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josemmo
josemmo

Reputation: 7103

Add song to playing queue in Spotify Desktop

I'm trying to queue a song to Spotify Desktop (Windows 8.1) making use of Spotify Remote Control Bridge. I want that song to be appended after the current playing track.

Due to the restrictions Spotify applies to this API, there's no public documentation and I can't get in contact with their developers. This is one of the posts I've been following to understand how this API works: https://medium.com/@b3ngr33ni3r/hijacking-spotify-web-control-5014b0a1a360

I've successfully played a song with https://XXXX.spotilocal.com/remote/play.json?oauth=XXXX&csrf=XXXX&uri=XXXX, but it jumps to playing queue instantly and replaces it entirely.

When I call https://XXXX.spotilocal.com/remote/queue.json?oauth=XXXX&csrf=XXXX&uri=XXXX it always returns "Method not implemented". Do I need a special Oauth token? Or CSRF token?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 529

Answers (2)

Alex Redwood
Alex Redwood

Reputation: 198

Just giving an update, you can now add tracks to a queue via a BETA endpoint.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/add-to-queue/

I've tested it, and it seems to work as expected.

Upvotes: 1

Jonas Dellinger
Jonas Dellinger

Reputation: 1364

queue.json endpoint

This endpoint appeared in their js-library, although it never worked and it's, like you said, not implemented. It doesn't matter which arguments you supply.

play.json endpoint

So, this endpoint is more interesting. First of all, in the past you could use the following parameter ?action=queue to add a song to the queue, but sadly this doesn't work with the latest versions for whatever reason. The only thing you currently can supply is the play-context ?context. A context basically tells spotify what to play next (like setting a new queue). So if you want to play a track of an album and simultaneously want the album to finish after the specific song ends, you can supply a ?context=spotify:album:albumid. There is some more information about it in this issue of my library.

Summarizing, you currently can't add songs to the spotify queue, but add your own context which will be used as a future queue

Although it would be nice to know why spotify isn't releasing any documentation about the local-API.

Upvotes: 0

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