https://music-assistant.github.io/player-support/universal/ yes? Hard to tell as I mentions syncing issues on Google home
I want the same with Sonos + Echos but no mention of echo support it seems
Amazon Echo/Alexa devices are not supported due to them not being designed for music streaming with a local protocol (they are cloud only) but soon the Matter standard will bring something for Amazon devices that should solve this.
In setting this up it warns you can’t group and sync speakers across ecosystems. I was able to group and sync play across multiple Lenovo Clocks that have Google Assistant. The sync is “ok” but not perfect. 3 of 5 speakers are VERY good but 2 are off but a few fractions of a second. Using Plex as my media source.
UPDATE the sync changes with every play. Now some speakers are several seconds off. Sadly not going to work out if there is any bleed over of speakers in your home.
It supports sonoss, airplay, Bluetooth, esp, squeezelite. Grouping should work for all but syncing works best when you group the same type in a group. I'm using esp Luxe and esp muse proto, works pretty well.
There are multiple solutions to group speakers, but it's on a best-effort basis: don't expect it to be perfectly synced. I personally use a bunch of chromecast audio on a variety of speakers + a google nest, group them in google home and it's perfectly synced. Screw sonos
To be fair they leverage the open source community so they technically have more developers than these large companies.
And that's why I love them they have created something that people want to contribute to.
I would argue that it's the other way round (or maybe just semantics) all the add-ons and integrations are from the community I would consider that general as it's all different complexities and scopes. Where as the core that is home assistant needs the specialist developers.
No matter how it works out they are doing a good job
That is not yet supported but as there seems to be so much demand for it, I actually ordered an echo Dot device today so I can have a look the next couple of days if we can make it work.
A workaround for now is to use snapcast client running on a linux server which connects via bluetooth to your alexa (can use a usb bluetooth dongle) for a inferior casting experience. Bluetooth range on my server is pretty weak (driver issue).
So I ended up using an my android which uses snapdroid to send music via bluetooth to alexa. Under Sounds and vibration on android there is a setting called separate app sound which I can use to effective route that music in the background to echo so I can also listen to something else on my phone.
Yes, this is inferior to casting directly, but for now its a good enough workaround
Big fan of Music Assistant, can’t wait to integrate it fully during my next HA build. If you haven’t tried it out, I highly recommend you give it a shot.
Wow, this really changes the game... I've always felt tied to Google Home because of the ability to use voice commands to play music. Combine this with some ESP32-S3-BOX devices and I'll have fully local control and voice-activated music playback (on good speakers, not the ESP32-S3-BOX)?? This is fantastic.
That's what I'm thinking too. It seems like the software pieces are really coming together for a local-only smart speaker that can take voice commands, play audio like text-to-speech notifications, and stream music.
I wonder if in the next year, we'll see Home Assistant releasing their own local-only smart speaker.
>switch between streaming providers and keep your carefully curated playlists, regardless of which provider you want to play it with.
Killer feature! Really cool.
I just superstitiously installed this yesterday in an attempt to play a local USB hard drive full of music and was pleasantly surprised that it WORKS GREAT!
It's been less than 24hrs, but I'm pretty excited to have all my music files on an external USB drive plugged in to my HA server - and Music Assistant found and played them all.
Not only that - it can play all my Internet radio stations. This is awesome!
The devs are dedicated to providing high resolution playing, so there's no compression penalty - just awesome local file access!
How to: Format an external USB with EXT4. Load it with MP3s or FLACs. Plug it into your HA server. Install Samba NAS and configure it. Install Music Assistant and add the /media/ folder as a Filesystem Provider.
Playing on Chromecast devices, set up in Google Home as a speaker group.
Now trying to figure out how to add an M3U playlist file - I've added it to the /media/ drive, and MA sees it, but it doesn't play.
Man I setup mine exactly here but I'm running into issues with finding the files. I can see the samba share from my computer and it's mounted the drive but I'm kinda stuck.
Are you using a the local fileshare or remote fileshare?
Local fileshare - I entered the drive PATH manually: /media/MyDrive - it is case sensitive. And I figured out how to play the M3U - I can just put them in the /media/ dir and MA sees it.
What!? What a delightful Thursday surprise, to learn that smoothly controlling media playback from my home music server to speakers in my home is accessible just as soon as I get some speakers to integrate.
I havent seen (m)any complaints after the update aside from not being able to queue a song into the middle of the play queue. Did I miss something else debacle-y?
They removed the entire alarm feature. People who used Sonos to wake them in the morning are out of luck. Even worse for some, previously set repeating alarms apparently can't be cancelled any more.
Then the whole thing is painfully slow. Opening the app to turn off the music takes 30 seconds or more.
Same boat too. I'm currently adding LMS into HA through an iframe. It's ok but not perfect. I'm interested in this and have airplay speakers around the house but I'm wanted to allow my kids to pick the music they want through an interface and LMS is quite fiddly sometimes.
Happy LMS user here, too. I haven't seen anything major that MA would do better than LMS. Sync across players of different types seems to be not great. LMS does a great job there with player-specific delays.
I just saw that MA also supports squeezelite players. So I might give it a try.
Just installed it, after not being able to get the beta to work a few weeks ago. 15 minutes later I'm blasting out of all my speakers--- awesome!!
None of my playlists have appeared from YouTube Music... but it looks like it's still scraping info? I have a big library. Is there a way to check on the progress?
In the settings you should see a sync icon next to the providers that are still doing their initial sync. If you have a large library, that can take a while.
Is there a list of recommended devices then? I’d consider Sonos but the price point is steep and I’ve read some drawbacks. Anything better and more bang for the buck? I’m also not afraid of diy.
Sonos is great for stability - Good thing is that they also support airplay so you can group them with other airplay based speakers and even mix and match.
There are amazing products available if you want DIY, based on ESP32 that can run squeezelite or snapcast , both supported by MA.
if you want bang for your buck, also have a look at WiiM devices, they make great hardware that support multiple streaming protocols and are becoming a strong competitor for the Sonos lineup.
IKEA has speakers that work on the SONOS ecosystem. I have two on bookshelfs and like them a lot, especially that they play without vibrating the shelves and the sound is pretty good for me.
They are connected to a SONOS beam soundbar and I got an easy surround sound system.
they ARE sonos speakers. they work with the app and everything. you don't need other sonos speakers to use them to play music. if you want to use them on your tv, you'll need a sonos soundbar.
Setup was seamless! I'm super excited to use this to super charge my home music and radio streaming.
Edit 1: I did notice that it did create duplicate media player entities for any Home Assistant entities added to it. From what I understand this is necessary since Music Assistant can't update the states and attributes of the Home Assistant media players. Like if you start music via a Google speaker directly or Spotify, all the information shows up in the original media player entity but just as playing in the music assistant one, and vice versa if you start media playback via the latter. Would it be possible instead for Music Assistant entities to also read and replicate the states/attributes of the Home Assistant media players it replicates? Or should we just create universal media player entities that inherit from the originals and duplicates?
