diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index dd117cca93b809..e705c5267120ce 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ in {
   lomiri-docviewer-app = runTest ./lomiri-docviewer-app.nix;
   lomiri-filemanager-app = runTest ./lomiri-filemanager-app.nix;
   lomiri-mediaplayer-app = runTest ./lomiri-mediaplayer-app.nix;
+  lomiri-music-app = runTest ./lomiri-music-app.nix;
   lomiri-gallery-app = runTest ./lomiri-gallery-app.nix;
   lomiri-system-settings = handleTest ./lomiri-system-settings.nix {};
   lorri = handleTest ./lorri/default.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/lomiri-music-app.nix b/nixos/tests/lomiri-music-app.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e02af430382d1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/lomiri-music-app.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+{ lib, ... }:
+let
+  ocrContent = "Music Test";
+  musicFile = "test.mp3";
+in
+{
+  name = "lomiri-music-app-standalone";
+  meta = {
+    maintainers = lib.teams.lomiri.members;
+    # This needs a Linux VM
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+
+  nodes.machine =
+    { config, pkgs, ... }:
+    {
+      imports = [
+        ./common/auto.nix
+        ./common/user-account.nix
+      ];
+
+      test-support.displayManager.auto = {
+        enable = true;
+        user = "alice";
+      };
+
+      virtualisation.memorySize = 2047;
+
+      # To control mouse via scripting
+      programs.ydotool.enable = true;
+
+      services.desktopManager.lomiri.enable = lib.mkForce true;
+      services.displayManager.defaultSession = lib.mkForce "lomiri";
+
+      environment = {
+        # Setup video
+        etc."${musicFile}".source =
+          pkgs.runCommand musicFile
+            {
+              nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
+                ffmpeg # produce music
+                (imagemagick.override { ghostscriptSupport = true; }) # produce OCR-able cover image
+              ];
+            }
+            ''
+              magick -size 400x400 canvas:white -pointsize 40 -fill black -annotate +100+100 '${ocrContent}' output.png
+              ffmpeg -re \
+                -f lavfi -i anullsrc=channel_layout=mono:sample_rate=44100 \
+                -i output.png \
+                -map 0:0 -map 1:0 \
+                -id3v2_version 3 \
+                -metadata:s:v title="Album cover" \
+                -metadata:s:v comment="Cover (front)" \
+                -t 120 \
+                $out -loglevel fatal
+            '';
+
+        systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+          xdg-user-dirs
+
+          # To check if playback actually works, or is broken due to missing codecs, we need to make the app's icons more OCR-able
+          (lib.meta.hiPrio (
+            lomiri.suru-icon-theme.overrideAttrs (oa: {
+              # Colour the background in special colours, which we can OCR for
+              postPatch =
+                (oa.postPatch or "")
+                + ''
+                  substituteInPlace suru/actions/scalable/media-playback-pause.svg \
+                    --replace-fail 'fill:none' 'fill:#ff00ff'
+
+                  substituteInPlace suru/actions/scalable/media-playback-start.svg \
+                    --replace-fail 'fill:none' 'fill:#00ff00'
+                '';
+            })
+          ))
+        ];
+      };
+
+      systemd.tmpfiles.settings = {
+        "10-lomiri-music-app-test-setup" = {
+          "/home/alice/Music".d = {
+            mode = "0755";
+            user = "alice";
+            group = "users";
+          };
+          "/home/alice/Music/${musicFile}"."C+".argument = "/etc/${musicFile}";
+        };
+      };
+
+      i18n.supportedLocales = [ "all" ];
+    };
+
+  enableOCR = true;
+
+  testScript = ''
+    from collections.abc import Callable
+    import tempfile
+    import subprocess
+
+    pauseColor: str = "#FF00FF"
+    startColor: str = "#00FF00"
+
+    # Based on terminal-emulators.nix' check_for_pink
+    def check_for_color(color: str) -> Callable[[bool], bool]:
+        def check_for_color_retry(final=False) -> bool:
+            with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmpin:
+                machine.send_monitor_command("screendump {}".format(tmpin.name))
+
+                cmd = 'convert {} -define histogram:unique-colors=true -format "%c" histogram:info:'.format(
+                    tmpin.name
+                )
+                ret = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True)
+                if ret.returncode != 0:
+                    raise Exception(
+                        "image analysis failed with exit code {}".format(ret.returncode)
+                    )
+
+                text = ret.stdout.decode("utf-8")
+                return color in text
+
+        return check_for_color_retry
+
+    # Copied from lomiri tests
+    def wait_for_text(text):
+        """
+        Wait for on-screen text, and try to optimise retry count for slow hardware.
+        """
+        machine.sleep(10)
+        machine.wait_for_text(text)
+
+    def toggle_maximise():
+        """
+        Maximise the current window.
+        """
+        machine.send_key("ctrl-meta_l-up")
+
+        # For some reason, Lomiri in these VM tests very frequently opens the starter menu a few seconds after sending the above.
+        # Because this isn't 100% reproducible all the time, and there is no command to await when OCR doesn't pick up some text,
+        # the best we can do is send some Escape input after waiting some arbitrary time and hope that it works out fine.
+        machine.sleep(5)
+        machine.send_key("esc")
+        machine.sleep(5)
+
+    def mouse_click(xpos, ypos):
+        """
+        Move the mouse to a screen location and hit left-click.
+        """
+
+        # Need to reset to top-left, --absolute doesn't work?
+        machine.execute("ydotool mousemove -- -10000 -10000")
+        machine.sleep(2)
+
+        # Move
+        machine.execute(f"ydotool mousemove -- {xpos} {ypos}")
+        machine.sleep(2)
+
+        # Click (C0 - left button: down & up)
+        machine.execute("ydotool click 0xC0")
+        machine.sleep(2)
+
+    def open_starter():
+        """
+        Open the starter, and ensure it's opened.
+        """
+
+        # Using the keybind has a chance of instantly closing the menu again? Just click the button
+        mouse_click(20, 30)
+
+    start_all()
+    machine.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target")
+
+    # The session should start, and not be stuck in i.e. a crash loop
+    with subtest("lomiri starts"):
+        machine.wait_until_succeeds("pgrep -u alice -f 'lomiri --mode=full-shell'")
+        # Output rendering from Lomiri has started when it starts printing performance diagnostics
+        machine.wait_for_console_text("Last frame took")
+        # Look for datetime's clock, one of the last elements to load
+        wait_for_text(r"(AM|PM)")
+        machine.screenshot("lomiri_launched")
+
+    with subtest("lomiri music launches"):
+        open_starter()
+        machine.send_chars("Music\n")
+        machine.wait_for_text("favorite music")
+        toggle_maximise()
+        machine.screenshot("lomiri-music")
+
+    with subtest("lomiri music plays music"):
+        mouse_click(50, 420) # Skip intro
+        mouse_click(45, 25) # Open categories
+        mouse_click(45, 130) # Switch to Tracks category
+        machine.wait_for_text("test") # the test file
+        machine.screenshot("lomiri-music_listing")
+
+        # Ensure pause colours isn't present already
+        assert (
+            check_for_color(pauseColor)(True) == False
+        ), "pauseColor {} was present on the screen before we selected anything!".format(pauseColor)
+
+        mouse_click(45, 60) # Select the track
+
+        # Waiting for pause icon to be displayed
+        with machine.nested("Waiting for the screen to have pauseColor {} on it:".format(pauseColor)):
+            retry(check_for_color(pauseColor))
+
+        machine.screenshot("lomiri-music_playback")
+
+        # Ensure play colours isn't present already
+        assert (
+            check_for_color(startColor)(True) == False
+        ), "startColor {} was present on the screen before we were expecting it to be!".format(startColor)
+
+        mouse_click(600, 250) # Pause track (only works if app can actually decode the file)
+
+        # Waiting for play icon to be displayed
+        with machine.nested("Waiting for the screen to have startColor {} on it:".format(startColor)):
+            retry(check_for_color(startColor))
+
+        machine.screenshot("lomiri-music_paused")
+
+        # Lastly, check if generated cover image got extracted properly
+        # if not, indicates an issue with mediascanner / lomiri-thumbnailer
+        machine.wait_for_text("${ocrContent}")
+
+    machine.succeed("pkill -f lomiri-music-app")
+
+    with subtest("lomiri music localisation works"):
+        machine.succeed("sudo -u alice env WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 lomiri-music-app .mp4 >&2 &")
+        machine.wait_for_text("Titel")
+        machine.screenshot("lomiri-music_localised")
+  '';
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/applications/lomiri-music-app/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/applications/lomiri-music-app/default.nix
index 23551fc2dc93b5..f3688b33d9e329 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/applications/lomiri-music-app/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/applications/lomiri-music-app/default.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   fetchFromGitLab,
   fetchpatch,
   gitUpdater,
+  nixosTests,
   cmake,
   gettext,
   gst_all_1,
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   '';
 
