topic Re: Spotify player in Facebook in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

Spotify player in Facebook

FirespaceRecord — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:07:14 GMT

Dear Spotify community,

My company has an Spotify channel and i would like to push our releases through to Facebook like this:

Unfortunately i do not know how to do that. PANG did gave me a very quick reply back but they didn't knew either.

A few preferences if it won't disturb the solution:
- To do this with just the open Spotify player (So i won't have to install something at my pc or where ever i might be)

- To do this with no third party tools or converters of some sort. I am not against it, but would love to keep the line as short as possible.

- To do this so it will also work at Twitter / Google+

Thank you for your time to help me!

Robert Velhorst

CEO of Firespace Recordings

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

MattSuda — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 10:53:47 GMT

Hey @FirespaceRecord

In the Spotify desktop app, right click a song and click on "copy track link".

Then go to Facebook and paste that link into the status box. It will then show the player. You can leave the link you pasted in the text field, or you can delete it and it will just show the player. Then when you hit post, people will see the player on Facebook.

This only works on Facebook because they implemented it into their website. The player will not show up on Twitter and Google Plus.

Twitter will show a preview of the artist and song title if you post the link on Twitter.

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

FirespaceRecord — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:27:47 GMT

Thank you a lot MattSuda!

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

MattSuda — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 04:24:04 GMT

You're welcome!

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

user-removed — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 10:26:36 GMT

Hi I am trying to post a track link on facebook and the player is not appearing? It was ok when I did this last week? This is the link:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6HnKlkF45STkeqZRHY7LYe

I just get an itunes style post rather than the player, please help! 🙂

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

user-removed — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:26:51 GMT

OK sorted it, you need to use the "embed" url, and it works perfectly. 🙂

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

user-removed — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 19:27:27 GMT

Thanks for the post, can you get the player to "auto play"? 😉

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

CntVnBrth — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:01:50 GMT

Hi MattSuda,

is this also working für mobile devices?

Thanks in advance!
Sebastian

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

nillketner — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:17:54 GMT

I tryed, but facebook show only my album cover....

Please help.

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

mvalla1029 — Sat, 27 May 2017 17:26:37 GMT

Hey! We are a bunch of me and my friends are having the same exact problem. Whether we right click and copy the playlist URL, copy playlist link, OR copy embed code... the player won't show up in the facebook post or comments. Please advise! Thank you!

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

radiokillaz — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:56:00 GMT

same problem here, works sometimes, not working today with my new release. any help??? spotify:track:0md3uPt7cij8A7UBl1bV5L

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

radiokillaz — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:13:41 GMT

This does not work for me all the times, today I am trying to post our new EP and I am only getting the image and external link for spotify and no player? Last week our other EP the player was coming up on FB. Is this a Spotify problem?

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

pinksoir — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:39:34 GMT

I'm having the exact same issue. What gives?

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

grandjeans — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:31:23 GMT

Same problem here with several artists. Usually it changes about a week after release, so the first week the player isn't there (it's just the cover picture) and then, after about a week, the player starts showing. But, obviously, that's not how it should be - you wanna be able to share it from day one, and it's a big loss for Spotify IMO cos artists can't share their platform as intended.

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

uk_martin — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:04:49 GMT

The thing to remember is that it only previews a short clip almost at random from anywhere within the length of the track. This could be the chorus or the "hook" if you are lucky, it could also be from the long drawn out solo in the middle, that may not be the best place to give a true flavour of the song.

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

evkanas — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:05:20 GMT

Same here. I think it's not possible for some countries.

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

floriabe — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 10:56:09 GMT

Hey guys,

I found a solution for releases which don't show the embedded player on facebook:

Copy the Spotify link of the track, go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/ , paste the link and click "debug". Facebook will scrape the link again and after reloading the facebook page you can paste the Spotify track link into your post – you should be able to see the embedded player now.

Worked for me instantly.

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

jamesegray — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 23:14:54 GMT

I tried the Facebook debugging technique that you have described, but unfortunately that doesn't work for me - I'm still left with only the artwork/link and not the Spotify player :(. Are there any other solutions out there? Many thanks, James 🙂

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

goomis_90 — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 08:58:33 GMT

Just use this site 🙂

https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/widgets/spotify-play-button/

Re: Spotify player in Facebook

jamesegray — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:12:43 GMT

Awesome! Thanks 🙂