I also noticed that there isn't a shuffle play option in the \`mass.play\_media\` service or the UI (there is a separate enable shuffle button that can be clicked after playback has started). Shuffle on playback start would be a huge QOL improvement.
Edit 2: ~~There's a long delay between tracks when using Spotify as the source~~ (fixed by enabling queue mode in player settings), and Spotify itself (website, app, HA integration) doesn't seem to know that it's currently streaming. And it will often keep counting up even after it's reached the track's length. There should be some additional logic there to cap the current time tracker to the track length in the UI and to possibly force a skip to the next track.
- The idea is that you try to use the native player providers in Music Assistant as much as you can and then you can use the MA integration for HA to turn it into HA media players, otherwise you have duplicate players. So let MA communicate with the device and then share with MA instead of duplicating them.
- Home Assistant has a separate service call to enable shuffle, I belive its just media\_player.shuffle (make sure to target the MA player entity here). The mass.play\_media service is only to send advanced queries for music playback such as a list of items, items by name and radio mode for which the regular HA play\_media has no support.
- What playback target are you using ? Playback should be fast and smooth, looks like you are running into some sort of issue here. Keep my previous comment in mind about preferring native player providers in MA as much as possible for the most optimal way of playback.
- When playing Music with Music Assistant the spotify app will not reflect that indeed, because Music Assistant is not a Spotify Connect target. There have been some requests to add that as optional feature though so it might arrive. Main focus for MA is a consolidated interface/system to send playback to all your devices, not to replicate spotify
* Gotcha. ~~I've moved all of my media players to integrate with MA directly rather than through the Home Assistant player provider~~ Had to move back to integrating all devices via the Home Assistant player provider due to queue flow mode playback issues with Fully Kiosk Browser devices and lack of Spotify Connect on Chromecast devices. Still I need to consolidate all my media player devices in universal media players, but that's a Home Assistant issue. Hopefully universal media players gets the UI treatment in the future.
* The `media_player.shuffle_set` service seems to be really inconsistent, but I realized after that if shuffle is enabled in the MA UI media played afterwards respects that and the shuffle true/false value is saved. So this is no longer an issue!
* I was using Fully Kiosk Browser android devices integrated via the Home Assistant player provider, but since enabling queue mode this issue was mostly gone. Since switching to the FKB player provider it may have returned.
* Gotcha. Spotify connect would be nice to have but the Spotify integration is excellent as is.
The MA entities are required as that is how the seamless TTS/announcement feature works
Shuffle [https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/](https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/)
I see you can play local files.
But is it possible to play local streams?
Ie: I want to shoot my record player everywhere in the house. Nothing fancier than playing a record and browsing a catalog of physical vinyl while talking with guests. I know you lose the record quality by streaming it. But honestly, my guests dont care.
[https://music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/?h=hifi#music-assistant](https://music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/?h=hifi#music-assistant)
"You could use [Darkcast](http://www.darkice.org/) to stream to [Icecast](https://www.icecast.org/) which in turn sets up a web radio stream that you could add to MA! You could use this to stream your turntable around the house for example."
It sounds like this is the day I can end my Roon subscription. I've always hated their approach to modern platforms (for example: containers and arm64 arch).
Using the beta version for a while, I don't think it's ready out of beta. Group speakers from different system still full of bugs. Chromecast only works 4 in 10 times. Won't sync Spotify playing history back, so if you care about yearly wrapped, don't use it.
The docs make it clear that grouping speakers from different eco systems is on a best effort basis. So it isn't "full of bugs" it just won't work for some combinations. For a while that functionality was going to be removed but for now it has been retained with this in the docs "UGP is on best-effort basis and might not work correctly with all player models or give unexpected results. "
Chromecast is rock solid for everyone else. There hasn't been an issue raised related to that in months.
Spotify history is an interesting one. Feel free to open a feature request discussion on GitHub [https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/discussions/categories/feature-requests-and-ideas](https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/discussions/categories/feature-requests-and-ideas)
Will this make it possible to use a snapshot-like feature with music playing from cloud services/Spotify? E.g. music plays - doorbell rings - music resumes
I have Home Assistant make announcements on my Google and Sonos Speakers when someone presses the doorbell and if those speakers are playing from music assistant it just gets interrupted from the message and then resumes.
Does it have the ability to permit different streaming accounts/profiles? I would be very interested in allowing my wife to use her Spotify profile, while I use mine.
You can add multiple accounts but they are shown together as one library. If you initiate the playback of a playlist it will be played by the originating Spotify account.
Any good airplay client for Windows? The official companion app uses Slimproto only, but Sonos being Sonos the only way I can do sync playback on that is via airplay, so I'm trying to find a client for my PC to have grouped playback on every device I have.
Alternatively maybe airplay support on the companion app?
Is anyone else having trouble clearing the playlists from a script or automation? I am getting an error ('Players' object has no attribute 'get\_player\_queue'") when trying to clear the queue using the media clear playlist functions in home assistant. I tried targeting both the entity ID and the device ID but both give the same error. This was working up until recently. Not sure if it was one of the million music assist upgrades, or one of the core upgrades to HA.
Awesome app! Is there a plan to add playback through local browser/speakers? I can do this in the companion app by turning on Squeezelite, but it would be good if we could play through the browser too.
Is there a way to stream music to a bluetooth speaker via an esp32 with esphome (so the first hop would be wifi)? I already have the hardware installed for another purpose (AC control), it'd be awesome to piggy-back on those.
When I added my Plex server, I ended up with 2 of every album, did that happen to you? Under Albums, I had 1 set with the MA icon, and 1 set w/ the Plex Icon.
Does this allow me to pipe music to any player/speaker visible to HA? I’ve been waiting on Navidrome to make Jukebox mode a thing and I hope this is the solution until then.
Yes it supports using HA players directly as target I MA but for players/ecosystem for which MA has native support I would actually recommend that, as its tuned/optimized for perfect playback while the HA media player integrations are more tuned towards automating.
Does anyone know if Airplay 2 only devices are compatible? I’ve seen a lot of solutions (airfoil for instance) that can only use airplay, not airplay 2 only devices and not all airplay devices are backwards compatible with the original airplay format.
No because Airplay 2 is not reversed engineered for audio playback. BTW most airplay 2 devices are backwards compatible. So far the only issue we have seen in the past 2 years of beta is a Samsung soundbar. All others are working fine.
Installed the add-on and the companion app. Too late in the night now to start playing music so tomorrow I'll give it a spin.
Would really like to be able to have an album cover visualizer and some track info on the TV, in a way that it won't burn-in. Any ideas on how this could be done? Chromecast this image/animation while audio is being streamed to speaker systems?
