Refresh MA playlist with script

[mooseBringer]

Is it possible to trigger a refresh of the random playlists (random artist from library/random album) from a script/automation?

I have programmed a shelly button in my kitchen to start the random artist on my kitchen chromecast audio. Works like a charm, double click it and it starts a spotify pop list for my wife. Tripple click it and it starts random artist from library for me. The thing is that I always not satisfied with the first pick of artist.

Therefore I want to clear the cue and refresh the playlist then repopulate with the next random artist. I have managed it to work exept it doesen't change artist until either the time triggers it or I manually reset it in the webview.

Also I really like MA, great work everyone involved!

[OzGav]

Not at the moment but you could do something like this https://music-assistant.io/faq/how-to/#play-a-random-item

[OzGav]

No. You could do this

service: mass.search
  data:
    limit: 5
    media_type: 
      - artist
    name: >
       {{ “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ” | random }}

but being able to limit the search to the library is currently on the to do list.

[mooseBringer]

Thanks for the help, I've found a somewhat diffrent approach but can't get the correct url. I have made a almost functioning script that fetches an artist name from a input_source but it seems that the album url that is genereated is in the wrong format. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

This is what the urls looks like:
spotify://album/21BxTgtthTPefP1e7gXVtV
tidal--RNvku5U7://album/22560688

The one I manually fetched from MA UI look like this and works: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWTMYgB8TqtmR

The script so far:

alias: MA_RandomAlbum
sequence:
  - service: input_text.set_value
    metadata: {}
    data_template:
      entity_id: input_text.ma_kok_artist
      value: "{{ state_attr('input_select.ma_kok_artister', 'options') | random }}"
  - service: mass.search
    metadata: {}
    data:
      limit: 9
      name: input_text.ma_kok_artist
      media_type:
        - album
    response_variable: ma_searchResults
  - service: mass.play_media
    metadata: {}
    data:
      enqueue: replace_next
      media_id: "{{ ma_searchResults.albums[range(0, 8) | random ].uri }}"
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.kok_2
mode: single
icon: mdi:playlist-music

[OzGav]

Firstly please format any yaml you post so it is readable using the <> icon. I have done that for you.

Why are you trying to generate the URI when you can just pass the album, track, artist or playlist name? EDIT: OK I see that is what the example has. Try with just .name instead of .uri

[mooseBringer]

Thanks!
The .name did it and I had the wrong syntax for calling helpers. Now I set up a input_select to randomly fetch my manually added favorites from and store in a helper (then I can also edit it from UI) and then do a mass search for random album. Works great. Also I did one more script for artist radio.

Random artist from input select and mass album search:

alias: MA_GetRandomAlbum
sequence:
  - service: input_text.set_value
    data_template:
      entity_id: input_text.ma_kok_artist
      value: "{{ state_attr('input_select.ma_kok_artister', 'options') | random }}"
  - service: mass.search
    data:
      limit: 20
      name: "{{ states.input_text.ma_kok_artist.state}}"
      media_type:
        - album
      artist: "{{ states.input_text.ma_kok_artist.state}}"
    response_variable: ma_searchResults
  - service: input_text.set_value
    data_template:
      entity_id: input_text.ma_kok_album
      value: "{{ ma_searchResults.albums[range(0, 8) | random ].name }}"
mode: restart
icon: mdi:playlist-music

Then play:

alias: MA_PlayRandomAlbum
sequence:
  - service: mass.play_media
    data:
      media_id: "{{ states.input_text.ma_kok_album.state}}"
      media_type: album
      artist: "{{ states.input_text.ma_kok_artist.state}}"
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.kok_2
    enabled: true
mode: restart
icon: mdi:playlist-music

Artist radio:

alias:` MA_PlayGeneratedArtistRadio
sequence:
  - service: mass.play_media
    data:
      media_id: "{{ states.input_text.ma_kok_artist.state}}"
      media_type: artist
      artist: "{{ states.input_text.ma_kok_artist.state}}"
      radio_mode: true
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.kok_2
    enabled: true
mode: restart
icon: mdi:playlist-music

EDIT! (Got an easier script in the other thread) And when I listen to an "not added" artist I stole a script to add it from media player artist and add to the list:

alias: ma_addArtistToRandomizer
service: input_select.set_options
  metadata: {}
  data:
    options: "{{ state_attr('input_select.ma_kok_artister', 'options') + [state_attr('media_player.kok_2','media_artist')]}}" 
  target:
    entity_id: input_select.ma_kok_artister
mode: restart

OG: Stolen from

Sorry for the wall of text, I'm just happy with it all 😅
Thanks again!

[CaseyRo]

I have a similar request to update the playlist, I'm using https://basyl.stream/ - excellent spotify playlists, but they are 'running with the day' so to say, so I need to refresh the playlist every time before starting a new play.

Adding a refresh service call would be amazing, I can also imagine people using collaborative playlists would like that too, or other 'real time' playlists.

[FredHags]

I have the same need for Navidrome Smart/dynamic playlists.
For example:
A dynamic playlist where I have 5 podcast which hasn't been played and was added to Navidrome within the last 7 days.
The playlist doesn't update until I manually refresh it in MA.

[de666]

Same for me with navidrome smart playlist which are not refreshed automatically or cannot be refreshed programmatically from HA