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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...

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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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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 listene...

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Urgent. Transferring the app (Client ID and API keys) to another account

Hello. Today Spotify announced that it is going to completely shutdown services in Russia on Apr, 11. How may I transfer the app to another non-Russian account to ensure its functioning? Or shutdown will not affect API access for apps registered with...

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Hello. Today Spotify announced that it is going to completely shutdown services in Russia on Apr, 11. How may I transfer the app to another non-Russian account to ensure its functioning? Or shutdown ...

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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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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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Hardware Partner Application No Response

CountryUnited States My Question or IssueMy company has submitted a hardware partner application over a month ago and has not received any communication from Spotify yet, is there some way to get a status update? We would like to integrate Spotify in...

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Country United States   My Question or Issue My company has submitted a hardware partner application over a month ago and has not received any communication from Spotify yet, is there some w...

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Quota extension refused : commercial SDAs

Hello lovely Spotify Community, I sent a request to extend my quota to put my app on the store. But I have received this message : This is a notification that your submission was not approved for the following reason(s) : The Spotify Platform can not...

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Hello lovely Spotify Community,  I sent a request to extend my quota to put my app on the store. But I have received this message :   This is a notification that your submission ...

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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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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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Artist Genres not being returned from /tracks route

Hey all! I'm making requests to the GET /tracks, and whereas the documentation here states that genres will be returned within the artists field, I'm seeing that's not the case in my responses. Is this no longer supported within the API?

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Hey all!   I'm making requests to the GET /tracks, and whereas the documentation here states that genres will be returned within the artists field, I'm seeing that's not the case in my respons...

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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...

rpbiwer

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Create Playlist API
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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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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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Solved!! Search endpoint bug

I was trying to use search endpoint("https://api.spotify.com/v1/search"), but response return empty items. As ex. of response(changed link-title, because system doesn't allow):"tracks": { "": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=remaster%2520trac...

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I was trying to use search endpoint("https://api.spotify.com/v1/search"), but response return empty items. As ex. of response(changed link-title, because system doesn't allow): "tracks": { "": "...

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watchOS SDK Support

Hey Team,We are working on a watchOS app where we need users to be able to select specific tracks from the watch app itself and play similar to the Spotify watch app.Is there any way we can achieve this through Spotify Web API or is there any watchOS...

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Hey Team, We are working on a watchOS app where we need users to be able to select specific tracks from the watch app itself and play similar to the Spotify watch app. Is there any way we can achie...

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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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What are the minimum JS requirements for the Playback SDK?

I'm looking to implement the Playback SDK in a JavaFX app using the WebView component. The aim is for the JavaFX interface to control the player, and the player is just there as a skeleton to play music (since the only way to do playback currently is...

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I'm looking to implement the Playback SDK in a JavaFX app using the WebView component. The aim is for the JavaFX interface to control the player, and the player is just there as a skeleton to play mu...

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