music-assistant/server
Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers. The server is the beating heart, the core of Music Assistant and must run on an always-on device like a Raspberry Pi, a NAS or an Intel NUC or alike.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 295 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 72% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Manages media libraries by connecting streaming services and various connected speakers through a central server.
- Enables seamless integration with Home Assistant for automated media control on always-on devices like Raspberry Pi or NAS.
- Use for creating a centralized music management system that aggregates multiple streaming services in a smart home setup.
- Use for running a lightweight, always-on media server on low-power devices to serve music across different networked speakers.
- Use for automating music playback and control within Home Assistant environments to enhance smart home audio experiences.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers. The server is the beating heart, the core of Music Assistant and must run on an always-on device like a Raspberry Pi, a NAS or an Intel NUC or alike.
For issues, please go to the issue tracker.
For feature requests, please see feature requests.
Music Assistant can be operated as a complete standalone product but it is actually tailored to use side by side with Home Assistant, it is meant with automation in mind, hence our recommended installation method is to run the server as a Home assistant Add-on.
Note that although Music Assistant's main code is written in python, it has multiple dependencies on external/OS components such as ffmpeg and custom binaries and it is therefore not possible to run it as standalone pypi package. The only available installation method to run the Music Assistant server is by running the Docker container or the Home Assistant add-on.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+333 stars over 86 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +7 on Aug 29.
Forks
704+179
Open issues
84+3
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