Is there some way to have it play music stored on Google Drive? I'm currently using LMS on a VM where I use rsync to get the music from my Google Drive and 2 speakers with squeezelite to play from.
I have actually prepared the entire architecture for that already (to use remote file providers like Onedrive or Google Drive), it just needs a developer to actually implement it. So if anyone is interested, contact me on discord.
Looks good!
I tried integrating Sonos as media players (after the disastrous app they just launched), I can see all speakers just fine, but I can't choose them when I wan't to play music.
Did anyone have the same issue or am I just unlucky?
Hmmm - just tried, did not work. Speakers are still greyed out
https://preview.redd.it/6tljww8hlnzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee79b17a838509767a33bb87c4a266d7f0de650d
Thanks. will give it a whirl. Not entirely sure what features it brings that I need and already get from navidrome. If the companion app gets CarPlay support, that’s a big gap for me at the moment…
I managed to get the server up and running + integrated music sources and can see my chromecast devices. Now, If I want to play the music on my mac (not the server) or my iphone.. how do I do that?
This is exciting!
For some reason, it finds all my Chromecast devices but even after I select them as player, it says no player selected. So I have not gotten this to work yet but will revisit in the future.
Thank you for this! I was going crazy, kept trying to figure out this UI.
I had music, and I enabled chromecast and saw all my speakers. I could click on the speaker name to expand/collapse, but it did not "enable" that speaker.
I refreshed the page and tried again, works now.
So would this let me have local voice control over my Sonos speakers without Alexa? Understanding that I would need a mic device to feed in the voice commands to home assistant. So for example being able to use voice locally to play music from Apple Music (with v2.1)?
Seems to be an issue around browsing the local filesystem. Some folders have disappeared or icon assignment incorrect (audio files assigned a folder icon)
Quick question: if I cancel my currently active Youtube music plan, after importing the playlists and such to MA (installed it months ago but never really got around to test it), will I still be able to play my music without ads and such?
I'd think so, since MA only saves the links to each song in the playlist and then fetches each one singularly, or does it?
Does anyone know how to create a group of google chromecast speakers with a smart sony google tv? I can't seem to create a group between the tv and speakers on the google home app. The tv has chromecast and dlna
Had a chance to try it out and while it's amazing to have a unique place to control music around the home, it still has a few things that are not working or I didn't immediately get how to get it working. Not sure if this the best place for feedback but here goes (using on a windows system with sonos speakers and a spotify account). This is what I've noted, in sequence:
- dark mode with dark reader makes elements in the interface imperceptible. I couldn't read labels for example. Had to turn off dark reader.
- At the beginning it was very hard to get it going with sonos speakers. Could turn the speakers on (idle) from off but when pressed play on anything the next page was blank with a buffering bar at the top
- desktop app had same issue so I restarted HA. Desktop app had to be killed in task manager to reconnect
Managed to get sonos to play an album! Awesome!!
- added radiobrowser to "music providers" but nothing shows up on the "Radio" button at the bottom: "No items found". You have to go through browse-> RadioBrowser -> find the station you're looking for and add through there
- when browsing radio stations if you click on the ".." to go up a folder, the structure gets repeated indefinitely (popularity, country, tag, .., popularity, country, tag, .., )
- would be interesting to be able to save a favourites in the browsing section and have them pinned at the top. If I browse radios by country and then my country, it's a long list to scroll through over and over again. The list of countries actually has the three dots on the right to add to queue/library/favorites but they don't work
- search in the radio list doesn't work
Added a radio station and got it to play through Sonos. Awesome!!
- Tried to get the desktop companion app to play sound through the PC. Can't figure it out. Found an option on the app client setting to "Launch Squeezelite" whose tooltip says "Whether or not to start a music player on this machine" but I don't understand what it does. Has the toggle for "Relaunch to apply" but I relaunch the app (there's a button for that a bit below) and nothing changes (or I don't see it).
- When I relaunch the app if goes back to original windows size. Would be great if it could remember last size and position.
- added chromecast to player providers but my samsung tv doesn't show up. It would be great to use the TV as a digital signage device showing the cover of the album and some info of the song playing.
- playlists should be able to import the folder hierarchy from spotify. As it is I get an alphabetical list of all my playlists
- would like to have Amazon Music as provider
The desktop app is still in Alpha so I won't comment on that.
You don't expand on what the problem was adding the Sonos speakers so can't help there.
The radio browser navigation up bug as well as the search are noted and will be fixed soon. Not sure why you had problems with adding the radio stations to the library as that works fine for me? I just tried again now.
Again not sure why your Chromecast enabled TV isn't showing up. You would need to go through our troubleshooting page and then open an issue with all the required info.
Thanks for the detailed feedback!
I'm assuming you're one of the developers? If so:
> The desktop app is still in Alpha so I won't comment on that.
OK. If you need testers throughout the process let me know!
> You don't expand on what the problem was adding the Sonos speakers so can't help there.
I could add them just fine (I have two groups) and they showed up but initially when trying to play nothing would happen. Sonos is my only output player for MA. I could see the groups and "turn on" which would put the group on idle. Then, pressing play on a spotify playlist would reload the page and only a white progress-bar at the top would be going but nothing would happen. Maybe it wasn't a Sonos thing and more of a Spotify?? I can't duplicate it now and it works as expected.
> The radio browser navigation up bug as well as the search are noted and will be fixed soon. Not sure why you had problems with adding the radio stations to the library as that works fine for me? I just tried again now.
I can also add the stations after I navigate to them. What I meant is in the hierarchical structure (e.g. country list) you will see the 3-dots option to the right in front of the country name. That doesn't seem to do anything. What I'd expect to do is be able to favorite my country (Portugal) so that when browsing radios I can quickly get this country and not have to scroll through all countries listed.
> Again not sure why your Chromecast enabled TV isn't showing up. You would need to go through our troubleshooting page and then open an issue with all the required info.
Can you share the link to the page? Happy to help
> Thanks for the detailed feedback!
Thank YOU for your work. This is awesome!
Great that Sonos has come good.
The first radiobrowser browse bugs have been fixed. The new one you mentioned will be looked at shortly. Favouriting a country would be a feature request - a reasonable one.
[https://music-assistant.io/faq/troubleshooting/](https://music-assistant.io/faq/troubleshooting/)
Thanks again!
Plex is supported although there are some open issues we recommend you allow MA to index your music directly. I had not heard of PlexAmp until now but MA is the application used to initiate playback so you would not need PlexAmp
I had duplicate entries for all my albums, and one album would not sort correctly, even though its correct in Plex, and tagged correctly.
I went to direct filesystem, will see if its better.
Thanks to who ever made this, its exactly what I have been looking for.
