<story><title>Google has killed Discord&apos;s best music bot</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>&amp;gt; Effectively a tool for adding background tunes to a chat room, Groovy worked by pulling audio directly from YouTube videos, joining voice calls, and playing music queued up by users&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not surprising that this was shut down like most &amp;quot;freeload until we get caught&amp;quot; hobby crafts.&lt;p&gt;But is there a way to build this service in a legit way on top of any existing music services?&lt;p&gt;For example, if you were able to give Groovy your Youtube Music API key at a subscription level premium enough for your Discord server, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t exist on Youtube.&lt;p&gt;I can imagine there isn&amp;#x27;t much upside for the big players in these hard spaces to support &amp;quot;glue app&amp;quot; value like Groovy, but how can you build Groovy without building your own music service?</text></comment>
<story><title>Google has killed Discord&apos;s best music bot</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rchaud</author><text>Well, yeah...anything that depends on a third party API will last only as long as the API owner is OK with it.&lt;p&gt;10 years ago, back when Windows Phone was a thing, Google wouldn&amp;#x27;t make an official WP app for Youtube. So somebody created MetroTube, a native YT client. Incredible app, with a completely seamless experience.&lt;p&gt;Then Google changed its API rules and it was dead in under a year.</text></comment>