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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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Doing what Spotify can't / won’t - Developing a usable Win10 client...

Plan - PremiumOperating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue:Spotify is ignoring paying customers requests and has continued to do so for some time. I think the only way I'm going to be able to use this platform to play music I enjoy listening to ...

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  • Plan - Premium Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue: Spotify is ignoring paying customers requests and has continued to do so for some time. I think the only way I'm going ...
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Superuser Contribution [Solved] Adding an item to the end of the current playback queue seems slow

PlanPremiumCountryCanada DevicePersonal ComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My QuestionI made a little code that searches for a track and directly adds it to the user's playback queue. The search is very fast and the API request to add the song is don...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada   Device Personal Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question I made a little code that searches for a track and directly adds it to the user's...
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Creating a custom Spotify player

Hello, I wanted to check if there is a possibility to develop a custom Spotify player app (for iOS and Android).This app will allow adding special music processing to the audio to enhance the listener experience.In order to do so, the app requires ac...

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  • Hello,   I wanted to check if there is a possibility to develop a custom Spotify player app (for iOS and Android). This app will allow adding special music processing to the audio to enhance ...
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Superuser Contribution Accessing Other User Listening Habits

My Question or Issue I am thinking of creating a prototype web app for university project (no commerical use) that will allow users to make posts about spotify tracks they like and also make a machine learning system that recommends users with simila...

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  • My Question or Issue   I am thinking of creating a prototype web app for university project (no commerical use) that will allow users to make posts about spotify tracks they like and also make...
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Definition of Commercial

can someone provide a definition commercial use in regards to the Web Playback SDK? If I launch a web app that doesn’t have ads and isn’t monetized in any way, do I need written permission?

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  • can someone provide a definition commercial use in regards to the Web Playback SDK? If I launch a web app that doesn’t have ads and isn’t monetized in any way, do I need written permission?
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Spotify App Integration

Hi there fellow Spotify enthusiasts, We are currently building an audio recording mobile app and are wanting to integrate Spotify as a feature within it. Basically, what we want to do is to allow the users to connect to their Spotify accounts to be a...

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  • Hi there fellow Spotify enthusiasts,   We are currently building an audio recording mobile app and are wanting to integrate Spotify as a feature within it. Basically, what we want to do is to ...
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Spotify SDK not connecting

PlanPremiumCountryCanada Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueWhen using react to connect to the SDK the SDK doesn’t initializePlease refer to this codeht...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue When...
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Spotify Play button is not accessible when tabbing

I'm a developer who's integrated your compact Play button into my website, but today I've been conducting an accessibility audit and have found an accessibility bug. When tabbing through the website, although the iframe is tabbable, there is no onFoc...

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  • I'm a developer who's integrated your compact Play button into my website, but today I've been conducting an accessibility audit and have found an accessibility bug. When tabbing through the website,...
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Android Authentication library Token vs Code

Hello,I would like to create an android app which can call spotify webservices.So I am using the auth-lib to request an authentication token but I don't understand the difference betweend AuthenticationResponse.Type.Code and AuthenticationResponse.Ty...

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  • Hello, I would like to create an android app which can call spotify webservices. So I am using the auth-lib to request an authentication token but I don't understand the difference between...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Our Web API access is being revoked with no appeal

Hi Spotify and fellow Spotify Developers, We've been using Spotify's various APIs in our free and open source software since 2009 but we received an email on April 27th stating our Web API access will be revoked: After reviewing your application, we ...

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  • Hi Spotify and fellow Spotify Developers,   We've been using Spotify's various APIs in our free and open source software since 2009 but we received an email on April 27th stating our Web API a...
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Commercial app request

Hi,I've sent a commercial app request from this account in order to integrate the Spotify API. I've searched the forum and I've found out that it's not possible to check the status of the application on the portal.I'd like to find more about the stat...

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  • Hi, I've sent a commercial app request from this account in order to integrate the Spotify API. I've searched the forum and I've found out that it's not possible to check the status of the appli...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Getting error in audio-analysis with specific ID

Hi everyone, I'm getting an error when I trying to get audio-analysis to this id: 0dy5NFDnx5fuZvE8ZXEX35The same error occurs in https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-audio-analysis-track/?id=0dy5NFDnx5fuZvE8ZXEX35 The track is : https://open.spo...

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  • Hi everyone,   I'm getting an error when I trying to get audio-analysis to this id: 0dy5NFDnx5fuZvE8ZXEX35 The same error occurs in https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-audio-anal...
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Superuser Contribution Commercial request status

Hey, I'm currently developing an app using the Spotify API, and would like to know where I could check the status of my request for commercial integration. Thanks, Adi

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  • Hey,   I'm currently developing an app using the Spotify API, and would like to know where I could check the status of my request for commercial integration.   Thanks, Adi
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Superuser Contribution Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board!

Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board! This forum is the place for conversations about Spotify's Web API, Web Playback SDK, Widgets, and other developer tools. Here you can ask questions about the Spotify platform, chat with other developers, a...

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  • Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board! This forum is the place for conversations about Spotify's Web API, Web Playback SDK, Widgets, and other developer tools. Here you can ask questions about ...
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