topic Re: duration_ms includes nonsense JSON in Spotify for Developers

duration_ms includes nonsense JSON

Selbi — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 17:11:24 GMT

For a few days now, my app has been broken. After some digging it appears my code tries to cast the duration_ms field to an integer, but appears that field now also includes some weird "totalMilliseconds" JSON, causing the entire parser to fail. Why was this added? This just causes issues.

EDIT: On further testing, this only seems to be the case for local files.

Re: duration_ms includes nonsense JSON

kingosticks4 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:00:55 GMT

I'm not seeing this in my track object responses.

Re: duration_ms includes nonsense JSON

Selbi — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:28:57 GMT

Try fetching a playlist that contains Local songs.

Re: duration_ms includes nonsense JSON

kingosticks4 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:45:14 GMT

Not sure I have any of those, but that's a useful detail about your problem.

Re: duration_ms includes nonsense JSON

dargmuesli — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 04:01:40 GMT

I can confirm the duration_ms field's value does not match the specification for local files as described by Selbi. I'd like to kindly request Spotify's advice on whether the documentation or the actual behavior is to be considered correct 🙏

Re: duration_ms includes nonsense JSON

bruce_downs — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:35:48 GMT

This appears to be fixed, duration_ms now returns a # rather than a sub-field totalMilliseconds.

I created a PR #413 in the spotify-web-api-java library. (can't post gh links?)