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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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Can't resume playback, can only play a new track (player/play API endpoint)

pressPlay(token, device_id) { const path = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play?device_id=' + device_id; axios({ method: 'put', url: path, headers: { 'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' +...

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  • pressPlay(token, device_id) { const path = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play?device_id=' + device_id; axios({ method: 'put', url: path, headers: { 'Accept': 'appl...
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Why don't they launch a prepaid plan for a single user for 12 months? There are many people who live

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

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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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  • Why don't they launch a prepaid plan for a single user for 12 months There are many people who live alone taking advantage of that market would be smart
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Kannada Category

Hi there I have to make a request please add kannada songs on home page. Without searching I can't see kannada songs on home page rest all languages are available only kannada is not available so please add all types of kannada songs to home page lik...

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  • Hi there I have to make a request please add kannada songs on home page. Without searching I can't see kannada songs on home page rest all languages are available only kannada is not available so ple...
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WebPlayback SDK Initialization Error

I use WebPlayback SDK to play songs in my web app. It works correctly on my local machine. I can play songs. But when I deploy my app to AWS Beanstalk, the Player fails to initialize. I use fresh WebApiToken using my AWS url as redirect_url. WebApiTo...

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  • I use WebPlayback SDK to play songs in my web app. It works correctly on my local machine. I can play songs. But when I deploy my app to AWS Beanstalk, the Player fails to initialize. I use fresh Web...
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Auth API Invalid Client: Invalid Redirect URI

I access Spotify API on my local machine without any problem. I supply to spotify auth request my local address as redirect_uri parameter(http://localhost:8080) and I also added this URI in the Spotify Developer Console to the whitelist. But when I d...

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  • I access Spotify API on my local machine without any problem. I supply to spotify auth request my local address as redirect_uri parameter(http://localhost:8080) and I also added this URI in the Spoti...
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GET Request for the User's Following

PlanPremiumCountryUnited Arab EmiratesDeviceiPhone 13,PC,MacOperating SystemWin10,PC My Question or IssueI would like to have a way to GET the user followings

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  • Plan Premium Country United Arab Emirates Device iPhone 13,PC,Mac Operating System Win10,PC   My Question or Issue I would like to have a way to GET the user followings
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Play music from Spotify in my app

PlanPremiumCountryUSMy Question or IssueI am trying to create an app (in Swift) which can stream or play music from Spotify in itself. But so far I am not able to find the correct set of APIs which can stream songs from Spotify. I saw APIs which can ...

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  • Plan Premium Country US My Question or Issue I am trying to create an app (in Swift) which can stream or play music from Spotify in itself. But so far I am not able to find the correct set of AP...
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Recommendation for cold-start users

Does the Spotify recommender system take account information, such as age and gender, into account? I.e. does the age and gender of a user impact the recommendations when such user have never listened to any tracks on the platform? I haven't been abl...

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  • ...istened to any tracks on the platform? I haven't been able to find any information on this in Spotify's publications. 
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Get Several Episodes error

Hi platform developers, I'm sending many different IDs to the'Get Several Episodes' endpoint. I expect that some of them may be episodes that may not exist when I send the request — either because the episodes were deleted, or the user keyed in an in...

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  • Hi platform developers,   I'm sending many different IDs to the'Get Several Episodes' endpoint. I expect that some of them may be episodes that may not exist when I send the request — either b...
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Quota Extension rejection

Plan: PremiumCountry: Canada Hello Spotify team and community. I submitted a request for a quota extension, and it was rejected after a few hours.The reasons given were the following:You did not provide enough information for us to assess your applic...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: Canada   Hello Spotify team and community.   I submitted a request for a quota extension, and it was rejected after a few hours. The reasons given were the...
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Spotify OAuth not Listing Requested Scopes to User

For some reason when I'm having the user authenticate to get a refresh token, Spotify is just asking the user to log in, it's not listing scopes.I'd like users to know which scopes I'm asking for, how do I make it tell them?This is the url I'm hittin...

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  • For some reason when I'm having the user authenticate to get a refresh token, Spotify is just asking the user to log in, it's not listing scopes. I'd like users to know which scopes I'm asking for, ...
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Can't check account's Full Name to use it in "Users and Access" page

Hey! Recently, I have made an application on developer.spotify.comI have added one account into "Users and Access" page, since I've remembered what the Full Name of the account was. Unfortunately, on the other hand, I have another account which's Ful...

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  • Hey!   Recently, I have made an application on developer.spotify.com I have added one account into "Users and Access" page, since I've remembered what the Full Name of the account was. U...
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[WEBAPI] group sessions

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemLinux My Question or Issue Are there any plans to add group session endpoints to webapi? I'm looking to build an integration between discord (bot) and spotify that functions as a control mechanism f...

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  • Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop PC Operating System Linux   My Question or Issue   Are there any plans to add group session endpoints to webapi? I'm looking to build an ...
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How to retrieve the 'Your Top Songs' playlists for all users?

Hello!I'm trying to find a way to identify the 'Top Songs (year)' playlists that Spotify creates yearly for each user. They all exist in the platform (they can be searched), but I can't find a way to systematically obtain their id or their uri for ea...

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  • Hello! I'm trying to find a way to identify the 'Top Songs (year)' playlists that Spotify creates yearly for each user.  They all exist in the platform (they can be searched), but I can't find...
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Spotify For Artists playlist is gone

Good afternoon people! I'm having a problem with one of our playlists. We have a 100% organic playlist with great engagement, with more than 4k followers and more than 16k listens. This playlist is NO LONGER appearing on Spotify For Artists. Does any...

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  • Good afternoon people! I'm having a problem with one of our playlists. We have a 100% organic playlist with great engagement, with more than 4k followers and more than 16k listens. This playlist is N...
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Spotify connect no longer works!

Hello, I can no longer connect to my demon AVR RECEIVER FROM THE SPOTIFY APP USING WI FI. I can only connect via Bluetooth which will interrupt the music playing when a phone call comes in or you watch a video on YouTube where before it would not. I’...

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  • Hello, I can no longer connect to my demon AVR RECEIVER FROM THE SPOTIFY APP USING WI FI. I can only connect via Bluetooth which will interrupt the music playing when a phone call comes in or you wat...
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spotify-web-api-node authenticate user

Hey guys, I'm trying to use the library "spotify-web-api-node" the function "getMe" and when I use my token accountant (Spotify developer) it works but when the other accountant doesn't work and returns error 403.Why happens this problem? I'm a novat...

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  • Hey guys, I'm trying to use the library "spotify-web-api-node" the function "getMe"  and when I use my token accountant (Spotify developer) it works but when the other accountant doesn't work an...
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Rate limits for apps

Home Assistant allows users to connect their Spotify account to automate their home based on the music they are playing, or control the music as part of an automation. To be able to do this reliably we poll the player status API (currently every 30 s...

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  • Home Assistant allows users to connect their Spotify account to automate their home based on the music they are playing, or control the music as part of an automation.   To be able to do this ...
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How to create a playlist by randomly sampling other playlists?

Hello. Let's start with context: I'm trying to create a playlist for a ballroom party. It is important to change styles every 3-4 songs. Let's say I want 3 salsa songs to play, then 3 samba songs, then 3 Brazilian zouk songs, then repeat the sequence...

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  • Hello. Let's start with context: I'm trying to create a playlist for a ballroom party. It is important to change styles every 3-4 songs. Let's say I want 3 salsa songs to play, then 3 samba songs, th...
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Get total minutes listen

I have a question, exist a method to calculate how many minutes the user already listen ?

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  • I have a question, exist a method to calculate how many minutes the user already listen ? 
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