# MusicAssistant - Plex as a provider

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/musicassistant-plex-as-a-provider/878302>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [May 22, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/musicassistant-plex-as-a-provider/878302 "2024-05-22T21:31:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![The\_yeti01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@The\_yeti01](https://forums.plex.tv/u/The_yeti01)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/musicassistant-plex-as-a-provider/878302/1 "2024-05-22T21:31:34Z")

</div>

So I use HomeAssistant and there is a fantastic new AddOn called MusicAssistant. One of the providers can be Plex. Unfortunately, this is not currently “supported”.

One thing with MusicAssistant is that I see a LOT of the growing pains that Plex has already solved, regarding tagging and metadata with local file systems providers. MA works great, but the UI, and metatdata leaves a LOT to be desired

Anyways, its a cool product, and maybe if you have never checked out Home Assistant you may want to. What I am really hoping is that posting here will bring some awareness and maybe the Plex team could work with the MA team somehow. (no idea how, or what that would mean, wistful thinking) .

> **[Music Assistant](https://music-assistant.io/)**
>
> Music Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming providers

> **[Local Files - Music Assistant](https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/filesystem/)**
>
> None

> **[Plex - Music Assistant](https://music-assistant.io/music-providers/plex/)**
>
> None

> <https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/issues/2319>
>
> \### What version of Music Assistant has the issue?
> 
> Stable 2.0.4, Beta 2.1.0b0…
> 
> \### What version of the Home Assistant Integration have you got installed?
> 
> 2024.5.1
> 
> \### Have you tried everything in the Troubleshooting FAQ and reviewed the Open and Closed Issues and Discussions to resolve this yourself?
> 
> \- \[X\] Yes
> 
> \### The problem
> 
> All albums tracks are listed twice: once with an icon of the original source, once as 'in library'. The consequence is that every album that is queued will be played twice as it also adds these duplicate tracks.
> 
> \### How to reproduce
> 
> Sync a Plex music library. It looks like below. When sorting by track number it will show the 'in library' tracks at the top, and the Plex tracks at the bottom.
> 
> !\[image\](https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/assets/11654657/6816bbbc-62e1-477d-84cf-863c2fa5b41e)
> 
> 
> 
> \### Music Providers
> 
> Plex
> 
> \### Player Providers
> 
> UPnP player provider
> 
> \### Full log output
> 
> \[log.txt\](https://github.com/music-assistant/hass-music-assistant/files/15346980/log.txt)
> 
> 
> \### Additional information
> 
> I've added the Plex music provider again in Beta, and strarted from scratch in the stable release. In both cases it happened.
> 
> Unmarking the 'In library' tracks as favourite has no effect.
> 
> \### What version of Home Assistant Core are your running
> 
> 2024.5.3
> 
> \### What type of installation are you running?
> 
> Home Assistant OS
> 
> \### On what type of hardware are you running?
> 
> Generic x86-64 (e.g. Intel NUC)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/musicassistant-plex-as-a-provider/878302/2 "2024-08-20T21:32:04Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.