Mopidy-spotify mpc spotifycharts not adding to queue

General
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Hi there! So I can successfully control mopidy and mopidy-spotify via the command line using mpc. I can even add my own playlist using its URI to the queue by executing the command:
mpc add spotify:user:jmistri:playlist:7j7r1h2XnQGlJZSebnDy4Y

This works for every playlist that I’ve tried, except for one: the global top 50. For some reason, when I try to add it via URI to the queue, it gives an error. Here’s what I input:
mpc add spotify:user:spotifycharts:playlist:37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF
And I get back:
error adding spotify:user:spotifycharts:playlist:37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF: directory or file not found

I have no idea why this doesn’t work. On software like moped, it works perfectly, so I’m not sure if it’s just me or if it’s a bug in the software. If the latter, is there any way to get around this?

Thanks!

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Are you sure the uri is quite right for the top 50 playlist? I’d have thought that one would be coming from Spotify-web i.e spotify_web:user:spotifycharts:playlist:37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF or something like that.

3

I simply use the URI that is given in the Spotify client on my Mac. When I right click a playlist and hit “share”, it gives me the option to copy the URI to my clipboard. I used that one. Under what circumstances would it not be the one provided in the Spotify client?

4

Because Spotify screwed up their API and broke most playlists ‘owned’ by Spotify in their old library which mopidy-spotify uses. However, mopidy-spotify-web uses a different API which I think (I can’t remember) still works with these Spotify owned playlists. And the uri is a bit different for mopidy-spotify-web, you might have to check what it uses.

5

Actually, it’s really very likely they Spotify owned playlists won’t work at all. For the reason I mentioned before. We are currently working to move some things in mopidy-spotify to the Web API to remedy this but it’s not done yet.

6

This works on Moped for mopidy. I just tried the URI you provided and it didn’t work. How does Moped do it?

7

Hello? If mopidy-spotify doesn’t support it yet, when will it happen?

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Moped does nothing special so if it works with that it should work elsewhere. You’d have to take a closer look at the Mopidy calls it’s doing. The mpd frontend does do some things differently so it’s not hugely surprising.

We don’t have a timeline for these things, they happen as soon as someone has free time to work on it.