JamBot - Spinamp Discord Bot
A discord bot to allow spinamp's music to be played on discord
Project Description
As discord bots & listening to music together is quite popular yet underserved (since YouTube / Vimeo / Spotify etc. seem to hate this) it is a good market to serve to increase reach for spinamp.
A good example is rhythm.fm.
The way it would work is to run commands on discord such as "/play Natars" or "/play https://app.spinamp.xyz/track/natars-(or-a-nostlagic-advice)" which would add this track to the queue to be listened to.
I think it is also a good place where we can think about auto curation; such as "/mood happy" starting to play happy music for example.
How it's Made
This is a straight forward discord bot as it is a vendor integration. Written in typescript, utilising SpinAmp as much as possible. As such it doesn't leverage any other sponsor so far.
I use discord.js, discord-player to enable this functionality. This means we have a custom extractor to attach to the discord player to play a stream through the server we'd need to run.
In the long run, it might make sense to find a better way to distribute these servers but for now they are regular nodejs servers that should run somewhere.
In the long run the vision would be to add a way to open a metered payment connection to individuals and/or servers, however that is not a part of the scope here.
Unfortunately it is still not complete, as figuring it out took longer than expected but alas.
