diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/database/dao/PlaylistDao.java b/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/database/dao/PlaylistDao.java
index f6aea8d2a..b98892bf5 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/database/dao/PlaylistDao.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/database/dao/PlaylistDao.java
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ public interface PlaylistDao {
     @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.REPLACE)
     void insert(Playlist playlist);
 
+    // Insert only if the row is absent. REPLACE would delete-then-reinsert an existing
+    // playlist, which fails the playlist_song foreign key when its songs already exist
+    // (and can race when several callers cache the same playlist at once). Used to make
+    // sure a deep-linked playlist's row exists before caching its songs. See issue #729.
+    @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.IGNORE)
+    void insertIfAbsent(Playlist playlist);
+
     @Insert(onConflict = OnConflictStrategy.REPLACE)
     void insertAll(List<Playlist> playlists);
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/repository/PlaylistRepository.java b/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/repository/PlaylistRepository.java
index 5d822dae9..4199a246e 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/repository/PlaylistRepository.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/repository/PlaylistRepository.java
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ public void onResponse(@NonNull Call<ApiResponse> call, @NonNull Response<ApiRes
                                     songs = new ArrayList<>();
                                 }
                                 listLivePlaylistSongs.setValue(songs);
-                                cachePlaylistSongs(id, songs);
+                                cachePlaylistSongs(sr.getPlaylist(), songs);
                             } else if (sr.getError() != null && sr.getError().getCode() != null && sr.getError().getCode() == 70) {
                                 // Subsonic Standard Error Code 70: The requested data was not found.
                                 handleMissingPlaylist(id, null);
@@ -199,8 +199,16 @@ public void onFailure(@NonNull Call<ApiResponse> call, @NonNull Throwable t) {
         return listLivePlaylistSongs;
     }
 
-    private void cachePlaylistSongs(String playlistId, List<Child> songs) {
+    private void cachePlaylistSongs(Playlist playlist, List<Child> songs) {
         new Thread(() -> {
+            String playlistId = playlist.getId();
+            // playlist_song has a foreign key to playlist.id, so the playlist row must
+            // exist before its songs are inserted. The full-list path caches playlists via
+            // cacheAllPlaylists, but the single-playlist endpoint (used by deep links) does
+            // not — without this the songs insert crashes with a FOREIGN KEY constraint.
+            // Insert before the early-return dedup checks so the row is ensured even when
+            // the songs are already cached. See issue #729.
+            playlistDao.insertIfAbsent(playlist);
             List<PlaylistSong> cached = playlistSongDao.getSongsForPlaylistSync(playlistId);
             if (songs == null || songs.isEmpty()) {
                 if (cached != null && !cached.isEmpty()) {
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/subsonic/models/PlaylistWithSongs.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/subsonic/models/PlaylistWithSongs.kt
index 350dcbd4a..eae7c94b3 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/subsonic/models/PlaylistWithSongs.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/cappielloantonio/tempo/subsonic/models/PlaylistWithSongs.kt
@@ -8,8 +8,24 @@ import kotlinx.parcelize.Parcelize
 @Keep
 @Parcelize
 class PlaylistWithSongs(
-    @SerializedName("_id")
-    override var id: String,
     @SerializedName("entry")
     var entries: List<Child>? = null,
-) : Playlist(id), Parcelable
\ No newline at end of file
+) : Playlist(""), Parcelable {
+
+    // Do NOT redeclare `id` here. Overriding the base property creates a second `id`
+    // backing field, and Gson then sees two JSON fields named "id" (this class's and
+    // Playlist's) and throws "declares multiple JSON fields named 'id'" at startup.
+    // The previous workaround mapped this field to "_id", which dodged the clash but
+    // left the id null for the Subsonic getPlaylist response (it sends "id"): opening a
+    // playlist by id — e.g. a tempo://asset/playlist/<id> deep link — then re-fetched
+    // its songs with a null id, the server replied "missing parameter: 'id'", the page
+    // showed a perpetual spinner plus a misleading "Playlist not found" dialog, and the
+    // null id later crashed with a String.equals NPE. Inheriting Playlist.id (which maps
+    // "id" correctly) fixes all of that; the value still survives Parcelize because the
+    // base class is @Parcelize too. See issue #729.
+
+    // The synthetic "all songs" search result is built locally with a fixed id.
+    constructor(id: String, entries: List<Child>?) : this(entries) {
+        this.id = id
+    }
+}