I prefer native music apps because, in my experience, they offer a smoother experience compared to PWA. I don’t mind using PWA, but the Music Assistant PWA sometimes annoys me with its delay in loading items.

I had issues with HACS version once and also switched to docker. That way, I could add a health check to restart the container in case something breaks.

You can check out music streaming servers such as Navidrome (Jellyfin also works) for that together with a compatible client such as symphonium This is a closed source app but the most feature complete. I use Tempo but has no android auto support I believe.

Yeah I did that eventually. Now I have to repeat this on multiple devices

Yes, I plan to do that too. Tried Librewolf; wish they added an option to import bookmarks from Firefox. They currently support importing bookmarks from non-Mozilla based browsers.

Glad to see Music Assistant is getting updates. It is the only way to keep my Sonos speakers working as the Sonos app hardly ever works for me.