Showing player position

To show the current player position, we can use the CurrentPosition property. This property returns a TimeSpan value that represents the current position of the player.

[SlashCommand("position", description: "Shows the track position", runMode: RunMode.Async)]
public async Task Position()
{
    var player = await GetPlayerAsync(connectToVoiceChannel: false).ConfigureAwait(false);

    if (player is null)
    {
        return;
    }

    if (player.CurrentTrack is null)
    {
        await RespondAsync("Nothing playing!").ConfigureAwait(false);
        return;
    }

    await RespondAsync($"Position: {player.Position?.Position} / {player.CurrentTrack.Duration}.").ConfigureAwait(false);
}

info

The player.Position property returns a TrackPosition structure which contains a lot of information about the current position. We use the Position property of the TrackPosition structure to get the current position as a TimeSpan value.

note

The CurrentPosition property is not updated in real-time. It is updated every 5 seconds by the lavalink server and is interpolated between updates. This means that the position may be slightly off.