Enable Discord Rich Presence

Enable Discord Rich Presence

Discord Rich Presence puts "Listening to" or "Watching" with your current media on your Discord profile. It runs entirely on your PC: nowplaying talks to the Discord desktop app directly, and nothing about your media goes to any server.

Before you start

• The Discord desktop app is installed and open. Rich Presence doesn't work with Discord in a browser tab.
• nowplaying is set up with a media server (see the Quick start).

Steps

1. In setup (or later in Settings > Discord), turn on Discord.
2. Pick what happens when nothing is playing: clear the status, clear it after a short wait, show "Nothing playing", or keep the last item.
3. Use the preview to check how your status will look before saving.

Success looks like: play something, and your Discord profile shows it within a few seconds.

What it shows

• Music shows as Listening, films and TV episodes as Watching.
• TV episodes show the series name and episode code by default, for example "Lost" and "S04E05 · The Constant".
• Timestamps, buttons, wording and update speed are all adjustable in Settings > Discord.

Common problems

• Nothing shows in Discord: make sure the desktop app is open, then check Discord settings, Activity Privacy, that activity status sharing is on.
• It stopped after you restarted Discord: it should come back on its own within a few seconds; nowplaying reconnects automatically.
• A stuck track won't clear: nowplaying clears sessions that sit at the same position too long; quitting and reopening Discord also forces a refresh.

More fixes: Troubleshooting.