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/playlists API Endpoint Issue Fixed

We wanted to provide an update regarding issues identified in the “/playlists” API endpoints. We have investigated the reported concerns of null results appearing in responses and have fixed the behaviour in the “/me/playlists” and “/users/{user_id}/...

  • Spotify
  • Spotify
  • AdrienCompDev
  • Casual Listener
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User profile does not show more than 40 public playlists

PlanFree/Premium Device(Mac mini 2018, iPhone 11)Operating System(macOS Ventura 13.1, iOS 16.3.1) Hi there,there seems to an issue with the public playlists in a users profile. Steps to reproduce:* create more than 40 playlists and publish them* go t...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Free/Premium   Device (Mac mini 2018, iPhone 11) Operating System (macOS Ventura 13.1, iOS 16.3.1)   Hi there, there seems to an issue with the public playlists in a users pro...
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Hello! I work for the JP Peterson Show and we wanted to get more clientele.

Hello! I work for the JP Peterson Show and we wanted to get more clientele. If people search for podcasts about Buccaneers, Rays, Lightning, FSU UF, Miami, USF,UCF football we need our podcasts to come up as relevant and be suggested. It doesn’t show...

  • Visitor
  • Hello! I work for the JP Peterson Show and we wanted to get more clientele. If people search for podcasts about Buccaneers, Rays, Lightning, FSU UF, Miami, USF,UCF football we need our podcasts to co...
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Search previously played song by lyric

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDevice/sAllOperating SystemAll My Question or IssueI would like to enhance the lyrics match search feature by having a filter that searches through lyrics of only songs that I have previously played. For this Lyrics Match f...

  • Casual Listener
  •   Plan Premium Country Australia Device/s All Operating System All   My Question or Issue I would like to enhance the lyrics match search feature by having a filter that searches...
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  • Casual Listener
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En mi biblioteca ya no me aparece ninguna playlist y tampoco me aparece el

En mi biblioteca todas mis playlist ya no aparecen y mi plan premium tampoco me aparece activo y unas horas antes me hicieron el cobro del plan

  • Visitor
  • En mi biblioteca todas mis playlist ya no aparecen y mi plan premium tampoco me aparece activo y unas horas antes me hicieron el cobro del plan
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Superuser Contribution UPC not returned in /albums/{id} API request

Hello,Recently the albums UPC code is not being returned in https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/{id} requests.It was working in the past, but has stopped. I've tried various albums, and various market (via query parameter) and all of them return album ...

  • Newbie
  • Hello, Recently the albums UPC code is not being returned in https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/{id} requests. It was working in the past, but has stopped. I've tried various albums, a...
  • spotifyjosh
  • Spotify
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Superuser Contribution New Bug: Top Artists follower count is broken

Hello everyone, I have just noticed a bug with the /v1/me/top/artists endpoint. As of yesterday (March 1, 2023), the endpoint no longer returns the correct follower count for each artist in the response. Instead, the follower object inside each artis...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello everyone,   I have just noticed a bug with the /v1/me/top/artists endpoint. As of yesterday (March 1, 2023), the endpoint no longer returns the correct follower count for each artist in ...
  • spotifyjosh
  • Spotify
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  • 1 replies
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Possible to Create Dashboard for Band?

Hi -- my sister's a band signed under Red Light Management. I'm building her a dashboard to collate all of her streaming data & financial data into one spot so she doesn't have to go several different apps and gets the full picture of her business & ...

  • Newbie
  • Hi --  my sister's a band signed under Red Light Management. I'm building her a dashboard to collate all of her streaming data & financial data into one spot so she doesn't have to go severa...
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  • API Help
    Spotify for Artists
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Solved!! Getting 500 error status when request Playback state

Lately I've been getting an error 500 when requesting the Playback state (endpoint: /v1/me/player - GET) just after transferring to Amazon Alexa Echo devices through the API:500One thing I've noticed is that whenever I transfer devices through a Spot...

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  • Gig Goer
  • Lately I've been getting an error 500 when requesting the Playback state (endpoint: /v1/me/player - GET) just after transferring to Amazon Alexa Echo devices through the API: 500 One thing I'...
  • QAScenario
  • Gig Goer
  • 892 Views
  • 4 replies
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Problems with "Get Followed Artists" API getting next batch

Hi,I am running a Spotify service for many years but recently the "/v1/me/following" is not working correctly.The endpoints retrieves a list of artists that the user is following with a maximum limit of 50. With a cursor id the the next 50 can be ret...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, I am running a Spotify service for many years but recently the "/v1/me/following" is not working correctly. The endpoints retrieves a list of artists that the user is following with a maximum l...
  • Murk404
  • Casual Listener
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nueva funcion

Dispositivo(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro finales de 2016)Sistema operativo(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10, etc.) Buen dia, pense en una nueva función para escuchar a 2 artistas.Si bien esta la función de radio...lo que planteo es tener l...

