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Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...
Hi, Is it possible to implement a private rating (1-5 heart or star) for a song and, depend of the number of the rating the song is play more or less in the ramdom of my playlist (idea is to have only one playlist with all my songs).ExampleSongs tag ...
Hi, Is it possible to implement a private rating (1-5 heart or star) for a song and, depend of the number of the rating the song is play more or less in the ramdom of my playlist (idea is to...
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PlanPremium IndividualTurkey/Germany My Question or IssueIm using a German Spotify Account for an Plugin (Developer Mode Activated here: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard). In the Plugin im using the - user-read-playback-state- user-modify-play...
Plan Premium Individual Turkey/Germany My Question or Issue Im using a German Spotify Account for an Plugin (Developer Mode Activated here: https://developer.spotif...
Spotify Star
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My Question or IssueI build a radio-app for iOS, macOS and AppleTV called: radioNED+. I integrated Spotify with iOS. It works great. When a song in radioNED+ is also found on Spotify it shows a link to Spotify. Clicking on the link opens the song in ...
My Question or Issue I build a radio-app for iOS, macOS and AppleTV called: radioNED+. I integrated Spotify with iOS. It works great. When a song in radioNED+ is also found on Spotify it shows a lin...
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sometimes the API does not work and my python codes are running without an end.It just says ,,run file".Whats the problem here? Sometimes it works, sometimes not.Is it just that the API has server problems ?
sometimes the API does not work and my python codes are running without an end. It just says ,,run file". Whats the problem here? Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Is it just that the API has ser...
Spotify Star
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I am trying to implement the iframe API documented here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/embeds/references/iframe-api#eventsThe only event triggered is onSpotifyIframeApiReady. After that, the created controller does not respond to play()...
I am trying to implement the iframe API documented here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/embeds/references/iframe-api#events The only event triggered is onSpotifyIframeApiReady...
Newbie
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My app’s quota extension request has been pending for 4 months. It has significantly reduced users on my platform and overall developer satisfaction. Hoping to get this resolved asap.
My app’s quota extension request has been pending for 4 months. It has significantly reduced users on my platform and overall developer satisfaction. Hoping to get this resolved asap.
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I disabled explicit content in the Spotify Desktop Player but still receive 'explicit_content': {'filter_enabled': False, 'filter_locked': False} in the API with get current user. Does anyone has an idea why?
I disabled explicit content in the Spotify Desktop Player but still receive 'explicit_content': {'filter_enabled': False, 'filter_locked': False} in the API with get current user. Does anyone has an ...
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*Hi, we are trying to use Spotify App Remote library to control spotify via voice control inside our application.Our issue is that from time to time, SpotifyAppRemote.connect fails to connect or report an exception. It seems that Spotify's service ge...
*Hi, we are trying to use Spotify App Remote library to control spotify via voice control inside our application. Our issue is that from time to time, SpotifyAppRemote.connect fails to connect or re...
Casual Listener
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Hello everyone,I have implemented the following API to retrieve Spotify-recommended songs:Spotify Recommendations API. However, I'm facing an issue where I cannot utilize the "seed_artists" and "seed_tracks" parameters in my app. When I make API call...
Hello everyone, I have implemented the following API to retrieve Spotify-recommended songs: Spotify Recommendations API. However, I'm facing an issue where I cannot utilize the "seed_artis...
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PlanPremiumCountryDE DeviceWindows 11/MS EdgeOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have an HTML page that is supposed to show me the currently playing song on my Spotify account. I have gotten as far as getting an access token and working ...
Plan Premium Country DE Device Windows 11/MS Edge Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue I have an HTML page that is supposed to show me the currently playing song ...
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Hello!My team and I are working on developing an App/Program using Spotify's API’s. I have contacted upwards of 20 lawyers and attorneys, trying to find someone to confirm our questions and concerns to ensure we are not infringing on any laws/Spotify...
Hello! My team and I are working on developing an App/Program using Spotify's API’s. I have contacted upwards of 20 lawyers and attorneys, trying to find someone to confirm our questions and conce...
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Hi, there! Simple question: what are the user_id restrictions? I.e. is it case sensitive? what is the maximum length? I'm handling errors in my app and I noticed that when I make the call to the Get User's Profile endpoint and the user doesn't exist ...
Hi, there! Simple question: what are the user_id restrictions? I.e. is it case sensitive? what is the maximum length? I'm handling errors in my app and I noticed that when I make the call to...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have submitted a quota extension over 6 weeks ago and haven’t gotten any update. We ...
Plan Premium Country United States Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue I hav...
Casual Listener
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We are building an app that uses the audio features endpoints, but we keep running into rate limit issues and are blocked by them at the moment. How can we resolve this/get the rate increased? Thanks.
We are building an app that uses the audio features endpoints, but we keep running into rate limit issues and are blocked by them at the moment. How can we resolve this/get the rate increased? ...
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Is it possible to programatically iterate through every single podcast/show on the platform? Or to get shows that posted recently (something similar to tag:new for albums)?
Is it possible to programatically iterate through every single podcast/show on the platform? Or to get shows that posted recently (something similar to tag:new for albums)?
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May I ask if anyone has encountered any error reports: com.spotify.android.appremote.api.error.CouldNotFindSpotifyApp at com.spotify.android.appremote.api.LocalConnector.connect(LocalConnector.java:52) at com.spotify.android.appremote.api.SpotifyAppR...
May I ask if anyone has encountered any error reports: com.spotify.android.appremote.api.error.CouldNotFindSpotifyApp at com.spotify.android.appremote.api.LocalConnector.connect(LocalConnect...
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Are you able download metadata like Artist Names and Song Titles to use in the creation of my app. We do not need real time access to any data, so it would be easier if we could just download, for example a large list of artist names. Thank you.
Are you able download metadata like Artist Names and Song Titles to use in the creation of my app. We do not need real time access to any data, so it would be easier if we could just download, ...
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What is the reasoning behind the field "available_markets" everytime I
get a playbackstatus, or a queue?If I'm playing a track it's implicitly
available on my market...Seem a lot of unnecessary traffic but maybe Im
missing something:''''''"available_...
What is the reasoning behind the field "available_markets" everytime I get a playbackstatus, or a queue? If I'm playing a track it's implicitly available on my market... Seem a lot...
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Both of the chapter endpoints (get a chapter and get several chapters) return 500 Server error. Since I started using the API I haven't seen them work.
Both of the chapter endpoints (get a chapter and get several chapters) return 500 Server error. Since I started using the API I haven't seen them work.
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