[CRITICAL] Player won't play music

[tonyG433]

Describe the bug Player won't play music, might be an issue with the queueing

Expected behavior Obviously play music as it usually doss

Please complete the following information:

• Node Version: 16.16
• Discord Player Version: 5.3.1
• Discord.js Version: 14.0.0

Additional context I'd also like to adress the instability of this package. There is always something that breaks. Why? There are tons of bots that rely discord-player, some of them even being big. This isn't really something that should happen to such a big module, and especially its core feature.

[Olebeh]

Same. Bot cannot find any music using link. I don't know if it's discord-player's problem or ytdl. If you try to find music using text, everything works

[xWass]

also facing this issue. cant play any music at all, was able to yesterday. seems to be a ytdl error

[revot334]

hey all... update this is just a YouTube problem because SoundCloud is working my best guess would be YouTube is starting to implement features to prevent YouTube videos being scraped off there platform.

[twlite]

Yes this seems to be an issue with ytdl-core. Can you try play-dl and see if it works?

[revot334]

why did this just pop now

[xSaoul]

Yes this seems to be an issue with ytdl-core. Can you try play-dl and see if it works?

I used play-dl and the moment it fired the playing event the bot left and didn't play anything.

[twlite]

Additional context I'd also like to adress the instability of this package. There is always something that breaks. Why? There are tons of bots that rely discord-player, some of them even being big. This isn't really something that should happen to such a big module, and especially its core feature.

@tonyG433 I'm sorry for that. Talking about the instability, we are not a full time developer working on discord-player. It's hard to allocate time for the development of this lib due to a lot of reasons. This indeed includes managing time for pull requests. We dont have time to verify and make sure the update works and so on. This not only applies to me but to Androz as well. We are trying our best to allocate time for this lib. We're sorry for the late updates.

The lib isnt dead. I am active these days, usually after 7 PM (GMT +05:45). If anything needs to be done, you can contact me. I am available at Androz's discord server. For the time being, I am willing to update/review incoming pull requests.

[twlite]

According to https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

[xSaoul]

According to fent/node-ytdl-core#1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

This works!

[revot334]

According to https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

Can you push this to the package if it works it would really help open source projects using this

[MatchaOnMuffins]

According to fent/node-ytdl-core#1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

Can you push this to the package if it works it would really help open source projects using this

1296 I just made a pr that changed the version to 4.9.1 :)

[Xyvraaq]

According to fent/node-ytdl-core#1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

it doesn't work for me, why

[xSaoul]

According to fent/node-ytdl-core#1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

it doesn't work for me, why

It does just not for YouTube links, please read previous comments and PR

[twlite]

According to fent/node-ytdl-core#1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

Can you push this to the package if it works it would really help open source projects using this

This needs more investigation. I can't simply downgrade ytdl-core as it may break something else. The known issue currently (after downgrading) is bot immediately disconnects after joining the voice channel.

[revot334]

According to fent/node-ytdl-core#1108, downgrading ytdl-core to v4.9.1 works. Can you try this?

Can you push this to the package if it works it would really help open source projects using this

This needs more investigation. I can't simply downgrade ytdl-core as it may break something else. The known issue currently (after downgrading) is bot immediately disconnects after joining the voice channel.

Totally understand just trying to get the bot I maintain back up so people can enjoy music

[Tksharmely]

Downgrading ytdl-core to 4.9.1 works for now. I hope ytdl-core coders push a new update with a full fix. npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@4.9.1 then run the bot.

[Tksharmely]

Update: 4.9.1 is now depacryted for YouTube links but it plays SoundCloud and Spotify. Using ytdl-core 4.9.2 for YouTube links working for now.

[xSaoul]

Update: 4.9.1 is now depacryted for YouTube links but it plays SoundCloud and Spotify. Using ytdl-core 4.9.2 for YouTube links working for now.

Good catch, working for me as well. Hopefully a true solution is found on ytdl's side.

[revot334]

Do you guys know if they are working on a solution?

