Music Assistant
Local Pipewire audio player to play directly from the server #4994
-
|
The server machine on which the music assistant is running is connected to some speakers with a plain ol good AUX cable. It's a Linux server running Pipewire, therefore any clients who speak ALSA/PulseAudio/JACK should work fine too. How do I get the server itself to show up as a player? The question https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/3283 is similar but did not get answered, or at least it is not obvious to me where this use case is detailed in https://www.music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/. I've checked several times, so if it is in there maybe the documentation needs some clarification |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Replies: 2 comments
-
|
Hey @piegamesde, a local Pipewire player for direct playback would be a fantastic addition to Music Assistant! It would really help bridge the gap for users running the server on a device with a local sound system. Given Pipewire's flexibility, this could open up a lot of high-quality audio options. Looking forward to seeing if anyone has a working prototype or workaround! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Turns out it's as simple as starting I first went on a wild goose chase trying to get a sendspin cli client to work, then ran into some weird issues, tried to look at the code and found out that it's all an intractable vibe-coded mess, so side note I'd strongly recommend towards using snapcast over sendspin |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Turns out it's as simple as starting
snapcaston the server machine (while having the snapcast plugin/provider enabled).I first went on a wild goose chase trying to get a sendspin cli client to work, then ran into some weird issues, tried to look at the code and found out that it's all an intractable vibe-coded mess, so side note I'd strongly recommend towards using snapcast over sendspin