Ability to add custom tags (variables)

[davidlamkin]

It would be great if I could add tags/variables to Artists/Albums/Tracks - or even to music providers themselves. These "tags" could be a part of the Hass media_player attributes.

My music library contains music for my whole household and we all have differences in taste. I am trying to scrobble tracks, but whenever someone else plays somethings, I have to delete it in Last.fm. If I could scrobble based on who is playing what, that would be awesome.

[OzGav]

You can add custom tags via a tag editor such as MP3Tag. How do you envisage this would be used though? How is last.fm currently receiving the data that it uses to scrobble?

[davidlamkin]

My apologies. I meant being able to set a variable that can carry over to an HA attribute. One use for this functionality could be to define variables like separating libraries for different users. Another could be to define actions for certain artists for automation (like scrobbling). Etc...

[OzGav]

How do you envisage that this variable gets its value? There has been suggestions before that HA feeds the user that is logged in to MA as there is no login functionality currently for MA.

[davidlamkin]

I would see it like a tagging system within Mass. Then in HA you could have the list of Mass tags in the attributes.

[OzGav]

OK there is no such functionality on the roadmap at the moment. Will have to wait and see if this idea gets any traction from other users,