Music assistant

• Website / Docs
• GitHub
  • FAQ
  • Player Provider Poll #1
  • Companion app as media player
• Player providers
  • Squeezelite (a.k.a Squeezebox) Music Assistant (partly) emulates a Logitech Media Server and has a full implementation of the Slim protocol (aka slimproto).
• Music providers

Install

• Artifact hub: music-assistant charts
  • bdclark/music-assistant
    • GitHub
    • 2 contributors
    • No gateway API support so far
  • andibraeu/music-assistant-server
    • GitHub
    • No gateway API support so far
  • lmatfy/music-assistant-server
    • GitHub
    • No proper README.md

Network mode and ports:

• Docker network_mode: host - Why?
• Docker with macvlan bridge

Home-assistant integration

• Home Assistant Integration: Installation

The MA server will normally be discovered automatically by HA and is installed by clicking on CONFIGURE.

MA icon in sidebar

From FAQ: Get the MA icon in the HA sidebar?:

If you are using docker then you can use an iframe panel or you can use another custom integration called hass_ingress which allows you to add additional ingress panels to your Home Assistant frontend.

Providers

Filesystem (Remote SMB share)

Issues:

• When trying to mount a SMB share: Unable to apply new capability set.

  • mount.cifs within a container
  • SYS_ADMIN and(?) DAC_READ_SEARCH capabitlities needed

• Use hostname, not IP address

Players

Apps

Desktop client

• Music Assistant Companion App
• GitHub
• Archived since 2026-01
• AUR packages
• "Squeezelite comes embedded in the application. This allows playback of music to your computer"

Android

• Official Android app
  • Beta state, debug APK available from releases
• Discussion: Phone app
• Ensemble
  • AI coded, unofficial app
  • Discussion

Issues

Device screen display

• Squeezelite Devices (Muse Luxe) Display