topic Re: Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan in Spotify for Developers

Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

kikitogi — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:50:49 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

United States

Operating System

Windows 11

My Question or Issue

Getting the error below despite my plan being Premium...

curl -X "POST" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/next" -H "Authorization: Bearer BQCqmBGyrLhdwVAyiU-PjCh4QRi9yMDRPaJ-Qk5YVpqxnxtWVXwZA6JC4z2RHiLMuYgwfLNyHJPUpWdnTy9Y3xWiDHa_7tj302Ct9-UAJ6VynWDZ1ClIO6I1_Pdiy6-7VJves6xkas4" -H "Content-length: 0"
{
"error" : {
"status" : 403,
"message" : "Player command failed: Premium required",
"reason" : "PREMIUM_REQUIRED"
}
}

Re: Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

Ximzend — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:38:16 GMT

Hi @kikitogi

Thanks for posting this in the Spotify Community!

To troubleshoot, how did you acquire this Bearer token?

Re: Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

kikitogi — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:40:01 GMT

curl -X POST "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=4af86c3aa77d434ebe16dff4dbd3f492&client_secret=2f9e955e2fe340e4aa7acff534e3c44f"

{"access_token":"BQCqmBGyrLhdwVAyiU-PjCh4QRi9yMDRPaJ-Qk5YVpqxnxtWVXwZA6JC4z2RHiLMuYgwfLNyHJPUpWdnTy9Y3xWiDHa_7tj302Ct9-UAJ6VynWDZ1ClIO6I1_Pdiy6-7VJves6xkas4","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":3600}

Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

kikitogi — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:59:48 GMT

Getting the error below despite my plan being Premium...

curl -X "POST" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/next" -H "Authorization: Bearer BQCqmBGyrLhdwVAyiU-PjCh4QRi9yMDRPaJ-Qk5YVpqxnxtWVXwZA6JC4z2RHiLMuYgwfLNyHJPUpWdnTy9Y3xWiDHa_7tj302Ct9-UAJ6VynWDZ1ClIO6I1_Pdiy6-7VJves6xkas4" -H "Content-length: 0" { "error" : { "status" : 403, "message" : "Player command failed: Premium required", "reason" : "PREMIUM_REQUIRED" } }

Re: Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

Ximzend — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:05:31 GMT

Hi @kikitogi

Thank you for your reply.

As I can see now, you are trying to use Client Credentials.

This endpoint requires you to login, and Client Credentials doesn't support this.

Instead, you should use another Authorization Code Flow from this page.

I hope this helps. If you need further assistance, feel free to ask.

Re: Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

kikitogi — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:52:28 GMT

Was able to do OAuth 2.0 authorization so we are a step closer.

Here now is the new error I am getting:

{
"error" : {
"status" : 401,
"message" : "Permissions missing"
}
}

Re: Premium Required error despite having Premium Plan

kikitogi — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:14:14 GMT

Great news, I missed specifying the requested scope before. It works now.

Thanks very much for your insights.