New Spotify shortlink format fails to retrieve metadata

The link format when sharing albums from Spotify has recently changed on mobile, and the metadata isn’t retrieved successfully as a result. Initially raised on https://community.drownedinsound.com

Here is an album link that you get from Spotify Desktop

https://open.spotify.com/album/32ZfJdn0GFZteGpogIPJyr?si=k3mQKyAQRDGfn8XaboVSUg

Here is an album link that you get from Spotify Android

https://spotify.link/jvaikrmUNDb

The data retrieval is still possible though, for example this is what happens when you paste the Android link into WhatsApp:

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I like this feature request a lot and think we should improve this for sure.

Putting a pr-welcome on this for now, in case the community can help.

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