---
title: "Start/Resume Playback"
method: PUT
path: "/me/player/play"
tags: ["Player"]
---

# Start/Resume Playback

`PUT /me/player/play`

Start a new context or resume current playback on the user's active device.

## Query parameters

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

## Request body

- object
  - `context_uri` string — Optional. Spotify URI of the context to play. Valid contexts are albums, artists & playlists. `{context_uri:"spotify:album:1Je1IMUlBXcx1Fz0WE7oPT"}`
  - `offset` 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` integer — 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.
  - `uris` string[] — Optional. A JSON array of the Spotify track URIs to play. For example: `{"uris": ["spotify:track:4iV5W9uYEdYUVa79Axb7Rh", "spotify:track:1301WleyT98MSxVHPZCA6M"]}`

## Response `204`

Playback started

## Other responses

- `401` — Bad or expired token. This can happen if the user revoked a token or the access token has expired. You should re-authenticate the user.
- `403` — Bad OAuth request (wrong consumer key, bad nonce, expired timestamp...). Unfortunately, re-authenticating the user won't help here.
- `429` — The app has exceeded its rate limits.

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[API](https://skmtc.net/spotify/apis/sonallux.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/spotify/apis/sonallux/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/spotify/sonallux/versions/1459b27f2e48/schema)