500 when trying to play from spotify

[johnnyfleet]

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I've been trying to troubleshoot playback issues recently with my Sonos and this program. I use it as part of https://github.com/ryanolf/node-sonos-nfc to read nfc tags and play music. I think it has been having issues for a while but spent the weekend troubleshooting, but appreciate wider support to help. It used to work fine - but I acknowledge that Sonos update screw ups have caused no end of issues - so I'm trying to figure out if there is something that can be fixes to make work again.

To isolate the issues I've been running just the node-sonos-http-api program locally using npm start.

Problem

❌ I seem to be unable to lookup or play music from Spotify.

Example: Trying to play One by One by Foo Fighters. The spotify link is https://open.spotify.com/album/1zQ6F8gMagKcPL4SoA80cx?si=zfp9lWkxQfKrgLO_X6Qo6Q. Following the rough advice from here I have crafted the album URI as:

spotify:album:1zQ6F8gMagKcPL4SoA80cx

I've then constructed into a URL to play locally on a Roam 2: http://localhost:5005/Roam%202/spotify/now/spotify:album:1zQ6F8gMagKcPL4SoA80cx

However I get the following error returned:

{
"status": "error",
"error": "Got status 500 when invoking /MediaRenderer/AVTransport/Control",
"stack": "Error: Got status 500 when invoking /MediaRenderer/AVTransport/Control\n    at Object.invoke (/home/john/Development/node-sonos-http-api/node_modules/sonos-discovery/lib/helpers/soap.js:99:10)\n    at Player.addURIToQueue (/home/john/Development/node-sonos-http-api/node_modules/sonos-discovery/lib/models/Player.js:616:15)\n    at /home/john/Development/node-sonos-http-api/lib/actions/spotify.js:33:36\n    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)"
}

What does work?

I have confirmed that:

• ✅ Playing music from my local library (through favourites) works flawlessly. http://localhost:5005/Roam%202/favourite/Phil%20Collins
• ✅ Pausing the player works no issue http://localhost:5005/Roam%202/pause
• ✅ Resuming playback works no issue http://localhost:5005/Roam%202/play

Spotify Credentials setup

I have created a settings.json file in the root project with spotify details. It seems the spotify developer portal has changed a little so the info in readme a little ambiguous. I set up with the following details:

I assume the redirect isn't needed. I didn't know the required scope so I assumed Web API.

The settings.json file simply looks like:

{
  "spotify": {
    "clientId": "<redacted-for-github>",
    "clientSecret": "<redacted-for-github>"
  }
}

Any suggestions to help greatly appreciated.