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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...

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webdevmorgan

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Spotify should show users' personal names too.

It's something hard to understand who follows you. I think Spotify should add a feature that shows the users' name too. Or it should have an extended user page. PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operatin...

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It's something hard to understand who follows you. I think Spotify should add a feature that shows the users' name too. Or it should have an extended user page.  Plan Free/Premium Country &n...

Ximzend

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[Sugestion] Start radio from a song

My Question or IssueIt seems to me that it would be a great improvement, when you are, for example, in a playlist, to long press a song and have the option to start a new playback from that song, with related songs

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My Question or Issue It seems to me that it would be a great improvement, when you are, for example, in a playlist, to long press a song and have the option to start a new playback from that song, w...

Ximzend

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A podcast I listen to (5-4) seems to be deprioritized by the app.

I've listened to every episode of 5-4 but it rarely shows up on my home screen. Other show will stay on my recommended for weeks after one or two episodes. Wtf Spotify??

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I've listened to every episode of 5-4 but it rarely shows up on my home screen. Other show will stay on my recommended for weeks after one or two episodes. Wtf Spotify??

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Solved!! [SUGGESTION] [API] Allow to see who added a song in a collaborative playlist

I would love to have the feature see who added a Song in collaboratve playlist. The APP already shows who has done it, but I cant find an way trough the api. So this would be a nice to have feature if added

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I would love to have the feature see who added a Song in collaboratve playlist. The APP already shows who has done it, but I cant find an way trough the api. So this would be a nice to have feature i...

Peter_Schorn

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Error trying to refresh the access token

Hi, I am currently developing a mobile application that uses Spotify integration, as you may know when authenticating with spotify we receive an access token and a refresh token, the first one expires after an hour and the second one is used to reque...

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Hi, I am currently developing a mobile application that uses Spotify integration, as you may know when authenticating with spotify we receive an access token and a refresh token, the first one expire...

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1kHz noise at the end of a song

PlanPremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueActually I heared the song from Shakespears Sisters "Hello - turn the radio on".At the end of the ...

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  Plan 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 Actu...

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500 response from Top Items endpoint

PlanPremiumCountryUSDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy colleges and I are developing a 3rd party application for our college capstone project and have encountered an issue where we are receiving a 500 response from the https://...

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Plan Premium Country US Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My colleges and I are developing a 3rd party application for our college capstone project and have ...

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Solved!! Authorization Code Flow from stand-alone application

I want to play tracks for a user from a stand-alone application on a Windows computer. This application is written in Java. There doesn't appear to be a way to do the Authorization Code Flow for a user for this configuration. It looks like that can o...

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I want to play tracks for a user from a stand-alone application on a Windows computer. This application is written in Java. There doesn't appear to be a way to do the Authorization Code Flow for a us...

umeshberry

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Scope Extension still in review

Hello, our Scope Extension for our app (Bridge) is still under review for almost a month is still under review, from September 12, 2022 to be exactly.How long should it take to be reviewed? It's possible to accelerate the process? It's delaying our p...

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Hello, our Scope Extension for our app (Bridge) is still under review for almost a month is still under review, from September 12, 2022 to be exactly. How long should it take to be revie...

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iOS app integrated Spotify SDK rejected by Apple when publish

PlanFree/PremiumCountryAustralia Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue: Our client developed an app named DYOB(http://www.dyobapp.com) which integrated Sp...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Australia   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Iss...

Peter_Schorn

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Is there a way to disable the buttons on the Spotify banner?

Hi! We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music, and are now migrating to the new SDK. Our app tries to do playlist curation itself, and as such we want people to use the next/previous buttons in our app. However with the new SDK we ...

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Hi!   We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music, and are now migrating to the new SDK.   Our app tries to do playlist curation itself, and as such we want people to u...

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Request Entity Too Large Error with Spotipy

I'm working on a Python data science project with my streaming history and Spotipy. I have a list of URIs that I want to retrieve data from (key, mode, etc.) and I got this error. Does anyone know what this means/how to resolve it?

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Gig Goer

I'm working on a Python data science project with my streaming history and  Spotipy. I have a list of URIs that I want to retrieve data from (key, mode, etc.) and I got this error. Does anyone ...

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Access token missing in SceneDelegate callback

Plan:PremiumCountry:USA DeviceiPhone 7Operating System iOS 13.4.1 I've been working on changing my test app to use token swap. I modeled the client after the example here: (https://github.com/spotify/ios-sdk/tree/master/DemoProjects/SPTLoginSampleApp...

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  Plan: Premium Country: USA   Device iPhone 7 Operating System     iOS 13.4.1   I've been working on changing my test app to use token swap. I modeled the clien...

Peter_Schorn

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Make Spotify Web Player Emit Device ID After Connecting

Hey! Is there any way to make a web player emit the device ID after calling the player.connect() function again? Sometimes, when the player disconnects for any reason, you need to invoke this function, but the device ID of the player changes. Thanks!

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Hey!   Is there any way to make a web player emit the device ID after calling the player.connect() function again?   Sometimes, when the player disconnects for any reason, you need to i...

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Looking for website embed feature

I want to add Spotify to the webpage and link it to a specific playlist of podcasts relevant to website services. Is there any code I can insert into my webpage? If there is a way, please suggest a way to implement it. Looking for help in this regard...

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I want to add Spotify to the webpage and link it to a specific playlist of podcasts relevant to website services. Is there any code I can insert into my webpage? If there is a way, please suggest a w...

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Solved!! Beginner Project

Hi there,I’m currently wanting to build a website that matches users with songs based on a “music personality test” that asks questions similar to the Spotify’s song features they add to tracks (like danceability and acousticness) to then search the ...

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Hi there, I’m currently wanting to build a website that matches users with songs based on a “music personality test” that asks questions similar to the Spotify’s song features they add to tracks (li...

nathanbobell

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Superuser Contribution Autorize enpoint not working

Hello, I am trying to use the spotify public aPI, and for this I am trying to generate a token according to this documentation: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/authorization/code-flow/ The problem is that whenever I try to ...

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Hello,   I am trying to use the spotify public aPI, and for this I am trying to generate a token according to this documentation:   https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/g...

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Is there a way to terminate the player when our app closes.

Hello! We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music. We are now migrating to the new SDK, but we have not been able to find a way to terminate the Spotify player when the app closes. Instead users need to close our app, and then close...

Casual Listener

Hello!   We have an app that used the old Spotify SDK to stream music.   We are now migrating to the new SDK, but we have not been able to find a way to terminate the Spotify player whe...

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Add a search Music Page inside my website

Country United States of America I love Spotify and I like doing this via Spotify My Question I'm a Dj and I try to build a page on my website for my clients so:1- They can search for a favorite Music and Add Music to the playlist of their Events on ...

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Country United States of America    I love Spotify and I like doing this via Spotify  My Question   I'm a Dj and I try to build a page on my website for my clients so: 1- Th...

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