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Experience or opinions of Music Assistant?
(www.music-assistant.io)
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It is a handy tool.
The coolest feature is the Spotify Connect which turns your MA speaker into a Spotify Connect satellite to play to directly from the app. (I know, Spotify is terrible, but it is an admittedly Connect is a very very good feature in both Spotify and MA). Sadly, it is very buggy when testing. For me it worked well for a while, but now it bungles Spotify encoding and plays very very slow and distorted
It plays my home library very well through my ESP32S3 DAC to my old 90s Yamaha AV receiver and amp. (Side effect of also being able to control the sound system via HomeAssistant and IR and use voice assistant on a MEMS mic.
Like others have said, the interface is very clunky and bad for browsing your library of local music, but oh well. I also wish it had a radio function for your local music.
Qobuz is a much better company that compensates artists fairly, and the music assistant integration work is great!
About the artist compensation: do you you know if Qobuz is better than Deezer?
@moufle from my research, yes, significantly. I don’t remember the numbers, but Qobuz was an outlier.
Bonus - you can buy the music you like to keep from Qobuz and download it in honest-to-god files.
Cool, I didn't know that!
Oh for sure! I am just meaning specifically the Spotify Connect casting in general.
Then you don't have to use Music Assistant's really clunky and weird interface and anyone that comes to your house can just put on music from their own account and own app direct through WiFi without worrying about Bluetooth connection and signal.
I just looked and apparently Qobuz has a Connect feature that launched last year!
I hope Music Assistant integrates that! Apparently digital hi-fi systems are also still busy integrating the functionality, including Sonos/IKEA. It would help a ton of people switch to quobuz
It's all already there. am already using Qobuz with music assistant and a sonos picture frame from IKEA (both through music assistant and the sonos app)
I saw those picture frames... is the sound any good?
I'm no audiophile, but I think it sounds great.
Not according to the documentation.
Qobuz connect is something else that only got released 1 year ago. Spotify Connect even is only still in alpha on Music Assistant and that has been around for many years.
You can already for years simply find library items from qobuz in the music assistant UI, but playing music to an external Music Assistant provider directly from the Qobuz app on a different device has yet to be implemented.
Unless the documentation and github issues are all wrong. If you are able to just do that by default, you probably want to give some information as to how on the github feature request.
Ah, I now understand. I was misunderstanding you before.
I am using Qobuz connect and playing music from within Music Assistant. I indeed cannot play from the Qobuz app to music assistant yet.
I didn't even know it was a possibility being worked on.