Starting a playlist on a specified URI starts first track in playlist

[janmei]

Issue found on July 31st 2017

Endpoint(s):

• PUT /v1/me/player/play

Scope(s):

• user-modify-playback-state

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the API Console
2. Call the start-a-users-playback with the the defined scope above and the PUT Body: { "context_uri": "spotify:user:spinninrecordsofficial:playlist:5aHawERps0AMmMLU1KHvv6", "offset": {"uri": "spotify:track:3lW5U8Ls8JKhhjmY88Nxeb"}}

Expected behaviour:

The playlist or album should start with the specified Track in that playlist or album.

Actual behaviour:

Player starts with the very first Element of the Playlist or Album.

Happens every Time I call it.

Thanks in advance

[bih]

Hey janmei,

That's strange. When I try to reproduce your steps, it plays the correct song (in this case it plays "Let's Go" by "Lucas & Steve" from the "Spinnin' Records Top 100". I even changed the offset to a different track from the playlist, and it worked as expected.

The steps I can advise are:

• Have you tried updating your Spotify to the latest version?
• Maybe try revoking access to your application and trying again.

Let me know if after trying those steps it still doesn't work as expected.

[janmei]

Hey bih,

I revoked the access and it worked again. Even in the API Console it works again. Don't know what happened there.

As long as this keeps working it is cool.

Thank you for your help.

[janmei]

I think i might know where this came from.

If I want to change the current playback on my local Laptop it works fine. But if I am listening it on for example my TV with Spotify as an Android Application on it, it starts the Playlist from the beginning as the original Issue description shows. This time I also recreated all my Tokens that I could find.

Maybe this helps a bit better for the fix.

[tpict]

I'm having the same issue playing through both the web client and the desktop app. Using a position offset works fine. Confirmed using the web API console.

[dukeblue2017]

I'm having the same issue. Others still experiencing playback of the first track only? I can set a different track by using position, but not with uri.