<titledata-react-helmet="true">IPlayableItem | SpotifyAPI-NET</title><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="docsearch:version"content="next"><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="twitter:card"content="summary_large_image"><metadata-react-helmet="true"property="og:title"content="IPlayableItem | SpotifyAPI-NET"><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="description"content="When working with playlists or the current playing context, you will encounter the IPlayableItem type, which only contains a Type property. Spotify recently introduced shows/episodes to the API, and thus had to adapt API endpoints which previously just returned track objects. Now, playlists and the current playing context can include two types: tracks and episodes. To reflect this in our models, we introduced IPlayableItem."><metadata-react-helmet="true"property="og:description"content="When working with playlists or the current playing context, you will encounter the IPlayableItem type, which only contains a Type property. Spotify recently introduced shows/episodes to the API, and thus had to adapt API endpoints which previously just returned track objects. Now, playlists and the current playing context can include two types: tracks and episodes. To reflect this in our models, we introduced IPlayableItem."><metadata-react-helmet="true"property="og:url"content="https://johnnycrazy.github.io/SpotifyAPI-NET/docs/next/iplayableitem"><linkdata-react-helmet="true"rel="shortcut icon"href="/SpotifyAPI-NET/img/favicon.ico"><linkdata-react-helmet="true"rel="canonical"href="https://johnnycrazy.github.io/SpotifyAPI-NET/docs/next/iplayableitem"><linkrel="stylesheet"href="/SpotifyAPI-NET/styles.8a053330.css">
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">var playlist = await spotify.Playlists.Get("37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF");</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">foreach (PlaylistTrack<IPlayableItem> item in playlist.Tracks.Items)</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">{</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> // When was it added</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> Console.WriteLine(item.AddedAt);</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> // The only propety on item is item.Type, it's a IPlayableItem</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> Console.WriteLine(item.Track.Type);</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">}</span></div></div></div></div></div><p>Now, this type per se is probably useless to you. You're interested in the name, uri or artist of the episode/track. To get that info, you have to type cast the <code>IPlayableItem</code> to the respective type:</p><divclass="mdxCodeBlock_iHAB"><divclass="codeBlockContent_32p_"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"class="copyButton_1BYj">Copy</button><divtabindex="0"class="prism-code language-csharp codeBlock_19pQ"><divclass="codeBlockLines_2n9r"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">foreach (PlaylistTrack<IPlayableItem> item in playlist.Tracks.Items)</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">{</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> if (item.Track is FullTrack track)</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> {</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> // All FullTrack properties are available</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> Console.WriteLine(track.Name);</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> }</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> if (item.Track is FullEpisode episode)</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> {</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> // All FullTrack properties are available</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> Console.WriteLine(episode.Name);</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"> }</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">}</span></div></div></div></div></div><p>To this day, <code>IPlayableItem</code> can only be <code>FullTrack</code> or <code>FullEpisode</code>.</p><h2><aaria-hidden="true"tabindex="-1"class="anchor enhancedAnchor_ZqCz"id="fields"></a>Fields<aaria-hidden="true"tabindex="-1"class="hash-link"href="#fields"title="Direct link to heading">#</a></h2><p>When requesting just a subset of fields using the <code>fields</code> query parameter, the call might fail with an exception similar to <code>Received unknown playlist element type</code>. For example, the following call fails:</p><divclass="mdxCodeBlock_iHAB"><divclass="codeBlockContent_32p_"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"class="copyButton_1BYj">Copy</button><divtabindex="0"class="prism-code language-csharp codeBlock_19pQ"><divclass="codeBlockLines_2n9r"style="color:#bfc7d5;background-color:#292d3e"><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain">var playlistGetItemsRequest = new PlaylistGetItemsRequest();</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"
