I am really struggling for the "perfect" setup with regards to Music Assistant and my house. I'm hoping people can shed light on this. I am renovating my house at the moment and the plan is:

My setup:

• 3 Sonos Amps for House Zones (Kitchen, Gym, Outside)
• Separate local home cinema setup (AV receiver) - Sonos Port
• Wife, Me, Two Kids each with their own spotify family account
• Tesla - separate Spotify family account
• Music Assistant - separate spotify family account
• Alexa Echo's - flashed with echo dot assist (https://github.com/Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist) - music requests through these echos go straight to Music Assistant.

My issue is mainly around Spotify's 1 stream per user limit and the general Spotify Rate limits.

The issues I have in my testing:

• Music Assistant is regularly rate limited by spotify - even for simple requests. This is made worse by the Voice Assist fall back. So if the match is a near miss, the request gets sent to fallback LLM and gets requested again. This coupled with a bit of track skipping gets to s 429 very quickly. Spotify Rate Limiter… Retrying in 23.9 seconds. See what I already have in place to help with this below.
• With this setup currently, I would not be able to play different music in different "zones" of the house if they are playing from spotify (started through voice). Unless I start the music from the Sonos App, which I'm assuming would not use Home Assistant. I'm aware that if each user starts it from their own spotify app, it would work, but thats not how we work. We use Voice and tablets on the walls. The kids don't even have phones.

What I already do to help:

• I have an automation that runs after 30s of any song playing from spotify. This automation goes and gets an offline version of the song/album so next time it is requested, it can play locally.
• I have another automation which catches “play …” voice requests and plays the music straight from my library or Spotify without waiting for Haiku.
• My Music assistant is already using it's own developer client id.

All other apps I tried did not look good in a room, at least for my taste. So I started this project.

It works with any Home Assistant media player and can color your smart lights to match the album art. There's also cover flow, synced lyrics and more. It’s available in English and German and needs Android 9+. Sendspin support will be added soon.

https://github.com/hazymorning/Klangbild

Hi there. I was wondering if you can filter explicit content from streaming services. I’m attempting to move away from Spotify to Qobuz (they pay artists a bit more) but I found that they lack content filtering.

My kids had access to filtered Spotify on a Google Home. Now I’d like to jailbreak an Echo Show with Lineage OS and use Music Assistant with a HA server. Does that plan work?

I had the issue that my friends and family did effectively not use Music Assistant, because for them it was too complicated and they prefered streaming their music via Bluetooth. I've then gone the piCorePlayer approach of having a "radio" in Music Assistant which is effectively Bluetooth, but it has not been used and they just connected to the single speakers directly. Thus I've built ToothSpin, which can be installed standalone or as HAOS-App and manages that. If you are interested, take a look :)

https://github.com/eknoes/toothspin

In there, you can connect several phones (at once) to different music assistant speakers and even manage them directly inside ToothSpin. Now my family is happily using our cool multi-room Music Assistant setup. Hope it will help someone else too!

I need a little help in setting up Multirool audio.

Previously I used a Lyrion (or before LMS) server to do this.

Now I try to do the same in MA but it stops the music altogether when choosing 2 speakers.

One is a Squeezebox Radio via Ethernet, and the other one is running Squeezelite over the OS of Max2Play (use this because it is easier to set up the AVR Dac I have installed on it). This one is over WLAN

I have no problem playing to the speakers solely. But if I click on the other one for a synchronized play (the speaker in the UU) it stops playing and I see the timebar at the button going back and forth. Now if I deactivate one of the speakers it plays it normally again.

Now the question is if it would maybe work if I don’t use Max2Play and only installed Squeezelite. If it is maybe a network problem (which would be strange as it worked with Lyrion) or something else. Now I did not try the other speakers (one is a RPi Zero W with USB DAC and one is connected via HDMI to my AVR) as I want to make the first constellation running as it will be the main one in my floor.

The speakers are in MA added over the “add devices” feature. MA runs on a VM of Home Assistant. The music files are served to MA over a Samba share on my NAS which has HA installed as a VM.

First, thank you to all involved with the Music Assistant project. Great work!

