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Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board!

Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board! This forum is the place for conversations about Spotify's Web API, Web Playback SDK, Widgets, and other developer tools. Here you can ask questions about the Spotify platform, chat with other developers, a...

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504 during call to getMyRecentlyPlayedTracks

Hello, I'm currently facing an issue when I retrieve the recently played tracks of this user: "clement-hugger"The API returns a 504 error with no other information :{"error": {"status": 504,"message": "Service didn't reply before timeout"}}For the ot...

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  • Hello, I'm currently facing an issue when I retrieve the recently played tracks of this user: "clement-hugger" The API returns a 504 error with no other information : { "error": { "status": 5...
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Squarespace — Embedded playlist stuck in "preview" mode

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevice2017 MacBook ProBrowsers TestedSafari, Chrome, Firefox (tested mobile and desktop for all)URLhttps://sixty-thirty.com/music-test My Question or IssueI've embedded a playlist through a Squarespace code block, and it seems to...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device 2017 MacBook Pro Browsers Tested Safari, Chrome, Firefox (tested mobile and desktop for all) URL https://sixty-thirty.com/music-test   My Question or I...
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Solved!! Clarification on using audio preview clips in short-form content videos

Hello Spotify for Developers Community,I am currently working on an application that generates short-form content videos featuring audio preview clips from Spotify, along with the song title, artist, album/song cover, and a Spotify code that links to...

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  • Hello Spotify for Developers Community, I am currently working on an application that generates short-form content videos featuring audio preview clips from Spotify, along with the song title, a...
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Is it possible to provide a Spotify code that takes you and plays that exact song ,?

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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How to get information on a song?

So Ed Sheeran recently released Eyes Closed which have different versions with different covers but the main track has the collective streams of both versions whereas Jimin also released Like Crazy the same day with two versions but the streams are s...

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  • So Ed Sheeran recently released Eyes Closed which have different versions with different covers but the main track has the collective streams of both versions whereas Jimin also released Like Crazy t...
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react native open spotify app for authentication

PlanPremiumDeviceIOS / Android Hello, I would like to authorize my app on the spotify application and not on the web app, except that https://account.spotify.com does not open with the spotify application, what should I do. It already work with webap...

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  • Plan Premium Device IOS / Android   Hello,   I would like to authorize my app on the spotify application and not on the web app, except that https://account.spotify.com does not op...
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When adding or updating playlist details, only works half the time

Whats up all -- I have a web app that uses both the "CreatePlaylist" + "Change Playlist Details" Web API calls. For the CreatePlaylist call, I always pass name and description. I noticed that half of the time the playlists have no description after b...

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  • Whats up all --   I have a web app that uses both the "CreatePlaylist" + "Change Playlist Details" Web API calls.   For the CreatePlaylist call, I always pass name and description. I no...
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ALLOWED? calling dance moves

I want to put out a free program for rueda calling. Picture is worth 1000 words, as long as it works:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TR37xrpiXIAt Parties of Cuban music fans (and other places) people dance in a group, doing fairly complex moves to s...

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  • ...njoyable more often. This dance is popular at informal parties.  But rueda is also taught at schools.  Right now it's up to a dance studio to license public performance or not, and this a...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify for artists API

Hi all, I am in the process of working with the Spotify API and am wondering how I go about allowing an artist to login and see their own tracks. I was thinking that perhaps all Spotify accounts are linked to Artists once they get an artist profile c...

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  • Hi all,    I am in the process of working with the Spotify API and am wondering how I go about allowing an artist to login and see their own tracks. I was thinking that perhaps all Spotif...
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Public Playlist

Hi,I run a WordPress plugin and want to be able to convert a playlist URL that a client provides into a JSON response and then add the details into a table, is this possible? I vision it to work like:Client inputs Spotify URL intoa box, clicks "conve...

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  • Hi, I run a WordPress plugin and want to be able to convert a playlist URL that a client provides into a JSON response and then add the details into a table, is this possible?   I vision it t...
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My live streams have stopped updated and reverted to an old update.

