SYNK Music Goes Live

SYNK Music just went live. Full release. No beta tag.

I spent most of 2025 building, breaking, and rebuilding this bot. Now it finally feels like something worth announcing properly.

How SYNK Music started

Early 2025, I hacked together the first version of SYNK Music in discord.py.

It worked well enough. It joined calls, played tracks, and did the basic music bot thing. But I already knew I wanted proper interactive controls and a cleaner interface.

When Discord announced components v2, everything clicked. Rich layouts, more flexible buttons, and proper interactive UIs instead of just slash commands and plain embeds.

Python libraries weren't keeping up with what I wanted to build so I made a choice. I took SYNK Music offline and rewrote the entire bot in NodeJS.

That rewrite took time, a lot of swearing, and more than a few late nights. But it gave me what I needed: first-class support for components v2, faster iteration, and a cleaner foundation to ship features on.

The home-hosting era (and why it's over)

For a while, I hosted everything at home. The bot, Lavalink, all of it.

On quiet days, it behaved. Then someone queued a long playlist in a busy server, the connection spiked, and Lavalink started choking. Audio cutouts, lag, and tracks desyncing for no good reason.

Home internet and a serious music bot don't mix well once people actually start using it.

So I moved everything to a proper VPS. SYNK Music, Lavalink, and the supporting services now live on real infrastructure designed to stay online, not on a box under a desk.

That means no more random downtime because someone reset the router or the ISP had a wobble. Latency is lower, playback is smoother, and the whole stack just feels more solid.

What SYNK Music does now

At its core, SYNK Music plays music in Discord.

You join a voice channel, run /play, and either paste a link or type what you want to hear. It supports single tracks and full playlists from YouTube and SoundCloud using one straightforward command.

If you want a quick track for background noise or a stacked queue for a long session, it handles both without complaining. There are no fake limits designed to push you into a paid tier.

You get:

• Single song and full playlist support from YouTube and SoundCloud.
• Autoplay when the queue runs out.
• Queue and now playing displays.
• Audio filters, volume control, pause, resume, skip, and stop.

Built around components v2

The main reason for the NodeJS rewrite was components v2 and the bot leans into that heavily.

Playback controls live on interactive buttons instead of forcing you to spam commands. Play, pause, skip, stop, and more all sit in one clean control panel using Discord's components v2.

Slash commands keep everything tidy. /play to start, /queue to see what's coming up, /nowplaying to check the current track. No clutter, no command soup.

Powered by Lavalink

Under the hood, Lavalink handles the audio delivery.

It takes the stream, keeps it stable, and stops Discord voice from turning into a glitchy mess the moment your queue gets busy. That means more consistent quality, less jitter, and better performance across servers.

Combined with the VPS setup, Lavalink finally gets the network and resources it needs instead of trying to survive on a home connection.

24/7 SYNK Radio inside Discord

One of the biggest new features is the 24/7 radio integration.

SYNK Music can now stream SYNK Radio directly into your server. That gives you a constant feed of UK garage, drum and bass, and hardcore without needing to queue anything yourself.

If you just want a channel that always sounds alive, you drop the radio in and let it run.

Built to scale with your server

Whether you run a small friend server or a big community, SYNK Music is built to handle it.

The VPS setup and Lavalink combo mean the bot scales far better than the old home-hosted version ever could. No more praying the router survives a busy Friday night.

Small servers and large ones get the same feature set. There are no usage-based feature locks.

No paywalls, no tricks

SYNK Music is free. No premium tier, no paywalled filters, no hidden limits.

You add the bot, join a voice channel, and run /play. That is the entire onboarding flow.

If you want a music bot that just works without trying to sell you upgrades every five minutes, that's what SYNK Music is supposed to be.

How to add it

You can grab SYNK Music from top.gg.

Add it to your server, fire up a voice channel, and throw some tracks at it. If it breaks, I fix it. If you have ideas, I listen.

SYNK Music is finally at a point where I'm happy to call this a full release. Now it's time to see what you do with it.

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Get in touch

Questions, bug reports, or ideas? Reach out at blake@mimso.co.uk or visit synkradio.co.uk to see what else I'm building.

– Blake
December 26, 2025