Play spotify song with cmd in a particular minute. (Code and Help to Fix)

Santiago

Hi everybody.
Searching the internet, I have achieved that through cmd I can run spotify and then play a specific song in a specific minute.

The VB Script code is:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Comandline = "C:...\Spotify.exe"
WScript.sleep 50
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run("spotify:track:09mEdoA6zrmBPgTEN5qXmN#0:52")
WScript.sleep 50

This (#0:52) is what specified when in the song to start playing it. But now that the spotify interface has been updated it doesn't work anymore.
Still open spotify and plays the selected song, but not in the minute that I specify.

Does anyone know how I can fix it?

(PS: I hope the code helps someone to be able to play songs from spotify)

Russ

@Santiago, I researched and found the same thing - they apparently stopped supporting that #0:52 parameter to jump to a specific part of the song. That's a bummer.

In my testing I found another way to play a specific song. You can just run start spotify:track:1aICPClDGoZGvxAv8g5lmS but if Spotify is already open, it doesn't work, so I made this .bat file that closes Spotify then re-opens it by playing a specific song.

taskkill /im spotify.exe
start spotify:track:1aICPClDGoZGvxAv8g5lmS

Santiago

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Santiago

@Russ Thanks for your reply!! Yes, its really a bummer. I dont know why they change that. Im going to test your .bat, thanks you again.

José Parra

@russ Excuse me, is it possible to make it play a playlist automatically?

Edit your bat like this:
"taskkill /im spotify.exe
start spotify:playlist:39aWYh4Pq3xjPwOUChkO4a?si=f262d16984cd44b8"
(replace music by playlist)

UchechiThomas

I can't automate music playback either. Have you found the problem yet?

Russ

@UchechiThomas, I found this post where people have solved it:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Is-there-a-command-to-play-a-playlist-using-command-line/td-p/952251

I found that this command switches to the playlist by ID:

start spotify:user:anything:playlist:22nGVo4QFZcfTAXcsl67kD

The trick is to get it to start playing. This batch file worked for me:

taskkill /im spotify.exe
start spotify:user:anything:playlist:22nGVo4QFZcfTAXcsl67kD
ping localhost
nircmd sendkeypress spc

The ping localhost command just makes it wait long enough to start Spotify. The nircmd command presses the space bar to start playing the playlist.

UchechiThomas

Thanks for the advice. I'll try to check it out today with the spotify promotion.

John Paul

@Russ Thank you Russ. I am currently looking to create a hotkey to open a specific track in Spotify and this is exactly what I needed.

John Paul

I am currently trying to play a podcast episode in this manner. I am able to pull up the episode in question with this code, however, it does not play automatically which I would definitely like it to do:

start spotify:episode:0yAefXW3oX7WbliU0DU8QB

Russ

@John-Paul, please try this in a .bat script:

taskkill /im spotify.exe
start spotify:episode:0yAefXW3oX7WbliU0DU8QB
ping localhost
nircmd sendkeypress spc