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Music Assistant

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Music Assistant has support for using Plex (MusicLibrary). Contributed by micha91 and maintained by anatosun

Features

Section titled “Features”
Subscription FREEYes
Self-Hosted Local MediaYes
Media Types SupportedArtists, Albums, Tracks, Playlists
Recommendations SupportedYes
Lyrics SupportedNo
Radio ModeNo
Artist Top Tracks SupportYes
Similar Artists SupportNo
Similar Tracks SupportYes
Maximum Stream QualityLossless FLAC (192 kHz, 24 bit)
Login MethodPassword

Other

Section titled “Other”
  • Search the Plex server

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”

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  • Click the Use Plex GDM to discover local servers button, this should discover your local server and prefill the local_server_ip and local_server_port fields
  • If GDM discovery fails, the 2 fields mentioned above will be filled with “Discovery failed… ”. In this case, please add the IP address (without any http:// prefix) of your server, and the port (usually 32400) that you are exposing it on
  • Select the SSL (HTTPS) toggle if required. If this setting is enabled an option in the Advanced Settings will be activated which requires the certificate to be verified (default is on)
  • If you login to Plex via MYPLEX.TV, click the Authenticate on MYPLEX.TV button, this may trigger your browser pop-up detection, so watch out for that, authenticate as you normally would for Plex
  • If you have configured Plex to allow local connection without authentication (see below), click the Authenticate Locally button
  • Select the Music library that you would like to use
  • Save the settings

Plex Configuration

Section titled “Plex Configuration”
  • If you want to allow Music Assistant to connect to Plex without authentication, go to your Plex configuration, Settings / Network. In the field labeled List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth enter the IP address of the computer running Music Assistant, and Save Changes

Known Issues / Notes

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  • A Plex source is always bound to a user account and a library
  • If you have multiple libraries, you need to add the Plex provider multiple times
  • If you have multiple Plex accounts, which have their own playlists, you can also add them as separate provider instances
  • If a Plex Media Server is running on the same host as MA, the Plex Connect plugin will fail to start because both attempt to bind to the GDM discovery port (32412). This is a known incompatibility. To resolve this it is necessary to run MA in Docker and remap the port, or run Plex and MA on separate hosts