Lavalink

A standalone audio sending node based on Lavaplayer and Koe. Allows for sending audio without it ever reaching any of your shards.

Being used in production by FredBoat, Dyno, LewdBot, and more.

A basic example bot is available.

[!NOTE] Lavalink v4 is now out of beta! See the changelog for more information.

Getting started

• Pick one of the up-to-date clients. Advanced users can create their own using the API documentation
• See the server configuration documentation for configuring your Lavalink server
• Explore available plugins for extra features
• See also our FAQ

Table of Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Hardware Support
• Changelog
• Versioning policy

Features

• Support for DAVE
• Powered by Lavaplayer
• Minimal CPU/memory footprint
• Twitch/YouTube (via this plugin) stream support
• Event system
• Seeking
• Volume control
• REST API for resolving Lavaplayer tracks, controlling players, and more
• Statistics (good for load balancing)
• Basic authentication
• Prometheus metrics
• Docker images
• Plugin support

Requirements

• Java 17 LTS or newer required. (we recommend running the latest LTS version or newer)
• OpenJDK or Zulu running on Linux AMD64 is officially supported.

Support for other JVMs is also best-effort. Periodic CPU utilization stats are prone not to work everywhere.

Hardware Support

Lavalink also runs on other hardware, but support is best-effort. Here is a list of known working hardware:

Operating System	Architecture	DAVE	Lavaplayer	JDA-NAS	Timescale	AVX2
linux	x86-64	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
linux	x86	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
linux	arm	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
linux	armhf	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
linux	aarch32	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
linux	aarch64	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
linux-musl	x86-64	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
linux-musl	aarch64	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
windows	x86-64	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Windows	x86	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Windows	aarch64	✅	❌[^1]	✅	❌[^1]	❌[^1]
darwin	x86-64	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
darwin	aarch64e	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌

[^1]: Windows on ARM is not natively supported, but seems to work fine with x86-64 JVMs & emulation.

[!NOTE] The minium supported version for glibc in DAVE is 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04).

Changelog

Please see here

Versioning policy

Lavalink follows Semantic Versioning.

The version number is composed of the following parts:

MAJOR breaking API changes
MINOR new backwards compatible features
PATCH backwards compatible bug fixes
PRERELEASE pre-release version
BUILD additional build metadata

Version numbers can come in different combinations, depending on the release type:

`MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH` - Stable release
`MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH+BUILD` - Stable release with additional build metadata
`MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-PRERELEASE` - Pre-release
`MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-PRERELEASE+BUILD` - Pre-release additional build metadata