If you’re interested, here’s my version. It uses a single Trigger-based Template Sensor to maintain a record of the last 5 tracks played (artist, title, time). It can easily be expanded from 5 to whatever quantity is needed.
template:
- trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: media_player.kitchen
attribute: media_title
sensor:
- name: Recent Tracks
state: "{{ now().timestamp() | timestamp_custom() }}"
attributes:
tracks: >
{% set current = this.attributes.get('tracks', []) %}
{% set new = [{
"artist": trigger.to_state.attributes.media_artist,
"title": trigger.to_state.attributes.media_title,
"time": now().isoformat() }]
if is_state('media_player.kitchen', 'playing') else [] %}
{{ (new + current)[:5] }}
Here’s the sensor’s information.
Here’s the content for the Markdown card.
|Artist||Title|
|:----|:-:|:----|
{% for x in state_attr('sensor.recent_tracks', 'tracks') | default([], true) -%}
|{{x.artist}}||{{x.title}}|
{% endfor -%}
Here’s the appearance of the Markdown card.
