Playing local audio files

[ShyPianoGuy]

how would i go on about playing a local file?

[freyacodes]

Never tried this. Presumably, you would have to send the file path as the identifier. Bear in mind that the file is local to the lavalink server receiving the request.

[ShyPianoGuy]

oh so something like ?identifier=/path/to/file?

[MrJacz]

I'd assume so

[ShyPianoGuy]

i tried, got nothing :(

[freyacodes]

You need to URL encode the parameter.

/path/to/file becomes %2Fpath%2Fto%2Ffile

[devoxin]

Also don't forget to enable the local audio source manager in application.yml

[ShyPianoGuy]

still didn't seem to work. My application has local: true and i did the URL encoded way and tried multiple paths and still didn't seem to work

[Macleykun]

You need to use it like this: .play file://Music/RickRolledMe.mp3 Music would be the folder you added in the same folder where the fredboat.jar file is.

However there is a little bug. You can't have any spaces in your path or it won't work.

I'm so dump. Tottaly unrelated to the issue. Please ignore this.

[freyacodes]

The audio file is on the server, right?

[ShyPianoGuy]

yes @Frederikam

[MrJacz]

So after testing, the file has to be in the same folder as the Lavalink.jar file, the URL to get the track is http://localhost:2333/loadtracks?identifier=TheFileName.extension

[devoxin]

I'm not sure the file has to be in the same folder, I've had MP3 tracks in my music folder on Windows (no spaces, though), identifier isn't URL encoded (using lavalink.py V2) and it works

[devoxin]

[devoxin]

Also to clarify, paths containing spaces are also working for me.

[MrJacz]

Thats werid, didnt work for me

[devoxin]

What lavalink wrapper are you using?

[MrJacz]

Discord.js-lavalink (My own) but wrapper doesn't matter, its what you use to resolve the track, lol

[shikhir-arora]

Can also confirm it works for me and it doesn't have to be in the Lavalink folder.

[freyacodes]

Discord.js-lavalink (My own) but wrapper doesn't matter, its what you use to resolve the track, lol

If your wrapper doesn't percent encode the string it should fail. Eg you need %20 instead of a space.

[MrJacz]

@Frederikam The users of my wrapper are to handle resolving of the tracks themselves... it doesnt do anything on the rest side...

[schnapster]

To sum up the given answers:

• Make sure local files are enabled in your lavalink server config
• Properly url encode the query parameters when resolving the tracks via /loadtracks
• Ensure the audio files are actually present on the machine where lavalink is running

If this does not resolve the issue, please post logs of the server and/or show what happens when you curl the /loadtracks endpoint.