Play single track spotify sdk

Question

I am using the Spotify android SDK, and I am trying to get a single song to play, and I would like to potentially play a song after the current one is completed. The issue is that after the song completes Spotify plays a random song afterwards. Is it possible to play the song and not have anything else automatically play after it?

I am simply calling the app remotes player API play function,

mSpotifyAppRemote?.getPlayerApi()?.play(uri)

Answer 1

@Mikee you are doing nothing wrong, Spotify messes around with track replay if you are only using the Free version, if you use Premium it will work correctly. Funny enough if you try playing by an alblum or artist that works with the Free version.

Answer 2

I'm not an expert but from their documentation it looks like you could watch the PlayerState. I'm also not sure when a PlayerState event would trigger but if it's coming back relatively often you could check the track value and see if it's gone to null, or another value and work using that.

Here's a Java example from their website:

// Subscribe to PlayerState
        mSpotifyAppRemote.getPlayerApi()
                .subscribeToPlayerState()
                .setEventCallback(new Subscription.EventCallback<PlayerState>() {

            public void onEvent(PlayerState playerState) {
                // See what values are in playerState, might be able to determine 
                // if it's now randomly playing?
                final Track track = playerState.track;
                if (track != null) {
                    Log.d("MainActivity", track.name + " by " + track.artist.name);
                    // If the track is now different, your song has finished, stop it?
                }
            }
        });

I've put a few extra comments in the code above that might yield some results!