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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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  • Set the feature to adjust the sound and watch the video as per your choice. Please I requested you earlier too, add now, link check https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1-1Jb1IrxpaJtRhaNYPnuvzS0Vli...
  • Hubo
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Unable to play track using Webplayback SDK

PlanPremiumCountryVietnam DeviceMacbook Pro Mid 2018Operating SystemMacOS Big Sur My Question or IssueUnable to play any track using Webplayback SDK, it shows error: {"error" : {"status" : 500,"message" : "Server error."}}I attached an image of the c...

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  • Plan Premium Country Vietnam   Device Macbook Pro Mid 2018 Operating System MacOS Big Sur   My Question or Issue Unable to play any track using Webplayback SDK, it shows error:&n...
  • Hubo
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Using the ios-sdk to control Spotify in app

I am writing a fitness app and I am trying to use the ios-sdk to control Spotify. I would like to be able to:* See the album art* See title/artist* See song duration* Play/Pause/Skip/Scrub Currently, I am using SPTSessionManager to get a session. We ...

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  • I am writing a fitness app and I am trying to use the ios-sdk to control Spotify. I would like to be able to: * See the album art * See title/artist * See song duration * Play/Pause/Skip/Scrub &...
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Get Spotify Stream Volume | Android (Kotlin)

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceGalaxy A71Operating SystemAndroid 10 My Question or Issue I'm trying to get the volume value of the Spotify Music Stream.I am able to get it throw STREAM_MUSIC when Spotify is playing music from the Android device or while th...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device Galaxy A71 Operating System Android 10   My Question or Issue   I'm trying to get the volume value of the Spotify Music Stream. I am able to g...
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Music Distributor monitoring

PlanMusic Distributor : BelieveCountryFrance My Question or IssueAs a music Distributor, Believe Society, we try to monitor our ingestion process. Therefore we would like to know the status of our release by Spotify system : in progress, in error, in...

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  • ...lso about the publication status of the products. The API allows to get details informations about the albums, tracks, playlist, User profile once the product are “live”.   Once the products a...
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Managing queue from webapi

Hello, i'm trying to build an app that will work like a webplayer but to be "polyvalent" I'm also trying to use the player api from Spotify's WebApi.My app would need to access current user's queue :- read it- add many items to it- clear it- update i...

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  • Hello, i'm trying to build an app that will work like a webplayer but to be "polyvalent" I'm also trying to use the player api from Spotify's WebApi. My app would need to access current user's queue...
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403 Error Accessing Top Endpoint

Hi - I'm having issues accessing the top endpoint (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/[type]). Returning 403 Forbidden error. i've checked that I've included user-top-read in my scopes and I'm able to access other endpoints like me/player/recently-pla...

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  • Hi - I'm having issues accessing the top endpoint (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/[type]). Returning 403 Forbidden error.   i've checked that I've included user-top-read in my scopes a...
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Getting album not getting genre

Plan - PremiumCountry - USADevice - Lenovo (2012)Operating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue I'm using spotipy to grab album data, but I've now grabbed over 10k albums, and none of them have returned genre data. This seems unusual. Most of the ...

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  • Plan - Premium Country - USA Device - Lenovo (2012) Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue   I'm using spotipy to grab album data, but I've now grabbed over 10k albums, and non...
  • ktuli44
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400 cannot remove song from playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung Galaxy S9Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueI'm totally unable to use the web API to remove a song from a playlist. Pretty sure I have the request set up correctly, I've checked everything multiple times. I...

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  • ...uccessfully removed from playlist!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); }, error -> { int z = 0; }, tracksToDelete); } catch (JSONException e) { } } public...
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My Spotify Playlist has 'null' tracks with invalid properties

Plan - PremiumCountry - GBDevice - DesktopOperating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue:Hey!Whilst developing some personal automation to sort a playlist, I've found several empty tracks in one of them. To replicate perform the following equivale...

