How to tell if a release is an EP?

[Selbi]

The Spotify API groups both Singles and EPs in the same category (singles):

(Source: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#object-albumobject)

However, it clearly has an internal flag to mark a single as an EP, as made apparent by the metatags:

Both of these releases are classified as "single" by the API endpoint. Unless I'm blind, I wasn't able to find an elegant way to differentiate between the two types.

I did try to mess around with some hard numbers, such as saying "if a Single has a total duration of over 20 minutes, consider it an EP". However, then you have nonsense like this:

Yes, that is a 51 minute SINGLE! Spawned from the stupid trend to release singles in a stacking fashion rather than having a single be a single.

I'm lost what else I could do now. The info for what is classified as an EP is clearly there, but Spotify won't provide an endpoint for it.

[Selbi]

Still looking for help 😞

[gabrlh]

Found these explanations:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Why-a-four-song-album-is-considered-a-single/td-p...

https://support.tunecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006689928-What-is-the-difference-between-a-Single-...

https://support.cdbaby.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008275672-What-is-the-difference-between-Single-EP-a...

• The release has four to six (4-6) tracks.
• The release is under 30 minutes in duration.