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URI to a track within a particular playlist?

ccarfi — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 17:27:01 GMT

I can get the URI for a track, no problem.

I can get the URI for a playlist, no problem.

But I can't in the general case figure out how to get the URI for a track that's in the context of a particular playlist.

I'd like to be able to start my player at a particular place within a playlist (say, start at track number 3 instead of the first track), or to start the web player this way.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,

Chris

P.S. Using the "in context" bit in AppleScript, I can get Spotify to play a particular track within a particular playlist. This is cool, and it works. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to do that with a URI in the general case.

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

MauriceMV — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 07:04:59 GMT

Hi @ccarfi,

Unfortunately you can't at the moment. Since playlists are basically just a collection of links to individual songs, when you copy a link to a song, it's linked to that individual song.

EDIT: I've put up an Idea Thread, which you can find here. If you want you can give it some kudos and support it.

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

ccarfi — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:24:02 GMT

Thanks, @mauriceMV. I've upvoted/kudos'd the Idea. Would be cool if others did, too.

I'm surprised this isn't available, since I was hacking around in the Applescript API and you *can* do this with the Applescript API.

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

neilobsidian — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 22:07:32 GMT

It looks like this is actually possible although I haven't seen documentation of this anywhere. For anyone else googling to find out how to do this, I'll give you an example URL and URI:

URL: https://open.spotify.com/track/1uN7FXCu0SDfV2Lb3SlahC?context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7DP7AU926fGTJ00Php2NON
URI: spotify:track:1uN7FXCu0SDfV2Lb3SlahC?context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A7DP7AU926fGTJ00Php2NON

General format:

URL: https://open.spotify.com/track/TRACK_ID?context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3APLAYLIST_ID
URI: spotify:track:TRACK_ID?context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3APLAYLIST_ID

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

ccarfi — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:39:35 GMT

Thank you neilobsidian! Will check it out.

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

jayknowstheway — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:51:07 GMT

I know it's kinda silly to have to do this, but if you know the playlist URI, you can get to the 3rd track on the playlist like this:

tell application "Spotify"

play track "spotify:playlist:4MNxsDTto3ngsz41PDFv82"

next track

end tell

or the better:

repeat 3 times

next track

end repeat

applescript syntax may in fact be worse than python!

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

brayjamin — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:02:19 GMT

You are an absolute LEGEND! Thank you so much!

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

YulTheWizard — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:26:06 GMT

I don't think that is possible, but you can post in on the ideas page. Spotify might add the feature if your idea gets enough votes.

Re: URI to a track within a particular playlist?

jlalonde — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:29:39 GMT

Unfortunately, it looks like it is not possible anymore in 2022. Unless the syntax has changed?