Discord Music Bot With Dashboard Player v10.4.3

Added

• Official support for Discord Embedded Activities
• Launch the app directly via the "Start an Activity" button in voice channels
• Alternatively, launch via a direct link
• Control music your way: Slash Commands, Web Dashboard, or Discord Activity

Improvements

• Better search experience and accuracy across all sources
• Smoother music data caching and refresh times
• Improved overall bot stability
• Improved Spotify multi-credential rotation to prioritize available credentials and ensure seamless fallback

Fixes

• Fixed several dashboard loading and duplicate request issues
• Fixed minor bugs causing audio playback delays

added

• added new global music search overlay with categorized tracks, artists, and albums tabs
• added backend search overlay aggregator route with internal cache support
• added deezer fallback for artist and album metadata when spotify search fails or hits rate limits
• added artist page tabs: discography, similar artists, and about
• added last.fm-powered artist extra data with 12-hour backend caching
• added reusable hero banner component for artist and album detail pages

improvements

• optimized dashboard music player data loading and cache behavior
• improved request deduplication and reduced duplicate metadata fetching
• improved frontend cache behavior with preserved data while refreshing
• improved backend cache behavior for stable music metadata
• improved radio api reliability with dynamic radio browser server discovery
• improved dashboard search experience with debounce, abort controller, and stale request protection
• improved artist and album page visuals with full-bleed music-style banners
• aligned dashboard sidebar and content background styling for a more unified layout

fixes

• fixed radio api 503 errors by removing hardcoded radio browser server dependency
• fixed radio api failover with automatic host invalidation and recovery
• fixed artist and album cover quick play behavior to add tracks to queue when playback is already active
• fixed search overlay empty results when spotify metadata search fails
• fixed duplicate requests and unnecessary loading states in the music player dashboard
• fixed unhandled promise rejection in player message auto-delete handling
• fixed early startup interaction crashes caused by unavailable database state
• fixed several dashboard stability issues without changing existing playback, queue, lyrics, or routing behavior
• fix(spotify): improve multi-credential fallback and prevent unhandled crashes
• SpotifyRequest: Catch JSON parse errors when API returns HTML (e.g., 403 Forbidden/Active Premium) to prevent unhandled promise rejections.
• RequestManager: Force fallback and quarantine client (rateLimited = true) on ANY API error, ensuring broken credentials are skipped.
• RequestManager: Remove verbose request logs to keep terminal clean.
• Plugin: Add try-catch block around searchTrack to gracefully handle 'ALL_RATE_LIMITED' errors and prevent AntiCrash stack trace spam.
  

ADDED

• Added database schemas for Saved Artists, Saved Albums, and Spotify metadata caching.
• Added Lavalink configuration with plugins and server settings.
• Added Discord Profile Widget feature to display user music stats on Discord profiles.
• Added /widget command group (setup, refresh, status, disconnect, image, script)
• Added automated daily cron job for refreshing widget connections.
• Add idempotent deduplication filter to automatically clean up existing user duplicates on next save.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Major architectural refactor of Dashboard plugins, routes, and context management.
• Improved YouTube lyrics matching and track metadata normalization.
• LikedSongsService to match tracks against normalized title and author instead of just strict URIs.

FIXES

• Fixed custom bot profile application to gracefully handle Discord API missing permissions.
• Remove invalid markdown hyperlink formatting from the /favorites slash command output.

ADDED

• Added cleaner modular backend structure
• Added separated dashboard route modules
• Added BACKEND_INTERNAL_SECRET protection for dashboard /api/*
• Added flexible welcomer image list support
• Added updated backend setup

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved backend maintainability with core, discord, api, services, adapters, and shared structure
• Improved dashboard API organization without changing existing routes
• Improved dashboard API security for protected deployments
• Improved logger TypeScript compatibility

REMOVED

• Removed deprecated game command category
• Removed unused game-related handlers and services
• Removed obsolete game database schemas and related storage logic
• Removed unused game dashboard/API integrations
• Removed leftover game-related backend references and cleanup logic

FIXES

• Fixed Winston logger formatter typing issue
• Fixed outdated backend README information
• Fixed several backend TypeScript/editor warnings

