How to play Apple Music in Discord
To play Apple Music in a Discord voice channel, so everyone there hears the same song, you paste an Apple Music link into a music bot. The people listening only hear the voice channel, so they don't need Apple Music.
Play an Apple Music link
- Add Orpheus to your server. You need Manage Server there.
- Join a voice channel.
- In Apple Music, open the menu on a song, album or playlist, choose Share, then Copy Link.
- In a text channel, type
/playand paste the link, like/play query: https://music.apple.com/....
How Orpheus plays an Apple Music link
An Apple Music link tells Orpheus which song you mean: its name, its artist and its length. Orpheus finds a copy that matches all three and plays that. It checks before it queues anything, so you don't get a live version or a sped-up edit by accident.
If it can't confirm a match, it queues nothing and says so. Try /play with the song name and the artist instead, or /search to pick a result yourself. How Orpheus picks the right song has the details.
Save an Apple Music playlist
A playlist you import becomes one of your Orpheus playlists. It belongs to you, not to a server, so you can play it anywhere Orpheus is.
- Copy the link to an Apple Music playlist or album.
- Type
/playlist import link:and paste it. Addname:if you want a different name. - Play it later in any server with
/playlist play.
- An Apple Music import brings in up to 40 songs, because each one is looked up by name and checked. Songs it can't match are left out.
- You can keep 50 playlists of up to 500 songs each, and add to an imported playlist with
/playlist add.
Take the playlist with you
/playlist export sends any of your playlists as a file: CSV, plain text, M3U or Spotify links. Your playlists are never locked into Orpheus. Exporting a playlist explains each format.
Questions
Does everyone in the voice channel need Apple Music?
No. Orpheus plays into the voice channel, and the people in it hear the channel. Only the person pasting the link needs to be able to copy it.
Why didn't my Apple Music song play?
Orpheus couldn't confirm a copy that matches the song's name, artist and length, so it played nothing rather than a guess. Search by the song name and artist with /play, or choose a result with /search.
Does it cost anything?
No. Playing music with Orpheus is free.
Checked against Orpheus 1.5.0 on 7 October 2026.
