topic Inconsistent behaviour of /me/player/queue endpoint in Spotify for Developers

Inconsistent behaviour of /me/player/queue endpoint

wiiwiiw — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 08:35:18 GMT

I've been trying to display a list of upcoming songs from the queue in my app and I noticed that whenever Spotify player is shuffling the endpoint returns up to 20 songs, however when shuffle is disabled only 2 songs are coming from the endpoint. Please see the screenshots from Charles proxy:

Shuffle disabled:

Shuffle enabled:

Also, API always returns more songs that are actually in the queue. Please see the screenshots, I've attached a screenshot from Spotify app on Mac. You can see that it displays only 6 more songs in the queue (correct) but API returns 19 songs as seen in screenshots above.

This looks to me like a bug in API. At least the API should let us know if songs coming up are actually from the queue or from Radio

I hope you will take a look into it, this functionality is crucial to any music player API but it is clearly broken.

Re: Inconsistent behaviour of /me/player/queue endpoint

Peter_Schorn — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:18:10 GMT

I share your frustration with this issue. The users of my app are going to think there's a bug in MY app when they only see two items in the queue.

Re: Inconsistent behaviour of /me/player/queue endpoint

wiiwiiw — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:09:51 GMT

Dear Spotify, this issue is still not fixed

Re: Inconsistent behaviour of /me/player/queue endpoint

Christina77 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:03:59 GMT

Having the same issue. Sometimes it returns the queue with 20 duplicate tracks. My app's users keep asking when I'm going to fix the bug, hard to explain I can't. I keep trying to come up with workarounds in the meantime but the behavior is very inconsistent.