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Halloween Treat Sale is here!

Halloween Treat Sale is here!

Hello Sailors!

Our Halloween Treat Sale is live now!

  • Flat 50% off on the first month for new monthly subscribers!

  • Flat 35% on annual subscriptions! ( existing and new monthly subscribers only)

Sale ends on Oct 31st!

Happy Halloween!

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We've had to disable Deezer from supported sources, due to Deezer making changes to their platform.

This is expected to be temporary, but can affect search for spotify songs and playlists, you may see a lot of covers and remixes. We apologise for this, and are trying to find a way to bypass these changes, there is no ETA of fix on this as the solution for this is still unknown.

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Some Spotify Playlists may not be discovered by Fredboat Premium

Some Spotify Playlists may not be discovered by Fredboat Premium

Spotify recently made a change to it's API where third party services like fredboat cannot fetch "suggested" or "recommended" playlists, and playlists don't have a way to tell if they are "recommended" or user generated.

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Support for direct file links!

On the add-on premium but, you can now play any links that point to the below file formats.

- MP3

- FLAC

- WAV

- Matroska/WebM (AAC, Opus or Vorbis codecs)

- MP4/M4A (AAC codec)

- OGG streams (Opus, Vorbis and FLAC codecs)

- AAC streams

- Stream playlists (M3U and PLS)

Playlists via pastebin...

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How to fix issues with premium.

Hello,



We see that a lot of people end up doing custom pledges instead of picking a tier from our patreon page. We do not support custom pledges and picking a tier is mandatory.

If you have made a custom pledge, please click on the "Join" button the tier for the amount you have already paid for. For example, if you have ...

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Full Spotify Link Support is here!

Hello Sailors!

There are two new updates to FredBoat Premium features!

- Volume command will now save the volume for 14 days, unlike now where it resets with every disconnection.

- Full support for Spotify links, you can now use links to individual tracks and album links in addition to playlist links, this still plays songs ...

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Premium features now work on the regular bot too!

Premium features now work on the regular bot too!

All you need to do is invite the Fredboat Premium after susbcription, and it should activate premium features on Regular Fredboat too! So 2x Benefits :)

In case you're facing issues, please join our support server and we'll help you fix it.

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2018 Year in Review

2018 Year in Review

Hey everyone,

I sure don‘t have a lot to say here, as I find myself busy all the time. Here‘s a long but vastly overdue update.

2018 has mostly been a year where I have scrambled to make FredBoat the most stable service it can be, given the limitations that Discord imposes. Scaling up to tens of millions of users is not an easy f...

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Patron bot server upgraded

Patron bot server upgraded

Hey all,

Overnight I received a couple complaints that the patron bot was lagging. These problems are a result of the growing number of people using FredBoat Patron. In response to that I went ahead and upgraded the patron server to be able to handle twice the amount of music, while still being located in the same datacenter region.

Please ...

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FredBoat 2017 year in review

FredBoat 2017 year in review

Hey all,


2017 has come and gone (give or take a few hours) and I wanted to take some time to reflect on what the year meant for FredBoat. 

FredBoat was initially created by just me back in spring 2016, and exactly one year ago we saw about 468k users in 20.8k servers. Those are very big numbers, but it is quite small in comp...

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Devblog 4: Building for scale

Devblog 4: Building for scale

Update September 5ft: Made public


Hey all,

I figured it has been a while since I last posted. The past few weeks I have been working on building and testing an open source project called Lavalink.

The public FredBoat has been experiencin...

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Devblog #3: patron.fredboat.com is now in public beta!

Devblog #3: patron.fredboat.com is now in public beta!

Hey all!


I'm proud to present my latest creation: patron.fredboat.com 

Since FredBoat Patron was initially introduced, I have manually had to add the patron bot to over 150 Discord servers. This is rather inefficient as it requires me to actually join your ...

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This campaign is going "charging up front"

Patreon has this permanent option for creators to enable charging up front. What this means is that new patrons are charged the moment they pledge, as opposed to the start of the next month. This option has long been on my mind and I'm now planning on activating it.

This means that when you pay your pledge instead of paying for the last month, yo...

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Devblog #2: Patron dashboard & translations

Devblog #2: Patron dashboard & translations

Hey patrons!

Lately I've been quite occupied with my upcoming exams, but I've still managed to pour some more time into FredBoat. Here's what we've been working on lately:


  • The patron dashboard
  • Language support
  • Server settings


The patron dashboard

This is a little webapp I sta...

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FredBoat♪♪ reaches 100,000 servers

FredBoat♪♪ reaches 100,000 servers

Hey folks,

Just wanted to announce that FredBoat♪♪ has just reached 100,000 servers and 1.9M users! Hosting a music bot of this size takes an immense amount of resources, so I wouldn't be able to afford this without you my patron's  support.

Thank you for making this happen. You patrons really make a difference!

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The patron bot has been upgraded!

The patron bot has been upgraded!

Hey all patrons,


Some of you might have noticed that the patron bot has just restarted a few minutes from now. This is because the patron bot has just been migrated to a new server with twice as many resources! This means you can once again listen to the patron bot without stuttering.


If you find that the patron bot is...

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Thanks for your support in 2016!

Thanks for your support in 2016!

Hello all patrons,


Just wanted to give you guys a brief post thanking you guys for support in 2016. This post will be/was posted the moment universal time hits midnight, meaning FredBoat's system clock would be at 2017 at that point.


2016 was the year FredBoat was born and since then it has spread to more than  20...

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Devblog #1: New features and double the hardware

After having spent many hours developing and maintaining FredBoat last night I woke feeling like I would address you guys. Here's a recap of the changelog I posted last night:

  • FredBoat was starting to slow down, so I went ahead over twice as many steam engines thanks to my @Patrons !
  • When doing ;;list thin...

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FredBoatPatron is now here!

FredBoatPatron is now here!

After being advertised as coming Soon™ for over a month the patron bot is now here! Anyone pledging a minimum of $2 per month can message me privately to get access to this patron-exclusive music bot with greater performance than the public bot.

The majority of the Patreon money will go to fund hosting for the public music bot, so ...

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