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Music Assistant

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Section titled “Roku Media Assistant ”

Media Assistant is a utility that allows you to stream/play local and hosted media on your Roku device through Deeplinks. More information including examples and documentation can be found on the Media Assistant website. This provider is contributed and maintained by Medieval Apple.

Features

Section titled “Features”
  • Roku’s are auto-detected by Music Assistant
  • Play/pause using physical buttons is supported
  • Audio quality is lossless 48 kHz/16-bit

Settings

Section titled “Settings”

In addition to the Player Provider Settings when setting up this provider the following settings are available:

  • Allow automatic Roku discovery. This is on by default and enables the automatic discovery of Roku devices
  • App ID of Media Assistant. This is only used if the Media Assistant app was sideloaded onto the device

In addition to the Individual Player Settings the Roku players have the following settings:

  • Enable queue flow mode. Enable queue flow mode. Enabling this option will send all tracks as a continuous audio stream. This allows for support of gapless or crossfading. This can also help if your Roku is having have difficulty transitioning between tracks. This does have the side effect of losing some displayed metadata
  • Output channel mode. The default is Stereo but other options are Left channel only, Right channel only or Mono (both channels)
  • Sample rates supported by this player. This setting defaults to Roku’s stated max sample rates of 44.1kHz / 16 bits and 48kHz / 16 bits but the sample rates and bit depths supported by the Roku can be manually set. Unsupported sample rates may work depending on the Roku device
  • Output codec to use for streaming audio to the player. The default is FLAC but other options are MP3, AAC or WAV. Some codecs may load faster than others depending on the Roku device

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”

NOTE

Your Roku must be on Roku OS V9.1 or higher to install the Media Assistant App (The app has only been tested on a minimum of OS V13.0).

  1. Install the Media Assistant app from the Roku Channel Store or sideload it on your Roku.
  1. If you sideloaded the app, you will need to change the Player Provider Setting in Advanced >> App ID of Media Assistant to dev.
  2. On newer Roku OS versions, in order for Music Assistant to communicate with the Roku, you must ensure mobile app control is enabled. To check this, go to the Roku’s settings and navigate to (Settings >> System >> Advanced system settings >> Control by mobile apps >> Network access) and check if Network access is set to Enabled

Known Issues / Notes

Section titled “Known Issues / Notes”
  • Physical buttons for skipping do not work
  • Roku’s do not support crossfading of audio. If crossfade and/or full gapless support IS DESIRED, enable Flow mode in the player’s advanced settings. Enabling Flow mode may solve playback issues however the displayed time remaining will be lost

Not Yet Supported

Section titled “Not Yet Supported”
  • Volume currently has to be controlled on the device