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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...
Hi, I have a website that I developed with the Spotify Web APIs that is basically a game so I believe I need to ask Spotify for approval for it. I could not find any information on how to ask for approval though. I did also request for commercial use...
Hi, I have a website that I developed with the Spotify Web APIs that is basically a game so I believe I need to ask Spotify for approval for it. I could not find any information on how...
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I know this is possible with the ios SDK, but I am building a web app that uses the spotify api and it would be nice if users on a mobile device could be redirected to the spotify app so they don't have to manually enter in their information. Just to...
I know this is possible with the ios SDK, but I am building a web app that uses the spotify api and it would be nice if users on a mobile device could be redirected to the spotify app so they don't h...
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Hi there, this is just to let you know of a little hobby project of mine, utilizing Spotify APIs: I listen to Spotify pretty much all day long, and often found myself wanting to look up the current song's lyrics, or get more info on the artist, or th...
Hi there, this is just to let you know of a little hobby project of mine, utilizing Spotify APIs: I listen to Spotify pretty much all day long, and often found myself wanting to look up the current s...
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Hello Spotify Community, Hope you are all doing well in this difficult times...I would like to share with you my new account Spoty Pie!I am a young programmer (not expert at all) and am currently creating playlists of your favorite movies and TV Show...
Hello Spotify Community, Hope you are all doing well in this difficult times... I would like to share with you my new account Spoty Pie! I am a young programmer (not expert at all) and am ...
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CountryGermany My Question or IssueI am currently working on the project for my final thesis in the field of machine learning and music classification, to obtain my bachelor degree in computer science. I am not satisfied with the quality of some publ...
Country Germany My Question or Issue I am currently working on the project for my final thesis in the field of machine learning and music classification, to obtain my bachelor degree ...
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PlanFreeCountryIndiaDevicePixel 4Operating SystemAndroid Pie Design Guideline:Below Design guideline is provided on - https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/design-and-branding/ In Spotify Free, for on-demand playback and shuffle play - ...
Plan Free Country India Device Pixel 4 Operating System Android Pie Design Guideline: Below Design guideline is provided on - https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general...
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is there a way to retrieve playlists (and liked songs) via the android SDK?how to start playing liked songs as a playlist?
is there a way to retrieve playlists (and liked songs) via the android SDK? how to start playing liked songs as a playlist?
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Since the showcase functionality is on hold right now, I wanted to post my project here to see if anyone has any feedback. Let me know if this isn't allowed, happy to take it down. Project: Harvy.appGoal: Play music based on the difficulty of the rou...
Since the showcase functionality is on hold right now, I wanted to post my project here to see if anyone has any feedback. Let me know if this isn't allowed, happy to take it down. Project: ...
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Hi,I was checking the documentation for the web api, and just found that one of the links is not working.in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference it's the User Profile API in the sidebar, it links to https://developer.spotify....
Hi, I was checking the documentation for the web api, and just found that one of the links is not working. in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference it's the User Prof...
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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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