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📡 Setup Music Assistant — Unified Music Hub for Your Home

Deploy Music Assistant on Ubuntu with Docker — a music library and streaming hub that unifies your sources and plays to any speaker, with deep Home Assistant integration, on port 8298.

⚠️ This script is provided for demo and testing purposes only. Not intended for production use.

📦 Resources & Setup Scripts

Grab the automated bash script from GitHub to follow along with the video.

Automated install script — one command deploys Music Assistant on port 8298. For Sonos, Chromecast, and DLNA speaker auto-discovery, host network mode is required.
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Quick Install:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/iot/music-assistant/music-assistant-ubuntu.sh
chmod +x music-assistant-ubuntu.sh
./music-assistant-ubuntu.sh

Tutorial Steps

1 Download the Script

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhmdali94/Docker/main/iot/music-assistant/music-assistant-ubuntu.sh

2 Make it Executable

chmod +x music-assistant-ubuntu.sh

3 Run the Installer

./music-assistant-ubuntu.sh

4 Open the Web UI and Add Providers

http://your-server-ip:8298

Ports Used

PortPurpose
8298Music Assistant web interface (mapped from container port 8095; host network for speaker discovery)

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