[MatchaOnMuffins]

Do you guys know if they are working on a solution?

https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/1108#issuecomment-1213594910 I think the issue has been fixed apparently, the latest version is working again

[revot334]

Do you guys know if they are working on a solution?

https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/1108#issuecomment-1213594910

I think the issue has been fixed

apparently, the latest version is working again

I will give it a shot

[revot334]

yes it works

[revot334]

version 4.11.0 of ytdl core seems to work at least with my bot

[Tksharmely]

version 4.11.0 of ytdl core seems to work at least with my bot

Can you share your npm ls please? I want to see which modules you are using with.

[tonyG433]

In conclusion, use play-dl and don't care about stability further :)

[Olebeh]

am i the only who still has problems with it, even though everyone says that 4.11.0 works for them?

[twlite]

If you have any ytdl fork that works, try using it with onBeforeCreateStream

[xWass]

4.11.0 is not a working version of ytdl. you can try 4.10.0 or 4.9.1. Besides that, you can uninstall ytdl-core and reinstall using this command: npm i ytdl-core@https://github.com/GreepTheSheep/node-ytdl-core

[Olebeh]

The hosting I'm using is installing packages manually from package.json file, one of the packages is of course discord-player which has ytdl-core 4.11.0 version specified. What do i do in this case?

[xSaoul]

The hosting I'm using is installing packages manually from package.json file, one of the packages is of course discord-player which has ytdl-core 4.11.0 version specified. What do i do in this case?

Add "ytdl-core": "4.10.0" to your package.json and delete the node_modules folder and package-lock.json so they reinstall assuming they install on launch.

[xWass]

The hosting I'm using is installing packages manually from package.json file, one of the packages is of course discord-player which has ytdl-core 4.11.0 version specified. What do i do in this case?

Add "ytdl-core": "4.10.0" to your package.json and delete the node_modules folder and package-lock.json so they reinstall assuming they install on launch.

this seems unnecessary. just npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@4.10.0

this is not a valid fix for everyones issue, and i believe this will work for those people npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@https://github.com/GreepTheSheep/node-ytdl-core

[xSaoul]

The hosting I'm using is installing packages manually from package.json file, one of the packages is of course discord-player which has ytdl-core 4.11.0 version specified. What do i do in this case?

Add "ytdl-core": "4.10.0" to your package.json and delete the node_modules folder and package-lock.json so they reinstall assuming they install on launch.

this seems unnecessary. just npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@4.10.0

this is not a valid fix for everyones issue, and i believe this will work for those people npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@https://github.com/GreepTheSheep/node-ytdl-core

Not if their panel doesn't allow commands... Thats why I said "assuming they install on launch"

[xWass]

good point considering half the people using this lib host on repl.it. another fix for this issue is using play-dl instead of ytdl-core.

[Olebeh]

good point considering half the people using this lib host on repl.it. another fix for this issue is using play-dl instead of ytdl-core.

Can you explain how have you done track searching with play dl?

[retrouser955]

The hosting I'm using is installing packages manually from package.json file, one of the packages is of course discord-player which has ytdl-core 4.11.0 version specified. What do i do in this case?

Add "ytdl-core": "4.10.0" to your package.json and delete the node_modules folder and package-lock.json so they reinstall assuming they install on launch.

this seems unnecessary. just npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@4.10.0 this is not a valid fix for everyones issue, and i believe this will work for those people npm uninstall ytdl-core npm install ytdl-core@https://github.com/GreepTheSheep/node-ytdl-core

Not if their panel doesn't allow commands... Thats why I said "assuming they install on launch"

You can use node child process like

const { exec } = require('node:child_process')
exec('your command here')
// use execSync to wait until the command finish running

[retrouser955]

For people hosting on repl.it, you can paste this script in replit.nix to get python running in a Node JS repl (To install @discordjs/opus)

{ pkgs }: {
  deps = [
    pkgs.nodejs-16_x
    pkgs.nodePackages.typescript-language-server
    pkgs.nodePackages.yarn
    pkgs.replitPackages.jest
    pkgs.python38Full
    pkgs.ffmpeg
    pkgs.libuuid
  ];
  env = {
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH = pkgs.lib.makeLibraryPath [pkgs.libuuid];
  };
}