Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3622936/?format=api
{ "id": 3622936, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3622936/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-27T09:05:08-08:00", "show": 66042, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66042/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710901.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-aff8e013-f8e9-48c4-93fe-be01d6ac4272/mbid-aff8e013-f8e9-48c4-93fe-be01d6ac4272-21009315786_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710901.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-aff8e013-f8e9-48c4-93fe-be01d6ac4272/mbid-aff8e013-f8e9-48c4-93fe-be01d6ac4272-21009315786_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Tom’s Diner", "track_id": "fc751d5a-4205-35b2-9b80-e1a50263d366", "recording_id": "071f7f8c-c477-4dec-a63f-f1bfee58f609", "artist": "DNA feat. Suzanne Vega", "artist_ids": [ "97cecdca-af46-4344-9677-ed80bfe43b66", "cf119120-7df5-47d7-9dec-49f8837a4e40" ], "album": "Tom’s Album", "release_id": "aff8e013-f8e9-48c4-93fe-be01d6ac4272", "release_group_id": "9811a59e-da1b-36d0-9b62-413ca2c4c446", "labels": [ "A&M Records" ], "label_ids": [ "35515729-1f2c-4cc9-9390-9af2764bc56c" ], "release_date": "1991-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Did you know that \"Tom's Diner\"by Suzanne Vega was used to test the early MP3 compression algorithms? The audio engineer, Karlheinz Brandenburg, listened to the song thousands of times before it came through clearly.\n--\n\"I was ready to fine tune my compression algorithm and somewhere down the corridor a radio was playing Tom's Diner. I was electrified. I knew it would be nearly impossible to compress this warm a cappella voice,\" Brandenburg recalled several years later: https://us.kef.com/blogs/news/tom-s-diner-and-the-birth-of-the-mp", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }