player id not found

[Gormd]

Plan

Premium

Country

Denmark

Device

Raspberry pi 5

Operating System

raspberry pi OS

My Question or Issue

Hi Community,

I am building a spotify streamer for my kids using a raspberry pi 5. I use the web playback sdk to launch a player in a browser. The device id is passed to a python script that is utilizing spotipy for controlling playback on the device. It has all been working wonderfully, but then on 6th November it suddenly stopped working. At 15.00 CET I was playing music. At 18.00 CET it told me this:

spotipy.exceptions.SpotifyException: http status: 404, code:-1 - https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play?device_id=xxxxxxx

In the above, I have replaced the device id.

When I start the normal spotify player on another computer I can see the player that I created. All playlists belonging to the user are listed as they should, so I know something is working.

Do any of you have an idea of what is going on?

[tomjaimz · Accepted solution]

If you call https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices you should be able to see the Device ID of the Web Playback SDK.  It may be that it has reconnected and been assigned a new ID.

[Gormd]

Thank you. Making that call I do actually see the player but with a different ID. I added check to see if the first provided ID is different from the one in the list of players, and if so use the one from the list.