Media player is stopping after one song of a playlist chosen with the new SELECT entity

[wtaferner]

Describe the bug It seems that there is some issue with the new playlist entity. After choosing a playlist, it will start to be played but is stopping after one song and you are supposed to manually call the next service on the player which is weird for a playlist.

Version 20240420.02 + manual fix for deprecated methods (pendling PR)

To Reproduce

• Choose a playlist in your Playlist Field and have your Radio Mode configured as Playlist
• Toogle your player
• Listen to the song
• After one song the media player is still on but stops playing the playlist
• Continue and get it working again by clicking NEXT (song)

[wtaferner]

It seems like the song is running again in the player (progress bar), but nothing to hear...

I have two different players configured in my HA instance (if it matters for reproduction)

After looking into the code, it seems to be a quite common issue with several mitigation approaches... https://github.com/KoljaWindeler/ytube_music_player/blob/main/custom_components/ytube_music_player/media_player.py#L797

Keeping fingers crossed that the latest HA release and changes might improve things as this looks really messy 🤞🏼

It was working for me until the change of the input entities

I have Google Nest Audio, Nest Mini and Nest Hub as remote media player in place.

[mang1985]

I have also reproduced this issue. VLC is working fine, but the Chromecast device is not.After playing one song, the Chromecast remains in an idle state and does not continue playing.

[mang1985]

It appears that the issue might be related to using the new async_track_state_change_event method(#335), which now passes an event object to the callback function instead of entity_id, old_state, and new_state parameters. This change could potentially lead to other issues. I will attempt to see if I can fix the problem based on this new method.

[wtaferner]

For mitigation with the HA onboard automations I did this:

alias: YTubeMusic Mitigation Playlist (Player A)
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: template
    value_template: |
      {% 
        set players = states.media_player | selectattr(
          'name', 'search', states('select.ytube_music_player_a_speaker')
        )  
      %} 
      {% set entity = players | map(attribute='entity_id') | list | first %} 
      {% if states(entity) == 'idle' %}true{% endif %}
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: media_player.ytube_music_player_a
    state: playing
action:
  - service: media_player.media_next_track
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.ytube_music_player_a
mode: single

[mang1985]

@wtaferner If you have time, please try to see if this can work properly. https://github.com/mang1985/ytube_music_player/commit/c083c0dcd2dcbbf060f5214ef6c2d55ffbbb0f5f

[wtaferner]

@mang1985 You have nailed it. It is working as expected again.

Thank you 🙏🏼

[wtaferner]

Resolved with https://github.com/KoljaWindeler/ytube_music_player/pull/337