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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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Can we please have office hours?

I just received feedback on my app and did not receive extended quota. I need more direction. Can you please provide office hour for myself and the community?

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  • I just received feedback on my app and did not receive extended quota. I need more direction. Can you please provide office hour for myself and the community?  
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Where To Find Spotify API Refresh Token

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo I'm a streamer on Twitch, and I like to listen to Spotify while I stream. I recently added this Spotify Playing Now extension to my Twitch channel, and in o...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So I'm a streamer on Twitch, and I like to listen to Spotify while I stream. I rece...
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Get Recommendations returns songs that don't fit the parameters requested.

CountryUSA My Question or IssueMaking a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio_features are as similar to the request as possible. However, yo...

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  • Country USA   My Question or Issue Making a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio...
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Spotify API only works with my account even after I added Users

My Question or IssueRecently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with any other accounts even after I added them in the Dashboard.The...

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  •   My Question or Issue Recently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with an...
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Spotify API Get Recently Played Track for Multiple Users

PlanFreeCountry DeviceAll Devices Operating SystemAll OSMy Question or Issue I'm building a web app that will display most popular song for my user base. In Spotify API docs I call Get Recently Played TracksIt works fine for the first users however w...

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  •   Plan Free Country   Device All Devices  Operating System All OS My Question or Issue   I'm building a web app that will display most popular song for my user base. In...
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Get audio url of my own content

Hi! I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the download URLs for the audio content associated with this progra...

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  • Hi!  I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the dow...
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Solved!! BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint playground does show these parameters.There seems to ...

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  • Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint pl...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify for developers dashboard login not working

I am trying to login to spotify for developers https://developer.spotify.com but after I click on log in in the top right or "log in and run code" and log in either using facebook, google, or a direct account (I tried all 3) the page just reloads and...

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  • I am trying to login to spotify for developers https://developer.spotify.com but after I click on log in in the top right or "log in and run code" and log in either using facebook, google, ...
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Solved!! Issue with the Search API Route

I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, and I've done the same search on the actual API docu...

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  • I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, a...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution API paging issue, 'next' page is incorrect

My Question or IssueI'm using the Spotify API to pull back a list of liked tracks. This has been working fine until today, but it got stuck where the `next` page is actually the previous page. For example, I'm calling https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tr...

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  • My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to pull back a list of liked tracks.   This has been working fine until today, but it got stuck where the `next` page is actually the previous p...
  • Ayoooo2
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Autoskip mixed tracks

Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end. Itunes (the Steve Jobs era) had this setting under their preferences 1...

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  • Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end.   Itunes (th...
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Get Playback State shows timestamp 0 and progress_ms 0

PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyDevice(iPhone 14 Pro) My Question or IssueI'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts.After the Step that Spotify was opend i try to get the Playback State via https://api.spotify.com/v1/...

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  •   Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Device (iPhone 14 Pro)   My Question or Issue I'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts. After the Step that...
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Application Disabled and Blocked

Hi, My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal. My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e Thanks in advance

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  • Hi,   My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal.  My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e   Thanks in ...
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Issues with volume

Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don’t have this issue with any other apps and i don’t ...

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  • Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don...
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Cannot get user's queue(403: Forbidden request), can we not get the queue for free accounts?

For some reason, I can't seem to get the queue for this particular user, but my other user seems to work fine. Can we not get queue if the user is a free account? Some checks:I have this account in my Spotify Developer User ListI have the correct sco...

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  • For some reason, I can't seem to get the queue for this particular user, but my other user seems to work fine.   Can we not get queue if the user is a free account?   Some checks: I ha...
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How to get user status without constantly sampling?

I want to achieve a result similar to Discord's Spotify status integration. ie. Be able to detect if a user is currently listening to music or not without having to do a GET request every x seconds. I looked through the docs and there doesn't seem to...

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  • I want to achieve a result similar to Discord's Spotify status integration.   ie. Be able to detect if a user is currently listening to music or not without having to do a GET request every x ...
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Embedded music permissions

Hello everyone! My QuestionI am making a website for the gym that I will be a part of and I was wondering if is it allowed to embed Spotify music playlists on such website? Spotify Widget Terms of Usee. Please note that the Spotify Play Button may no...

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  • Hello everyone!   My Question I am making a website for the gym that I will be a part of and I was wondering if is it allowed to embed Spotify music playlists on such website?    ...
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"This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I have Premium account.

I'm receiving "This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I Premium account. This code was working 1 year ago. I have created my Spotify account just now and cancelled the free trial and got a paid Premium Individual to...

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  • I'm receiving "This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I Premium account. This code was working 1 year ago. I have created my Spotify account just now and cancelled ...
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Not able to create App in the Dashboard

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceLenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 [i5 10300H, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD 512GB SSD, GTX 1650]Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have been trying to create an App on Spotify to access the WebAPI, but have not been able to for a...

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  • Plan Premium Country India Device Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 [i5 10300H, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD 512GB SSD, GTX 1650] Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I have been trying to cr...
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Superuser Contribution Please continue supporting iOS/Android streaming SDKs

We have been using those SDKs since they became available. Our particular app (Amazing Slow Downer) lets the user play music more slowly, since a couple of years ago also songs from Spotify. The "ios-streaming-sdk" is a beautifully designed framework...

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  • We have been using those SDKs since they became available.   Our particular app (Amazing Slow Downer) lets the user play music more slowly, since a couple of years ago also songs from Spotify....
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