Media player song history (e.g. for Google Home)

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I wanted to have a history of what I am listening to when I say “Hey Google, play music”
It might be trivial but I spent a good amount of time getting this right so I’d figured I’d share for the benefit of the next newbie out there.

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      bedroom_speaker_song:
        value_template: >
          {{ states.media_player.bedroom_speaker.attributes.media_title }} by {{ states.media_player.bedroom_speaker.attributes.media_artist }}
        friendly_name: Bedroom Speaker Song
        icon_template: mdi:music

Some of the links that got me here:

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Hi, thanks for this.
I would like to use this to keep a record of the tracks we play via our media devices. I have added the sensor and it reflects the track played just fine.

What are you using to display/show the tracks played? Are you showing this in HA?

Thanks again.

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Thanks for sharing your result. I’m looking to do similar. Are you using the built in History function in HA to view the history?

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This thread was very useful to me, and it led me to create a list of recently played media player songs and when they played

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I used this template sensor that I added to configuration.yaml

template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Spotify Song & Artist"
        state: >
          {%  if state_attr('media_player.spotify_dan', 'media_title') != none -%}
          {{ state_attr('media_player.spotify_dan', 'media_title') }}  |  {{ state_attr('media_player.spotify_dan', 'media_artist') }}
          {%- endif %}
        icon: mdi:format-list-bulleted

To display the information I used the Home Feed Card on Github | Forum Thread and these settings on my dashboard

type: custom:home-feed-card
title: Spotify Recently Played
show_empty: false
scrollbars_enabled: false
more_info_on_tap: true
state_color: true
compact_mode: true
entities:
  - entity: sensor.spotify_song_artist
    include_history: true
    max_history: 25
    format: time
    content_template: '{{state}}'
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