Does this support custom tags and smart playlists built from the tags? I’ve been looking for a self hosted service that does that for so long.
Are you referring to genre tags? If so, they’re adding that feature in version 2.8.
There is also a Don’t Stop The Music feature, however that relies on functionality from the underlying provider.
The Don’t Stop The Music (DSTM) option can be enabled if a provider is available which supports dynamic tracks (i.e. Apple, Deezer, Spotify, Subsonic, Tidal and YTM). When DSTM is on, radio mode will be automatically enabled when the last track of the queue is reached and if any dynamic tracks can be resolved from one of the providers. The added tracks will be based on the played items in the queue.
Not exactly referring to that but kinda. We like to add custom tags that we decide for each track and then build playlists from those tags. So a playlist might have a genre tag but also, for example, the tag “relaxing” so a playlist is made up of all songs with those tags (playlist of all songs tagged both with “classical” and “relaxing”).
I could never get this to work with my Sonos speakers but always had hope so I wouldn’t need to use their stupid app.
I don’t know when it got fixed because I haven’t tried in several months, but it’s working now!
FWIW, I’ve been using Music Assistant with my Sonos speakers without issue.
HOWEVER, I’m using MA as part of Home Assistant, and have the speakers configured through HA, not MA. MA just sees the speakers as HA Media Players. That works really well.
This might be what I’ve been needing for years.
My use case is playing music from a local Synology Nas on Bose st-10 networked speakers.
This thread might be useful: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/music-assistant-not-showing-players-solved/825283
Thanks.
Turns out Bose is ending support for their network speakers and shutting down the app in 55 days.
If I’m lucky Music Assistant will keep them working.
I wish they would add
skip forward/backward by x secondsbuttons to the player interface. As it is it is unfortunately unusable for podcasts and audiobboks.




