Airplay as Music Provider #1757
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Given that the purpose of MA is to serve your music via a centralised database what would you be airplaying to those speakers? |
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I second this, while it's nice to be able to use speaker groups inside of MA for streaming for these services. Sometimes I have guests who I would not expect to give access to MA on their phones. It would be nice to expose speakers (or speaker groups) that do not have native support for Airplay. Similarly to how the Aircast HA-Addon does for chromecasts. |
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I would also like to see this. I am currently using an LMS instance, and frequently Airplay a podcast from my phone to one of the players. This allows me to keep track of the progress. Wondering if this project could work. It is already packaged as a Docker container, would just need to find a way to input the audio output into MA: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync |
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I would also love to see airplay as music provider! This is my setup: From my perspective, it would be great to have MA as the central entity for music/audio management of my home. This would also create a clear and linear call flow, and defined responsibilities: |
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Any chance the devs are looking at this? |
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I also have a use case for AirPlay as a music source. I have several speaker zones in my house, which I connected to my home server where I run multiple instances of shairport-sync to be able to stream to each of them individually. |
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+1 |
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Adding another general usecase for this: The ability to support playing whole-home audio from sources that do not implement a way to expose the libraries, but play the audio locally on your device. What: Why: All of the things too small, or that the developer team isn't staffed to implement would be able to leverage this escape hatch and benefit from being able to play across all the different devices MA supports for playback. |
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Adding to this request. Anybody found a good way to do this? |
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+1 |
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Yes, I would like to express my desire to have this feature added. I migrated to Music Assistant from LMS a few months back, and honestly this is the only feature I miss from LMS. Having the ability to stream to any, some, or all of my speakers via Airplay was great. It was also an excellent and simple way for guests or my wife to pull up a song or playlist they had on their phone to listen to it without having to touch the LMS interface and just use what they're used to. |
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This has been added to the latest nightly |
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Current Status
As at August 2025 work has commenced on this but is on hold due to other priorities
Original Post
Not sure if fully in line with the scope of this project, but just wanted to raise the suggestion :)
How about adding Airplay as player provider? To allow people to easily either select multiple speakers that don't have native Airplay functionality, or Airplay to the group player providers in MA?
Thanks!!
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