title: How do I make my discord.py bot play mp3 in voice channel?
body: <p>I'm a beginner in Python and I have recently started making a discord bot for some friends and I. The idea is to type !startq and have the bot join the channel, play an mp3 file that is locally stored in the same folder that the bot.py is in also. </p>
  
  <pre><code>import discord, chalk
  from discord.ext import commands
  import time
  import asyncio
  
  bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = "!")
  
  @bot.event
  async def on_ready():
      print("Bot is ready!")
  
  @bot.command()
  async def q5(ctx):
      await ctx.send("@here QUEUE STARTING IN 5 MINUTES")
  
  @bot.command()
  async def q3(ctx):
      await ctx.send("@here QUEUE STARTING IN 3 MINUTES")
  
  @bot.command()
  async def q1(ctx):
      await ctx.send("@here QUEUE STARTING IN 1 MINUTES")
  
  @bot.command()
  async def ping(ctx):
      ping_ = bot.latency
      ping =  round(ping_ * 1000)
      await ctx.send(f"my ping is {ping}ms")
  
  @bot.command()
  async def startq(ctx):
      voicechannel = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.channels, name='queue')
      vc = await voicechannel.connect()
      vc.play(discord.FFmpegPCMAudio("countdown.mp3"), after=lambda e: print('done', e))
      bot.run('TOKEN')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So far my bot joins the channel fine, but it doesn't actually play the mp3. I've asked countless people in the "Unofficial Discord API Discord" and a few other programming Discords, but I haven't gotten an answer yet.</p>