• Added Stage Channel support with auto-speaker or request to speak and live stage topic updates
• Added spotify command with playlist sync and queue support
• Implemented role-based Stage Control system with /stagecontrol command.
• Integrated Stage Control validation into all music commands, player buttons, and menus.
• Fixed stage channel detection on newer Discord versions.
• Added /set channel add and /set channel remove for whitelisting bot command channels.
• Added /fix command with Change Region, Reconnect, and Recreate Player actions.
• Improved reconnect to refresh voice without disconnecting the bot from the channel.
• Stop now only halts playback and clears the queue without disconnecting.
• Added /leave command for full disconnect and player cleanup.
• Fixed player auto-destruction being triggered after intentional stop.
• Fixed queue command crashing when no active track is playing.
• Fixed prefix commands failing with the modern message component format.
• Dashboard stop API now uses the same non-destructive stop logic as bot commands.
• Implemented spotify connection service and playlist endpoints

ADDED

• Added /api/top-artists
• Added /api/artist-tracks
• Added /api/top-albums
• Added /api/album-tracks
• Added /api/new-releases
• Added artist image resolver with Deezer/iTunes fallback
• Added album artwork resolver with Deezer/iTunes fallback
• Added thumbnail resolver helper
• Added Last.fm integration for trending artists
• Added Apple Music RSS integration for popular albums
• Added Deezer Editorial Releases integration
• Added multi-strategy album track resolution
• Added in-memory TTL caching system
• Added dedicated caches for artists, albums, releases, and tracks

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved scalability for high-traffic dashboard usage
• Improved API efficiency with smart caching
• Improved maintainability using existing architecture patterns
• Improved discovery reliability using fallback strategies
• Improved artwork quality with multi-source resolution
• Improved cache efficiency and request optimization

FIXES

• Fixed repeated external API requests
• Fixed artwork fallback handling
• Fixed album track fetching reliability
• Fixed unstable discovery feed handling

• add music trivia (/music trivia) with multiplayer, scoring, and leaderboard
• add achievements & player stats tracking
• improve song selection & anti-repeat system
• add preview-based gameplay (voice playback + buttons)
• add lastfm subcommand: /last view (user stats)
• add play now & remove buttons to /play
• improve stability and database handling
• add broadcast system (configurable)
• add slash command mention helper (auto-resolves </command:id>)

added
* added last.fm dashboard for /lastfm view with an interactive UI.
* shows account details such as scrobbling since, username, and total stats.
* displays last.fm avatar as a thumbnail.
* includes buttons to switch between top artists, top albums, and top tracks.
* includes a select menu to filter time range: 7 days, 30 days, 1 year, and lifetime.
* added lyrics karaoke sync engine for /lyrics.
* separated logic into LyricService.ts and LyricMessageBuilder.ts.
* supports real-time lyric highlighting based on player position.
* improved smooth pagination for plain mode.
* added new some command.
* /profile
* /favorites
* /history
* /globalstats
* /guildstats
* reorganized translation keys in commands.info.yaml.
* added listening history for users and guilds.
* introduced new schemas: UserListeningHistory and GuildListeningHistory.
* history is recorded on every track start.
* limited to 100 entries per user/guild to prevent uncontrolled growth.
* new API endpoints:
* GET /api/history/user
* GET /api/history/guild/:guildId
* added new listening sources in TopStatsSession.ts.
* now supports applemusic and deezer in addition to spotify.
improvements

• dashboard lyrics API now uses LyricService.ts for consistent parsing across discord UI and web dashboard.
• improved validation safety in LastFM.ts to prevent crashes when ThumbnailBuilder is missing.
• fixed collector handling in LastFM.ts to avoid c.setDisabled is not a function errors.
• internal improvements across mewslink files for better stability.
• moved hardcoded strings into localization files.
• updated configuration files:

* config.example.yml
* Config.ts
removed
* removed deprecated slash commands:
* /mystats
* /topstats
* /statistics user

• these commands have been replaced by the new stats system:
• removed notification commands:

* /notify twitch
* /notify youtube
* these features are no longer maintained and have been deprecated.