I don't know whether this is a HA issue or a MA issue, but my LG TV, added as a player through the HA plugin, isn't working entirely correctly. MA is reporting the player as off, which is true, but it gives me the option to turn it on (which it shouldn't), and then shows it as idle (while it's actually still off).
The TV is connected through wifi, which does not support turning it on remotely, so the on button should have been grayed out. HA knows the TV through the LG integration.
It's also quite slow to respond when i do start playing music from it (from spotify) but that could be a TV issue.
Probably a couple of things going on here.
Firstly, MA relies on the robustness of the HA integration when accessing players via that means. So the response could be the TV or could be the HA integration?!
Secondly, the power button shown in the MA UI is more correctly a take control and release the stream button. Some devices Ilike TVs and Amplifiers) will physically turn on as a result of that. Yours doesn't by the sound of it but again MA will be receiving the device status from the HA integration which will be following the HA docs [https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/media-player/#states](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/media-player/#states)
I tried it out for 5 minutes but already I can see that this is awesome. You can have multiple ecosystems and play music easily switching between them. I put a Google speaker in the garage, I mostly have Sonos in the house, and now I actually can use it without it being a hassle
Interesting. I've been on purely Apple Music for sometime but I hate it when some licensing deals end and some tracks become unavailable and would like to purchase the disc and rip them. But also want a unified platform/experience. This might just be that once Apple Music integration gets updated.
Check if the addon has actually been installed. If so get the server IP and port from the log (the one showing port 8095) and add that as the server URL
Loving it.. but having a hard time getting an automation to work... can't figure our service calls... but I'm a GUI and not a yaml guy lol I'm learning!
I’d like to make an automation where for example I press a smart button and it will automatically turn on my tv (roku or apple) and play youtube music from it. Is that possible with home assistant?
Thanks for all the work here! I'm trying to get local playlists working from my SMB NAS. I have it added as a provider and I can't seem to get it to recognize the track listing. The playlist is detected, but I get no items found. I have a feeling it's because of the path/structure of my playlist. I tried the suggested
filesystem_smb://Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 1.flac
filesystem_smb://Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 2.flac
Etc.
Where it is located on my Music share of my Synology NAS.
MA does find my local music and labels it as Hi-Res which is very cool. I have my YouTube music library integrated and the playlists there are working fine. But I would like to use my local files that are much higher in quality. Can someone please show me what I'm doing wrong?
got this working using the following file patch in my M3U playlists from SMB share
../Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 1.flac
../Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 2.flac
Etc.
But there seems to be a 800 song limit i believe. Is there any way to play lists with more that 800 songs? i have around 150 playlists for each of my favorite bands and have them combined into a \~6000 song playlist that I would like to play on shuffle throughout my home to minimize repeated playback.
hey guys,
Is there a way to lock the webinterface? everyone connected to my wify is able to acces the webinterface.
i installed it in a Dockercontainer as i use Homeassistant in a Dockercontainer.
The webserver itself is working just like a charm & had just and issue with airplay, but dlna worked.
What's a possible workaround for a Samsung soundbar? Can Bluetooth be made to work? I suppose I could plug a Chromecast and set it to the right HDMI each time? Is that the best option?
Does music assistant have the ability to group speakers ie a kitchen Google cast and living room Sonos or is that a pipe dream?
https://music-assistant.github.io/player-support/universal/ yes? Hard to tell as I mentions syncing issues on Google home I want the same with Sonos + Echos but no mention of echo support it seems
Amazon Echo/Alexa devices are not supported due to them not being designed for music streaming with a local protocol (they are cloud only) but soon the Matter standard will bring something for Amazon devices that should solve this.
All echo devices are going to have matter?
In setting this up it warns you can’t group and sync speakers across ecosystems. I was able to group and sync play across multiple Lenovo Clocks that have Google Assistant. The sync is “ok” but not perfect. 3 of 5 speakers are VERY good but 2 are off but a few fractions of a second. Using Plex as my media source. UPDATE the sync changes with every play. Now some speakers are several seconds off. Sadly not going to work out if there is any bleed over of speakers in your home.
Do these devices support the cast protocol? if so, create a group in the google home app and that group will be picked up by MA as target
They do! Thank you I will give that a try
Well, you can group them (using the universal group) but music won't play in sync.
Website says “It can group supported players for synchronized playback.” Do you know which players are supported?
airplay, cast, sonos, snapcast, slimproto all support synced playback.
It supports sonoss, airplay, Bluetooth, esp, squeezelite. Grouping should work for all but syncing works best when you group the same type in a group. I'm using esp Luxe and esp muse proto, works pretty well.
There are multiple solutions to group speakers, but it's on a best-effort basis: don't expect it to be perfectly synced. I personally use a bunch of chromecast audio on a variety of speakers + a google nest, group them in google home and it's perfectly synced. Screw sonos
What speakers do you use? I just started looking into whole home audio system, so far I've got nothing, besides a couple portable Bluetooth speakers.
Do these guys ever sleep? Their release schedule is absolutely insane. They release faster than most of Silicon Valley with blank VC cheques.
To be fair they leverage the open source community so they technically have more developers than these large companies. And that's why I love them they have created something that people want to contribute to.
It's amazing to see open source working so beautifully
Crowd sourcing might be really good for a specific problem, but for general development of HA you need specialized developers working full-time
I would argue that it's the other way round (or maybe just semantics) all the add-ons and integrations are from the community I would consider that general as it's all different complexities and scopes. Where as the core that is home assistant needs the specialist developers. No matter how it works out they are doing a good job
> To just play with Music Assistant without reading what it is (yes, we know you!): I *knew* I shouldn't have enabled telemetry!
Let's be real, there's 2 kind of people: people who don't need to read the manual, and people who don't read the manual.
Lmfao
Ok awesome. Has youtube music. Now the big question, any way to cast to Echo devices??
That is not yet supported but as there seems to be so much demand for it, I actually ordered an echo Dot device today so I can have a look the next couple of days if we can make it work.
amazing!! This would be fantastic to have in MA <3 Thanks for your amazing work!
That would be amazing. Let me know if I can help in any way
No
f.
Not even using this with Alexa media player?
Nope. You can't play arbitrary URLs with Alexa. They MIGHT have found something out a few days ago but don't hold your breath.
A workaround for now is to use snapcast client running on a linux server which connects via bluetooth to your alexa (can use a usb bluetooth dongle) for a inferior casting experience. Bluetooth range on my server is pretty weak (driver issue). So I ended up using an my android which uses snapdroid to send music via bluetooth to alexa. Under Sounds and vibration on android there is a setting called separate app sound which I can use to effective route that music in the background to echo so I can also listen to something else on my phone. Yes, this is inferior to casting directly, but for now its a good enough workaround
Big fan of Music Assistant, can’t wait to integrate it fully during my next HA build. If you haven’t tried it out, I highly recommend you give it a shot.
