Extended Streaming History missing track metadata

[thatdutchguy]

Plan

Premium

Country

US

My Question or Issue

In processing my Extended Streaming History, I noticed that quite a few records (in my case, over 7000 records) are missing track metadata (or track identifiers). 

Is this a bug, or is there a reason this information is missing from these tracks? They all do seem to have time played in the "ms_played" field.

I've included three example records below:

Example #1:

  {

    "ts": "2024-07-22T08:59:28Z",

    "username": "<redacted>",

    "platform": "ios",

    "ms_played": 2246,

    "conn_country": "US",

    "ip_addr_decrypted": "<redacted>",

    "user_agent_decrypted": null,

    "master_metadata_track_name": null,

    "master_metadata_album_artist_name": null,

    "master_metadata_album_album_name": null,

    "spotify_track_uri": null,

    "episode_name": null,

    "episode_show_name": null,

    "spotify_episode_uri": null,

    "reason_start": "trackdone",

    "reason_end": "trackdone",

    "shuffle": false,

    "skipped": false,

    "offline": false,

    "offline_timestamp": 1721638762,

    "incognito_mode": false

  }

Example #2:

  {

    "ts": "2024-07-25T03:52:19Z",

    "username": "<redacted>",

    "platform": "ios",

    "ms_played": 15673,

    "conn_country": "US",

    "ip_addr_decrypted": "<redacted>",

    "user_agent_decrypted": null,

    "master_metadata_track_name": null,

    "master_metadata_album_artist_name": null,

    "master_metadata_album_album_name": null,

    "spotify_track_uri": null,

    "episode_name": null,

    "episode_show_name": null,

    "spotify_episode_uri": null,

    "reason_start": "fwdbtn",

    "reason_end": "trackdone",

    "shuffle": false,

    "skipped": false,

    "offline": false,

    "offline_timestamp": 1721879522,

    "incognito_mode": false

  }

Example #3:

  {

    "ts": "2024-07-25T18:36:26Z",

    "username": "<redacted>",

    "platform": "ios",

    "ms_played": 3944,

    "conn_country": "US",

    "ip_addr_decrypted": "<redacted>",

    "user_agent_decrypted": null,

    "master_metadata_track_name": null,

    "master_metadata_album_artist_name": null,

    "master_metadata_album_album_name": null,

    "spotify_track_uri": null,

    "episode_name": null,

    "episode_show_name": null,

    "spotify_episode_uri": null,

    "reason_start": "trackdone",

    "reason_end": "trackdone",

    "shuffle": false,

    "skipped": false,

    "offline": false,

    "offline_timestamp": 1721932581,

    "incognito_mode": false

  }

[Ivelina]

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