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# Play/Stop

## The commands

To start, you need to join a voice <mark style="color:purple;">channel</mark> on the server you want to listen to music

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#### The bot must, of course, be on the server for this to work

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#### To start playing a song, you just need to do the following command with the name or link of a song.

<figure><img src="/files/QqHDiYB49C7oZSpD9qdz" alt=""><figcaption><p>/play command with the name of a song</p></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/O4ijZbOEwfF6stRTJRac" alt=""><figcaption><p>/play command with the link of a song</p></figcaption></figure>

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#### You can also add a playlist to the queue, just put the link of the playlist in the query bar.

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## To pause the music

To pause the music, you can use the following command

<figure><img src="/files/Nm51DR3MHLTp4ecldUPU" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## To stop the music

To stop the music, you just have to do the following commands

<figure><img src="/files/saNA5u6YJVXdUJnNHT7B" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

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#### For the command to work you must be in the voice channel

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