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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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Superuser Contribution Playlist is not updated on mobile or linux app after adding tracks to playlist through web API

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceFairphone 5, Dell XPS 9500Operating SystemAndroid 13, Ubuntu 22.04 My Question or IssueI have successfully added tracks to one of my private playlists through the web-API. I get a 201 and a snapshot ID in response and if...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Fairphone 5, Dell XPS 9500 Operating System Android 13, Ubuntu 22.04   My Question or Issue I have successfully added tracks to one of my private pla...
  • icefire7
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Inquiry About Integrating NFC Technology for Song Queueing with Spotify's API

I’m working on a project to create an independent speaker that integrates with Spotify. The idea is to enable users to queue songs by tapping their phones against the speaker, using NFC or a similar technology. Users would select a song on their Spot...

  • Visitor
  • I’m working on a project to create an independent speaker that integrates with Spotify. The idea is to enable users to queue songs by tapping their phones against the speaker, using NFC or a similar ...
  • wagersantonio
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API - v1/shows/{id}/episodes - resume_point returns incorrect data

PlanPremium CountryUK DeviceConsistent across MacOS 14.6.1, Android 14, and reproducible at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-a-shows-episodes Operating SystemMacOS 14.6.1, Android 14, and the API My Question or IssueI...

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  • Plan Premium   Country UK   Device Consistent across MacOS 14.6.1, Android 14, and reproducible at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-a-shows...
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Can not delete disabled and downgraded app

Hi there! I'm a developer who wants to start toying around with Spotify Web API. However, when heading to my Dashboard to create an app with which I could play around, I was surprised to notice I couldn't create any more apps because I reached the li...

  • Newbie
  • Hi there! I'm a developer who wants to start toying around with Spotify Web API. However, when heading to my Dashboard to create an app with which I could play around, I was surprised to notice I cou...
  • Thulium1
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Tracks for Current User SAVES in NOT exact sequence as expected

Hey it's seems that I find a bug in API processing save-tracks-userAccording to the manual if I use ids=7ouMYWpwJ422jRcDASZB7P,4VqPOruhp5EdPBeR92t6lQ,2takcwOaAZWiXQijPHIx7Bit adds tracks to my favorite songs in a different order than in this line, ev...

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  • Hey it's seems that I find a bug in API processing save-tracks-user According to the manual if I use ids=7ouMYWpwJ422jRcDASZB7P,4VqPOruhp5EdPBeR92t6lQ,2takcwOaAZWiXQijPHIx7B it adds tracks to my fa...
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Issue with Missing refresh_token in Spotify iOS SDK Authorization Flow

PlanFree/PremiumCountryBrasilDeviceMacbook M2 2023Operating SystemmacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 I am developing an iOS application using the Spotify iOS SDK and am facing difficulties obtaining the refresh_token after the authorization request. I followed the ...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Brasil Device Macbook M2 2023 Operating System macOS Sonoma 14.6.1   I am developing an iOS application using the Spotify iOS SDK and am facing difficulties ob...
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"[Errno 98] Address Already in Use" When Using Spotify API with django-crontab

I am working on a Django project where I use a cron job to manage Spotify playlists using the Spotify API. The cron job is scheduled with `django-crontab` and is **intended to add tracks** to multiple Spotify playlists across different accounts.**Pro...

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  • I am working on a Django project where I use a cron job to manage Spotify playlists using the Spotify API. The cron job is scheduled with `django-crontab` and is **intended to add tracks** to multipl...
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Superuser Contribution Integration for music distributor

Hey everyone, I want to build a new distribution service but I could not find anything in the API documentation on that topic. Can someone point me to where I can find out more about conditions, requirements, and technical details?

  • Visitor
  • Hey everyone, I want to build a new distribution service but I could not find anything in the API documentation on that topic. Can someone point me to where I can find out more about conditions, requ...
  • neetin
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502 on Get Album request

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceIntel NUC i5-10210UOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueI have an app that has a couple of users with different album ids. Simplified, every two seconds i loop the users and make a request to the spotify get ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Intel NUC i5-10210U Operating System Ubuntu 20.04   My Question or Issue I have an app that has a couple of users with different album ids.  ...
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Superuser Contribution Can we have artist bio information in the V1 artists API?

