Spotify library items on Home Screen

[taravasya]

Hi! I started to explore the possibilities of Music Assistant with great pleasure. I added several music providers, Tidal, Qobuz and a Spotify account. But on the home screen I see mostly library items only from Tidal. A couple of playlists from Spotify, and nothing from Qobuz. I made some screenshots to clarify the contents of my home screen.

As you can see, the home screen has various elements taken from the tidal library, such as Custom Mixes, New Releases, Radio Strations etc. There are a few elements from the Music Assistant library, which I understand may have some content from Spotify.... However, there are no elements from Spotify at all (Daily mixes or Discovery Weekly). Maybe I just misunderstood, and these elements from Spotify should not be on the home screen?

In the Browse menu, in the Spotify folder, I see my tracks, my own playlists, but I also don't see any recommended playlists here. Although the Music Assistant documentation states that they are only unavailable if you use a client id. And I didn't use it...

I also want to note that on the home page, except for items from the Spotify library, there are no items from the Qobuz library.
In general... I would be grateful if you show me where I can study the possibilities of integrating Spotify, Qobuz into Music Assistant, and maybe someone can explain whether their integration works correctly for me? I mean, their elements should not appear on the home screen or did something go wrong here?

[OzGav]

Only some providers support recommendations although others are being added as time allows. See the summary here https://www.music-assistant.io/music-providers/

As for Spotify the generated playlists they don't work if using a personal client id https://www.music-assistant.io/music-providers/spotify/

[taravasya]

generated playlists they don't work if using a personal client id

Yes, but I don't use the personal client id. I only used oAuth page for authorization, without creating a Spotify app. Maybe I misunderstood something? I see that in the MA documentation, in the provider summary table, for Spotify it is stated that recommended playlists are not supported, however, there is a disclaimer that they are not supported if use the client id. Logic tells me that this means that if I do NOT use the client id, then recommended playlists should appear in the MA interface? No?

By the way, this may be news. Weekly Mix and Daily Mix recommended playlists appeared in the beta versions of Qobuz.

[OzGav]

The note about recommended playist relates to your ability to search for and play them.

Recommendations on the Home View is a completely different function and has not been implemented with Spotify.

[taravasya]

ability to search for and play them

Thank you. Sorry, but it's still not clear. I didn't use client id when logging into spotify, but I still don't see recommended playlists ANYWHERE in the MA interface.
With your last comment, it's clear that displaying such playlists on the home screen is a separate topic, so we'll leave it.
But when I open the Browse section, my recommended playlists are still not there, and they are not in the search results.
So I don't understand under what conditions I can play my daily mixes or the discovery weekly from spotify?
I would just leave you alone ))), if I was absolutely sure that they are not available in MA at all, but apparently and judging by your previous comment, they can still be listened to somehow from MA. But I don't understand at all how this is possible to do?

[OzGav]

What exact playlist are you trying to find. Here is an example from my test server. Note the three from Spotify

[taravasya]

Sorry for the long reply. I was very busy with work.
I am talking exclusively about the recommended playlists. First of all, about "Discovery Weekly" and "Daily Mixes".
In your screenshot, I see "Daily Mixes" with "Spotify" as the source. And note that there is no "Discovery Weekly" playlist there at all, although this may be because you rarely listen to Spotify(?). If so, this playlist stops being generated for you. However, I listen to Spotify all the time, but if I search my playlists in Music Assistant, the search results only include the Spotify playlists that I created myself or someone else custom playlists with same title as recommended playlists have, and no recommended playlists at all. No "Daily Mixes" or "Discovery Weekly". Although if I open my Spotify page (or the app on my phone), the current versions of these playlists are displayed there. So, in the Spotify system, in my account they are, but in Music Assistant they are not displayed. Below are screenshots:

On last screen all displayed playlist wich from Spotify - not mine.

In browse section, I don't have "Discovery Weekly" and "Daily Mixes" too:

Here my Spotify library:

[OzGav]

Maybe Spotify is not returning “Daily Mix” playlists with the API call in your part of the world, I don’t see the Discover Weekly either so that is probably not returned anywhere but I will check.

edit: Indeed https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Discover-Weekly-Playlist-Missing/td-p/6584556

[taravasya]

Maybe Spotify is not returning “Daily Mix” playlists with the API call in your part of the world

Can we somehow check this? It seems Spotify has a playground for debugging API requests in their developer tools. Maybe you know better than me where to check this and what request to make?

Indeed

Ahh... Facepalm...

[OzGav]

I am not expert on this but you can see in the API call there is MARKET option which will potentially further restrict items https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-playlist

[taravasya]

Yep.... Its 404 (and this facepalm №2)

Here my Daily Mix

But API answear is 404....

So... At least in my case - recomended playlists do not supported... (((