Music Assistant 2.0: Your Music, Your Players

If you’ve ever played Cyberpunk 2077, they also use song titles for story chapters. Nice touch.

Hello,

is there a way to make MA select as speaker the local device that is accessing the interface?
If I have multiple device with squeezelite or snapcast client that have a graphical interface, when a user access music assistant from the local device browser is it possible just to click on play button and MA selects the local corresponding speaker as target device for the stream?

Any suggestion is welcome! :grinning:

Sorry that is not possible

Hello,

I supposed so…
thanks for your answer!

I have a stupid question. I have just installed MA and linked it to my library of songs and linked up a player. I had MA create a 500 random song playlist from my library and told it to play – it plays a single song, then stops. So, I clicked on the next song in the playlist and hit the play button again, it played the song and when it was done it stopped! WTH?? I clicked the three dots next to the song on the third track in the list and clicked: Play Playlist from here. It played the song and stopped!!! WHAT?!?!

I don’t see any controls that say to stop after each song or continue playing the whole playlist…

OMG, how do I get MA to play the whole playlist from one song to the next?? I must be missing something rudimentary.

You need to review the docs and open issues when something like this happens.

What player provider are you using?

I’ve been looking at the docs but I couldn’t find any useful instructions on how the make the queue continue playing after the first song. I did find on this page Technical Information - Music Assistant descriptions of:

  • BASIC/FALLBACK
  • NATIVE ENQUEUE SUPPORT
  • FLOW MODE

but I was unable to find any options in MA that have these options and the instructions don’t have any pointers on where to configure this. :thinking:

I didn’t want to open an issue because I barely installed it and ran into this issue that seems to be my own fault, I’ve got to be missing something because this can’t be how MA is supposed to work.

I was using the Home Assistant Media Player for one of my Sonos speakers because I wasn’t able to get the SONOS plug in inside MA to recognize my speakers. I opened a separate thread on the community to troubleshoot that but I don’t have high hopes because I’m sure there aren’t too many folks with VLANs, SONOS, and MA :frowning: .

Are MA and your speakers on the same VLAN?

No, they are not. Is there a specific port I need to allow between the VLANs?

I’ve also noticed that when I pause a song in the middle for a while, then hit the play button again, it starts the song over from the beginning… that can’t be expected operation, right? I would expect it to pick up where it left off.

Sorry trying to get MA to work across VLANs is not supported.

Edit: after being paused for 30 secs the stream is stopped instead of paused so restarting is possible

Even pausing for 4 seconds causes the song to start over.

Have a look at the open issues as there might be something there.

meh, it doesn’t matter to me if I can’t do anything across the VLANs. I’m just uninstalling it.

MA works well across subnets, even in separate VLANs. Autodiscovery may be affected, but if you know about VLANs and subnetting, you should be able to figure that out (I use an mDNS reflector at home).

How can i play a specific music on Plex when i also have Spotify setup and there is the same music on it ?

MA by design finds the highest quality from your available providers and uses that

Ok and how can i make a research in my Plex library ? Find a playlist ? I only see Spotify things.

If you have added the Plex provider then you should see your music in the MA library. Note that Plex does not have a dedicated dev at the moment so any bugs take a while to fix.

How do I permanently delete a playlist? I’m sure I’m missing something here, but when I delete a playlist from a “remote share filesystem” (using “remove from library” in drop down menu from the three dots) it reappears shortly after.

Does MA have delete permisions for the remote share?

Are you sure you want to delete this item from the library? Any items depending on this item will also be recursively removed. Note that this will only remove this item from the library. If this is a music file on disk, it may return on the next sync.

You will have to remove the playlist from the remote share probably.

What i do is toggle ‘Only show favorites’ to on and only add to favorites whatever I want.