Get 500 Internal Server Error When Using Transfer Playback API

vclong2003 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:43:09 GMT

Hi,

I'm encountering a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to transfer playback using the Spotify Web API.

What I Did

I checked available devices using GET /me/player/devices, and my devices are listed as expected:

{ "devices": [ { "id": "145d1de2d16f0f646ebc864c6f75a455e5b99232", "is_active": false, "is_private_session": false, "is_restricted": false, "name": "Personal Spotify Web", "supports_volume": true, "type": "Computer", "volume_percent": 100 }, { "id": "26069100cb0faeaa1a38b23c26efe396487205f4", "is_active": false, "is_private_session": false, "is_restricted": false, "name": "Personal Spotify Web", "supports_volume": true, "type": "Computer", "volume_percent": 100 } ] }

I then tried transferring playback using PUT /me/player with the following request:

{ "device_ids": [ "26069100cb0faeaa1a38b23c26efe396487205f4" ] }

The Issue

Instead of successfully transferring playback, I receive this response:

{
  "error": {
    "status": 500,
    "message": "Server error."
  }
}

This was working fine yesterday, but now it consistently returns a 500 error.

Additional Info

The device ID I'm trying to transfer to is valid and available.
The request was working previously with no changes on my end.
I have also tried refreshing my access token, but the issue persists.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could this be a temporary issue with the Spotify API? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Re: Get 500 Internal Server Error When Using Transfer Playback API

slawcok — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:08:31 GMT

What is interesting, I had this problem for a while with Sonos speakers - I could no longer connect to them.
For Sonos case the resolution was to get a new Spotify account.

Now I get 500 error when trying to switch to any device using the API

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Get 500 Internal Server Error When Using Transfer Playback API

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