Home Assistant Playlist Package

playlists.yaml

# Media is stored in .homeassistant/media/ 
# To use this in your own installation:
# 1.  Replace all 'media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv' entities with your media player
# 2.  Create a script for each playlist with the tracks you want
# 3.  Edit the roku_finished_playing_track automation to conform to your media player, triggering whenever it finishes playing a track
# 4.  Start playing a playlist by calling the script for that playlist

input_select:
  current_playlist:
    options:
      - 'none'
    initial: 'none'

script:
  play_frozen_soundtrack:
    alias: Play Frozen Soundtrack
    sequence:
      - service: script.play_playlist
        data:
          tracks:
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/01. Frozen Heart.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/02. Do You Want To Build A Snowman.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/03. For The First Time In Forever.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/04. Love Is An Open Door.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/05. Let It Go.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/06. Reindeer(S) Are Better Than People.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/07. In Summer.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/08. For The First Time In Forever (Reprise).mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/09. Fixer Upper.mp3"
            - "Frozen Soundtrack/10. Let It Go.mp3"

  play_playlist:
    alias: Play playlist
    sequence:
      # update playlist input_select with new tracks
      - service: input_select.set_options
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.current_playlist
        data:
          # Prepend the base media URL in front of each track
          options: "{{ tracks | map('regex_replace', '^(.*)$', base + '\\\\1') | list }}"
      # select and play the first track
      - service: input_select.select_first
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.current_playlist
      - service: media_player.play_media
        data_template:
          media_content_id: "{{ states('input_select.current_playlist') }}"
          media_content_type: url
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv
    variables:
      base: "media-source://media_source/local/"
      tracks: []

  play_previous_track_in_playlist:
    alias: Play Previous Track in Playlist
    sequence:
      # If we're on the first playlist item, do nothing
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ state_attr("input_select.current_playlist","options").index(states('input_select.current_playlist')) > 0 }}
      # Select the previous track and play it
      - service: input_select.select_previous
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.current_playlist
      - service: media_player.play_media
        data_template:
          media_content_id: "{{ states('input_select.current_playlist') }}"
          media_content_type: url
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv

  play_next_track_in_playlist:
    alias: Play Next Track in Playlist
    sequence:
      # If we're on the last playlist item, do nothing
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ state_attr("input_select.current_playlist","options").index(states('input_select.current_playlist'))
          < state_attr("input_select.current_playlist","options") | count - 1 }}
      # Select the next track and play it
      - service: input_select.select_next
        target:
          entity_id: input_select.current_playlist
      - service: media_player.play_media
        data_template:
          media_content_id: "{{ states('input_select.current_playlist') }}"
          media_content_type: url
        target:
          entity_id: media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv

automation:
  - id: roku_finished_playing_track
    alias: Roku Finished Playing Track
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv
        from: playing
        to: 'on'
      # HA 2022.3 seems to have broken the above trigger.  The Roku media player doesn't seem to consistently change state when a track is over.  It just stays on 'playing'.  So add another trigger based on when the track gets near the end
      - platform: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ (state_attr("media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv", "media_duration") | int(default=1000) - state_attr("media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv", "media_position") | int(default=0)) < 10 }}
        for: 00:00:10
    condition:
      # Only proceed if we're on the PlayOnRoku app
      - condition: state
        entity_id: media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv
        attribute: app_id
        state: '15985'
      # This should filter out the case of the media player immediately jumping to the next track after going to a new track, by making sure that a track is loaded and (just finished) playing
      - condition: template
        value_template: >-
          {{ state_attr("media_player.43_tcl_roku_tv", "media_duration") | int(default=0) > 0 }}
    action:
      - service: script.play_next_track_in_playlist

recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - input_select.current_playlist

So to better understand above for simple people :
the first section : input_select total 4 lines is added in Config file
then you create a script
then create and automation

Does this sound right

can you elaborate a little more !