topic Re: Only showing preview in Spotify for Developers

Only showing preview

Mifurous — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:00:30 GMT

I'm messing with the embed feature and putting it in a basic HTML file, and it's only playing the preview with the option to play it on Spotify. I haven't modified the code at all. Is there a way to play the full song or is embedded restricted to the preview? Thank you!

Plan

Not connected to my Spotify account.

Device

Computer

Operating System

Windows 11

My Question or Issue

Re: Only showing preview

Ximzend — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:46:45 GMT

Yes, embedded tracks are restricted to the preview.

edit: I didn't have Premium at this time.

Re: Only showing preview

TyTheCoder — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:25:42 GMT

Re: Only showing preview

TyTheCoder — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:44:57 GMT

What is the correct way to display a playlist/track/etc. on a website then? Surely there must be a way for premium users to seamlessly begin playing on their active speaker. While I could probably develop something from scratch with the API, this seems like something that should be an ootb solution.
Is it a permissions issue in Edge and Firefox?

Re: Only showing preview

bobbyflowstate — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:54:53 GMT

Any update on this issue? I'm hoping to add embeds to my website and would like Spotify premium users to be able to play from the website without having to open Spotify. Is this possible? If not w/ the embed how would one build a custom solution?

Re: Only showing preview

Pooky1233 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:17:57 GMT

it seems if your logged into the spotify web player that you can listen to the full song

Re: Only showing preview

mrboombastic280 — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 03:22:43 GMT

What gives here?? There has to be a way to access full songs while embedded. This is **bleep**

Re: Only showing preview

user-removed — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 16:54:20 GMT

Has anyone found a way to play an embedded song without preview showing? Surely this is possible.

Re: Only showing preview

Ximzend — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:45:10 GMT

It only works on desktop when a user that has a Spotify Premium subscription is logged into the browser.

Re: Only showing preview

carrucha00 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:39:34 GMT

And make sure you're not in incognito/private browsing session...

Re: Only showing preview

R-Scott — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:36:43 GMT

Spotify embed w/out preview - Solved <-- This w/free account and Firefox.

Pull up your Spotify embed w/preview on your website.

Left click anywhere on the embed and choose

"This Frame"
"view frame info"

Then:

Goto "Permissions"
"Set cookies" = "Allow"

Close and refresh you embed, the preview should be gone now, providing you are logged into Spotify.

Re: Only showing preview

snej55 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:07:39 GMT

Can you do this with Chrome?

Re: Only showing preview

Runcolho — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:17:22 GMT

I have the same problem.

Can't seem to embed a playlist that's not in preview mode.

I see other sites and blogs that do it without a problem but mine always show as preview.

I'm a premium user and even with the login the playlist only shows as a preview.

It's actually already showing as a preview when I copy the code from the API.

Spotify embed only doing 30 seconds in Notion.

user-removed — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:25:13 GMT

When I try to embed Spotify in Notion, it only shows a preview and says get Spotify to listen to the whole song. The strange thing is that I have seen a Notion template where the whole playlist is listenable.

Re: Only showing preview

hq9000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:29:15 GMT

Hi All,

I have an opposite problem - not able to embed to show preview even if the user is logged in.

The reason for searching for that is that when a user IS logged in, the embed oftentimes (but not always) fail to work with content security policy error for whatever reasin, posted it here https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/iframe-embed-giving-Content-Security-Policy-error/m-p/6932874#M17661

BTW would appreciate some ideas on that one as well, showing full quality in embed would be ideal (and I assume it IS supposed to work) if it was realiable.