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  • Plan - Premium Country - GB Device - Desktop Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue: Hey! Whilst developing some personal automation to sort a playlist, I've found several...
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Spotify API for Infotainment application in Ubuntu

Hi,I want to integrate Spotify in my infotainment application.If I make the code available in the below link , will I be able to use Spotify in my application.https://github.com/smaltby/spotify-api-plusplusPlease help. Is there any Subscription requi...

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  • Hi, I want to integrate Spotify in my infotainment application. If I make the code available in the below link , will I be able to use Spotify in my application. https://github.com/smaltby/spotify...
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loading=lazy breaks embed iframe

Hi folks, It is now possible for a lot of browsers to load iframes lazy (https://web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/).I tried this with the spotify embed iframe which kinda breaks it. It is still shown but there is no interaction possible. Getting this erro...

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  • Hi folks,   It is now possible for a lot of browsers to load iframes lazy (https://web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/). I tried this with the spotify embed iframe which kinda breaks it. It is still...
  • Hubo
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Get recently played issue

The get recently played end-point only includes songs that are played to completion.Songs don't need to be 'played for more than 30 seconds', if you only listen to the final 5 seconds of the song until it finishes it will get added to recently played...

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  • The get recently played end-point only includes songs that are played to completion. Songs don't need to be 'played for more than 30 seconds', if you only listen to the final 5 seconds of the song u...
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Showcase a project

Hi there, I recently created a website that pulls the Spotify API and displays the artist's songs and albums and I wanted to submit it to you guys to see if I could get it posted? It's a tribute website for my favorite artist Juice WRLD so I was hopi...

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  • Hi there, I recently created a website that pulls the Spotify API and displays the artist's songs and albums and I wanted to submit it to you guys to see if I could get it posted?    It's...
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Song Automatically Stop Playing Randomly iOS

Plan: PremiumCountry: PakistanDevice: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, X & XSMaxOperating System: iOS 13.3 & 14+ Hello Spotify Community, I have Integrated Spotify SPT Audio Streaming SDK in My application. When i Clicked on the Track Song Started Playing but i wa...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: Pakistan Device: iPhone 11, 11 Pro, X & XSMax Operating System: iOS 13.3 & 14+   Hello Spotify Community,   I have Integrated Spotify SPT Audio Streami...
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Cross-Origin Request Blocked: CORS request did not succeed

Hi, I'm currently having an issue where any Spotify API requests I send from client-side JavaScript are resulting in CORS errors. For example, a request to get a user's saved tracks would result in the following error: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: T...

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  • Hi, I'm currently having an issue where any Spotify API requests I send from client-side JavaScript are resulting in CORS errors. For example, a request to get a user's saved tracks would result in t...
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Full song playback with Web API

Hi i am creating a project and was wondering if there is a way to get tracks to play at full length instead of the 30 seconds.

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  • Hi i am creating a project and was wondering if there is a way to get tracks to play at full length instead of the 30 seconds.
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Error in postman calling api/token endpoint

Building a collection in postman based off https://blog.postman.com/generate-spotify-playlists-using-a-postman-collection/ Followed all the steps to build this out. Once I run the collection, I get the following error (pasted above). Why am I getting...

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  •   Building a collection in postman based off https://blog.postman.com/generate-spotify-playlists-using-a-postman-collection/   Followed all the steps to build this out. Once I run t...
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Display my user specific data and request user access for web playback?

PlanPremiumCountryUSOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIs it feasible to have a website that displays my own user specific data (such as my top artists/tracks) but also incorporates the web playback sdk and allows a user (browsing the web...

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  • Plan Premium Country US Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Is it feasible to have a website that displays my own user specific data (such as my top artists/tracks) but al...
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Bug in time duration display after latest update

PlanPremiumCountry Device Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThere seem to be a bug in the new update with the song duration displaying NaN:NaN on both sides of the song progress bar. This occurred directly of the update today when now so...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue There seem to be a bug in the new update with the song duration displaying    &...
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