Playback API - Can only play certain songs

[Matt Williams]

Hi, I'm new to the Development of Rdio after switching from Spotify API after they stopped third-party apps. I'm have quickly setup the simple playback Web API from "hello-web-playback" (https://github.com/rdio/hello-web-playback/blob/master/hello.html) and works fije when pressing play. So far so good.

The problem is this, I cannot play certain songs in the playback app. I tried to play by favourite album from Rdio (Album Key: a104627) and they don't play, they skip each track every second.

If anyone having this problem and the API are down, or is it just me?

Kind Regards,

Matt

[Devin Sevilla]

Hi Matt!

This sounds ilke you might be trying to play something that isn't
available in your region. Looking at the stream regions for that
album[1], it's currently only available in the Canada, Mexico, and the
USA. Is your region in that list?

Note that we can have multiple copies of albums with different stream
rights[2]. I'm not sure how you retrieved the album, but it's always
best to make an API request with user authentication (i.e. having gone
through the OAuth flow). Our API optimizes it's responses by ranking
streamable content higher, especially when searching.

[1]: http://goo.gl/Uqvusd
[2]: http://www.rdio.com/developers/docs/guides/regions/

--
Devin Sevilla
API Engineer, Rdio Inc.
http://rdio.com/people/devin_s/

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