<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 a type IPlayableItem, 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 a type IPlayableItem, 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 unkown 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">
