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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...
I am not able to rewind or forward the songs that i am playing. It feels like Spotify has hanged when it comes to forwarding, rewinding or playing the previous song.kindly Help and get this issue clarified at the earliest.
I am not able to rewind or forward the songs that i am playing. It feels like Spotify has hanged when it comes to forwarding, rewinding or playing the previous song.kindly Help and get this issue cla...
Spotify Star
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I am planing to develop an Android app (simple player) which would communicate with Spotify app through Android SDK API (PlayerApi for controlling playback and ContentApi to browse recommendations). I won't use Web API, which apparently has usage lim...
I am planing to develop an Android app (simple player) which would communicate with Spotify app through Android SDK API (PlayerApi for controlling playback and ContentApi to browse recommendations). ...
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My Question or IssueI am planning on promoting my music through the use of stickers, on which I would like to include only the Spotify icon. The sticker is a bit mysterious, I'd add the icon just to clarify it's about music and to entice people to lo...
My Question or Issue I am planning on promoting my music through the use of stickers, on which I would like to include only the Spotify icon. The sticker is a bit mysterious, I'd add the icon just t...
Roadie
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSA Device Alexa device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHi.An acquaintance is totally blind and has a Spotify subscription but has no...
Plan Free/Premium CountryUSA Device Alexa device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question...
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My Question or Issue: Im a fairly new developer trying to setup spotify integration for a web app I'm building. So far I've been able to get the access_token stored as a cookie, but when the frontend loads, I get the error:"Access to XMLHttpRequest a...
My Question or Issue: Im a fairly new developer trying to setup spotify integration for a web app I'm building. So far I've been able to get the access_token stored as a cookie, but when the...
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We need an offline lyrics feature.
We need an offline lyrics feature.
Newbie
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Hi!It's been 24 hours now we are getting more and more timeout error (even after waiting 20s) or simply process not working on this playlist cover update endpoint:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/upload-custom-playlist-co...
Hi! It's been 24 hours now we are getting more and more timeout error (even after waiting 20s) or simply process not working on this playlist cover update endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/do...
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I just received feedback on my app and did not receive extended quota. I need more direction. Can you please provide office hour for myself and the community?
I just received feedback on my app and did not receive extended quota. I need more direction. Can you please provide office hour for myself and the community?
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CountryUSA My Question or IssueMaking a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio_features are as similar to the request as possible. However, yo...
Country USA My Question or Issue Making a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio...
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My Question or IssueRecently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with any other accounts even after I added them in the Dashboard.The...
My Question or Issue Recently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with an...
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PlanFreeCountry DeviceAll Devices Operating SystemAll OSMy Question or Issue I'm building a web app that will display most popular song for my user base. In Spotify API docs I call Get Recently Played TracksIt works fine for the first users however w...
Plan Free Country Device All Devices Operating System All OS My Question or Issue I'm building a web app that will display most popular song for my user base. In...
Casual Listener
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Hi! I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the download URLs for the audio content associated with this progra...
Hi! I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the dow...
Spotify Star
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Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint playground does show these parameters.There seems to ...
Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint pl...
Regular
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I am trying to login to spotify for developers https://developer.spotify.com but after I click on log in in the top right or "log in and run code" and log in either using facebook, google, or a direct account (I tried all 3) the page just reloads and...
I am trying to login to spotify for developers https://developer.spotify.com but after I click on log in in the top right or "log in and run code" and log in either using facebook, google, ...
Spotify
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I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, and I've done the same search on the actual API docu...
I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, a...
Casual Listener
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My Question or IssueI'm using the Spotify API to pull back a list of liked tracks. This has been working fine until today, but it got stuck where the `next` page is actually the previous page. For example, I'm calling https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tr...
My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to pull back a list of liked tracks. This has been working fine until today, but it got stuck where the `next` page is actually the previous p...
Visitor
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Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end. Itunes (the Steve Jobs era) had this setting under their preferences 1...
Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end. Itunes (th...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyDevice(iPhone 14 Pro) My Question or IssueI'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts.After the Step that Spotify was opend i try to get the Playback State via https://api.spotify.com/v1/...
Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Device (iPhone 14 Pro) My Question or Issue I'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts. After the Step that...
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Hi, My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal. My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e Thanks in advance
Hi, My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal. My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e Thanks in ...
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Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don’t have this issue with any other apps and i don’t ...
Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don...
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