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Playing a full track from external site without user login

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Playing a full track from external site without user login

Hello all.

 

What I'm trying to do is use the Client Credentials Flow in the Web API to fetch track information for an artist. That part is not a problem. However, I'm also trying to play the track from a website I'm developing. The CCF is not appropriate for this due to the requirement of the 'streaming' scope. So I tried to use the Web Playback SDK instead but it doesn't appear to be possible without a user logging in first.

 

I've looked into this extensively and it doesn't appear to be possible. However, the difference here is that the only music I want to play belongs to the artist whose website I'm developing. So by rights it should be allowed, but it's kind of a niche use case so there may not be a path for me to achieve this. Any ideas if this is possible or not?

 

Thanks for reading!

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Spotify Developer Policy

IV. Streaming and Commercial Use

1. Streaming only permitted for Premium subscribers. Streaming of music sound recordings through the Spotify Platform shall only be made available to subscribers to the Premium Spotify Service. Please note that (i) Widgets and (ii) Audio Preview Clips may be made available to Spotify users who do not subscribe to the Premium service to the extent such functionality is available through the Spotify Platform. Streaming of podcasts can be made available to all users of the Spotify Service.

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"""

Spotify Developer Policy

IV. Streaming and Commercial Use

1. Streaming only permitted for Premium subscribers. Streaming of music sound recordings through the Spotify Platform shall only be made available to subscribers to the Premium Spotify Service. Please note that (i) Widgets and (ii) Audio Preview Clips may be made available to Spotify users who do not subscribe to the Premium service to the extent such functionality is available through the Spotify Platform. Streaming of podcasts can be made available to all users of the Spotify Service.

"""

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Thanks for the info. I was hoping there might be some sort of exception if I owned the content as there would be no copyright issues.

 

If that's not the case I might look into other options.

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