Music Assistant
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. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 7.0
- age_days: 2673
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 65
Adoption not part of the score
2984 stars · 557 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Music Assistant is a free, open-source music library manager that unifies streaming services, local files, radio, podcasts and audiobooks into one library and plays them on a wide range of connected speakers. The server is the core component, designed to run on an always-on device such as a Raspberry Pi, NAS or Intel NUC, typically alongside Home Assistant.
Use cases
- combine spotify, tidal and local files into one music library
- play synced music across sonos, chromecast and airplay speakers
- stream music to multiroom speakers from a raspberry pi
- manage podcasts and audiobooks alongside my music collection
- control whole-home audio with home assistant automations
- play announcements over speakers without stopping the music
- gapless playback and crossfade on all my players
When to choose
- you want one unified library across streaming services and your own files
- you use Home Assistant and want music players and automations integrated
- you have an always-on device like a Raspberry Pi, NAS or NUC to run the server
- you need playback across many speaker brands and protocols (Sonos, Chromecast, AirPlay, DLNA, Squeezelite)
- you want gapless playback, crossfade, volume levelling and announcements
When to avoid
- you want a simple desktop music player on your laptop
- you cannot run an always-on server on the same layer 2 network as your players
- you need a lightweight pip-installable Python package (it is only distributed as a Home Assistant app or Docker container)
- your players are on VLANs or segmented networks that block mDNS/uPnP discovery
Facets
application · maturity active
audio-processing streaming sdk media self-hosted iot self-hosted python music-library home-assistant multiroom-audio streaming-services sonos chromecast airplay media-server automation docker linux
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/music-assistant/server · fetched 2026-08-28 · 841358421161
- homepage: https://music-assistant.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9d118f2e217c
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · a3cbbad887cf
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/integration/installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · fffb08b94761
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/settings/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 010d8b60e662
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/faq/listen-to · fetched 2026-08-29 · 428bd6afb532
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b297c540e1c
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/faq/massplaymedia · fetched 2026-08-29 · 286ccf5fb3e2
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/faq/massannounce · fetched 2026-08-29 · 62edb42c1701
- site_page: https://www.music-assistant.io/faq/masssearch · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6435f1a45a57
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| music-assistant/server | main | 95 |
| music-assistant/support | docs | 79 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="music-assistant/server")
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