  • Visitor
  • Dispositivo (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro finales de 2016) Sistema operativo (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10, etc.)   Buen dia, pense en una nueva función para escuchar a 2 art...
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  • Nueva funcion
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Is this against the Terms of Service

Hi! Spotify Team. I’m developing an app that show Spotify’s weekly charts on my phone.Is it against the Terms of Service to publish the code of developed apps in books or blogs?I read Spotify Developer Terms. But I could not understand it. Thanks! Fr...

  • Newbie
  • Hi! Spotify Team.   I’m developing an app that show Spotify’s weekly charts on my phone. Is it against the Terms of Service to publish the code of developed apps in books or blogs? I read Sp...
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Would this be a streaming SDA: Using music track's URL to open Spotify

Would this be considered a streaming SDA: 1. Use the Spotify APIs in an app so that user can search for a song.2. Embed the song's URL to a html page whether on web/mobile app.3. If user clicks on the song's url it opens the Spotify app and plays the...

  • Newbie
  • Would this be considered a streaming SDA:   1. Use the Spotify APIs in an app so that user can search for a song. 2. Embed the song's URL to a html page whether on web/mobile app. 3. If user...
  • akyei
  • Casual Listener
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  • Streaming SDA
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Solved!! Fetching user's top songs returns error code 500

Hi, I'm all new to the spotify api and this might be just a misunderstanding of mine on how to use the api.My goal is to sync one of my playlists to 'my top tracks this month' section in my profile which is only visible to me. For that, I've created ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, I'm all new to the spotify api and this might be just a misunderstanding of mine on how to use the api. My goal is to sync one of my playlists to 'my top tracks this month' section in my profile...
  • iamniklas5700
  • Casual Listener
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Developer policy regarding Spotify Alexa skill

Hello,I want to publish an Alexa skill which enables users to add songs to their Spotify queue by voice commands. Does this violate the Spotify Developer Policy: https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#:~:text=in%20your%20SDA.-,III.%20Some%20prohibited...

  • Visitor
  • Hello, I want to publish an Alexa skill which enables users to add songs to their Spotify queue by voice commands.   Does this violate the Spotify Developer Policy: https://developer.spo...
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  • Alexa
    queue
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extract removed / unavailable songs

PlanPremiumCountryBelgiumDevicelaptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or Issuei want to make an app to easily manage playlists and i would like to extract removed and unavailable songs and be able to make a new playlist and add those songs. this i...

  • Visitor
  • Plan Premium Country Belgium Device laptop Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue i want to make an app to easily manage playlists and i would like to extract removed and unav...
  • Prague
  • Community Legend
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How to embed video postcast with full length ?

Hello everyone,I'm planning to develop a video podcast on anchor, so it will be immediately available on spotify. I would like to know how to integrate the different episodes into my linked website, so that visitors can watch the full Spotify episode...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello everyone, I'm planning to develop a video podcast on anchor, so it will be immediately available on spotify. I would like to know how to integrate the different episodes into my linked website...
  • Prague
  • Community Legend
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  • embed
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Failed to authenticate with the Spotify app

PlanFree/PremiumCountryIndia Device(All Latest iPhones)Operating System(iOS 13 and above) My Question or IssueMy iOS not able to authenticate with Spotify application. Everything was working fine few days back. My Spotify Developer account is still i...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Free/Premium Country India   Device (All Latest iPhones) Operating System (iOS 13 and above)   My Question or Issue My iOS not able to authenticate with Spotify appl...
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[Web Player] Problems with CEF embedded browser in Unity

PlanFree/PremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWe're using Vuplex 3D WebView asset in our Unity project. It uses the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). It allows us to put a virtual/embedded browser within ou...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Free/Premium Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue We're using Vuplex 3D WebView asset in our Unity project. It uses the Chromium E...
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    Chromium Embedded Framework
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    Widevine
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Rate Limit

Country: United States Link to Spotify explanation of rate limit: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/guides/rate-limits/ My Question or Issue:Is there a true maximum for the rate limit. After some research I see around the average be...

  • Visitor
  • Country: United States   Link to Spotify explanation of rate limit:  https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/guides/rate-limits/   My Question or Issue: Is there a tr...
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Queue favourite songs - set by release date

My Question / Idea: Dear developers,Can you implement the idea of alignment of the favourite songs by their release date. So one could play the songs like a timeline of their (first) release. The same feature would be cool for queuing every playlist ...

  • Newbie
  • My Question / Idea:   Dear developers, Can you implement the idea of alignment of the favourite songs by their release date. So one could play the songs like a timeline of their (first) relea...
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