I am using https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/add-tracks-to-a-library-playlist to add tracks to playlists. This endpoint works fine for all playlists except for collaborative playlists. For collaborative playlist I get the following 500 error as a response:
"errors": [
{
"id": "<some id>",
"title": "Upstream Service Error",
"detail": "Unable to update tracks",
"status": "500",
"code": "50001"
}
]
}
Steps to reproduce:
- Create a playlist in your library.
- Use the api to add a song.
- Confirm that it works.
- Make that same playlist collaborative.
- Update the playlist ID in your api request (as making a playlist collaborative changes its id)
- Confirm that you get the 500 error.
Hello. Before attempting to modify a playlist you must first check the canEdit attribute (see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/libraryplaylists/attributes-data.dictionary) to discover if it is possible to modify the playlist. If canEdit is false then attempts to modify the playlist will return an error.
In the current version of these APIs, collaborative playlists aways have canEdit set to false. If you would like Apple to consider adding the ability to modify collaborative playlists please file an enhancement request asking for this functionality.
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