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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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Dashboard TOS not working

I try to open the dashboard, then I have to accept the TOS but if I click the button, noting happens

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  • I try to open the dashboard, then I have to accept the TOS but if I click the button, noting happens
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Inconsistency in audio analysis for tracks with same ISRC

Hi,I'm new to the spotify API. As far as I understand, the ISRC code should uniquely identifying any sound.I noticed, that there can be more than one track for a isrc at spotify. This happens for example when the same song is published multiple times...

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  • Hi, I'm new to the spotify API.   As far as I understand, the ISRC code should uniquely identifying any sound. I noticed, that there can be more than one track for a isrc at spotify. This ...
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Is it allowed to use the API to update a playlist?

hello, using python's spotipy, is it allowed to create a script to insert songs in several playlists of my user? and is it also allowed to extract information, such as the number of followers from playlists? I was in doubt and would not want to do an...

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  • hello, using python's spotipy, is it allowed to create a script to insert songs in several playlists of my user? and is it also allowed to extract information, such as the number of followers from pl...
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Group-Session [Android SDK] or [WEB API]

PlanPremiumCountryUkraine Operating System(Android) My Question or IssueI want to add certain endpoints to my android server with Android SDK to host/join group sessions, so then i can use these endpoints in the desktop app. But i can't find anything...

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  • Plan Premium Country Ukraine   Operating System (Android)   My Question or Issue I want to add certain endpoints to my android server with Android SDK to host/join group sessions, ...
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Additional monetization methods

Hi, I have made an app which has been approved for scope request. Since then multiple people have asked me to add a tipping jar in the app, but in the application I only mentioned that I might add ads to the website of the app, which was approved, su...

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  • Hi, I have made an app which has been approved for scope request. Since then multiple people have asked me to add a tipping jar in the app, but in the application I only mentioned that I might add ad...
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WkWebView login issue 13.03.2023

PlanFree/PremiumCountryBY Device(iPhone 13)Operating System(iOS 16.1) My Question or IssueWe have faced issue with login thru WkWebView https://accounts.spotify.com/authorizeEach time we are trying to login, no code has been returned for https://acco...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country BY   Device (iPhone 13) Operating System (iOS 16.1)   My Question or Issue We have faced issue with login thru WkWebView https://accounts.spotify.com/au...
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Api for song scrubbing data

Is there an API that lets user fetch the timestamp at which the song has been scrubbed to the most?

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  • Is there an API that lets user fetch the timestamp at which the song has been scrubbed to the most?
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Help me Lyrics song

PlanPremiumget(f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/{track_id}/lyrics", headers=headers)Good day brother, does anyone know if with the "get" instruction I can get the lyrics of the song from soptify to show it in my widget? The problem or error that i...

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  • Plan Premium get(f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/{track_id}/lyrics", headers=headers) Good day brother, does anyone know if with the "get" instruction I can get the lyrics of the song from sop...
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How to interpret pitch and timbre values from audio_analysis?

I am currently working on a project that will read notes from a song, I would like to investigate the values for pitch and timbre, which are available in audio_analysis, in segments section, which is very convenient and great! But how do I interpret ...

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  • I am currently working on a project that will read notes from a song, I would like to investigate the values for pitch and timbre, which are available in audio_analysis, in segments section, which is...
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Help with some tracks with msPlayed: 0

PlanPremiumCountryMXOS W11 My Question or IssueI don't understand why in the StreamingHistory, some tracks have the field "msPlayed" with 0 as a value. Example: "endTime" : "2022-03-30 20:08", "artistName" : "Ludovico Einaudi", "trackName" : "Two Tre...

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  • Plan Premium Country MX OS  W11   My Question or Issue I don't understand why in the StreamingHistory, some tracks have the field "msPlayed" with 0 as a value.   Example:...
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Against Spotify Developers terms and conditions to add song to playlist?

Is it against the Spotify Developers terms and conditions to create a code that adds a song to collaborative playlists? I thought the wording in the terms and conditions was unclear on this matter, and I wanted to check.

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  • Is it against the Spotify Developers terms and conditions to create a code that adds a song to collaborative playlists? I thought the wording in the terms and conditions was unclear on this matter, a...
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Store basic metadata for tracks/album/artist

Is it possible to store basic metadata for tracks/albums/artists in my db from Spotify to let my users create a sort of mood-board from their favourites. I won't be storing any user specific data from Spotify and just the Name, URL and Cover image fo...

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  • Is it possible to store basic metadata for tracks/albums/artists in my db from Spotify to let my users create a sort of mood-board from their favourites. I won't be storing any user specific data fro...
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Determine if the playing song was added by "Enhanced"

Is there an API endpoint that would allow me to determine if the currently playing song is "Enhanced"? Looking through the data returned from `me/player/currently-playing` and `me/player` I'm not seeing any field that seems to map to that (although i...

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  • Is there an API endpoint that would allow me to determine if the currently playing song is "Enhanced"?  Looking through the data returned from `me/player/currently-playing` and `me/player` I'm n...
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App Seemingly Begun Failing

Hi, I created an app to automatically update the title/description/image of my playlist every minute. I have now run into an issue with the playlist that I cannot even edit it all, whether manually or with code. If I try to add or delete songs, they ...

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  • Hi, I created an app to automatically update the title/description/image of my playlist every minute. I have now run into an issue with the playlist that I cannot even edit it all, whether manually o...
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Song Lyrics

I know this is like I am just tossing this over the fence- but I was wondering on any links that might be had for?:1. Allow users to restart a song in "edit" mode where they can place and synchronize the lyrics. An addition might be to request peer r...

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  • I know this is like I am just tossing this over the fence- but I was wondering on any links that might be had for?: 1.  Allow users to restart a song in "edit" mode where they can place and s...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Community][Developer] Don't fail when using single quotes in the title for a new idea

When submitting a new idea on https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas, the process fails when using a single quote (') with the following error:"Oops... something went wrong there. Please try again."Using firefox 109.0.1 on Linux Mint.

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  • When submitting a new idea on https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas, the process fails when using a single quote (') with the following error: "Oops... something went wrong there. Ple...
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Issues with the /me/following/ Web API endpoint

Hi, Since last Friday (3rd March) I've been experiencing the following issues with the endpoint to get a user's followed artists: 1. The next and after paging cursor fields return null even though there are further artists to navigate. It appears to ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi,   Since last Friday (3rd March) I've been experiencing the following issues with the endpoint to get a user's followed artists:   1. The next and after paging cursor fields return n...
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App Token

Where can I find my app token?

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  • Where can I find my app token?
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requests

i got a question so im creating an app that show songs duration and how much i already played and i need to send request more then every second but im getting an to much requests error maybe theres a way to fix that

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  • i got a question so im creating an app that show songs duration and how much i already played and i need to send request more then every second but im getting an to much requests error maybe theres a...
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selection on year of release

PlanPremiumNetherlands Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)When in 'Library' and selecting 'Albums' I would like to order them on year of release. Would that be something tha...

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  • Plan Premium Netherlands   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) When in 'Library' and selecting  ...
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