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

[OzGav]

While it will take some time to properly document it MA has an extensive API. This can be used to refresh the playlist. Here is an example:

rest_command:
  ma_refresh_playlist:
    url: http://localhost:8095/api
    method: POST
    headers:
      accept: "application/json, text/html"
    payload: >
      {
        "message_id": "1",
        "command": "music/playlists/playlist_tracks",
        "args": {
          "item_id": "1234",
          "provider_instance_id_or_domain": "library",
          "force_refresh": true
        }
      }
    content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'

You may need to adjust the URL and item_id. If you have port 8095 exposed via the MA webserver settings then the above will work. If not then try http://d5369777-music-assistant:8095/api

To get the item_id use music_assistant.get_library to search for the playlist and you can find the info there as shown in the following example image

[mooseBringer]

Still can't get it to work 🤔 Probably I'm not formatting it right but I'm also curious about why I don't get the item_id in the response from music_assistant.get_library as @OzGav is displaying in the example

content: |
  <html><head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head><body>
  <h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1>
  Server got itself in trouble
  </body></html>
status: 500

items:
  - media_type: playlist
    uri: library://playlist/5
    name: 500 Random tracks (from library)
    version: ""
    image: http://192.168.0.10:8095/imageproxy?path=logo.png&provider=builtin&size=0
  - media_type: playlist
    uri: library://playlist/2
    name: All favorited tracks
    version: ""
    image: http://192.168.0.10:8095/imageproxy?path=logo.png&provider=builtin&size=0
  

Logger: homeassistant.components.rest_command
Källa: components/rest_command/__init__.py:154
integration: RESTful Command (dokumentation, ärenden)
Inträffade först: 13:27:48 (1 händelser)
Senast loggade: 13:27:48

Error. Url: http://192.168.0.10:8095/api. Status code 500. Payload: b'{ "message_id": "1", "command": "music/playlists/playlist_tracks", "args": { "item_id": "43", "provider_instance_or_domain": "library", "force_refresh": true } }'

[OzGav]

Yes sorry typo. I have corrected my post provider_instance_or_domain should be provider_instance_id_or_domain

[Andy071993]

@OzGav
First of all: Thank you for providing the script for us.

Is it possible to adjust the script, that it will refresh multiple playlists at once?
I tried it with "item_id": "43, 57, ..." but this is not working.

For a single playlist it is working perfectly (for example: "item_id": "43)!

[OzGav]

No sorry the argument expects a single id.

[Andy071993]

@OzGav
I think I found a solution for playlist refresh with multiple playlists:

I moved my rest_commands in the rests.yaml with the following command in configuration.yaml
rest_command: !include rests.yaml

Inside the rests.yaml I used your code and changed the item_id to a variable "{{ playlistnumber }}"

#Music Assistant Refresh Playlist
  ma_refresh_playlist:
    url: http://localhost:8095/api
    method: POST
    headers:
      accept: "application/json, text/html"
    payload: >
      {
        "message_id": "1",
        "command": "music/playlists/playlist_tracks",
        "args": {
          "item_id": "{{ playlistnumber }}",
          "provider_instance_id_or_domain": "library",
          "force_refresh": true
        }
      }
    content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'

Than I added the following automation script, where you can add as many playlists as you want (in my case it triggers every night at 5am):

alias: Music Assistant Refresh Playlists
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "05:00:00"
conditions: []
actions:
  - variables:
      playlists:
        - "35"
        - "11"
  - repeat:
      count: "{{ playlists | count }}"
      sequence:
        - action: rest_command.ma_refresh_playlist
          data:
            playlistnumber: "{{ playlists[repeat.index - 1] }}"
mode: single

I hope it is useful. 🙂

[FredHags]

Hi,
I get a 404 when trying to access the endpoint, http://localhost:8095/api or http://d5369777-music-assistant:8095/api.
I can access the http://localhost:8095 and http://l10.100.10.55:8095 without any problem.
Have I missed a tickbox somwhere?

[marcelveldt]

this is only available on the 2.4 version 9so now in RC state) - this is not yet available in the 2.3 stable version

[Dio55]

Question: Is the rest_command solution for the refresh playlist still available on the 2.5.8 version of Music Assistant?
I get the following error as reply when running the rest_command.ma_refresh_playlist action:

content: |

<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>

500 Internal Server Error

Server got itself in trouble status: 500 headers: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: "145" Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:31:01 GMT Server: Python/3.13 aiohttp/3.12.15 Connection: close

[mooseBringer]

I never got it to work so I'm not sure.

[de666]

Working correctly for me on Music Assistant 2.5.8