topic Re: iframe API player autoplay in Spotify for Developers

iframe API player autoplay

svetoslavko — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:15:56 GMT

Plan

Free

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

Hi guys,

I was wondering whether there is a way of making embed iframe podcast player to start autoplay on initial load. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Re: iframe API player autoplay

svetoslavko — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:36:25 GMT

I tried to start playing the podcast embed player programatically using the injected SpotifyEmbedController.play() once the player is ready. It looks like this does not work for some reason, the icon loading indicator of the play button has started for an instance and then stopped again. Attempted with the other API existing methods brought by SpotifyEmbedController like - playFromStart / togglePlay, no success so far. Do I miss something here?

Re: iframe API player autoplay

ZackAttax — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:18:58 GMT

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Autoplay_guide

Are you following this guide for autoplay?

Re: iframe API player autoplay

pbrouwer — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:53:49 GMT

I actually filed the same issue.

I can confirm that there’s a new version of the api pushed 2 days ago (js file in the loaded iframe) and since it doesn’t seem to work anymore (at least you cannot control it externally).

would be great if the Spotify team can have a look at this matter. Or update the docs if the JS api interface for iframe has changed

Thanks!

See:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Iframe-embedcontroller-play-broken/td-p/5820105

Re: iframe API player autoplay

algoflows — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:43:46 GMT

EventController.play() and autoplay simply don't work at the moment, I've been raising this all over the place. Its an issue that needs to be fixed.