/v1/me/player does not support episodes

[svr333]

Plan

Free/Premium (tested on accounts with both plans)

Country

Belgium

Device

Samsung J5 (2016 version) / laptop

Operating System

Android 6.0.1 / Windows 10 / Ubuntu

My Question or Issue

Example response:

{
  "device": {
    "id": "my_device_id",
    "is_active": true,
    "is_private_session": false,
    "is_restricted": false,
    "name": "device_name",
    "type": "Computer",
    "volume_percent": 27
  },
  "shuffle_state": false,
  "repeat_state": "off",
  "timestamp": 1626888151381,
  "context": null,
  "progress_ms": 84302,
  "item": null,
  "currently_playing_type": "episode",
  "actions": {
    "disallows": {
      "resuming": true,
      "skipping_prev": true,
      "toggling_repeat_context": true,
      "toggling_repeat_track": true,
      "toggling_shuffle": true
    }
  },
  "is_playing": true
}

"currently_playing_type": "episode"
indicates that I am listening to a podcast rather than music, however, item is null so there is no way to get the title, id, creators, duration, etc. .

Is this a bug on my end or is this something that just hasn't been implemented in the api?
(for testing I tried two accounts, both free and premium, and several devices)

[Peter_Schorn · Accepted solution]

Why didn't you read the documentation? You must set the "additional_types" query parameter to "track,episode".