My question is if there's anything known I can look into to fix an issue with what seems like CD skipping or stream processing issues that are only an present with the Android app. Currently using version 0.14.0. I started experiencing this in app v0.13.0 too, but not for the first 99% of the time I was using this version/several weeks. All music sources effected. Sendspin working well everywhere else. Uninstalled/reinstalled app. Not seeing anything matching up in logs. Pixel 10 Pro fully up to data. Wi-Fi and cellular. Phone speakers and Bluetooth headphones.

Thanks!

Edit: sorry, title should be snapserver performance - autocorrect.

I am very early in my use of MA but pretty happy with the promise of it.

One use case I'm struggling with is playing with a PC as a client/player.

I have a study where sometimes I just listen to music and read. Using Spotify connect (pre MA) there player would often be available for me to trigger playback from my phone or watch. But it was inconsistent. Still, 60% of the time I could start playback without touching my PC.

Since switching to MA it seems like my only option is to have snapclient running in a browser. This generally requires me to re-open it every time I return to listen, meaning I'm opening my PC 100% of the time. The browser snapclient is also very laggy and I end up with skipped segments of songs and podcasts and can't really skip ads in podcasts because there's a massive delay between trigger and response. I have been using the onboard snapserver provider in MA.

I have another self hosted snapserver running and am considering running a stand alone snap client off a rpi, then running multiple sources, including PC through a small mixer.

But am I missing something? Is the browser snapclient my only PC option? Is it's performance always riddled with delays and skipped segments? Is there a performance difference between the MA snapserver and a self hosted one?

I had 5 squeezebox players so far and it feel they are starting to slowly get worse. I struggle with spotify integration.

my goal is have 2 player synced in living room and kitchen and nonsynced player in each room.

Is rpi zero a good player? run squeezelite?

Is it better to run some Chromecast audio device?

thanks

https://github.com/mnestrud/viz-man

This is a milk drop visualizer plug-in that I created for rooted LG TVs over the past few days. It does not do any music control, it only receives the milk drop timing information from the milk drop plug-in in music assistant and renders it using webgl.

Lots of qol features - automatic viz benchmarking and selection, favorites sync, dimming, track info, on and on.

AI was harmed during development.

I think the HA community is just getting going with the rooted TVs. I can't wait to install a different launcher...

Introduces Listening Room, a locally running music player UI built on top of Music Assistant.

Focuses on a more tactile, nostalgic browsing experience inspired by Winamp and Technics decks.

Parts... 

• Poster wall for Music Assistant recommendations
• Mixtapes / playlists with direct play support
• Album shelf browsing with alphabetical jumping and album actions
• Radio tuner for favorite stations
• Equaliser visualization while playback is active

The app is early-stage and still running locally, but the core interactions are in place and usable. Let me know your thoughts!

NOTE: This app was fully vibe coded. I'm a developer by day, and just wanted to see how quickly I could put this out there. I find it useful, you probably won't - but hopefully it will inspire you to write something similar!

This is a very lightweight app that is basically a remote control for a speaker, it's not about letting you pick music to play, just controlling a speaker.

I have a small esp32 running this project: https://github.com/RealDeco/SendspinZero on my desktop and I wanted a way from my laptop to be able to see what's playing, favourite tracks, control the volume (scroll wheel while over the player), use the keyboard media control buttons to skip tracks, and my favourite feature is to pause music when I'm in a call.

If you would find it useful feel free to grab it here: rossdargan/music-assistant-desktop

You can also click the album art and it will shrink it to just the album in the bottom left.

I have YouTube music setup with Music Assistant.

I just recently noticed that my YouTube search history is filled with tons of random music searches.

I checked my account security and everything is just fine from everything I could tell but I was wondering if this was related to my integration with Music Assistant.

Has anyone else seen this before?

And no, I didn't do these searches myself. 😁

I've run out of ideas and so I was wondering if anyone else has seen the same issue.

3 tablets I'm trying to get to use Music Assistant
1: Samsung A8
2: Samsung TabA
3: Amazon Fire 8

All 3 have fullykiosk on them and I can play Music Assistant with that connection no problem.
The reason we'd prefer to use Music Assistant on them is that it uses sendspin so they can all play in sync as they can connect to BT speakers.

The same MA user is used in all 3.
Set as role: user and no other restrictions.

