Rate Limiting: 429 Error only associated with Audio Features

[dsnots1]

Windows - Python API

Running into a frustrating issue. I am being hit with a 429 error when attempting to request Audio features for a specific song. Not a bunch of API calls, but literally just a single one will give me this error. 

I am able to make other calls, for example in the below code I search for the artist ID, get a list of their top songs, but then when I select a single song to get audio features for, i get hit with 429 error. I have tested this in a few different scripts and always the same. Everything works fine, but the second i request audio features, BAM! rate limit problem.. I saw some other posts on the internet discussing the same problem, but not solutions presented. Only thing i can think of is just wait a bit and see if that helps, although what a frustrating solution. 

def get_top_tracks(artist_name😞

    results = sp.search(q='artist:' + artist_name, type='artist')

    artist_id = results['artists']['items'][0]['id']

    tracks = sp.artist_top_tracks(artist_id)

    return [(track['name'], track['id']) for track in tracks['tracks']]

def display_track_info(track_id😞

    print("\nFetching track details...")

    track_info = sp.track(track_id)

    print(f"Name: {track_info['name']}")

    print(f"Album: {track_info['album']['name']}")

    print(f"Release Date: {track_info['album']['release_date']}")

    print(f"Popularity: {track_info['popularity']}")

def display_audio_features(track_id😞

    print("\nFetching audio features...")

    features = sp.audio_features([track_id])[0]

    if features:

        print(f"Danceability: {features['danceability']}")

        print(f"Energy: {features['energy']}")

        print(f"Key: {features['key']}")

        print(f"Loudness: {features['loudness']}")

        print(f"Mode: {features['mode']}")

        print(f"Speechiness: {features['speechiness']}")

        print(f"Acousticness: {features['acousticness']}")

        print(f"Instrumentalness: {features['instrumentalness']}")

        print(f"Liveness: {features['liveness']}")

        print(f"Valence: {features['valence']}")

        print(f"Tempo: {features['tempo']}")

        print(f"Duration (ms): {features['duration_ms']}")

        print(f"Time Signature: {features['time_signature']}")

    else:

        print("No audio features found for this track.")

def display_audio_analysis_part(track_id, part😞

    print(f"\nFetching audio analysis for {part}...")

    analysis = sp.audio_analysis(track_id)

    if part in analysis:

        for item in analysis[part]:

            print(item)

    else:

        print("Invalid part of audio analysis.")

def analyze_track(track_id😞

    while True:

        choice = input("\nChoose an option: \n1. Segments\n2. Bars\n3. Beats\n4. Tatums\n5. Sections\n6. Audio Features\n7. Exit\n> ")

        if choice in ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5']:

            parts = ['segments', 'bars', 'beats', 'tatums', 'sections']

            display_audio_analysis_part(track_id, parts[int(choice) - 1])

        elif choice == '6':

            display_audio_features(track_id)

        elif choice == '7':

            break

        else:

            print("Invalid option, please try again.")

# Main interaction

artist_name = input("Enter the name of the artist: ")

tracks = get_top_tracks(artist_name)

print(f"\nTop tracks of {artist_name}:")

for i, (name, _) in enumerate(tracks, 1😞

    print(f"{i}. {name}")

track_choice = int(input("\nEnter the number of the track you want to explore: "))

selected_track_id = tracks[track_choice - 1][1]

display_track_info(selected_track_id)

analyze_track(selected_track_id)

[Sporkify]

Same issue here. Only affects "audio features". It looks like this has been an issue for years though, and I haven't seen a response from Spotify solving it.