Is it possible to play songs backwards using the web API?

jomolist — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:18:14 GMT

I am trying to build an app that lets users play Spotify songs backwards for users, will their API allow me to do this?

Re: Is it possible to play songs backwards using the web API?

M4tr1k — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:19:59 GMT

Hi,

If with "songs backwards" you are saying play the previous songs played by a certain user, you have several options:

2º - Let's say that you want to play a song that was played 10 tracks ago. Instead of calling the previous endpoint 10 times, what you could do is once you have the recently played tracks by the user, you can add an item to the user's playback queue and then skip user’s playback to next track.

If it's literally playing a song backwards, I'm afraid you can't do it with this API.

Hope it helped 🙂