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Increasing security requirements for integration with Spotify Web API

Hey all, we’re making some changes to the Spotify Web API. To improve security, we are planning to remove support for two ways of integrating with Spotify that have been replaced with more secure alternatives. Please check the Spotify for Developers ...

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Playlists are duplicating and queue keeps changing

PlanPremiumCountryUSDevice(Samsung G10Operating SystemAndroid I've noticed my Playlists are only playing a few songs in the queue and songs are duplicating multiple times. When I set the queue, the songs that play are not what I set. Then I get more ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country US Device (Samsung G10 Operating System Android     I've noticed my Playlists are only playing a few songs in the queue and songs are duplicating mult...
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Solved!! 400 response for playlist creation

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo when doing a post call to create a playlist, I received a 400 error. However I have the token set up correctly for the user, and I have the correct fetch'https://api.s...

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  • Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So when doing a post call to create a playlist, I received a 400 error. However I have the tok...
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Remote-Group-Session only add songs to que

PlanPremium/FamilyCountryGermanyDeviceSamsung Galaxy 10Operating SystemAndroid 12 My Question or IssueI would love to see a feature where I can manage the privileges of different people or the whole Remote-Groupe-Session to only be able to put songs ...

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  • Plan Premium/Family Country Germany Device Samsung Galaxy 10 Operating System Android 12   My Question or Issue I would love to see a feature where I can manage the privileges of diffe...
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Is there a way to set Spotify player to stop when listening Voice message?

The player is automatically set to lower the volume of a track when listening to voice messages but I wish it would stop because it is very annoying to listen to two things at the same time. Is there a trick?

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  • The player is automatically set to lower the volume of a track when listening to voice messages but I wish it would stop because it is very annoying to listen to two things at the same time. Is there...
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Episode playback with me/player/play

The Spotify Web API currently cannot play episodes with the /me/player/play endpoint! You would usually pass in a context object which itself contains a uri for the resource you want to play back, but the API hasn't implemented the functionality for ...

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  • The Spotify Web API currently cannot play episodes with the /me/player/play endpoint!   You would usually pass in a context object which itself contains a uri for the resource you want to play...
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my app is logged in my personal account, how to log out the app

i created an app using the dashboard and i'm trying to use it using Spotipy (in Python),but the app is logged in as my personal account. When i use the current_user() method, it shows my profile (whereas i used the client id and client secret from th...

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  • i created an app using the dashboard and i'm trying to use it using Spotipy (in Python), but the app is logged in as my personal account. When i use the current_user() method, it shows my profile (w...
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Quota Extension accepted but I still need to add users manually

My Quota extension request has been accepted but when users tried login in, it still doesn't work, I checked my spotify app developer dashboard and it's still under review, do I still have to wait? It's been over 10 hours since I got the mail that it...

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  • My Quota extension request has been accepted but when users tried login in, it still doesn't work, I checked my spotify app developer dashboard and it's still under review, do I still have to wait? I...
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Unable to connect to developer.spotify.com

PlanPremiumCountryPhilippinesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemArch Linux on 6.1.1-zen1-1-zen My Question or IssueI'm trying to access the Spotify Dashboard at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/applications so I can get a Spotify Web API key to use ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Philippines Device Desktop Operating System Arch Linux on 6.1.1-zen1-1-zen   My Question or Issue I'm trying to access the Spotify Dashboard at https://developer.s...
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Download and use Spotify Song Through Spotify api OR iOS SDK Swift

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) My Question or IssueI am developing an iPhone application with integrating Spotify SDK. Is there any way I can download the Spotify song through any Spotify Api or any...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 13, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)   My Question or Issue I am developing an iPhone application with integrating Spotify SDK. Is...
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Features idea

I have a fantastic idea that will blow your mind and that will increase about 50 billion let me give you example it's seasonal group hope your company interested and contact me directly. Let me give advertising idea for fun advertising Alcohol is dan...

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  • I have a fantastic idea that will blow your mind and that will increase about 50 billion let me give you example it's seasonal group hope your company interested and contact me directly. Let me give ...
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Monetization of an app using Android/iOS remote SDK

Hi. I'd like some help understanding terms of the developer policy regarding commercial use/monetization of apps. From what I understand, I'm not allowed to earn any money from an app that would stream music directly from the API. This is clear to me...

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  • Hi. I'd like some help understanding terms of the developer policy regarding commercial use/monetization of apps. From what I understand, I'm not allowed to earn any money from an app that would stre...
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Obtain list of liked albums through non-interactive script

Hi I'm trying to write a script that can be run periodically (cron) and fetches the albums I saved/liked/followed to my library and writes the list to json. Accessing this endpoint requires the 'user-library-read' scope.https://developer.spotify.com/...

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  • Hi   I'm trying to write a script that can be run periodically (cron) and fetches the albums I saved/liked/followed to my library and writes the list to json.   Accessing this endpoint ...
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No encuentro mi musica :(

No llevo 1 mes en spotify y no he encontrado 5 canciones, creo que necesitan una comunidad para aportar versiones de canciones, y canciones que no están y no es una queja es una sugerencia saludos

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  • No llevo 1 mes en spotify y no he encontrado 5 canciones, creo que necesitan una comunidad para aportar versiones de canciones, y canciones que no están y no es una queja es una sugerencia saludos
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Free

Look PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueWhy is Spotify free so bad? At least let me get a feel for the service before I spend mo...

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  • Look 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 W...
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Spotify API using python

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 Is there a way to automatically add users to the "users and access" that i add in my spotify...

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  • 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   ...
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Get Current User's Playlists returning incorrect "collaborative" value

When using the following endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlistsvia https://developer.spotify.com/console/with a token that includes the scopes:["playlist-read-collaborative", "playlist-read-private"]The boolean value for "collaborative" co...

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  • When using the following endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists via https://developer.spotify.com/console/ with a token that includes the scopes: ["playlist-read-collaborative", "p...
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ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR (-337).

Plan - Student PremiumCountry - UK Device - MacBook Pro 13-Inch 2018 2.3GHz Core i5Operating System - macOS Ventura 13.0.1 My Question or Issue The Hero advertising banner on the Spotify for Desktop (Mac) is failing to load. I'm not sure if this is a...

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  • Plan - Student Premium Country - UK   Device - MacBook Pro 13-Inch 2018 2.3GHz Core i5 Operating System - macOS Ventura 13.0.1   My Question or Issue   The Hero advertising ban...
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500 Internal Server Error

When I send post-request /playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks via Google Apps Script Platform, occurs 500 or 502 errors with description: something went wrong or bad gateway. My application works correct in 2 years and dont changes in this part. But last ...

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  • When I send post-request /playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks via Google Apps Script Platform, occurs 500 or 502 errors with description: something went wrong or bad gateway.   My applica...
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Account Data Include Offline Listens

Does the account data one can download about an account include offline listens aswell in listening history? I have been playing around with the data and noticed (comparing to my wrapped) that the total amount of time listened is off. I have already ...

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  • Does the account data one can download about an account include offline listens aswell in listening history?   I have been playing around with the data and noticed (comparing to my wrapped) th...
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API Search: Second artist doesent show up on track when search for

Title might be confusing so here is an example. If I search with the following url then I get the expected JSON response which includes Avril Lavigne as an artist an the items array."https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=track%3AFlames%20artist%3AMod%2...

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  • Title might be confusing so here is an example.  If I search with the following url then I get the expected JSON response which includes Avril Lavigne as an artist an the items array. "https://...
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