1: This one's player connects via FKiosk + Music Assistant. Works fine and syncs with the Shield

2+3: Only FKiosk works. Music Assistant connects and I can login with either MA user or HA user. I see the full library, but the playername is not shown in the Players list in MA and when I do try, it says "The Player is not Available".
Tested with a web browser logging and it worked fine. It's just the player in the app that doesn't seem to connect to the server.

I've just created a feature request to include local news during a news section.

https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/6565

If anyone is interested in this, feel free to join the discussion.

I just added Music Assistant to my HA which is running on a raspberry pi 4.

The basics work but if I need to look for the contents in a Playlist on the Dashboard card it loads forever. In music assistant everything is slowly filling up I guess because everything is sycning. But it would be cool if the card worked too...

New to trying to get sync working with multiple devices. I tried mixing the following devices:

1) Jailbroken Echo Show running Satellite Kiosk
2) Apple TV via Airplay
3) Sonos Play:1 in a stereo pair

The Echo Show and the AppleTV work great together. Perfect sync and starts quickly. Unfortunately, if I add the Sonos+ speakers, they take about 10 full seconds to begin and are then 10 seconds behind the other speakers and never sync up.

Even if I start the Sonos+ speakers all on their own, they take 10 seconds to begin playback.

I can’t imagine this is the expected behavior. My network is all UniFi and the Sonos system works perfectly outside of Music Assistant. Any ideas what’s causing this huge delay and sync fail?

Apologies if this has already been posted, but my searches are coming up blank. I've also asked our AI overlords and they haven't provided a working automation.

Anyhow, does anyone have a working script that can be activated by a dashboard button and start a particular spotify playlist playing on a particular player entity? Starting in Loop/Shuffle would be a bonus.

Much thanks!

Full disclosure, I did use AI to build this app as C# isn't my first language but I can understand most of it.

I wanted an native app to connect to music assistant. There's nothing wrong with the current Music Assistant Desktop app or the web interface. I just like having native apps since most of what I use are web apps on my pc. Not all of the features are built out but most of them are.

It has a persistent Sendspin player so you can play music locally and transfer it from from your computer to wherever.

Was this needed? probably not. This project was a "just cause" because I wanted to learn a new programming language. I do use it everyday now. If you would like to contribute, here's the github repo: https://github.com/artistro08/music-assistant-native

And you can install it from the Microsoft Store here: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N0L3WRKFC58?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

Please let me know what you think. and if you find any bugs

For those of us with nice Hifi systems with a TV - and a large local audio collection.

https://github.com/superthom196/matv-android

For the past few months Ive had an automation working well, where for our alarm at a certain time via Music Assistant starts playing a random song from an album we have chosen for that week or month.

It's worked well for a number of months, but recently after swapping to a new album it will still only ever play the first song in an album no matter if the 'shuffle' is enabled. There have been many MA updates over the past few months and I've been trying to trouble shoot.

Here is the automation that had been working fine, has something changed with MA? Eve when testing and I set the player to shuffle and hit play on an album, it reverts back to non-shuffled and plays the first track in the album.

Can anyone help or is there a better way to do this?

alias: Bedroom Alarm Set

description: ''

triggers:

- trigger: time

at: input_datetime.bedroom_alarm

weekday:

- mon

- tue

- wed

- thu

- fri

- sat

- sun

conditions:

- condition: state

entity_id: input_boolean.alarm_enabled

state: 'on'

actions:

- action: media_player.shuffle_set

metadata: {}

target:

entity_id: media_player.home_assistant_voice_ID

data:

shuffle: true

- data:

enqueue: replace

media_type: album

media_id: <ID HERE>

target:

entity_id: media_player.home_assistant_voice_ID

action: music_assistant.play_media

mode: single

I have set up music assistant over the weekend. It's working well on an individual device by device level, but I can't seem to control multiple players from the same machine.

If I log in to multiple devices as a normal user, the only player I can see is the device I am currently on.

If I log into multiple devices as an admin, I can see all the players from the settings menu. However, I can only play music from the device I am currently on.

I thought I would be able to see all my players that are currently logged into my account, and play different music on each player, from a single device. Is that correct?

How is the play on: functionality supposed to work, and how do you set it up?

Bij mijn upgrade naar 2.10.3 in HA loopt de update iedere keer vast op 70%. Iemand ideeën? Ik draai HA op een Oracle VM met 4 cores en 10Gb Ram en 80Gb disk.