Media player always showing idle

The media players are always showing “idle” in status. This is in my Home Assistant VP media player and in my Squeezelite players.

The media player card is also not responding to the play/pause button and all my music player automations that read this status, now fail because they always read that the player isn’t playing.

MA can successfully control the media players.

Pi 5

Installation method - Home Assistant OS
Core - 2025.7.0
Supervisor - 2025.06.2
Operating System - 15.2
Frontend - 20250702.0

I have the same problem. The shadow media players from music assistant show the correct attributes like media_content_id but not the state of the original media player.

This only happens after the update to 2025.7.0 so I think this is update related.

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I can only confirm that since the update to 2025.7, my Homepods that I have created as a group in Music Assistant only show idle as the state

This now appears fixed in 2025.7.1