music-assistant: Tell players to restart on startup

I haven't fully determined why, but when the Music Assistant server
restarts, it marks the _shairport-sync_ players as offline and will not
allow playing to them.  The only way I have found to work around this is
to restart the players after the server restarts.  As that's pretty
cumbersome and annoying, I naturally want to automate it, so I've
created this rudimentary synchronization technique using _ntfy_: each
player listens for notifications on a specific topic, and upon receiving
one, tells _shairport-sync_ to exit.  With the `Restart=` property
configured on the _shairport-sync.service_ unit, _systemd_ will restart
the service, which causes Music Assistant to discover the player again.
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# vim: set ft=systemd :
# In order for this to be effective, `shairport-sync.service` needs a
# configuration override to enable auto-restart, e.g.:
#
# [Service]
# Restart=always
# RestartSec=1
[Unit]
Description=Restart shairport-sync when music-assistant restarts
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/libexec/restart-sync.sh
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
[Install]
WantedBy=shairport-sync.service