# YouTube Kills Discord's Best Music Bot **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** programming, audio\ **Created:** [August 27, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/youtube-kills-discords-best-music-bot/199418 "2021-08-27T11:14:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlayBoy83](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/playboy83/32/164314_2.png) [@PlayBoy83](https://onehack.st/u/PlayBoy83)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 11:14am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/youtube-kills-discords-best-music-bot/199418/1 "2021-08-27T11:14:45Z")
[![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RuBp9G36pJPcFZTtoAZQTA-970-80.jpg) ](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RuBp9G36pJPcFZTtoAZQTA-970-80.jpg) YouTube has [issued a cease-and-desist order against the creator of Groovy](https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/google-has-killed-discords-best-music-bot/), who has agreed to shut down the widely-popular music bot on August 30th. PC Gamer reports: _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 […]. It was ridiculously popular, reportedly installed on over 16 million servers. But it seems Google wasn’t so hot on the bot, with a spokesperson for the company [told The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/24/22640024/youtube-discord-groovy-music-bot-closure) that Groovy violated YouTube’s terms of service for “modifying the service and using it for commercial purposes.”_ _In that same report, Groovy creator Nik Ammerlaan (who made the bot because “my friend’s bot sucked and I thought I could make a better one”) admitted that this was likely a long-time coming. Groovy circumvents YouTube’s front-end and advertising entirely. “I’m not sure why they decided to send it [a cease and desist] now,” said Ammerlaan. “They probably just didn’t know about it, to be honest. It was just a matter of seeing when it would happen.”_