[REQUEST] SoundTouch Player Provider for Music Assistant (MA server)?

[Hedda]

Any chance @thlucas1 or someone else is interesting in porting this into a native SoundTouch Player Provider for Music Assistant? See:

• https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/4766

FYI, Music Assistant (which is now also owned by the Open Home Foundation same as Home Assistant) is an combined free music library manager and integration platform implementation for supporting multiple music sources and player providers via "provider" modules. The Music Assistant server connects to to all type of different streaming services on one side and a wide range of different connected speakers as player providers in the other side. As such this server is the backend core of Music Assistant that keeps track of your music sources and player provider. The server can access multiple music providers and stream to multiple player types.

Music Assistant does however not yet support Bose's SoundTouch as a player provider (i.e. a client player). See:

• https://www.music-assistant.io/player-support/

and

• https://www.music-assistant.io/music-providers/

For a better overview of what Music Assistant is I highly recommend reading these two blog posts. Checkout:

• https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/09/music-assistant-2/

and

• https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/12/17/music-assistant-2-7/

This image can otherwise give you a good idea of input (music providers) and output (player providers)

[thlucas1]

@Hedda
Not at this time, as I am already maintaining the following custom components:

• SoundTouchPlus Integration
• SoundTouchPlus Card
• SpotifyPlus Integration
• SpotifyPlus Card

The Bose SoundTouch devices tend to work fine with Music Assistant via DLNA streaming.

[icstm]

Hi @Hedda what would you anticipate this looking like?
Our speakers support AirPlay and DLNA and both of these are supported by MA.
STP exposes the speakers to MA as well and you can then play via the "notification" source.

Other projects like Soundcork, which replicate the Bose servers, might be able to make MA a "source" that is then native to the speaker, could that be it?

[Hedda]

You need to read the linked feature request in the Music Assistent discussion section to fully understand what is asked for as both the original post there have been updated to cleariy what is asked for and the many replies there have even further clearification -> https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/4766

• https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/4766

Better to continue posting all and any questions and answers there to consolidate everything in that thread so gather all relevant information in one place.