Media player can Only Play One Track from Playlist or Folder

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Hi everyone,

I have a Denon amplifier connected to my HEOS account, but I believe the problem I’m experiencing is not directly related to HEOS.

From the media player in Home Assistant, I can select the source (I’m interested in Amazon Music and local media). In both cases, when I navigate to a playlist or a folder containing multiple tracks, I can only select and play one track at a time.

What I’d like to do is have the entire playlist or folder play automatically, track after track, without having to manually select each one.

Does anyone know if this is possible and how to configure it?

Thanks in advance!

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Does this help? The Media Player integration supports calling those attributes to play an entire playlist, so the only remaining limitation might be on the media player card you’re using.

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Thanks, what you suggest only works with HEOS playlists; it doesn’t work with personal Amazon playlists. This leads me to explain my problem better.
I’m using the default Media Player card in Home Assistant.
I imported an Amazon playlist as a HEOS playlist, and the two behave differently:
In the first image, it’s the HEOS playlist — here I can play all the songs in the playlist by clicking the button at the top.
In the second image, it’s the same playlist but opened from Amazon Music → My Music → Playlists. There’s no button to play all the tracks.

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That’s an issue with the Amazon Music Integration. Integrations indicate what levels of the hierarchy are playable.

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Amazon Music doesn’t have a native integration in Home Assistant (if I’m not mistaken). I can see Amazon Music because it’s linked to my HEOS account.
The strange thing is that in the HEOS app, with this playlist, I have the option to play all the tracks. Could it then be an issue with the HEOS integration?

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You have 2 Playlist folders in those screenshots:

  • 1 under Amazon
  • 1 under “I miei brani”

What happens if you move the Metal playlist to the Playlist folder under Amazon? Does it behave like a proper playlist then?

Another thing to try is to call the action directly from Developer Tools > Actions. Does this work, or does it return an error? (remember to change the entity ID to your Media player):

action: media_player.play_media
data:
  entity_id: media_player.your_player
  media_content_type: "playlist"
  media_content_id: "Metal"
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The playlist folder under Amazon contains playlists suggested by Amazon, while the folder under “I miei brani” contains my own playlists created by me.
I cannot move my playlist from “I miei brani” to Amazon.
In any case, even the playlists suggested by Amazon have the same problem: I cannot play all the tracks, only the one I select.

With the service
action: media_player.play_media
I can start the “Heos” playlists, which are something different from Amazon playlists. In this case, however, there is a button to start playing all the tracks.

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I am using the HEOS integration with my Denon/Marantz devices, and also noticed that I cannot add a Qobuz playlist (only a single track), but I can add a Tidal playlist or a HEOS playlist.