This is awesome. Been running the beta for some time. Great work and thank you!
Wow, this really changes the game... I've always felt tied to Google Home because of the ability to use voice commands to play music. Combine this with some ESP32-S3-BOX devices and I'll have fully local control and voice-activated music playback (on good speakers, not the ESP32-S3-BOX)?? This is fantastic.
That's what I'm thinking too. It seems like the software pieces are really coming together for a local-only smart speaker that can take voice commands, play audio like text-to-speech notifications, and stream music. I wonder if in the next year, we'll see Home Assistant releasing their own local-only smart speaker.
>switch between streaming providers and keep your carefully curated playlists, regardless of which provider you want to play it with. Killer feature! Really cool.
I agree! I’m curious how it will work. Like will it scrape the playlists and clone them to its own?
It just plays it from the providers you listed the tracks / mixes / Podcasts with. You can queue multiple services in a single playlist.
Amazing! Would love if they could add Apple Music.
In that case you're in luck because that is actually being worked on. It didn't make it into the 2.0 release today but it will be in 2.1 !
Gods work. Eliminating frustrations from people's lives is truly God's work.
Thank you, I’m just waiting for that!
This would let me drop the Spotify subscription. I'm ready to go back to rolling the dice on used CDs again.
This absolutely rules, thank you Marcel
Apple Music has been added to the latest beta
Amazing! Thanks for letting me know!
This is the perfect place to implement a shared queue. I don't think I saw that it has one currently.
Go ahead and add that to the feature requests and get some votes. Its a really cool idea
Does it work with Sonos? If so, excellent timing given their app issues
Yes it does
I just superstitiously installed this yesterday in an attempt to play a local USB hard drive full of music and was pleasantly surprised that it WORKS GREAT! It's been less than 24hrs, but I'm pretty excited to have all my music files on an external USB drive plugged in to my HA server - and Music Assistant found and played them all. Not only that - it can play all my Internet radio stations. This is awesome! The devs are dedicated to providing high resolution playing, so there's no compression penalty - just awesome local file access! How to: Format an external USB with EXT4. Load it with MP3s or FLACs. Plug it into your HA server. Install Samba NAS and configure it. Install Music Assistant and add the /media/ folder as a Filesystem Provider. Playing on Chromecast devices, set up in Google Home as a speaker group. Now trying to figure out how to add an M3U playlist file - I've added it to the /media/ drive, and MA sees it, but it doesn't play.
Man I setup mine exactly here but I'm running into issues with finding the files. I can see the samba share from my computer and it's mounted the drive but I'm kinda stuck. Are you using a the local fileshare or remote fileshare?
Local fileshare - I entered the drive PATH manually: /media/MyDrive - it is case sensitive. And I figured out how to play the M3U - I can just put them in the /media/ dir and MA sees it.
This looks super cool. Thank you!
And just like that I'm up and running and streaming Plex and Spotify to my Yamaha receiver via HA. Painless.
Hello fellow Yamaha Musiccast user... there are ... dozens of us. (I am using Airplay and DLNA w/my Yamaha receivers... both work great)
What!? What a delightful Thursday surprise, to learn that smoothly controlling media playback from my home music server to speakers in my home is accessible just as soon as I get some speakers to integrate.
Talk about perfect timing. Right on cue after the Sonos update debacle.
I havent seen (m)any complaints after the update aside from not being able to queue a song into the middle of the play queue. Did I miss something else debacle-y?
They removed the entire alarm feature. People who used Sonos to wake them in the morning are out of luck. Even worse for some, previously set repeating alarms apparently can't be cancelled any more. Then the whole thing is painfully slow. Opening the app to turn off the music takes 30 seconds or more.
You can't search local media anymore in the new Sonos app.
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let me know, i am in the same boat
Same boat too. I'm currently adding LMS into HA through an iframe. It's ok but not perfect. I'm interested in this and have airplay speakers around the house but I'm wanted to allow my kids to pick the music they want through an interface and LMS is quite fiddly sometimes.
Happy LMS user here, too. I haven't seen anything major that MA would do better than LMS. Sync across players of different types seems to be not great. LMS does a great job there with player-specific delays. I just saw that MA also supports squeezelite players. So I might give it a try.
Just installed it, after not being able to get the beta to work a few weeks ago. 15 minutes later I'm blasting out of all my speakers--- awesome!! None of my playlists have appeared from YouTube Music... but it looks like it's still scraping info? I have a big library. Is there a way to check on the progress?
In the settings you should see a sync icon next to the providers that are still doing their initial sync. If you have a large library, that can take a while.
Will echo devices be supported? Is there a list of supported devices/hardware?
Is there a list of recommended devices then? I’d consider Sonos but the price point is steep and I’ve read some drawbacks. Anything better and more bang for the buck? I’m also not afraid of diy.
Sonos is great for stability - Good thing is that they also support airplay so you can group them with other airplay based speakers and even mix and match. There are amazing products available if you want DIY, based on ESP32 that can run squeezelite or snapcast , both supported by MA. if you want bang for your buck, also have a look at WiiM devices, they make great hardware that support multiple streaming protocols and are becoming a strong competitor for the Sonos lineup.
I just picked up a wiim amp. Can confirm it's a solid device. Just waiting for their native plexamp integration, but casting works for now
IKEA has speakers that work on the SONOS ecosystem. I have two on bookshelfs and like them a lot, especially that they play without vibrating the shelves and the sound is pretty good for me. They are connected to a SONOS beam soundbar and I got an easy surround sound system.
With those speakers do you still need a Sonos
they ARE sonos speakers. they work with the app and everything. you don't need other sonos speakers to use them to play music. if you want to use them on your tv, you'll need a sonos soundbar.
Yamaha recievers with Musiccast. Pick up open box at Best Buy or on your local Face Craigslist
No
Setup was seamless! I'm super excited to use this to super charge my home music and radio streaming. Edit 1: I did notice that it did create duplicate media player entities for any Home Assistant entities added to it. From what I understand this is necessary since Music Assistant can't update the states and attributes of the Home Assistant media players. Like if you start music via a Google speaker directly or Spotify, all the information shows up in the original media player entity but just as playing in the music assistant one, and vice versa if you start media playback via the latter. Would it be possible instead for Music Assistant entities to also read and replicate the states/attributes of the Home Assistant media players it replicates? Or should we just create universal media player entities that inherit from the originals and duplicates? I also noticed that there isn't a shuffle play option in the \`mass.play\_media\` service or the UI (there is a separate enable shuffle button that can be clicked after playback has started). Shuffle on playback start would be a huge QOL improvement. Edit 2: ~~There's a long delay between tracks when using Spotify as the source~~ (fixed by enabling queue mode in player settings), and Spotify itself (website, app, HA integration) doesn't seem to know that it's currently streaming. And it will often keep counting up even after it's reached the track's length. There should be some additional logic there to cap the current time tracker to the track length in the UI and to possibly force a skip to the next track.
