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Start/Resume Playback

me.player.start_playback(PlayerStartPlaybackParams**kwargs)
PUT/me/player/play

Start a new context or resume current playback on the user's active device. This API only works for users who have Spotify Premium. The order of execution is not guaranteed when you use this API with other Player API endpoints.

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device_id: Optional[str]

The id of the device this command is targeting. If not supplied, the user's currently active device is the target.

context_uri: Optional[str]

Optional. Spotify URI of the context to play. Valid contexts are albums, artists & playlists. {context_uri:"spotify:album:1Je1IMUlBXcx1Fz0WE7oPT"}

offset: Optional[Dict[str, object]]

Optional. Indicates from where in the context playback should start. Only available when context_uri corresponds to an album or playlist object "position" is zero based and can’t be negative. Example: "offset": {"position": 5} "uri" is a string representing the uri of the item to start at. Example: "offset": {"uri": "spotify:track:1301WleyT98MSxVHPZCA6M"}

position_ms: Optional[int]

Indicates from what position to start playback. Must be a positive number. Passing in a position that is greater than the length of the track will cause the player to start playing the next song.

published: Optional[bool]

The playlist's public/private status (if it should be added to the user's profile or not): true the playlist will be public, false the playlist will be private, null the playlist status is not relevant. For more about public/private status, see Working with Playlists

uris: Optional[SequenceNotStr[str]]

Optional. A JSON array of the Spotify track URIs to play. For example: {"uris": ["spotify:track:4iV5W9uYEdYUVa79Axb7Rh", "spotify:track:1301WleyT98MSxVHPZCA6M"]}

Start/Resume Playback 

import os
from spotted import Spotted

client = Spotted(
    access_token=os.environ.get("SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
client.me.player.start_playback()
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