   passthru = {
+    tests.vm = nixosTests.lomiri-music-app;
     updateScript = gitUpdater { };
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/lomiri-thumbnailer/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/lomiri-thumbnailer/default.nix
index c6ba7ef33a0bd4..366bebc1910f84 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/lomiri-thumbnailer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/lomiri-thumbnailer/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   lib,
   fetchFromGitLab,
   gitUpdater,
+  nixosTests,
   testers,
   boost,
   cmake,
@@ -169,7 +170,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   '';
 
   passthru = {
-    tests.pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+    tests = {
+      pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+      # music app relies on thumbnailer to extract embedded cover art
+      vm = nixosTests.lomiri-music-app;
+    };
     updateScript = gitUpdater { };
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/mediascanner2/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/mediascanner2/default.nix
index 0401e42ca78afe..a226fb8f1cde3c 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/mediascanner2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/lomiri/services/mediascanner2/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   lib,
   fetchFromGitLab,
   gitUpdater,
+  nixosTests,
   testers,
   # dbus-cpp not compatible with Boost 1.87
   # https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lib-cpp/dbus-cpp/-/issues/8
@@ -101,7 +102,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   '';
 
   passthru = {
-    tests.pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+    tests = {
+      pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+      # music app needs mediascanner to work properly, so it can find files
+      vm = nixosTests.lomiri-music-app;
+    };
     updateScript = gitUpdater { };
   };