Support for Smart Shuffle

[systematicallyrandom]

Summary

Is it possible to add support for the newer smart shuffle feature that Spotify implemented to replace the radio station feature for playlists?

Use Case

Spotify no longer supports the radio station feature for individual songs or playlists.

Benefits

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Potential Solutions

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Additional Details

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[fcusson]

@systematicallyrandom haven't found a way yet to enable smart shuffle. The API Endpoint currently only allows for a boolean value being passed, enabling the shuffle to True or False.

Technically, smart-shuffle is not really a shuffle, its actually 2 functionalities:

1. Enables Shuffle
2. Start adding songs to the context using a semi fixed distance with a jitter.

We can see in the playback state actually that smart_shuffle is a completely separate functionality to shuffle

{
  "device": {
    "id": "foo",
    "is_active": true,
    "is_private_session": false,
    "is_restricted": false,
    "name": "bar",
    "type": "Computer",
    "volume_percent": 100,
    "supports_volume": true
  },
  "repeat_state": "context",
  "shuffle_state": true,
  "context": {
    "type": "album",
    "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG",
    "external_urls": {
      "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/album/6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG"
    },
    "uri": "spotify:album:6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG"
  },
  "timestamp": 1732537078305,
  "progress_ms": 319750,
  "is_playing": true,
  "item": {
    "album": {
      "album_type": "album",
      "total_tracks": 15,
      "external_urls": {
        "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/album/6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG"
      },
      "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG",
      "id": "6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG",
      "images": [
        {
          "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273dce45359981d62e087a29e6f",
          "height": 640,
          "width": 640
        },
        {
          "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02dce45359981d62e087a29e6f",
          "height": 300,
          "width": 300
        },
        {
          "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00004851dce45359981d62e087a29e6f",
          "height": 64,
          "width": 64
        }
      ],
      "name": "Ænima",
      "release_date": "1996-09-17",
      "release_date_precision": "day",
      "type": "album",
      "uri": "spotify:album:6yWMN087PgSimbcVmHLEwG",
      "artists": [
        {
          "external_urls": {
            "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8"
          },
          "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8",
          "id": "2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8",
          "name": "TOOL",
          "type": "artist",
          "uri": "spotify:artist:2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8"
        }
      ],
      "is_playable": true
    },
    "artists": [
      {
        "external_urls": {
          "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8"
        },
        "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8",
        "id": "2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8",
        "name": "TOOL",
        "type": "artist",
        "uri": "spotify:artist:2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8"
      }
    ],
    "disc_number": 1,
    "duration_ms": 399266,
    "explicit": true,
    "external_ids": {
      "isrc": "USZE19600150"
    },
    "external_urls": {
      "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0nLOl4fSiBZKGFla5pLUtf"
    },
    "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/0nLOl4fSiBZKGFla5pLUtf",
    "id": "0nLOl4fSiBZKGFla5pLUtf",
    "is_playable": true,
    "name": "Ænema",
    "popularity": 60,
    "preview_url": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/cb0d70ad5cd62af8f0d6e00953ed0c8ea2d6f89b?cid=cfe923b2d660439caf2b557b21f31221",
    "track_number": 13,
    "type": "track",
    "uri": "spotify:track:0nLOl4fSiBZKGFla5pLUtf",
    "is_local": false
  },
  "currently_playing_type": "track",
  "actions": {
    "disallows": {
      "resuming": true
    }
  },
  "smart_shuffle": false
}

We can see there are a shuffle_state key currently set to true and a smart_shuffle key toward the end set to false in this example.

At the moment, I am only aware of a way of setting the shuffle_state using the API, the smart_shuffle doesn't seem to be possible. A post in the Spotify for Developper section of their Commmunity Forum dating from septeber 2024 seems to indicate this is in fact not possible for the moment.

[systematicallyrandom]

Thanks for looking into it! Hopefully Spotify updates their API soon.

[fcusson]

@systematicallyrandom, yeah they technically updated there API recently. They removed features instead of adding some