Hi
Music assistant loaded fine, Spotify loaded fine so did sonos. I can see my spotify library but when I select a track to play it does not.
Any help would be appreciated.
Below is an example of a log entry that I am getting
WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.player_queues] Skipping unplayable item Green Day - All by Myself (library://track/115)
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@Chykan Same message for you. This isnāt the place for back and forth support so pop on over and ask where we can help you.
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No problems Gav
@OzGav I managed to resolve it. I had a App Blocking rule applied to Youtube for my sons 3 Nest display devices, while still allowing YouTube Kids.
Once I removed the Nest Displays out of the App Blocking Rule, I was able to add my chrome cast devices again.
Updating the MA Server App must have triggered a reload and when it failed to connect to 3 of the total 13 Nest Speakers and Displays it failed for all of them.
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Still dreaming of Bandcamp as a music providerā¦
The trouble is they donāt have an official API (except for merch) and their TOS is very broad in what they prohibit so itās not a straight forward proposition.
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How would I go about calling MA to play the most recent episode of a specific podcast from AudioBookshelf?
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I donāt have podcasts in MA at the moment, so I canāt try.
But I would call the action music_assistant.get_library from a script or automation with media type āpodcastā, sort by time-added and the podcast name as the search term.
Then you need some logic to grab the correct one and call music_assistant.play_media with the hopefully unique episode name included.
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Iāve got some and coincidentally itās next on Fridayās bag of tricks. give me a few. Iāll check it out.
@SpencerDub mine are Audible but should have the same Metadata and work the sameā¦ You have one in mind? Is this where weāre supposed to plug one of the Podcast content creators?
Iām looking at NPR News Now, specifically. I have AudioBookshelf set up to hold the two most recent downloads.
I think calling music_assistant.play_media on the podcastās URI is sorta workingā¦ although it seems to add all downloaded episodes to the play queue and I canāt find a way to only play a single episode.
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Lyrion/LMS has a great plugin for it. so I know itās doable. Unfortunately I donāt have the skills myself.
Yes doable if you donāt mind violating their termsā¦
Are there any plans to add audiobook chapter ids? Iām using the excellent Music Assistant Blueprint from JLo to play content using Assist, but audiobook chapters are not exposed as an attribute of the media_player so I canāt skip, or jump, or goto a specific chapter.
It would be great to be able to do this.
Yes itās is on the long list
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I recently switched from Spotify to Deezer. I notice in the logs, any time i play anything not in Deezer messages like this:
:47:18.304 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.music] Error while fetching recommendations from Deezer: 'Track' object has no attribute 'link'
That suggests the Music Assistant Deezer provider is telling Deezer everything I play such as radio stations or tracks on my filesystem (or trying to and failing). That doesnāt feel right. And it isnāt working properly either.
Cant reproduce. What version of the server are you running? If the stable try the beta (you can run it in parallel just not at the same time as stable). Yes it is possible the MA will be trying to link tracks across providers. That is a feature of the software where it will find the best quality of a track and use that one for playback.
I will take a look at the beta and see.
Iām not sure on the decision to automatically select the best quality version of a track. A hi res FLAC is strictly better than an MP3 but if the internet connection has any issues the local filesystem MP3 will be a superior listening experience over a stuttering stream. Does the selection take this into account? It would be nice to have an option to override.
No selection does not take this into account. It is a core feature to find the best quality source.
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how do you people navigate back to the dashboard?
Or could we get this function to get a button on the bar to navigate back to the dashboard? This would be a great addition for wall mounted tablets imo
Youād need the ability to check the transmission before selection and playback, otherwise youāll still get a poor experience as it changes tracks. Or it would need to transcode on the fly like Plex.
Iām still trying to figure out if thereās any benefit over here to running Music Assistant. Iāve been tossing around the idea of setting up different music servers and having MA handle bridging to different devices, but IMO, the server options available are all MEH right now. At which point I might as well use Plex as I can play back on any device directly.