Same problem here, it has been broken for months, they did apply a fix for it in the last update but still come up with that warning.
YTM is working in the beta. Stable cannot be fixed. We are working on releasing a new stable version but that is still some weeks away.
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Thanks. I look forward to the fix
Here’s a fun one - and I’ve even made sure I’ve got the latest version installed. Running Music Assistant on Docker and using the Voice blueprint for it.
It works great using voice command to have it play on any connected speaker.
It works great using voice command to play to a speaker group (though VLC and Google Home will be out of sync of course).
The problem arises after you’ve played to a group of speakers. After that it will ONLY play on that group regardless of what you tell it to do. “Play playlist christmas on office speaker” “Okay, playing Christmas on Office Speaker”. And the entire group starts playing…
So far the only way I’ve found to make it stop doing that is to restart docker (i.e. have you tried turning it off and on again?) While it’s stuck on this, you can use the web interface to manually trigger something to play on a specific speaker or your browser, but anything triggered directly from an HA automation will always go to the speaker group regardless of designated target.
Just updated to the last beta, but the integration seems not compatible yet?
Invalid server version: Schema version is incompatible: 28, the server requires at least 28 - update the Music Assistant client to a more recent version or downgrade the server.
As per the release note, you need HA 2025.12.0
Ah, wrong order. Just started the update to 2025.12.0. 
Works like a charm. Awesome update again.
Will there be a new blog post to match the upcoming Music Assistent 2.7 release party video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUA7v1TEzY
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It’s shaping up to be an amazing release, so you can take a guess 
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Seems to be working now. At least on my PowerAmp I can now stream via airplay to it from Music Assistant.
Hi folks. Just installed from the add-on store.
In settings > players I can only see my current web browser. No airplay, etc or any of my smart speakers.
How do I add players/speakers, please?
cancel - added airplay etc as a provider and now they all show up as players 
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QUESTION RE AIRPLAY AND SONOS: Not sure if this is a music assistant issue, a Sonos issue or if it actually worked as designed and one of my neighbors got a new iphone.
I’ve been using music assistant for over a year, using the most recent beta. Last night while watching a movie and today again while watching football, the sound disappeared. When I checked, AirPlay had taken over as the input source. It was easy enough to switch back but I’m wondering what’s going on. I went into my Sonos app and all my speakers support airplay. I’m an Android guy, never used airplay. If there was a way to disable it either in the Sonos app or a music assistant that would be great. Has anybody ever had this problem before?
I’ve tried Music Assistant a couple of times now, and although it’s improving, unfortunately every time I’m scared off by the number of issues that I encounter and the unclear GUI and overall experience. Currently my main software is still Owntone (Homepod Connect) which lacks some features but works flawlessly. I’d love to see MA mature further so that I can switch at some point. Perhaps it helps if I share some examples.
- I was nicely greeted by a welcome screen to set things up, but when I pressed F5 because some button didn’t work, the welcome screen was gone
- Sometimes players suddenly go missing whilst MA showed them a minute earlier. Also the webbrowser player is often late to appear after loading MA
- Nowhere I could see the progress of indexing my library
- It wasn’t immedately clear to me whether the listed ‘providers’ are enabled or disabled (by default) and whether configuring is needed or not
- I don’t understand how it works with artwork. When will MA fetch it, where does it store it? The day after indexing, I only see some artwork. I view an album without artwork, nothing seems to happen. Then I open MA again 15m later and suddenly the icon is there. I would expect fetched data to appear once it becomes available without refreshing the page
- Also regarding artwork, I viewed an album that had artwork, then went back to another album that hadn’t. Hoped MA would try to fetch it somewhere. I pressed F5 to see if that would make a difference and suddenly I see the contents of the first album again.
- Overall UX, like full page width buttons (like ‘save’), and some items that aren’t clickable nevertheless show a ‘hand’ icon such as the ‘in library’ icon at album level. Or I open an album and immediately it shows a refresh icon that ‘new information is available’ and I should refresh to see it. Since I just opened the album for the first time, I would expect to see the latest info immediately. It wasn’t clear to me though what new info MA was referring to. Also I’d like to be able to see more info about the quality of a file, f.i. bitrate, encoder etc.
- Playback doesn’t always start (to my Denon X1300 via Airplay), sometimes I have to click 2x or 3x before it starts. Therefore the playback progress bar that MA shows isn’t always in sync, it says it is playing but nothing is heard. Also compared to Owntone I experience a longer delay between clicking ‘play’ and actually hearing music
missing players implies some kind of connection issue or delay in response/processing.
there is no progress indicator as such, but there is typically a spinning circle in the top right when libraries are being scanned/processed.
in the MA > settings > providers, there is an icon when the provider is processing something, it is near the 3 dot menu on the right. On the 3 dot menu, you can enable/disable the provider. Listed providers are installed/enabled by default. You can add/remove/disable them as desired. You can add other available providers at the top right ‘add provider’ button. Same with the player settings.
metadata is loaded in the background over time, there are rate limits so it may take time to load everything.
you did not specify how large a music library, nor what hardware you are using, similar to plex/emby/etc, the larger the media collection, the more resources it may need, cpu/ram, database size, metadata storage, disk IO.
I’m currently using an older dell micro pc with a 7th gen i5 and 16g of ram, and the addon shows almost ~50% ram usage and ~10% cpu usage, for a 300k+ track library.
if you are using the home assistant addon, you can go to the MA addon and view the logs
It can take weeks or longer to load the pictures to every album and artist.
The pitty is, that it also takes weeks if songs are having pictures included, because it seems that they are eighter ignored or taken with lowest priority.
My prio would be as follows.
If a song has a picture included, take this with highest prio, at least for this one song.
If there is no album picture available yet, take the first available song picture instead.
If no artist picture is available yet, take the first available album picture instead.
With this logic all pictures would be there immediately (because most songs are having one, at least in my case) and than it can take weeks or longer to replace them with better ones from background loading.
With this prio less people would complain about slow background loading.
That’s the way it already works. If you have problems then ask on Discord or q&a on GitHub.
Edit: This is in terms of local artwork. there is no fallback to use album art for artist. That would be weird.
All my local FLAC files have integrated Album Art.
All my Artist folders have a folder.jpg with the Artist Art.
Both load instantly when I add files to my library. When I used Deezer and before that Apple Music all the art was streamed fine as well.
I seem to be close to having a working version of Music Assistant in HA, BBC Sounds, Spotify and media I have in my local HA media folder. I have a number of player providers configured. However, my current challenge is to get the content to actually play. I suspect there may be conflicting settings with multiple services trying to control the players.
I have a Sonos Play 3, a pair of Symfonia speakers, an LG TV, a USB speaker on the HA workstation which
In Music Assistant>Settings>Providers filtered to show just the player providers shows I have 4 providers controlling 8 players configured thus:-
In settings>Players the 8 players are shown thus ( note I have disabled three services which seemed to be duplicates to see if that might have been the issue:
If I try and play media from HA directly, the music is played, but not when I try to play the same content on the same device from Music Assistant. Although MA shows the track being played on the chosen player, the player does not play!
Any insight would be gratefully received.
Seems like I might just need to have been a little patient as the service seems to be working now…
…but then again…
… I spoke too soon. MA will play through the USB speaker using VLC-Telnet. However, when I try playing anything on the Sonos system, the current music is stopped, but the music chosen in MA is not played.