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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...
API cal to remove items from playlist no longer works. A 200 status code and snapsho_id is returned, but no item has been removed.
API cal to remove items from playlist no longer works. A 200 status code and snapsho_id is returned, but no item has been removed.
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Is there any possibility to change for background and/or font colours in embed podcast?
Is there any possibility to change for background and/or font colours in embed podcast?
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When I embed Spotify podcast, I do not see Follow button. I think it should appear below title, author and date. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
When I embed Spotify podcast, I do not see Follow button. I think it should appear below title, author and date. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
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Hello Spotify my name is Sebastian Lara, I am currently a software developer and have been working on a Social Network app for half a year which uses spotify services. however, it is a powerful app and that's why i'm hard to complete it, although it'...
Hello Spotify my name is Sebastian Lara, I am currently a software developer and have been working on a Social Network app for half a year which uses spotify services. however, it is a powerful app a...
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Hello people! I need some help in regards to Adding a Spotify Embed for podcasts on Wordpress. To add the widgets I followed the usual steps (copying the URL or the embed code of the podcast episode and pasting it into my HTML file). However, instead...
Hello people! I need some help in regards to Adding a Spotify Embed for podcasts on Wordpress. To add the widgets I followed the usual steps (copying the URL or the embed code of the podcast...
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Am I the only one who gets a basically blank page when trying to viewhttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/I've tried several browsers (Firefox, Chrome, incognito) on several machines. See the attached. Thanks
Am I the only one who gets a basically blank page when trying to view https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/ I've tried several browsers (Firefox, Chrome, incognito) on se...
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Plan : FreeCountry: US Device28 PlatformsOperating SystemUnity My Question or Issue I have a question about meeting the Spotify DESIGN GUIDELINES for building 3rd party apps. My Spotify App runs in Unity. To further complicate things,Unity runs on 28...
Plan : Free Country: US Device 28 Platforms Operating System Unity My Question or Issue I have a question about meeting the Spotify DESIGN GUIDELINES for buildi...
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I used the Web API to search for the following ISRC (Johnny Cash - Hurt): USDJ20200650 I've found 5 releases of the right track from 'Johnny Cash' (that's correct) and 1 track from 'Chris Mould'. I think this isn't right, while the ISRC is a unique n...
I used the Web API to search for the following ISRC (Johnny Cash - Hurt): USDJ20200650 I've found 5 releases of the right track from 'Johnny Cash' (that's correct) and 1 track from...
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Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: Duplicated on many devicesOperating System: Duplicated on Android, Mac, and Windows My Question or IssueWhen I go to export my "Your Top Songs 2021" playlist from wrapped, the embedded playlist that appears is not min...
Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: Duplicated on many devices Operating System: Duplicated on Android, Mac, and Windows My Question or Issue When I go to export my "Your Top Songs 2021" ...
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Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Web Playback SDK and play a video podcast, but when I specify the URI and play it - it only plays the audio. Is playing a video supported by the SDK? Thanks,M
Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Web Playback SDK and play a video podcast, but when I specify the URI and play it - it only plays the audio. Is playing a video supported by the SDK? &n...
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Hi,When trying to get a release date for a track that originates in a compilation, I get the compilation release date. for example, track ID 000mFaHFqvtU9bYShUFMlk which is "Mellow Yellow" by Donovan, originally released in 1967, shows 2012 instead. ...
Hi, When trying to get a release date for a track that originates in a compilation, I get the compilation release date. for example, track ID 000mFaHFqvtU9bYShUFMlk which is "Mellow Yellow" by Donov...
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PlanPremium CountryDE DeviceAPI My Question or IssueI want to use the Web API to start a playback of my saved songs with an offset. Playing the saved songs works using the context URI of a user with :collection appended. But I cannot set an offset fo...
Plan Premium Country DE Device API My Question or Issue I want to use the Web API to start a playback of my saved songs with an offset. Playing the saved songs works us...
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Hi! I posted a question under this topic already but it seems it's disappeared. I'm trying to build an app that connects to the spotify API and extracts some data. In order to do this I need to use the authorization endpoint to get an authorization c...
Hi! I posted a question under this topic already but it seems it's disappeared. I'm trying to build an app that connects to the spotify API and extracts some data. In order to do th...
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I just recently found out that there can be multiple artist links associated with an artist on Spotify. Here's an example (all of these are JAY-Z's ID's) can input them in https://open.spotify.com/artist/{id} :6jEQFo3iBSyW1f9DVBLknb 2tFblYtXKLTFjvH1s...
I just recently found out that there can be multiple artist links associated with an artist on Spotify. Here's an example (all of these are JAY-Z's ID's) can input them in https://open.spotify.c...
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Its working now.
Its working now.
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Hi, I had created an app last year, before the policy was updated as described here: https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2021/05/27/improving-the-developer-and-user-experience-for-third-party-apps/It states that existing apps don't need quot...
Hi, I had created an app last year, before the policy was updated as described here: https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2021/05/27/improving-the-developer-and-user-experience-...
Spotify
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUnited States Operating SystemWindows 10, macOS My Question or IssueThis is for a course in uni but we are currently attempting to create an application where users can sign in with their Spotify ID and we can use their data of...
Plan Free/Premium Country United States Operating System Windows 10, macOS My Question or Issue This is for a course in uni but we are currently attempting to create an applica...
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Hi there,When loading a user library items (albums, playlists, songs), the url to the next page of items includes spaces that can break implementations where these spaces create a malformed url—for example, in Swift, URL(string: next) fails if the sp...
Hi there, When loading a user library items (albums, playlists, songs), the url to the next page of items includes spaces that can break implementations where these spaces create a malformed url—f...
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Device(Pixel 4a, iPhone 13)Operating System(Android 11, iOS 15) I get an uncaught error when loading the SDK on mobile devices: EMEError: Failed to execute 'createMediaKeys' on 'MediaKeySystemAccess': MediaDrmBridge creation failed This looks to be a...
Device (Pixel 4a, iPhone 13) Operating System (Android 11, iOS 15) I get an uncaught error when loading the SDK on mobile devices: EMEError: Faile...
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It would be nice, to have an endpoint to toggle private session via Web API.
It would be nice, to have an endpoint to toggle private session via Web API.
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