Lavaplayer v1 deprecation notice

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Hi Lavaplayer people,

Caution

As of November 1, 2024 we will officially drop support for Lavaplayer v1.

This decision has been made to lower the maintenance burden of constantly needing to backport fixes.
A final release (1.5.6) will follow within the next days.

What does this mean?

• Lavaplayer v1 won't receive any fixes & new features, though it should hopefully work for the foreseeable future
• You should update to Lavaplayer v2

Note

YouTube support has been recently moved to https://github.com/lavalink-devs/youtube-source.
A Lavaplayer v1 compatible module should be maintained there.

What changed in v2?

In Lavaplayer v2 we added an isrc & artworkUrl field in the TrackInfo. These 2 fields are also encoded in the track which results in Lavaplayer v1 not being able to play Lavaplayer v2 tracks. Lavaplayer v2 can play Lavaplayer v1 tracks no problem tho.

Tip

If you run into any issues updating feel free to open a GitHub discussion or join the Lavalink Discord Server for help.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this topic feel free to ask under this post.