Resuming Spotify through scene.create clears Spotify's queue

Configuration
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I have set up an automation that is triggered by a group which includes my laptop’s camera and microphone.

The automation creates a scene on the fly (before_online_meeting) with the state of my office including lights, Spotify and Chromecast audio speakers

Once it has done that it pauses the media_players and sets lights to 100% brightness and I’m ready to start my meeting.

The same automation is triggered by the microphone and camera group again when they are switched off, but this time the automation attempts it turn on the scene created in the earlier run. Everything seems to work fine. Lights go on, music starts playing again.

However, there is some behaviour in Spotify which I can’t explain.

  1. It starts the song it was paused on playing from the start instead of resuming the song.
  2. Most importantly, the automation clears the Spotify queue. This has the effect that if am listening to a song in a playlist, it will start this song again after the meeting, however the music will stop after that song as the queue is empty.

Could someone explain what is happening here and help me optimise the automation so that Spotify’s queue isn’t cleared.

alias: meeting_toggles_office_music_lights
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.meeting
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
    id: start
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 2
  - platform: state
    entity_id: group.meeting
    id: stop
    from: 'on'
    to: 'off'
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
condition:
  - condition: zone
    entity_id: person.name
    zone: zone.home
action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: start
        sequence:
          - service: scene.create
            data:
              scene_id: before_online_meeting
              snapshot_entities:
                - media_player.spotify_username 
                - media_player.office_speakers
                - light.office_dimmer
                - light.gallery_spots
          - service: media_player.media_pause
            target:
              entity_id:
                - media_player.spotify_username
                - media_player.office_speakers
            data: {}
          - service: light.turn_on
            data:
              brightness_pct: 100
              transition: 2
            target:
              entity_id:
                - light.office_dimmer
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: stop
        sequence:
          - service: scene.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: scene.before_online_meeting
            data: {}
    default: []
mode: single
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I don’t think the Spotify API exposes the queue, so it cannot be restored.
Workaround:
Call the media_player.media_play service instead if you just want to resume. You can save the original state (playing/not playing) in an input boolean and use that as a condition.