topic Returns wrong track ID when the same track exists in duplicate(GET v1/me/player/recently-played) in Spotify for Developers

Returns wrong track ID when the same track exists in duplicate(GET v1/me/player/recently-played)

oyu — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 06:07:51 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Japan

Issue

The following tracks look exactly the same, but have different IDs.

A: https://open.spotify.com/track/7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo?si=c6b7bae2220c4a8a

B: https://open.spotify.com/track/6sbugnLYosR8vG77QvmKZ5?si=f1ed7a238f56434a

If you get the ID of each track from `GET v1/tracks/{id}`, it returns the correct ID

(A: 7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo, B: 6sbugnLYosR8vG77QvmKZ5)

However, as shown in the following table, when you get recently played track from `GET v1/me/player/recently-played`, track B returns the ID of track A.

	v1/tracks/{id}	v1/me/player/recently-played
A	7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo	7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo
B	6sbugnLYosR8vG77QvmKZ5	7MuOSVDTgILDaWQmR4iLWo

I don't know if this is a specification or not, but I'm having trouble collecting data because it's treated as a different track.

Re: Returns wrong track ID when the same track exists in duplicate(GET v1/me/player/recently-played)

nightbreak — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:28:05 GMT

This was reported back in April 2019 on GitHub:

https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/1232

The currently-playing endpoint can also return the wrong Track URI if you include the market parameter, but seems okay if the market is not specified. I don't see Market mentioned as a parameter for recently-played so that doesn't help us here.

Re: Returns wrong track ID when the same track exists in duplicate(GET v1/me/player/recently-played)

oyu — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:54:17 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I didn't know that the endpoint has the same problem.

it looks very strange.