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issuehttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-an-artistThere is a new Abo...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue https:/...
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Creating a Spotify Station with Raspberry Pi: Need Help with Shareable Jam URL with python

Hello, everyone.I was thinking of a custom Spotify station on the Raspberry Pi 4 with the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite. I'd like it set up so that I can control playback through the Spotify API and then easily share with my friends. In particular, I w...

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  • Hello, everyone. I was thinking of a custom Spotify station on the Raspberry Pi 4 with the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite. I'd like it set up so that I can control playback through the Spotify API and ...
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Superuser Contribution Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

  • Moderator
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  • The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. ...
  • BaltaJmn
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Solved!! BUG: Advanced search with AND stopped to work correctly in both official app and API

Hello.Suddenly I realised that queries like "genre:metal AND year:1982" (this one is from official example of advanced search queries at https://support.spotify.com/us/article/search/) stopped to work correctly. It used to bring exactly what was requ...

  • Gig Goer
  • Hello. Suddenly I realised that queries like "genre:metal AND year:1982" (this one is from official example of advanced search queries at https://support.spotify.com/us/article/search/) stopp...
  • början
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Clarification policy trivia games

PlanFreeCountryNLDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello, I'd like to clarify something in the API usage policy. It specifically prohibits trivia games, while these do seem to exist out there. So I wonder if I am just misundersta...

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  •   Plan Free Country NL Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hello, I'd like to clarify something in the API usage policy. It specifically prohibits trivia...
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Superuser Contribution Recommendations webapi endpoint includes hidden artists

The endpointhttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recommendationsincludes results of "hidden" artists of user that token was used to make API callis there way through API to filtter this out or get rid of?

  • Casual Listener
  • The endpoint https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recommendations includes results of "hidden" artists of user that token was used to make API call is there way throug...
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Album genres are empty at albums endpoint

I've discovered that although the documentation says albums should have genre info https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-multiple-albums#genres, it is always returned as an empty list. Looks like others have had a similar ...

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  • I've discovered that although the documentation says albums should have genre info https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-multiple-albums#genres, it is always returned as a...
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Get Album endpoint returns response with empty list of genres

PlanPremiumCountryPoland My Question or IssueHi all, I'm trying to use the Spotify API to get information about some albums and I've found that the response of Get Album endpoint contains empty list of Genres (`genres` field), so no genres for any al...

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  • Plan Premium Country Poland   My Question or Issue Hi all, I'm trying to use the Spotify API to get information about some albums and I've found that the response of Get Album endpoi...
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SUBI UN PODCAST Y SE BORRA DESPUES DE UN TIEPO BREVE

PUBLIQUE DOS EPISODIOS MAS DE LOS QUE YA ANTERIORMENTE HE PUBLICADO PERO NO SE QUEDAN EN LA PLATAFORMA SE BORRAN

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  • PUBLIQUE DOS EPISODIOS MAS DE LOS QUE YA ANTERIORMENTE HE PUBLICADO PERO NO SE QUEDAN EN LA PLATAFORMA SE BORRAN
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Hardware Partner Application with no response

Free/Premium: FreeCountry: United StatesUse Case: Music integration for a Social RobotOperating System: Linux My Question or Issue:Is there any way to get in contact with Spotify regarding the status of a Hardware Partner Application? My company subm...

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  • Free/Premium: Free Country: United States Use Case: Music integration for a Social Robot Operating System: Linux   My Question or Issue: Is there any way to get in contact with S...
  • JerreMeister
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Hardware Partner Application No Response

CountryUnited States My Question or IssueMy company has submitted a hardware partner application over a month ago and has not received any communication from Spotify yet, is there some way to get a status update? We would like to integrate Spotify in...

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  • Country United States   My Question or Issue My company has submitted a hardware partner application over a month ago and has not received any communication from Spotify yet, is there some w...
  • JerreMeister
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