Get User's Saved Tracks wrong order in specific cases

danduh — Sun, 23 May 2021 17:38:17 GMT

As I'm currently working with the endpoint Get Current User's Saved Tracks I've noticed a peculiar issue. Tracks in the JSON response are in the wrong order in relation to the limit and offset parameters (compared to any Spotify app).

This is easily reproducible, at least on my account.

The issue appears when multiple/all tracks of an album are saved. So either through Like all songs in the mobile app, or selecting all tracks (Ctrl+A) and saving them in the Desktop/Web app.

Requesting the above mentioned endpoint returns tracks in reverse 'Date added' order, except when 'cutting off' an album. In this case the tracks of the album are not only not correctly ordered, but seem to be picked randomly from the selection of saved tracks of the album.

Here's an example with example data:

saved_pos: position in actual saved tracks UI (ordered by Date added)
album_pos: position of track in album, not shown for single tracks in this example
track_name: name of the track

Note: the songs from the album were saved all at the same time i.e. added_at is the same timestamp

saved_pos	album_pos	track_name
1	-	Your Power
2	-	Heartbreak Anniversary
3	-	deja vu
4	1	thousand eyes
5	2	home with you
6	3	sad day
7	4	holy terrain
8	5	mary magdalene
9	6	fallen alien
10	7	mirrored heart
11	8	daybed
12	9	cellophane
13	-	We're Good
14	-	Arcade
15	-	Streets

Sending a request to the API (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks) with parameters limit=15 offset=0 returns exactly the order as above.

Sending another request with limit=9 offset=0 returns:

saved_pos	album_pos	track_name
1	-	Your Power
2	-	Heartbreak Anniversary
3	-	Levitating
4	6	fallen alien
5	8	daybed
6	1	thousand eyes
7	9	cellophane
8	7	mirrored heart
9	4	holy terrain

Evidently, tracks are both in the wrong order and a different selection. The same phenomenon appears 'from the other side' so when using the parameters limit=10 offset=7. It also happens when using limit=50 (the maximum), anywhere in the saved tracks library, as long as it partially intersects a saved album.

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