TeddyCloud

Music Assistant has support for TeddyCloud, the self-hosted, open-source server behind the Toniebox family of children’s audio players. Each Tonie in a TeddyCloud library appears in Music Assistant as an audiobook, complete with chapters. Contributed and maintained by yoyixms

A Toniebox is an audio player made for children. It is a soft cube with no screen, and it is controlled by standing a small figurine called a Tonie on top of it, with each figurine standing for one story or album.

The audio is not held in the figurine. It sits on a server, and TeddyCloud is that server, run by you instead of by the manufacturer. Music Assistant connects to the server rather than to the box, so the stories your children already have can be played through your speakers with no Toniebox involved.

Features

Subscription FREE	Yes
Self-Hosted Local Media	Yes
Media Types Supported	Audiobooks
Recommendations Supported	No
Lyrics Supported	No
Endless Mix	No
Maximum Stream Quality	Opus 96kbps
Login Method	None

Other

• Each Tonie is imported into the Music Assistant library as an audiobook, with the series as the author and the episode as the title
• Chapters are taken from the Tonie’s track marks and story names, so it is possible to skip between stories and seek within them
• Audio is streamed on demand directly from TeddyCloud in its original Opus quality, with no re-encoding
• Tonies are searchable and browsable alongside the rest of the Music Assistant content
• It is possible to add multiple TeddyCloud sources

Configuration

The following is needed to setup this provider:

• Server. A server URL (e.g. http://teddycloud.local or http://192.168.1.50:8080 for a local server) of a TeddyCloud instance. Include the port if it is not on 80

Known Issues / Notes

• Series, episode and artwork come from TeddyCloud’s tonies.json data — custom or unrecognised Tonies are still playable but show a generic title and no cover
• Tonies configured to stream from an external live source are skipped, as there is no stored file to serve
• Your place in a story is not shared with the Toniebox. Music Assistant keeps its own position and the box keeps its own, so a story started on one does not resume where it left off on the other. Nothing is written back to TeddyCloud
• A Tonie’s chapter marks and its story names come from two different places. Where they cannot be lined up with confidence the chapters are numbered instead of named, rather than risk a name landing on the wrong story