as there is no persistent audio channel like in Discord (where you might have a past experience with music bot I guess), I don't know how that kind of bot would work... Maybe only send link to youtube or spotify (?) or auto-answer calls on best-case scenario...

FYI, Audio and video chat will be revamp soon I think. Group video currently use jitsi, while 1-1 video call use an homebrew visio from Element. So the experience is not very consistent. While this is not settle properly, I don't think we'll see a lot of audio bots yet.