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Music Assistant has support for the Internet Archive. This component is contributed and maintained by Gavin

This provider gives Music Assistant users free access to millions of audio recordings including live concerts, historical content, LibriVox audiobooks, and rare archival material from the Internet Archive.

Features
Subscription FREE Yes
Self-Hosted Local Media No
Media Types Supported Artists, Albums, Tracks, Audiobooks, Podcasts
Recommendations Supported No
Lyrics Supported No
Radio Mode No
Maximum Stream Quality FLAC (16 bit, 44.1 kHz)
Login Method None

Other

  • Search across all Internet Archive audio content
  • Artist browsing with albums and top tracks
  • Full album track listings with individual track playback
  • Audiobook streaming with chapter navigation
  • LibriVox audiobook library browsing

Configuration:

  • In the configuration, you only need to click the save button.

Known Issues / Notes

  • The huge amount of audio files with sub-optimal categorisation means narrow search terms will often be needed to find the item of interest
  • Internet Archive "items" will generally be created as albums. For example, live concerts will be created as an album under the artist
  • Individual files with Internet Archive's "items" will generally be mapped as tracks
  • Internet Archive "creators" will be mapped as artists
  • Metadata heuristics are used to classify content so that items are correctly categorised as music or audiobooks
  • Results are capped. Searches return a maximum of 200 items per query (Internet Archive API limit)
  • Searches are optimized for music and audiobooks, however, other audio content may appear in results
  • "Tracks" searches actually return the most downloaded recordings/concerts
  • The provider attempts to filter this out but full concerts may be shown as individual "tracks"
  • Audiobooks are supported however users can only jump between chapters and cannot seek within a chapter
  • This free service does not have optimised API calls and delays can be experienced when browsing and searching. Long time caching is used to speed subsequent viewing
  • Bear in mind that file naming is inconsistent, clear titles are not always available and the same title can be used for different items
  • Audio quality varies widely