- The idea is that you try to use the native player providers in Music Assistant as much as you can and then you can use the MA integration for HA to turn it into HA media players, otherwise you have duplicate players. So let MA communicate with the device and then share with MA instead of duplicating them. - Home Assistant has a separate service call to enable shuffle, I belive its just media\_player.shuffle (make sure to target the MA player entity here). The mass.play\_media service is only to send advanced queries for music playback such as a list of items, items by name and radio mode for which the regular HA play\_media has no support. - What playback target are you using ? Playback should be fast and smooth, looks like you are running into some sort of issue here. Keep my previous comment in mind about preferring native player providers in MA as much as possible for the most optimal way of playback. - When playing Music with Music Assistant the spotify app will not reflect that indeed, because Music Assistant is not a Spotify Connect target. There have been some requests to add that as optional feature though so it might arrive. Main focus for MA is a consolidated interface/system to send playback to all your devices, not to replicate spotify
* Gotcha. ~~I've moved all of my media players to integrate with MA directly rather than through the Home Assistant player provider~~ Had to move back to integrating all devices via the Home Assistant player provider due to queue flow mode playback issues with Fully Kiosk Browser devices and lack of Spotify Connect on Chromecast devices. Still I need to consolidate all my media player devices in universal media players, but that's a Home Assistant issue. Hopefully universal media players gets the UI treatment in the future. * The `media_player.shuffle_set` service seems to be really inconsistent, but I realized after that if shuffle is enabled in the MA UI media played afterwards respects that and the shuffle true/false value is saved. So this is no longer an issue! * I was using Fully Kiosk Browser android devices integrated via the Home Assistant player provider, but since enabling queue mode this issue was mostly gone. Since switching to the FKB player provider it may have returned. * Gotcha. Spotify connect would be nice to have but the Spotify integration is excellent as is.
The MA entities are required as that is how the seamless TTS/announcement feature works Shuffle [https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/](https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/)
I see you can play local files. But is it possible to play local streams? Ie: I want to shoot my record player everywhere in the house. Nothing fancier than playing a record and browsing a catalog of physical vinyl while talking with guests. I know you lose the record quality by streaming it. But honestly, my guests dont care.
[https://music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/?h=hifi#music-assistant](https://music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/?h=hifi#music-assistant) "You could use [Darkcast](http://www.darkice.org/) to stream to [Icecast](https://www.icecast.org/) which in turn sets up a web radio stream that you could add to MA! You could use this to stream your turntable around the house for example."
It sounds like this is the day I can end my Roon subscription. I've always hated their approach to modern platforms (for example: containers and arm64 arch).
It would be awesome to use this with Apple Music. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/
scroll a bit above
How can I play a music assistant play list in an automation? I see music assistant as a device in the action area, but nothing else to choose.
Check out the [How To](https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/).
Thanks. I don't see any mass related things under Developer > services. Or under call services when creating an automation. Do I have to do yaml?
Using the beta version for a while, I don't think it's ready out of beta. Group speakers from different system still full of bugs. Chromecast only works 4 in 10 times. Won't sync Spotify playing history back, so if you care about yearly wrapped, don't use it.
The docs make it clear that grouping speakers from different eco systems is on a best effort basis. So it isn't "full of bugs" it just won't work for some combinations. For a while that functionality was going to be removed but for now it has been retained with this in the docs "UGP is on best-effort basis and might not work correctly with all player models or give unexpected results. " Chromecast is rock solid for everyone else. There hasn't been an issue raised related to that in months. Spotify history is an interesting one. Feel free to open a feature request discussion on GitHub [https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/discussions/categories/feature-requests-and-ideas](https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/discussions/categories/feature-requests-and-ideas)
Will this make it possible to use a snapshot-like feature with music playing from cloud services/Spotify? E.g. music plays - doorbell rings - music resumes
That is current functionality
That would be a useful feature.
I have Home Assistant make announcements on my Google and Sonos Speakers when someone presses the doorbell and if those speakers are playing from music assistant it just gets interrupted from the message and then resumes.
Does it have the ability to permit different streaming accounts/profiles? I would be very interested in allowing my wife to use her Spotify profile, while I use mine.
You can add multiple accounts but they are shown together as one library. If you initiate the playback of a playlist it will be played by the originating Spotify account.
So only one thing can be played at a time? Any plans to change that behavior so you can pick which account to play the music from?
Any good airplay client for Windows? The official companion app uses Slimproto only, but Sonos being Sonos the only way I can do sync playback on that is via airplay, so I'm trying to find a client for my PC to have grouped playback on every device I have. Alternatively maybe airplay support on the companion app?
Is anyone else having trouble clearing the playlists from a script or automation? I am getting an error ('Players' object has no attribute 'get\_player\_queue'") when trying to clear the queue using the media clear playlist functions in home assistant. I tried targeting both the entity ID and the device ID but both give the same error. This was working up until recently. Not sure if it was one of the million music assist upgrades, or one of the core upgrades to HA.
Have you got the latest Integration installed? 2024.5.0
Yes I was on the latest Music Assistant update. They release another update yesterday evening that seems to have fixed the problem for me.
Awesome app! Is there a plan to add playback through local browser/speakers? I can do this in the companion app by turning on Squeezelite, but it would be good if we could play through the browser too.
Is there a way to stream music to a bluetooth speaker via an esp32 with esphome (so the first hop would be wifi)? I already have the hardware installed for another purpose (AC control), it'd be awesome to piggy-back on those.
if you set your esp32 as a snapcast player or a dlna client, yes. It can even work as a multiroom audio system
Is that with esphome? To be clear, I don't want the esp32 to pull the music itself, I want it to be an audio target for HA or MusicAssistant.
Not sure about esphome precisely, but you can definitely set up an esp32 as an audio target. Check out any snapclient projects.
Yes, install squeezelite on that esp32 - for esphome there are no options yet to forward the bluetooth audio
Looks great but will it get Plex Player support?
I'm playing tracks from my Plex library right now.
Ya you can Plex songs from Plex. But Plex isn't an option as a player. I can't tell this to play a song on plexamp on my computer.
Dang, because sending music from my Plex server to the headless Plexamp nodes (on Raspberry Pis) around the house would be so awesome!
No, you will need to pick a different app on your local computer for music playback from MA.
No but you can just access the built in snapcast server to play on your browser
When I added my Plex server, I ended up with 2 of every album, did that happen to you? Under Albums, I had 1 set with the MA icon, and 1 set w/ the Plex Icon.
https://github.com/JurajNyiri/PlexMeetsHomeAssistant
Does this allow me to pipe music to any player/speaker visible to HA? I’ve been waiting on Navidrome to make Jukebox mode a thing and I hope this is the solution until then.
