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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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Connecting to Spotify's MediaBrowserService

I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted? E/Spotify: [main] onGetRoot: IGNORING request from untrusted pack...

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  • I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted?   E/Spo...
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getting [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] error with the Android Remote SDK

I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song:[Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] Please help me out here!!! My app relies heavily on the s...

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  • I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song: [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}]&nbsp...
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Does Web Playback SDK or spotify connect have a timeout feature?

PlanPremium CountrySweden DevicePC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this together with propepr authentication that is refreshed using the refresh token and to test it I wanted t...

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  • Plan Premium   Country Sweden   Device PC   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this togethe...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution TrackID miss in playlist

hi all!With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist.So I can sometimes not show which track is currently active from a playlist. Example:Playlist ID: ...

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  • hi all! With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist. So I can sometimes not show which track is ...
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Superuser Contribution set endpoint to spotify with python, Help.

Hello everyone, I'm using Python to build a library to control Spotify's music (play, stop, volume) for my raspberry pi wall display. I've been trying for hours to figure out if there is a way that Spotify API will send me an automatic update to sock...

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  • Hello everyone, I'm using Python to build a library to control Spotify's music (play, stop, volume) for my raspberry pi wall display. I've been trying for hours to figure out if there is a way that S...
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Player endpoint not working?

So I have been trying to request the "/me/player" endpoint, but I keeping receiving no response, on my app and on the Spotify Dev Console. So I looked up on the browser console and I noticed some errors. I tried to get a new token, clean the cache, b...

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  • So I have been trying to request the "/me/player" endpoint, but I keeping receiving no response, on my app and on the Spotify Dev Console. So I looked up on the browser console and I noticed some err...
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Superuser Contribution Fetching followed playlists

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceHP Elitebook 840 (Google Chrome)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen calling the /v1/me/playlists endpoint with postman using the access token received after authenticating with "Refreshable user authorization:...

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  • ...hatever followed playlists that are set to public (instead of secret). ["user-read-private", has been added to the scope]   However, when trying the same out on the website: https://d...
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Spotify artist console help!

Hey there. I am trying to find my Spotify popularity ranking through the Spotify Console. Whenever I try to get a token in order to get my artist, it will not bring up my artist profile. It just brings me to a menu. How do I bring up my my artist inf...

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  • Hey there. I am trying to find my Spotify popularity ranking through the Spotify Console. Whenever I try to get a token in order to get my artist, it will not bring up my artist profile. It just brin...
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Spotify SDE Playlist Contents for use in Recommendation App

PlanFree/PremiumCountryTurkey Operating System(iOS, Android) My Question or Issue We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and android platforms. Our app will be generating a Playlist by getting user's playlist from Spo...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Turkey   Operating System (iOS, Android)   My Question or Issue   We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and androi...
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"Invalid username" when trying to list devices

Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US. Trying to write a Node script to play music on a certain device. But I can't get devices to li...

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  • Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US.   Trying to write a Node script to p...
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Search API does not fetch all tracks

Hello, We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword.API I used: GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/searchIf you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the song "Elevate" by Drake does not show up in response of API. Can you please...

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  • Hello,   We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword. API I used:  GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/search If you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the ...
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"Save Tracks for User" example not working with cURL

I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected. I just did a copy/paste (and replaced my Authorization header of course) and I got an err...

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  • I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected.   I just did a copy/p...
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Getting Access To Spotify Data/Insight

Is it possible to obtain a database where song name, artist, number of streams and associated labels/tags are provided?

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  • Is it possible to obtain a database where song name, artist, number of streams and associated labels/tags are provided? 
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Playlist track addition call returning snapshot_id but not accepting one?

Hi there, is there a way to use a snapshot_id when adding songs to a playlist? It seems like support for it is missing according to the documentation, but it's weird because the call returns a snapshot_id, so in theory it also should accept one. Is t...

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  • Hi there,   is there a way to use a snapshot_id when adding songs to a playlist? It seems like support for it is missing according to the documentation, but it's weird because the call returns...
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Get large collection of user playlists

Hi !Can you study to increase the number of items returned in a "Get a List of Current User's Playlists" => https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-list-of-current-users-playlists/ ?Because many users are now hav...

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  • Hi ! Can you study to increase the number of items returned in a "Get a List of Current User's Playlists" => https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-lis...
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Solved!! Featured playlists limited to 10

The docs here state: limit Optional. The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50. however, only 10 are returned for Featured playlists as tested at https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-featured-playlists/. Is this...

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  • The docs here state:     limit Optional. The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.      however, only 10 are returned for Featur...
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Solved!! Discover Weekly URI

I had a simple question, I am using the Spotify API to get my discover weekly playlist every Monday and save it to a new playlist. I have a problem though, I don't know if the discover weekly playlist URI changes every Monday or not, can someone conf...

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  • I had a simple question, I am using the Spotify API to get my discover weekly playlist every Monday and save it to a new playlist.   I have a problem though, I don't know if the discover weekl...
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Clarifying the 'market' field in API requests.

The 'market' field uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard to denote a listening territory in request. Spotify lists Kosovo as a supported territory, but as far as I can tell, Kosovo has no formally assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. "XK" seems to be the...

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  • The 'market' field uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard to denote a listening territory in request. Spotify lists Kosovo as a supported territory, but as far as I can tell, Kosovo has no formally ass...
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Superuser Contribution Restored playlists are not retrieved when requesting API endpoint

I just noticed that restored playlists are not retrieved when requesting API endpoint (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-list-of-current-users-playlists/).I first thought that my playlists were cached but I...

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  • I just noticed that restored playlists are not retrieved when requesting API endpoint (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-list-of-current-users-playlists/)....
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Bug on the "search" endpoint

PlanFree(haven't tested but probably too)/PremiumCountryFranceDeviceSpotify APIMy Question or Issuehttps://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=pharel&type=track&offset=0&limit=20 When searching ('q' parameter) for 'pharel' or 'pharell' and type 'track' t...

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  •   Plan Free(haven't tested but probably too)/Premium Country France Device Spotify API My Question or Issue https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=pharel&type=track&offset=0&amp...
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