The track was on 16k+ live updated streams and then a few hours later I was logged out of the app and when I logged back in it was an old update that shows up on Spotify streams rather than artist app streams. And hasn’t updated since then even thoug...

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  • The track was on 16k+ live updated streams and then a few hours later I was logged out of the app and when I logged back in it was an old update that shows up on Spotify streams rather than artist ap...
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Notion Embedding

PlanFree/PremiumI have premium but I don't think this impacts the issue CountryUSA DeviceSurface Pro Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen I embed a playlist or song or whatever from Spotify onto Notion it only shows a preview of the so...

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  • Plan Free/Premium I have premium but I don't think this impacts the issue   Country USA   Device Surface Pro   Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Whe...
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Extension Request Media Upload Broken

I'm trying to revise my extension request (first time doing it with the new UI) and there's strange behavior when uploading screenshots/screencasts. All attempted uploads initially produced a "Something went wrong" error, but when I saved my request ...

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  • I'm trying to revise my extension request (first time doing it with the new UI) and there's strange behavior when uploading screenshots/screencasts. All attempted uploads initially produced a "Someth...
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Hey Spotify, I noticed there was an error on Jimin's song "Like Crazy"

Jimin’s new song Like Crazy has been split in two versions in your global chart when both’s streams were combined the first day of the release, pls fix this bc it’s affecting the artist records and numbers. Please fix this error and combine the strea...

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  • Jimin’s new song Like Crazy has been split in two versions in your global chart when both’s streams were combined the first day of the release, pls fix this bc it’s affecting the artist records and n...
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Can't submit my quota extension request?

PlanPremium Country US I am unable to submit my quota extension request, even though all fields are filled out. I just get an error that says "An error happened while submitting the Extension Request." and it remains a draft. How can I fix this?

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  • Plan Premium   Country  US   I am unable to submit my quota extension request, even though all fields are filled out. I just get an error that says "An error happened while submi...
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May I publish an open source dataset that contains Spotify Audio Features?

I am a PhD student working on machine learning and music information retrieval. In one of my experiments I have gathered audio features from the Spotify API, for a few thousand tracks. No personal data or anything like that. Just track-specific value...

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  • I am a PhD student working on machine learning and music information retrieval. In one of my experiments I have gathered audio features from the Spotify API, for a few thousand tracks. No personal da...
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Embedded playlist on mobile

Hi, I have a website that has embedded playlists on it. In Windows, all the browsers play full songs on my website without a problem. However, Safari browser on my mobile phone plays only 30 seconds although i'm logged in spotify web as a premium use...

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  • Hi,   I have a website that has embedded playlists on it. In Windows, all the browsers play full songs on my website without a problem. However, Safari browser on my mobile phone plays only 30...
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Music snippets for my social media app project

My Question or IssueI am a product manager, and I'm working on a social media project, where users can add music to video posts. I'd appreciate some help

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  • My Question or Issue I am a product manager, and I'm working on a social media project, where users can add music to video posts.  I'd appreciate some help
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How to get to console? It's gone. Yesterday it wasn't.

I'm doing a YouTube tutorial on api's. Yesterday everything is alright, but now it is not at all. I now should get a Token in the console and learn about terminal and api's. But the console is gone. How can I continue the tutorial?

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  • I'm doing a YouTube tutorial on api's. Yesterday everything is alright, but now it is not at all. I now should get a Token in the console and learn about terminal and api's. But the console is gone. ...
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Creating an app allowing to easily add songs as a party guest

Hi! tl;dr: Imagine a party. Typically, the host of the party is creating a playlist beforehand or a party guest can add their song wishes by using the party hosts device, where the Spotify app is installed on (e.g. laptop, smartphone). It would be mu...

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  • ...ther devices that we approve in writing from time to time." does not include server hardware.   Furthermore, my idea was to make the source code of my application available to the public, s...
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