Blacklist Spotify tracks/artists
I was tired of hearing songs and artists I hate, and not having any way to globally ban them. So, I put together this very simple flow.
It relies on a Spotify connection in Home Assistant, along with a Home Assistant input_boolean named input_boolean.spotify_skipper_enabled. When true, the skipper will be active. Otherwise, it'll be disabled. This is just for convenient enabling/disabling of the flow.
To setup the blacklists, open the is track blacklisted? node, and place the track and artist names you don't want to hear in the corresponding arrays.
This will run as often as the Spotify entity updates. By default, it is rather slow, so you can use a simple NodeRED or Home Assistant automation to poll it and keep it updated, like this.
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