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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
I don't see any movement since last 3 months, on the spotify typescript api https://github.com/spotify/spotify-web-api-ts-sdk Came across a few issues on the repository, i went there and fixed the code a little ( minor bug )..and sent a PR.Now being ...
I don't see any movement since last 3 months, on the spotify typescript api https://github.com/spotify/spotify-web-api-ts-sdk Came across a few issues on the repository, i went ...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Can we shuffle music between selected playlists?
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 ...
Spotify Star
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For users without Premium, some Spotify-generated personalized playlists (like genre mixes and the Weekly Discovery) have on-demand playback on mobile and others don't. And what I mean by on-demand playback is that songs are displayed like they would...
For users without Premium, some Spotify-generated personalized playlists (like genre mixes and the Weekly Discovery) have on-demand playback on mobile and others don't. And what I mean by on-demand p...
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PlanFreeCountryColombia DeviceHP LAPTOP-O1445JB9Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or Issue:when the first token expires, I try to use the refresh token to generate a new one without needing to authorize the user again. But I get an error 500 (...
Plan Free Country Colombia Device HP LAPTOP-O1445JB9 Operating System (Windows 11) My Question or Issue: when the first token expires, I try to use the refresh token to ...
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Hi, So I'm trying to build a web app where a user can search for an artist and then it gives the user a song that isn't popular or with the least streams. Something like forgotify.com but for a specific artist. After a lot of research, I still haven'...
Hi, So I'm trying to build a web app where a user can search for an artist and then it gives the user a song that isn't popular or with the least streams. Something like forgotify.co...
Music Fan
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyOperating SystemWindows 10,etc. My Question or IssueHey guys, anyone knows, why I dont get a new refresh token if I refresh a token?The example answer in the docs is:{access_token: 'BQBLuPRYBQ...BP8stIv5xr-Iwaf4l8eg',tok...
Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Operating System Windows 10,etc. My Question or Issue Hey guys, anyone knows, why I dont get a new refresh token if I refresh a token? The example an...
Music Fan
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I tried to create a simple app based on your basic example code "I get this error This functionality is restricted to premium users only" even though I have a premium subscription. PlanPremium FamilyCountryUKDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook...
I tried to create a simple app based on your basic example code "I get this error This functionality is restricted to premium users only" even though I have a premium subscription. Plan ...
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PlanFreeCountryGermanyDevice--Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIm trying to get the current Songs, but it always responses with eroro 404 not found.I alr tried with using the API /current-playing but it responses the same error.const ax...
Plan Free Country Germany Device -- Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Im trying to get the current Songs, but it always responses with eroro 404 not found. I alr trie...
Music Fan
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I've recently started working on a project and noticed this part in the developer policy: You must also follow the Branding Guidelines when naming your SDA. For example, the name should not begin with “Spot” or be confusing in sound or spelling to Sp...
I've recently started working on a project and noticed this part in the developer policy: You must also follow the Branding Guidelines when naming your SDA. For example, the name s...
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From Web Playback SDK doc: This SDK must not be used in commercial projects without Spotify's prior written approval. How can I contact Spotify and get this confirmation? We would like to implement native Spotify integration with our browser extensio...
From Web Playback SDK doc: This SDK must not be used in commercial projects without Spotify's prior written approval. How can I contact Spotify and get this confirmation? ...
Spotify Star
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Hey all! Noob here... I have 3 questions:1. Is the 'Getting Started with Android SDK' supposed to work on Android 14? I can't seem to get it to work on my system. 2. Would it still work even if instead of an AppCompatActivity you used a ComponentActi...
Hey all! Noob here... I have 3 questions: 1. Is the 'Getting Started with Android SDK' supposed to work on Android 14? I can't seem to get it to work on my system. 2. Would it still wo...
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Hosting personal events such as a wedding or a party, would this fall under commercial use? i.e NOT the wedding venue, but their client throwing a wedding and using the app I'm creating.
Hosting personal events such as a wedding or a party, would this fall under commercial use? i.e NOT the wedding venue, but their client throwing a wedding and using the app I'm creating.
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PlanPremiumCountrySweden DeviceDesktop/Browser Operating SystemLinux Mint 21.2 My Question or IssueI was playing around with the iFrame API and wanted to go back to the beginning of a song.Neither grabbing the progress bar and putting it to 0, or `Em...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Desktop/Browser Operating System Linux Mint 21.2 My Question or Issue I was playing around with the iFrame API and wanted to go bac...
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I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I take make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main problem is that, in most of the cases, there's one...
I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I take make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUKOperating SystemiOS My Question or IssueI am developing a new iOS app, similar to TikTok and seeking to use the spotify API to allow users to connect their spotify account to their account and have an anthem autoplaying over ...
Plan Free/Premium Country UK Operating System iOS My Question or Issue I am developing a new iOS app, similar to TikTok and seeking to use the spotify API to allow users to con...
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Hey guys/ team , not sure if this is already raised but for quite some time now , to be honest probably since i have Spotify acc. noticing that Artists with same names are getting combined into one “Artist Profile” (example: search for artist Heaven ...
Hey guys/ team , not sure if this is already raised but for quite some time now , to be honest probably since i have Spotify acc. noticing that Artists with same names are getting combined into one “...
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The Web Playback SDK appears incompatible with React 18 as discussed here: link. Can this be documented for developer awareness? It's not fun to spend hours getting a player set up to realize you can't use it. Additionally, is there any roadmap for R...
The Web Playback SDK appears incompatible with React 18 as discussed here: link. Can this be documented for developer awareness? It's not fun to spend hours getting a player set up to realize you can...
Casual Listener
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So have the embedded player on our newly released podcasts beacon.ai and it fails to load about half the time, ending up with just a blank box with the error "upstream request timeout". Have also had reports of a couple folks not being able to play o...
So have the embedded player on our newly released podcasts beacon.ai and it fails to load about half the time, ending up with just a blank box with the error "upstream request timeout". Have also had...
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Using the web developer console, the search endpoint is no longer returning results for genres that include spaces or hyphens. This worked before, and has been broken for about a week:
Using the web developer console, the search endpoint is no longer returning results for genres that include spaces or hyphens. This worked before, and has been broken for about a week: ...
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