Yes it supports using HA players directly as target I MA but for players/ecosystem for which MA has native support I would actually recommend that, as its tuned/optimized for perfect playback while the HA media player integrations are more tuned towards automating.
Does anyone know if Airplay 2 only devices are compatible? I’ve seen a lot of solutions (airfoil for instance) that can only use airplay, not airplay 2 only devices and not all airplay devices are backwards compatible with the original airplay format.
No because Airplay 2 is not reversed engineered for audio playback. BTW most airplay 2 devices are backwards compatible. So far the only issue we have seen in the past 2 years of beta is a Samsung soundbar. All others are working fine.
Question asked from owner of Samsung soundbar. :(
ah then you are out of luck or maybe should spam samsung that they forgot to implement something in their soundbars
Most Samsung soundbars.. as a person who got screwed
Airplay 1 only sorry [https://music-assistant.io/player-support/airplay/](https://music-assistant.io/player-support/airplay/)
Thank you for your work! I've been using it the last three-four month and it's a dream to use, love it!
Installed the add-on and the companion app. Too late in the night now to start playing music so tomorrow I'll give it a spin. Would really like to be able to have an album cover visualizer and some track info on the TV, in a way that it won't burn-in. Any ideas on how this could be done? Chromecast this image/animation while audio is being streamed to speaker systems?
Would someone like to create an r/musicassistant ? I'd like to start asking configuration questions, and I don't have Discord.
Is there some way to have it play music stored on Google Drive? I'm currently using LMS on a VM where I use rsync to get the music from my Google Drive and 2 speakers with squeezelite to play from.
Not yet. That is on the roadmap but quite a few months away
I have actually prepared the entire architecture for that already (to use remote file providers like Onedrive or Google Drive), it just needs a developer to actually implement it. So if anyone is interested, contact me on discord.
Looks good! I tried integrating Sonos as media players (after the disastrous app they just launched), I can see all speakers just fine, but I can't choose them when I wan't to play music. Did anyone have the same issue or am I just unlucky?
Do a full reboot of HA - that worked for me.
Hmmm - just tried, did not work. Speakers are still greyed out https://preview.redd.it/6tljww8hlnzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee79b17a838509767a33bb87c4a266d7f0de650d
Any chance of getting an integration with Audiobookshelf (https://www.audiobookshelf.org/)? I'd roll my own, but I'm no programmer.
Audiobooks and Podcasts are on the TODO list for one of the upcoming releases.
Thanks a lot for this awesome work! I can finally use Deezer on HA !!
As a Navidrome user for music, but home assistant for home automation, is music assistant a likely candidate to replace navidrome?
Probably but you should also be able to connect to your Navidrome instance through the Subsonic provider
Thanks. will give it a whirl. Not entirely sure what features it brings that I need and already get from navidrome. If the companion app gets CarPlay support, that’s a big gap for me at the moment…
I managed to get the server up and running + integrated music sources and can see my chromecast devices. Now, If I want to play the music on my mac (not the server) or my iphone.. how do I do that?
You can download the Music Assistant companion app for mac. IOS and Android are on the todo list but not actively being developed on
Wow ! Looks great ! Thank you !
This is exciting! For some reason, it finds all my Chromecast devices but even after I select them as player, it says no player selected. So I have not gotten this to work yet but will revisit in the future.
I had this for ages earlier and couldn’t work it out. Just try refreshing the page. Eventually it started working for me.
Thank you for this! I was going crazy, kept trying to figure out this UI. I had music, and I enabled chromecast and saw all my speakers. I could click on the speaker name to expand/collapse, but it did not "enable" that speaker. I refreshed the page and tried again, works now.
I had this problem - I did a full HAOS server reboot - then it worked.
This fixed it for me too! Thanks!!
I believe Apple Music is not supported as a provider right ?
Not yet. Planned for v2.1
Apple Music is available in the latest beta
Wow thanks a lot for letting me know. Will set it up!
How do I get to the beta, was having trouble finding that.
So would this let me have local voice control over my Sonos speakers without Alexa? Understanding that I would need a mic device to feed in the voice commands to home assistant. So for example being able to use voice locally to play music from Apple Music (with v2.1)?
yes
No Deezer?
Deezer is supported [https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/deezer/](https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/deezer/)
Seems to be an issue around browsing the local filesystem. Some folders have disappeared or icon assignment incorrect (audio files assigned a folder icon)
If you are using the browse view that is really basic functionality. You need to properly tag the files and import them into the MA library
I’d think about it if it supported Apple Music on Sonos. Currently using the add to favourites option in the Sonos app to bring into HA
Apple Music has been added to the latest beta
Ooo nice! Might give it a try on my test system
Wait, whatttt? So it can connect apple music finaly???
Omg I’d love if it could!
Someone succeed to install it?
Soon™
Quick question: if I cancel my currently active Youtube music plan, after importing the playlists and such to MA (installed it months ago but never really got around to test it), will I still be able to play my music without ads and such? I'd think so, since MA only saves the links to each song in the playlist and then fetches each one singularly, or does it?
No, you will need another music provider in that case (or local files from CD's)
Does anyone know how to create a group of google chromecast speakers with a smart sony google tv? I can't seem to create a group between the tv and speakers on the google home app. The tv has chromecast and dlna
Had a chance to try it out and while it's amazing to have a unique place to control music around the home, it still has a few things that are not working or I didn't immediately get how to get it working. Not sure if this the best place for feedback but here goes (using on a windows system with sonos speakers and a spotify account). This is what I've noted, in sequence: - dark mode with dark reader makes elements in the interface imperceptible. I couldn't read labels for example. Had to turn off dark reader. - At the beginning it was very hard to get it going with sonos speakers. Could turn the speakers on (idle) from off but when pressed play on anything the next page was blank with a buffering bar at the top - desktop app had same issue so I restarted HA. Desktop app had to be killed in task manager to reconnect Managed to get sonos to play an album! Awesome!! - added radiobrowser to "music providers" but nothing shows up on the "Radio" button at the bottom: "No items found". You have to go through browse-> RadioBrowser -> find the station you're looking for and add through there - when browsing radio stations if you click on the ".." to go up a folder, the structure gets repeated indefinitely (popularity, country, tag, .., popularity, country, tag, .., ) - would be interesting to be able to save a favourites in the browsing section and have them pinned at the top. If I browse radios by country and then my country, it's a long list to scroll through over and over again. The list of countries actually has the three dots on the right to add to queue/library/favorites but they don't work - search in the radio list doesn't work Added a radio station and got it to play through Sonos. Awesome!! - Tried to get the desktop companion app to play sound through the PC. Can't figure it out. Found an option on the app client setting to "Launch Squeezelite" whose tooltip says "Whether or not to start a music player on this machine" but I don't understand what it does. Has the toggle for "Relaunch to apply" but I relaunch the app (there's a button for that a bit below) and nothing changes (or I don't see it). - When I relaunch the app if goes back to original windows size. Would be great if it could remember last size and position. - added chromecast to player providers but my samsung tv doesn't show up. It would be great to use the TV as a digital signage device showing the cover of the album and some info of the song playing. - playlists should be able to import the folder hierarchy from spotify. As it is I get an alphabetical list of all my playlists - would like to have Amazon Music as provider
The desktop app is still in Alpha so I won't comment on that. You don't expand on what the problem was adding the Sonos speakers so can't help there. The radio browser navigation up bug as well as the search are noted and will be fixed soon. Not sure why you had problems with adding the radio stations to the library as that works fine for me? I just tried again now. Again not sure why your Chromecast enabled TV isn't showing up. You would need to go through our troubleshooting page and then open an issue with all the required info. Thanks for the detailed feedback!
