BETA OF MUSIC ASSISTANT 2.0 AVAILABLE

[marcelveldt]

We've released an early beta for Music Assistant 2.0 to get some early feedback. The next couple of weeks we'll address the feedback, fix the last missing features and get the HA part of it ready.

Remember, this is an early beta. Some stuff will not yet work or is still missing.
Most important the first beta is still standalone and not yet integrated with HA. You run it as an addon or docker container and it will communicate with your players by itself (DLNA, Cast, Airplay, Slimproto and Sonos is supported already).
Home Assistant integration will off course also be added back again and will be available very soon.

Notes:

• Still on HA 2023.2.x and running MA v1 and want to try out MA 2.0 beta ?
• You need to temporary disable the MA integration in HA, they can be installed at the same time but not run at the same time.
• Join us on discord to give/discuss feedback on the beta

Make sure to not run HA slimproto integration and/or LMS at the same time as MA 2.0

Have fun testing and thanks again for the patience!

HOW TO INSTALL/RUN THE BETA OF 2.0 ?

Preferred method: Home Assistant Add-on
By far the most convenient way to run the Music Assistant Server is to install the Music Assistant Add-on:

Add the Music Assistant repository to your Home Assistant instance.
Install the Music Assistant add-on.
Add repository on my Home Assistant

Click the link below to add the Music Assistant repository to HA:
https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/supervisor_add_addon_repository/?repository_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmusic-assistant%2Fhome-assistant-addon

Alternative method: Docker image
An alternative way to run the Music Assistant server is by running the docker image:

docker run --network host ghcr.io/music-assistant/server

You must run the docker container with host network mode and the data volume is /data. If you want access to your local music files from within MA, make sure to also mount that, e.g. /media. Note that accessing remote (SMB) shares can be done from within MA itself using the SMB File provider.