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Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 372

How play a track from a album on Spotify so that the next track of the album will play afterwards using Spotify App Remote SDK for Android?

Example: I have a Spotify album and I want to play its 15th track. After track 15 is finished playing I want Spotify to play track 16, after that track 17 and so on.

I am using the Spotify App Remote SDK for Android. I can think of three possible solutions.

Solutions:

  1. Get the following tracks of the album through the Spotify Web API and add them to the queque. This one does not work for me though because I do not want Spotify to keep the queque when the user starts playing another playlist or album.

  2. Use a background service that automatically starts playing the next track when the current one is finished. But here the user can experience a significant delay between the tracks.

  3. Start the album and skip multiple times. This option would theoretically work. It does not seem to be a very elegant though.

Is there a better way to achieve this? Like for example somehow adding a context to the track? Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1264

Answers (2)

nakeisha martinez
nakeisha martinez

Reputation: 1

With the method:

mSpotifyAppRemote.getPlayerApi().skipToIndex(java.lang.String uri, int index)

you have to put the uri with the context, for example an album:

"spotify:album:5ht7ItJgpBH7W6vJ5BqpPr"

and in the prameter index you need to put the position of the track in the album.

You can find more methods in the javadocs of SpotifyAppRemote here: https://spotify.github.io/android-sdk/app-remote-lib/docs/

Upvotes: 0

Martin Bold
Martin Bold

Reputation: 96

There is a good sample code Start/Resume a User's Playback how you can achieve it.

{
  "context_uri": "spotify:album:5ht7ItJgpBH7W6vJ5BqpPr",
  "offset": {
    "position": 5
  },
  "position_ms": 0
}

Set the context_uri to your album id, and offset to your track number and position_ms to your position in milliseconds.

Upvotes: 3

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