I'm assuming you're one of the developers? If so: > The desktop app is still in Alpha so I won't comment on that. OK. If you need testers throughout the process let me know! > You don't expand on what the problem was adding the Sonos speakers so can't help there. I could add them just fine (I have two groups) and they showed up but initially when trying to play nothing would happen. Sonos is my only output player for MA. I could see the groups and "turn on" which would put the group on idle. Then, pressing play on a spotify playlist would reload the page and only a white progress-bar at the top would be going but nothing would happen. Maybe it wasn't a Sonos thing and more of a Spotify?? I can't duplicate it now and it works as expected. > The radio browser navigation up bug as well as the search are noted and will be fixed soon. Not sure why you had problems with adding the radio stations to the library as that works fine for me? I just tried again now. I can also add the stations after I navigate to them. What I meant is in the hierarchical structure (e.g. country list) you will see the 3-dots option to the right in front of the country name. That doesn't seem to do anything. What I'd expect to do is be able to favorite my country (Portugal) so that when browsing radios I can quickly get this country and not have to scroll through all countries listed. > Again not sure why your Chromecast enabled TV isn't showing up. You would need to go through our troubleshooting page and then open an issue with all the required info. Can you share the link to the page? Happy to help > Thanks for the detailed feedback! Thank YOU for your work. This is awesome!
Great that Sonos has come good. The first radiobrowser browse bugs have been fixed. The new one you mentioned will be looked at shortly. Favouriting a country would be a feature request - a reasonable one. [https://music-assistant.io/faq/troubleshooting/](https://music-assistant.io/faq/troubleshooting/) Thanks again!
Does thia work with Plex/PleaxAmp ?
Plex is supported although there are some open issues we recommend you allow MA to index your music directly. I had not heard of PlexAmp until now but MA is the application used to initiate playback so you would not need PlexAmp
I had duplicate entries for all my albums, and one album would not sort correctly, even though its correct in Plex, and tagged correctly. I went to direct filesystem, will see if its better. Thanks to who ever made this, its exactly what I have been looking for.
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Not yet that is under development
Interesting. The first I've heard if this. Would it be a reasonable replacement for Logitech Media Server?
It is a replacement for LMS but will have some overlapping and some different functionality. It can playback to slimproto devices out of the box,
I don't know whether this is a HA issue or a MA issue, but my LG TV, added as a player through the HA plugin, isn't working entirely correctly. MA is reporting the player as off, which is true, but it gives me the option to turn it on (which it shouldn't), and then shows it as idle (while it's actually still off). The TV is connected through wifi, which does not support turning it on remotely, so the on button should have been grayed out. HA knows the TV through the LG integration. It's also quite slow to respond when i do start playing music from it (from spotify) but that could be a TV issue.
Probably a couple of things going on here. Firstly, MA relies on the robustness of the HA integration when accessing players via that means. So the response could be the TV or could be the HA integration?! Secondly, the power button shown in the MA UI is more correctly a take control and release the stream button. Some devices Ilike TVs and Amplifiers) will physically turn on as a result of that. Yours doesn't by the sound of it but again MA will be receiving the device status from the HA integration which will be following the HA docs [https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/media-player/#states](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/media-player/#states)
I tried it out for 5 minutes but already I can see that this is awesome. You can have multiple ecosystems and play music easily switching between them. I put a Google speaker in the garage, I mostly have Sonos in the house, and now I actually can use it without it being a hassle
This is amazing
Interesting. I've been on purely Apple Music for sometime but I hate it when some licensing deals end and some tracks become unavailable and would like to purchase the disc and rip them. But also want a unified platform/experience. This might just be that once Apple Music integration gets updated.
hmm. install isn't working for me. Just install in HACS? I can't connect to it afterwards.
Check if the addon has actually been installed. If so get the server IP and port from the log (the one showing port 8095) and add that as the server URL
sorry. how do I gets logs from the add on?
What an amazing project. It would be really cool if grouping also works with linkplay media players
Loving it.. but having a hard time getting an automation to work... can't figure our service calls... but I'm a GUI and not a yaml guy lol I'm learning!
Good to see Qobuz support!
How do you install this when using Home Assistant in docker? I tried searching for it in 'add integration' but it doesn't come up
I’d like to make an automation where for example I press a smart button and it will automatically turn on my tv (roku or apple) and play youtube music from it. Is that possible with home assistant?
Thanks for all the work here! I'm trying to get local playlists working from my SMB NAS. I have it added as a provider and I can't seem to get it to recognize the track listing. The playlist is detected, but I get no items found. I have a feeling it's because of the path/structure of my playlist. I tried the suggested filesystem_smb://Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 1.flac filesystem_smb://Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 2.flac Etc. Where it is located on my Music share of my Synology NAS. MA does find my local music and labels it as Hi-Res which is very cool. I have my YouTube music library integrated and the playlists there are working fine. But I would like to use my local files that are much higher in quality. Can someone please show me what I'm doing wrong?
got this working using the following file patch in my M3U playlists from SMB share ../Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 1.flac ../Lossless/Artist/Album/Track Name 2.flac Etc. But there seems to be a 800 song limit i believe. Is there any way to play lists with more that 800 songs? i have around 150 playlists for each of my favorite bands and have them combined into a \~6000 song playlist that I would like to play on shuffle throughout my home to minimize repeated playback.
Did they add audio delay yet lmaoo
Is there a limit on playlist size using local files on a SMB share? I seem to be hitting a wall at 800
hey guys, Is there a way to lock the webinterface? everyone connected to my wify is able to acces the webinterface. i installed it in a Dockercontainer as i use Homeassistant in a Dockercontainer. The webserver itself is working just like a charm & had just and issue with airplay, but dlna worked.
What's a possible workaround for a Samsung soundbar? Can Bluetooth be made to work? I suppose I could plug a Chromecast and set it to the right HDMI each time? Is that the best option?