Music Assistant Companion

The desktop companion app for Music Assistant!
Music Assistant »

Download for macOS (Apple Silicon | Intel) · Windows · Linux (Debian | Other)

[!IMPORTANT] 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

Setup

When starting the app for the first time you are asked about some information about the Music Assistant Server.

[!IMPORTANT] The app requires that the webserver is exposed. You can set that in the settings:

Features

Squeezelite

Squeezelite comes embedded into the application. This allows you playing 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 distrobutions)

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.

[!IMPORTANT] The app is unsigned since we currently dont want to spend 90 USD/yr for an Apple Developer account. Therefore it will warn you about an untrusted developer/app downloaded from 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:

git submodule --init --recursive

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

$ npx tauri build