Google Home/Nest always plays Spotify album instead of playlist

[Rdianco]

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Original poster: Henrik Kowalkowski 

No matter how I word it, when I tell my Google Nest to play my discover weekly playlist on Spotify it plays an album named discover weekly instead. The same goes for my daily mix playlists as well. It seems like someone has capitalized on the API to divert these requests to their albums instead of playing the Spotify curated playlists. 

When my friend who is also voice matched to the speakers requests the same, the speaker starts the correct playlist.

I have attached an example of the album that gets played instead of the playlist.

[kerk]

Man this has been annoying me a lot, I'm literally looking at the nest screen which lists my "Discover Weekly" playlist and it still can never find it.

Did you get anywhere with this?

[Jake]

Hey all,

Sorry for the late reply. I wanted to follow up and ensure you are good to go. Please let me know if you are still having any trouble from here, as I would be happy to take a closer look and assist you further. 

Best regards,
Jake

[goodtimeclub]

Thanks Jake, I can report that I've not experienced this issue again since. As a developer, very curious to know the root-cause of this error though haha

[Jake]

Hey goodtimeclub,

I personally don't have any details on what the root cause of the error was. I am glad to hear the issue has been resolved, though. With that being the case, I am going to lock the thread at this time. If you run into any questions from here, please feel free to create a new post. 

Best regards,

Jake

[goodtimeclub]

Please, Google – address this critical issue that so man users are experiencing.

Duplicate tickets are open for this same issue:

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Speakers-and-Displays/Assistant-won-t-play-my-playlists-on-Sp...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Reserved-Playlist-Names/m-p/5311597#M183433

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Google-Assistant-won-t-play-my-Discover-Weekly-playlist/m-p...