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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
Repro steps:1. Create a new tabs group including Spotify web.2. Start playing a playlist.3. Minimize tabs group.And finally, when the song that is playing ends the playlist'll stop abruptly for no reason.To create tabs group in Chrome:Right click in ...
Repro steps: 1. Create a new tabs group including Spotify web. 2. Start playing a playlist. 3. Minimize tabs group. And finally, when the song that is playing ends the playlist'll stop abruptly f...
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Hi, I just noticed that the Search endpoint is not returning the same results as of yesterday. For example if I used this query before: ```track:Electric Fling artist:Stefano Breda``` it would respond with like 20 items similar to that search [amongs...
Hi, I just noticed that the Search endpoint is not returning the same results as of yesterday. For example if I used this query before: ```track:Electric Fling artist:Stefano Bred...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceHomeAssistant VM initiating playback to Google Home MiniOperating SystemLinux My Question or IssueI have been having an issue with initiating playback of the Discover Weekly Playlist from HomeAssistant. I finally narrowed th...
Plan Premium Country US Device HomeAssistant VM initiating playback to Google Home Mini Operating System Linux My Question or Issue I have been having an issue with initiating playba...
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Hi all, I have two questions regarding the "mostly listened to" location information about an artist:is it possible to retrieve this information via the API?if so, is it also possible to get a history of the locations and their respective counts?I ha...
Hi all, I have two questions regarding the "mostly listened to" location information about an artist: is it possible to retrieve this information via the API? if so, is it also possible t...
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I'm a university student. I want to use the data of the Spotify Web API (only audio features and analysis data of the tracks, not user data) for my research and graduation thesis.I don't use this commercially. How do I have to write about the citatio...
I'm a university student. I want to use the data of the Spotify Web API (only audio features and analysis data of the tracks, not user data) for my research and graduation thesis. I don't use this c...
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Hi, In my iOS application I am login user through SPTSessionManager and saving the given accessToken, refreshToken and expiration date. Later I refresh the access token 5 mins before the expiration. I want to play tracks using SPTAudioStreamingContro...
Hi, In my iOS application I am login user through SPTSessionManager and saving the given accessToken, refreshToken and expiration date. Later I refresh the access token 5 mins before the expir...
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I have developed an app that utilizes the Spotify iOS SDK. Unfortunately, when I submitted my app to the Apple App Store, it was rejected. Apple provided the following information: “To resolve this issue, please attach documentary evidence in the App...
I have developed an app that utilizes the Spotify iOS SDK. Unfortunately, when I submitted my app to the Apple App Store, it was rejected. Apple provided the following information: “To resol...
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My Question or IssueDoes the timestamp played_at refer to the time the track started playing, the time it finished playing or other? The documentation for this api call is unfortunately quite incomplete, it doesn't even say what it returns (ok it say...
My Question or Issue Does the timestamp played_at refer to the time the track started playing, the time it finished playing or other? The documentation for this api call is unfortunately qu...
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PlanPremiumCountryGB DeviceIt's dev APIOperating SystemN/A My Question or IssueLast 2-3 days I started observing a strange behaviour - I'm requesting all the saved tracks for a user and for some of requests the API returns an empty result even though...
Plan Premium Country GB Device It's dev API Operating System N/A My Question or Issue Last 2-3 days I started observing a strange behaviour - I'm requesting all the saved tra...
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Hi, I'm trying to use the web API to search for songs and it seems like when I have some special characters in the search parameters it fails to find any songs. A very simple example of this is:```track:I'll Call You Mine artist:girl in red album:if ...
Hi, I'm trying to use the web API to search for songs and it seems like when I have some special characters in the search parameters it fails to find any songs. A very simple exampl...
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PlanPremiumCountryChileServiceSpotify Web API My Question or IssueI am trying to retrive search results using https://api.spotify.com/v1/search but it is not responding since this afternoon.
Plan Premium Country Chile Service Spotify Web API My Question or Issue I am trying to retrive search results using https://api.spotify.com/v1/search but it is not respo...
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Hi, I've found that the Authorization header doesn't follow the HTTP spec (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7235#section-2.1). The spec says the scheme can be case insensitve, however Spotify's API expects it to be case-sensitive, that is, it...
Hi, I've found that the Authorization header doesn't follow the HTTP spec (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7235#section-2.1). The spec says the scheme can be case insensitve, howeve...
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PlanPremiumCountryBRASILOperating SystemAndroidMy Question or IssueI'm using spotify-remote sdk, but when I try to connect to running spotify, it returns the following error: connectToSpotify failed with: Indicates the user did not authorize this cli...
Plan Premium Country BRASIL Operating System Android My Question or Issue I'm using spotify-remote sdk, but when I try to connect to running spotify, it returns the following error: c...
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Is there a way that I can play back audio on a landing page using the SDK without it mirroring what's on my account? I'm really just looking to populate audio data and play audio content on the page using both the API and the SDK
Is there a way that I can play back audio on a landing page using the SDK without it mirroring what's on my account? I'm really just looking to populate audio data and play audio content on the page...
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DeviceWindows PC Operating SystemWindows 10 BrowserChrome My Question or IssueHi! Having an issue with Spotify Auth on my app.https://aim-beats-game.herokuapp.com/ Getting the following error after clicking the login button. Refused to connect to 'ht...
Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10 Browser Chrome My Question or Issue Hi! Having an issue with Spotify Auth on my app. https://aim-beats-game.hero...
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Hi there,I’m developing an app that uses the Spotify Developer API. I wanted to ask about rough rate limits, as well as make a special request regarding monetising my app whilst using certain API endpoints.My app is a running app, designed to help yo...
Hi there, I’m developing an app that uses the Spotify Developer API. I wanted to ask about rough rate limits, as well as make a special request regarding monetising my app whilst using certain API...
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My Question or IssueI have been reading through the Widget Terms of Use and have some queries around some of the language used: "Section III: Licenses and Permissions3. 3. License to Spotify. You grant to us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, wo...
My Question or Issue I have been reading through the Widget Terms of Use and have some queries around some of the language used: "Section III: Licenses and Permissions 3. 3. License to Spo...
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I'm not a developer, but in order to find a track I've heard on Spotify I've decided to search for it with Python + Spotipy. track = "Thursday" results = sp.search(q="track:" + track, type="track") So far so good. However, that JSON doesn't return th...
I'm not a developer, but in order to find a track I've heard on Spotify I've decided to search for it with Python + Spotipy. track = "Thursday" results = sp.search(q=...
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https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-available-devices/I want do discover my Chromecast and nest home but they wont show up unless already playing music. how would I go around this and make them available without having to start playback t...
https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-available-devices/ I want do discover my Chromecast and nest home but they wont show up unless already playing music. how would I go around this and m...
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PlanFreeCountryIndiaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAs most Discord users know, Rythm and Groovy, 2 of the largest music bots on Discord, have received cease and desist orders from YouTube, forcing them to shut down their ...
Plan Free Country India Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue As most Discord users know, Rythm and Groovy, 2 of the largest music bots on Discord, have rec...
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