PigPig 3.5 turns its Discord AI into a music controller

PigPig’s latest release gives its Discord AI direct control over the music player: play, queue, volume, shuffle and removal now share a MusicService, according to the project’s English release notes. Version 3.5.0 was published October 19 at 18:39 UTC, with a practical goal of letting conversation drive a shared listening session.

The developer says the AI reports specific failure reasons instead of guessing. The update also adds request-order playback with an optional cut-in, makes the first song stream while downloading, and resumes a dropped stream from the downloaded file at the same position. Upcoming songs can be downloaded ahead of playback. These are author-described behaviors; AITrending has not run the bot.

A queue that remembers its listeners

The release describes autoplay using YouTube Mix candidates, filtering and taste-based ranking, with preferences persisted in SQLite. SoundCloud links and Spotify track links are supported through a host allow-list. The notes do not establish that a Spotify subscription’s audio is streamed directly, so link support should not be read as a promise of every service’s playback capabilities.

The player names each song’s requester, provides play-next and removal menus, and leaves an empty voice channel after 60 seconds. Reminders also survive restarts, and the AI can list and cancel a user’s own reminders. These changes connect a social AI interface to specific actions and stored state rather than adding another chat-only persona.

Running it on a server

PigPig is the Discord application; its configured language model supplies the reasoning. The English guide requires Python 3.11+, FFmpeg for music, Python packages, a Discord bot token and application credentials. It documents local model configuration and optional Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini keys. Self-hosted software under the repository’s MIT license does not make hosting or external model usage free; the release does not supply an all-in operating price.

Server owners must authorize the bot’s Discord access. Its English privacy policy describes conversation and music-preference storage, and sharing interaction data with external AI providers for relevant features. Long-term memory can be disabled in configuration. Those deployment choices matter alongside the new music commands, especially in servers where members do not expect conversations to become persistent AI context.