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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by echelon on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:08PM (#28317599)
I was prepared to be angry at Google, but this probably stems from at-volume use of licensed material outside of the ToS. It probably impacts their deals with the music industry, etc. and requires intervention. (Not that this couldn't also be a salvo fired against an upstart competitor, but I doubt that's the primary reason.)

Seems like Discord could estimate the value of Groovy to its users, and if non-negligible, could come up with their own license deal. Perhaps with Spotify or another company.

The people to be angry at are the recording industry.

Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by Macha on Thursday August 26, 2021 @02:27PM (#28318676)
Discord does in fact have a Spotify integration, but it has limitations - you need to link your spotify account, if anyone is a free user everyone else gets silence while they have ads, and you can't use it at the same time as voice chat (the last one is largely why bots like the topic of this post are still popular).

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/discord-and-spotify/