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Getting Started

In the previous chapters, we have set up Lavalink4NET and Lavalink. Now we will create a simple bot that can play music using Discord.Net. We will start with a simple bot that can play music. After that, we will add some more features to our bot.

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Since Lavalink4NET v4 a lot of the boilerplate required to integrate Lavalink4NET into your bot has been removed.

Lavalink4NET is integrated to your bot using Dependency Injection. Configure your services and add the Lavalink4NET services to your service collection.

using Lavalink4NET.Extensions;

// Integrate Lavalink4NET to your bot
builder.Services.AddLavalink();

This single statement will hook up everything required to use Lavalink4NET. It will register an IAudioService service descriptor which you can use to access the audio service and handle everything needed later to play music using your bot.

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If you need an overview of the code used in this chapter, you can find the complete source code for the bot here.

About IAudioService

The IAudioService interface is the main entry point to Lavalink4NET. It provides methods to connect to Lavalink, create players, and more. You should resolve the IAudioService using your dependency injection container when you need it.