fixed issue with the stop command, updated readme

README.md

@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 # discord-music-bot
 A small project to make a discord music bot for a private discord server.
 
-The program uses the discord, os, and youtube_dl libraries, and has dependencies on the pynacl library and ffmpeg.
+The program uses the discord, os, and youtube_dl libraries, and has dependencies on the asyncio library, pynacl library and ffmpeg.
 
 # commands
 The bot's commands use the prefix "bt ". The current commands are:
 
-  * play [youtube url] - Apply the join command, then play the audio of the youtube url
+  * play [youtube url] - Apply the join command, then play the audio of the youtube url, or add the track to the playlist (if audio already playing)
   * join - Joins the voice channel of the user who invoked the command, otherwise joins the first voice channel it finds (if any)
   * leave - Leaves the currently joined voice channel (if in a voice channel)
   * pause - Pauses the music being played
   * resume - Resumes music that has been paused
   * stop - Stops the currently playing/paused music
+  * skip - Skips the current track and plays the next one in the playlist (if any)
+  * insert [youtube url] - Insert the youtube track at the top of the playlist
+  * shuffle - Shuffle the order of the tracks in the playlist

bot.py

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 @client.event
 async def on_ready():
     print(f'{client.user} logged in')
+    # disconnect from voice channels bot may have been left in
+    for voice in client.voice_clients:
+        await voice.connect()
+        await voice.disconnect(force=True)
 
 @client.event
 async def on_disconnect():
@@ -144,7 +148,11 @@ async def skip(ctx):
     """stops playing the current track and plays the next in the queue (if any)"""
     voice = discord.utils.get(client.voice_clients, guild=ctx.guild)
     if voice is not None and (voice.is_playing() or voice.is_paused()):
-        await voice.stop()
+        # this is in a try/except because the voice doesn't stop fast enough without await
+        try:
+            await voice.stop()
+        except TypeError:
+            pass
         if len(playlist):
             newCtx, url = playlist.pop(0)
             await play(newCtx, url)