Spotify: Add current song to a playlist?

[NicolasG]

Hey there,
I listen to a lot of music through my Spotify and Alexa devices and have my HASS also connected to my Spotify account to control stuff. I wonder, is it possible to write a script in Home Assistant to add the currently playing song to a pre-defined playlist? Because Alexa can’t do this natively yet, I want to do the workaround through Home Assistant and emulated hue.

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

I’ve thought about looking into this, too. I think that before this is possible, the Spotify media_player component would need to know about the Spotify URI of the track. (Looks like spotify:track:0WnJdw4Clln064oLmQtiWF). You’d need that info first since that identifies the track.

But even with that, the component doesn’t expose any playlist functions that I’m aware of.

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

Spotify: service to implement adding tracks to a specified playlist

I’d like to find a way to add the current track to a specified Spotify playlist. It seems to me that to support this, the spotify media_player component would first need to retain the URI of the current track to media_content_id. Then the component would need to expose a service to add a track (or list of tracks) to a specified playlist using spotipy’s user_playlist_add_tracks Something like: service: media_player.add_to_playlist entity_id: media_player.spotify data: play…

[NicolasG]

Hey man! I upvoted your feature request!
Yeah we may have not the essential features yet even though the Spotify web player in the Home Assistant UI already is able to grab/show the current track. Also, we’re able to play a specific playlist through Home Assistant, but not adding anything to it afaik. I really hope this comes sooner or later. I miss it every day.

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

Here’s an interim fix:

Save currently-playing song to Spotify playlist

I often listen to Spotify-generated playlist. Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, Release Radar, etc. Often, I’ll hear a song that I want to earmark to listen to later or add to a playlist. Here’s a method to do that. While I keep my fingers crossed for an add_to_playlist service for the Spotify component, I’ve used IFTTT as the glue to make this work. So, you’ll need to set up the IFTTT component so that you can trigger events. Follow the instructions on the component page. On the IFTTT site, create…