ID-Mess (for at least albums but probably more)

[wolfgang_bures]

Continuing on my search to build "all-songs-of-artist-in-my-library"-function I found another strange thing, maybe somebody can help:

If I search for all albums of "Godsmack" (using /v1/artists/6gZq1Q6bdOxsUPUG1TaFbF/albums) I get quite a long list, containing 2 hits for the album "Awake". Two IDs (3GuHg26Zg5jjIQmT9aTwBh and 4uNwpYU5QyX2u0kkkEFLR4), same Title. Strange enough, but if I use my spotify client to get the album ID of my liked songs I find the ID 5ljBbHuTjawxbV5wF3bi5L!!
Searching in the spotify client with "godsmack awake" I find one album with ID "4uNwpYU5QyX2u0kkkEFLR4".

If I look up the album 5ljBbHuTjawxbV5wF3bi5L in the API it claims to be from godsmack and it's name is "Awake". So why does the "albums by artist" search not return it?

What is this mess with three IDs for one album, each with different track IDs'?

[Hubo · Accepted solution]

Hey @wolfgang_bures, thanks for posting on the Spotify for Developers board!

Let's get right into this. There's some more information on what's happening and why this is happening here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/track-relinking-guide/. Let me know if you have any questions after that!

Have a good one,

Hubo