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SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

when i first saw and played with music assistant i was absolutely amazed for a bit. the ability to sling tunes to any device that can be seen on the network with all metadata available on a home assistant (adjacent) dashboard? sign me up! i was thrilled at the audiobook/podcast support as well. able to tie in tidal and local music with announcement capabilities… just awesome!

i can’t remember the exact reason why but it didn’t quite work perfectly for me, as far as “checking all the boxes”

the companion app wasn’t quite designed to be a music source and would stop playing if screen was locked for a few seconds? on webpage it is like, constantly spamming KDE connect to continue playing, even when sending to another device.

i am following music assistant for sure though!

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HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My favorite use case for MASS is my desktop PC, in our bedroom, has a decent 5.1 sound system, and is running squeezelite.

I have an alarm automation that starts playing from the random 500 playlist.

When my phone connects to my car’s Bluetooth, it transfers the queue to my phone, which is running snapcast on a VPN.

When my phone disconnects from my Bluetooth, and I am at home, it transfers any queue from my phone back to my desktop.

If I’m not at home it just stops the music, otherwise it’ll start playing through the phone speakers.

While at work, I’ll use Ultrasonic rather than music assistant, because my data inside my work area is sporadic, and not conducive to a good musical experience with how MASS streams.

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- SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  holy shit this is the kind of stuff that piques my interest! Flawless location hopping eh? is this descended from the old Logitech platform? will CERTAINLY look into this
  
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  - HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That I’m not sure of, I know MASS uses snapcast internally, and can stream to LMS/squeezelite players.
    
    I also wouldn’t call it 100% flawless, but it works well enough for me.
    
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