Spotify: play specific playlist

[Daniel Suranyi]

I am trying to make Spotify play a specific playlist. I found a community flow here: https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/17848 but that works with interactions and I think it should also work with intents, since that would be much faster.

I browsed around a bit about how to send intents to Spotify, but I cannot make the Broadcast block work. Currently I have this variant:

I also tried without the "Extras" field and with different combinations of "Package" and "Receiver class". Spotify just does nothing...

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

You should likely use the App start block, not Broadcast send, see: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common#PlaySearch

[sch...@gmail.com]

This is a reply to an old post, but references something I was struggling with and this was the best search result I found ... regrettably it was not answered with a real solution.

Here is what I ended up with that works to start playing a specific Spotify playlist:

Using an App start block, set the following:

Package = com.spotify.music (selected from drop-down of installed apps)

Action = View

Data URI = spotify:playlist:{playlistid}:play

You can get the playlistid by examining the link generated by sharing a playlist. The link generated will be in the form:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/{playlistid}?various tracking tags

    Copy/paste the letters/numbers between the last / and the ?.

I hope this is clear enough that it helps others who are attempting to do the same.

-Stuart