Music Assistant Companion
The desktop companion app for Music Assistant!
Download for macOS (Apple Silicon | Intel) · Windows · Linux (Debian | Other)
This is still in very early alpha. Bugs will be present.
Please help finding them. You can report any bugs on the Discord server or in the repo issues
Note
There aren't apps available yet for Android or iOS
Setup
When starting the app for the first time you are asked for some information about the Music Assistant Server.
The app requires that the webserver is exposed. You can set that in the settings
Features
Squeezelite
Squeezelite comes embedded in the application. This allows playback of music to your computer. The player name will be the same as your computer name. You can change the name in Music Assistant settings. You can also toggle if you wish to enable squeezelite at all.
Discord Rich Presence
Like the Spotify app, the Music Assistant app can do Discord Rich Presence.
Example of Discord Rich Presence:
Installation
Arch Linux
This app is on the arch aur with the name music-assistant-desktop or music-assistant-desktop-bin for just the binary
You can install it with yay: yay music-assistant-desktop-bin
Debian (And debian based distributions)
You can download the .deb from the releases.
All the other linux distros
You can download the AppImage from the releases.
MacOS
You can download the .dmg from the releases.
The app is unsigned since we currently don't want to spend 90 USD/yr for an Apple Developer account.
Therefore it will warn you about an untrusted developer/app downloaded from the internet. To open it follow these instructions
Windows
You can download the .msi installer from the releases.
From source
If you wish to build the app yourself you should first follow the offical tauri prerequisites
Next, make sure you have the frontend submodule cloned. You can do this by running the following command:
Then clone the repository and install the node dependencies
$ git clone https://github.com/music-assistant/music-assistant-desktop --recursive
$ cd music-assistant-desktop
$ yarn install
$ cd frontend
$ yarn install
$ cd ..
And then build the app