How can use the Start/Resume Playback command with an artist and music

[pierr975]

When using the Start/Resume Playback with an album I'm able to use offset for selecting the 5th song for that album for example, I would like to do the same when selecting an artist, selecting not the first song from that artist but maybe the 5th or 6th, so I could put a random number when selecting that artist and each time I do, a different song comes.
Can anyone send me the body example for this function? Thank you

[Prague]

Waggin' hello to you!

To use the Start/Resume Playback command with an artist and a specific song from that artist, you can use the following body example:

{
  "context_uri": "spotify:artist:<artist_id>",
  "offset": {
    "position": <song_position>
  },
  "position_ms": <position_in_ms>
}

Replace <artist_id> with the Spotify ID of the artist you want to play, and <song_position> with the position of the song you want to start playing (for example, 4 for the 5th song). You can also add an optional position_ms field to specify a starting position within the song in milliseconds.

[Prague]

Here's an example body that would start playing the 5th song from the artist "Radiohead":

{
  "context_uri": "spotify:artist:4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb",
  "offset": {
    "position": 4
  }
}

Note that you will need to replace the artist ID with the ID of the artist you want to play. You can find the ID for an artist by searching for them on the Spotify web player or app, and looking at the URI in the artist's page URL.

I'll be barking up the wrong tree without an update from ya 🙂

-Prague the Dog

[pierr975]

I actually tried it but it returns the following message:
"message": "Can't have offset for context type: ARTIST"

did you have sucess with this approach?