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Version: v1.3.3

Server configuration

you need to download the Lavalink server (lavalink-devs/Lavalink) and run it, or use other public nodes.

If you need public nodes, you can refer to the following repository.

Deploying with Binary

Download binaries from the Download Server, GitHub releases or GitHub actions.

Put an application.yml file in your working directory. (Example here)

Run with java -jar Lavalink.jar from the same directory.

Deploying with Docker

Docker images can be found under packages with old builds prior to v3.7.4 being available on Docker Hub.

Install Docker & Docker Compose

Create a docker-compose.yml with the following content:

version: "3.8"

services:
lavalink:
image: fredboat/lavalink:3.7.11 # pin the image version to Lavalink v3
container_name: lavalink_v3
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
- _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx6G # set Java options here
- SERVER_PORT=2333 # set lavalink server port
- LAVALINK_SERVER_PASSWORD=youshallnotpass # set password for lavalink
volumes:
- ./application.yml:/opt/Lavalink/application.yml # mount application.yml from the same directory or use environment variables
- ./plugins/:/opt/Lavalink/plugins/ # persist plugins between restarts, make sure to set the correct permissions (user: 322, group: 322)
networks:
- lavalink
expose:
- 2333 # lavalink exposes port 2333 to connect to for other containers (this is for documentation purposes only)
ports:
- 2333:2333 # you only need this if you want to make your lavalink accessible from outside of containers
networks:
lavalink: # create a lavalink network you can add other containers to, to give them access to Lavalink
name: lavalink

Place the application.yml in the same directory as docker-compose.yml.

server: # REST and WS server
port: 2333
address: 0.0.0.0
plugins:
# name: # Name of the plugin
# some_key: some_value # Some key-value pair for the plugin
# another_key: another_value
lavalink:
plugins:
# - dependency: "group:artifact:version"
# repository: "repository"
server:
password: "youshallnotpass"
sources:
youtube: true
bandcamp: true
soundcloud: true
twitch: true
vimeo: true
http: true
local: false
filters: # All filters are enabled by default
volume: true
equalizer: true
karaoke: true
timescale: true
tremolo: true
vibrato: true
distortion: true
rotation: true
channelMix: true
lowPass: true
bufferDurationMs: 400 # The duration of the NAS buffer. Higher values fare better against longer GC pauses. Duration <= 0 to disable JDA-NAS. Minimum of 40ms, lower values may introduce pauses.
frameBufferDurationMs: 5000 # How many milliseconds of audio to keep buffered
opusEncodingQuality: 10 # Opus encoder quality. Valid values range from 0 to 10, where 10 is best quality but is the most expensive on the CPU.
resamplingQuality: LOW # Quality of resampling operations. Valid values are LOW, MEDIUM and HIGH, where HIGH uses the most CPU.
trackStuckThresholdMs: 10000 # The threshold for how long a track can be stuck. A track is stuck if does not return any audio data.
useSeekGhosting: true # Seek ghosting is the effect where whilst a seek is in progress, the audio buffer is read from until empty, or until seek is ready.
youtubePlaylistLoadLimit: 6 # Number of pages at 100 each
playerUpdateInterval: 5 # How frequently to send player updates to clients, in seconds
youtubeSearchEnabled: true
soundcloudSearchEnabled: true
gc-warnings: true
#ratelimit:
#ipBlocks: ["1.0.0.0/8", "..."] # list of ip blocks
#excludedIps: ["...", "..."] # ips which should be explicit excluded from usage by lavalink
#strategy: "RotateOnBan" # RotateOnBan | LoadBalance | NanoSwitch | RotatingNanoSwitch
#searchTriggersFail: true # Whether a search 429 should trigger marking the ip as failing
#retryLimit: -1 # -1 = use default lavaplayer value | 0 = infinity | >0 = retry will happen this numbers times
#youtubeConfig: # Required for avoiding all age restrictions by YouTube, some restricted videos still can be played without.
#email: "" # Email of Google account
#password: "" # Password of Google account
#httpConfig: # Useful for blocking bad-actors from ip-grabbing your music node and attacking it, this way only the http proxy will be attacked
#proxyHost: "localhost" # Hostname of the proxy, (ip or domain)
#proxyPort: 3128 # Proxy port, 3128 is the default for squidProxy
#proxyUser: "" # Optional user for basic authentication fields, leave blank if you don't use basic auth
#proxyPassword: "" # Password for basic authentication

metrics:
prometheus:
enabled: false
endpoint: /metrics

sentry:
dsn: ""
environment: ""
# tags:
# some_key: some_value
# another_key: another_value

logging:
file:
path: ./logs/

level:
root: INFO
lavalink: INFO

request:
enabled: true
includeClientInfo: true
includeHeaders: false
includeQueryString: true
includePayload: true
maxPayloadLength: 10000


logback:
rollingpolicy:
max-file-size: 1GB
max-history: 30