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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...
HiI'm trying get Spotify devices (and eventually set active device) via the web API. I can retrieve track info, but as soon I try to access device or play/pause I get the "Invalid User" reply.I can see the necesary scopes in the Auth token reply, but...
Hi I'm trying get Spotify devices (and eventually set active device) via the web API. I can retrieve track info, but as soon I try to access device or play/pause I get the "Invalid User" reply....
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I'm making a small SDK (PHP), and I want to write some unit tests for the authorization, but also for the web api endpoints. I'm stuck at getting the authorization code, and consequentially the access & refresh tokens. I have all my secrets in my tes...
I'm making a small SDK (PHP), and I want to write some unit tests for the authorization, but also for the web api endpoints. I'm stuck at getting the authorization code, and consequentially ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom DeviceiPhone 11Operating SystemiOS 14 My Question or Issue I am currently working on developing an app that allows a user to open the Spotify app from my app and then play music. I have used sessionManager to open the...
Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device iPhone 11 Operating System iOS 14 My Question or Issue I am currently working on developing an app that allows a user to op...
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Last year I created a C#/WPF application with an embedded Spotify Web Player SDK. It has worked fine, as far as I am aware, for the last 400+ days. However, recently it has stopped working. As far as I can estimate, it stopped working around 15 days ...
Last year I created a C#/WPF application with an embedded Spotify Web Player SDK. It has worked fine, as far as I am aware, for the last 400+ days. However, recently it has stopped working. As far as...
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Hello, I'm working on a React project in which I intended to display a full list of new releases from the current week (similar to what Every Noise At Once has set up, though I'm not sure how they're accomplishing it). I'm using the New Releases endp...
Hello, I'm working on a React project in which I intended to display a full list of new releases from the current week (similar to what Every Noise At Once has set up, though I'm not sure ho...
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Hey, so my question basically is if you can make a new device with a new device id to play spotify on. I have a script that can play music on my device (my computer) and I was wondering if there was any way to basically "create" a new device (a raspb...
Hey, so my question basically is if you can make a new device with a new device id to play spotify on. I have a script that can play music on my device (my computer) and I was wondering if there was ...
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDevice(Desktop Pc)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issueembedded playlists on my website stop playing after first song is finished, and in the console, this error is logged:Uncaught (in promise) TransportError: Toke...
Plan Premium Country Turkey Device (Desktop Pc) Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue embedded playlists on my website stop playing after first song is finished, and in ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceiPhone 11 ProOperating SystemiOS 14.4.2 My Question or IssueHi, I’m not sure if this is the correct forum to contact but my inquiry is about Spotify’s audio file encoding specifications. I could be wrong, but I believe a re...
Plan Premium Country USA Device iPhone 11 Pro Operating System iOS 14.4.2 My Question or Issue Hi, I’m not sure if this is the correct forum to contact but my inquiry is about Spotif...
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Hey Spotify! I am working on an app / software which collects the CORRECT nodes for various (popular) songs. Both for musicians playing gigs and the ones rehearsing at home. Many nodes is possible to find on the internet, but offen with a lot of flaw...
Hey Spotify! I am working on an app / software which collects the CORRECT nodes for various (popular) songs. Both for musicians playing gigs and the ones rehearsing at home. M...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen accessing a user's top tracks, it is possible to access the first 98 items by iterating with a 49*x value assigned to the offset parameter. However, it is impossible to ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When accessing a user's top tracks, it is possible to access the first 98 items by iterating with ...
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Hi, I'm working on a React Native project using https://github.com/cjam/react-native-spotify-remote to use Spotify SDK. I already posted an issue on this repo to see if someone can help me but I think it's more related to the Spotify SDK itself. When...
Hi, I'm working on a React Native project using https://github.com/cjam/react-native-spotify-remote to use Spotify SDK. I already posted an issue on this repo to see if someone can help me b...
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So basically I have a script that resumes and pauses the playback on my device, and to do that I have a fixed device id specified. The problem is after some time Spotify goes into "Standby" and if I try to pause/resume by either my script or the butt...
So basically I have a script that resumes and pauses the playback on my device, and to do that I have a fixed device id specified. The problem is after some time Spotify goes into "Standby" and if I ...
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I'm trying to pull non-duplicated an artist albums data from the Web API, as you guys get from your private API:https://api-partner.spotify.com/pathfinder/v1/query?operationName=queryArtistDiscography&variables= {"uri":"spotify:artist:6nxWCVXbOlEVRex...
I'm trying to pull non-duplicated an artist albums data from the Web API, as you guys get from your private API: https://api-partner.spotify.com/pathfinder/v1/query?operationName=queryArtistDiscogra...
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I'm trying to pull non-duplicated an artist albums data from the Web API, as you guys get from your private API:https://api-partner.spotify.com/pathfinder/v1/query?operationName=queryArtistDiscography&variables={"uri":"spotify:artist:6nxWCVXbOlEVRexS...
I'm trying to pull non-duplicated an artist albums data from the Web API, as you guys get from your private API: https://api-partner.spotify.com/pathfinder/v1/query?operationName=queryArtist...
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Hello,i have developed an Android-Widget for Spotify. I would like to sell this App on the Google App-Store. I have already read on different places the terms and conditions, which requirements the app should follow and so on, but it is still not cle...
Hello, i have developed an Android-Widget for Spotify. I would like to sell this App on the Google App-Store. I have already read on different places the terms and conditions, which requirements t...
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Device(Roku)Operating System(Brighscript) My Question or IssueI head up a popular real estate search app/channel on Roku. We currently have iHeart integration where our users can play iHeart stations while browsing real estate listings. We would like...
Device (Roku) Operating System (Brighscript) My Question or Issue I head up a popular real estate search app/channel on Roku. We currently have iHeart integration where our users can pla...
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Hey! With the iOS and Android SDK, can the app we build utilising these SDK's enforce a PRIVATE SESSION ? Thank you!
Hey! With the iOS and Android SDK, can the app we build utilising these SDK's enforce a PRIVATE SESSION ? Thank you!
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PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceAny android appOperating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueWe have an android app, which displays playlist and launch spotify app to play playlist selected. It used to work well but since last 2 weeks it is broken. The same ...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Any android app Operating System Android My Question or Issue We have an android app, which displays playlist and launch spotify app to play playlist s...
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We are using the Spotify Embedded SDK version HEAD-v3.150.82-g4e955973 on our Windows 10 systems. Our implementation has passed certification with Spotify. Mostly it is working fine, but we occasionally run into customers who can't play music because...
We are using the Spotify Embedded SDK version HEAD-v3.150.82-g4e955973 on our Windows 10 systems. Our implementation has passed certification with Spotify. Mostly it is working fine, but we occasiona...
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Hello, I'm using the Web Playback SDK for a little project at home.For the past weeks, I started to notice that the Web Player, randomly, stops playing. After a couple of hours of playing without issues, it stops playing when the song reaches the 10/...
Hello, I'm using the Web Playback SDK for a little project at home. For the past weeks, I started to notice that the Web Player, randomly, stops playing. After a couple of hours of playing with...
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