Music

/play query plays a song. Type a search and Diski plays the best match from SoundCloud, choosing a full-length upload over a 30-second preview whenever there is one (if only a preview can be played, Diski says so in the channel). You can also paste a SoundCloud track link, a SoundCloud playlist link (every track in it is queued), or a direct http(s) link to an audio file or internet radio stream. YouTube and Spotify links are refused. If something is already playing, the song joins the queue; if a radio station is playing, the song replaces it.

/radio station tunes in to one of 25 curated stations; start typing to search by name or genre (jazz, country, 80s…). Diski Radio is a rolling, shuffled mix of mainstream hits from SoundCloud that keeps refilling itself. The rest are live stations: SomaFM (Groove Salad, Indie Pop Rocks, Secret Agent), Radio Paradise and its mixes, KEXP Seattle, ABC Australia's triple j and Double J, Radio France's FIP, SRG SSR's Radio Swiss Jazz, Classic and Pop, and 181.FM's genre stations. Starting a station replaces whatever is playing and clears the queue. Only stations on this list can be played with /radio — paste any other stream link into /play.

Each station's credit is shown when it starts. SomaFM, Radio Paradise and KEXP are listener-supported and commercial-free, and ABC, Radio France and SRG SSR are public broadcasters funded by their listeners and licence payers — if you enjoy a station, consider supporting it on its own website. Diski Radio's songs stream from SoundCloud; support the artists there.

/skip plays the next song in the queue (a radio station has no next song — use /radio to change station, /play to switch to a song, or /stop). /pause and /resume pause and continue. /stop stops the music, clears the queue and makes Diski leave. /volume percent sets the volume from 1 to 200 (100 is normal) while Diski is playing. /queue shows what is playing and what is next, and /nowplaying shows the current song or station.

Join a voice channel before using /play or /radio, and Diski joins you there. Diski plays in one voice channel per server: while it's playing, you have to be in that channel to start or control the music. It leaves on its own after about 5 minutes with nothing playing, or about 3 minutes after everyone else has left. Diski needs the Connect and Speak permissions in the channel.

Everyone can use the music commands by default. To limit them — for example to a DJ role, or to switch music off — use the Slash Commands page; that's your server's choice, never a Premium gate.

Diski joins voice channels deafened, so it never hears or records voice chat, and it doesn't keep a history of what you play: the queue exists only while the music is on.