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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...
CountryNetherlandsDeviceWeb API My Question or IssueI'm using the web api to make a site that enables users to create and fill Spotify playlists through the (pretty awesome) spotify web api. I couldn't find how to add a local track to the playlist th...
Country Netherlands Device Web API My Question or Issue I'm using the web api to make a site that enables users to create and fill Spotify playlists through the (pretty awesome) spotify ...
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Country: USQuestion: Wondering why featured playlists for past years (i.e. 1990) have most of their songs from 2019-2020? Tried pulling a US featured playlist (@ https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-featured-playlists/) with the following date: ...
Country: US Question: Wondering why featured playlists for past years (i.e. 1990) have most of their songs from 2019-2020? Tried pulling a US featured playlist (@ https://developer.spotify.co...
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Operating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHello, I am using the Spotify API to developer a Windows UWP application. I'm using the PKCE Authorization work flow. It works as follows:1. Start application2. User is asked to login to spotify3. After log...
Operating System Windows My Question or Issue Hello, I am using the Spotify API to developer a Windows UWP application. I'm using the PKCE Authorization work flow. It works as follows: 1....
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueI'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/) where the API is polled every second. We use the response to set the track progress, ...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device PC Operating System Win10 My Question or Issue I'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/) where the...
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The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. The API now returns data saying there are tracks present when NO tracks are present. This behavior is inconsist...
The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. The API now returns data saying there are tracks present whe...
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I am not sure how to reproduce this issue. The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. PlanPremiumUSA DeviceMac OSX, IOS, Web Player (API issue)I have mana...
I am not sure how to reproduce this issue. The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. Plan Pr...
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I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted? E/Spotify: [main] onGetRoot: IGNORING request from untrusted pack...
I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted? E/Spo...
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I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song:[Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] Please help me out here!!! My app relies heavily on the s...
I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song: [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] ...
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PlanPremium CountrySweden DevicePC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this together with propepr authentication that is refreshed using the refresh token and to test it I wanted t...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this togethe...
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hi all!With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist.So I can sometimes not show which track is currently active from a playlist. Example:Playlist ID: ...
hi all! With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist. So I can sometimes not show which track is ...
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Hello everyone, I'm using Python to build a library to control Spotify's music (play, stop, volume) for my raspberry pi wall display. I've been trying for hours to figure out if there is a way that Spotify API will send me an automatic update to sock...
Hello everyone, I'm using Python to build a library to control Spotify's music (play, stop, volume) for my raspberry pi wall display. I've been trying for hours to figure out if there is a way that S...
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So I have been trying to request the "/me/player" endpoint, but I keeping receiving no response, on my app and on the Spotify Dev Console. So I looked up on the browser console and I noticed some errors. I tried to get a new token, clean the cache, b...
So I have been trying to request the "/me/player" endpoint, but I keeping receiving no response, on my app and on the Spotify Dev Console. So I looked up on the browser console and I noticed some err...
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PlanPremiumCountry DeviceHP Elitebook 840 (Google Chrome)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen calling the /v1/me/playlists endpoint with postman using the access token received after authenticating with "Refreshable user authorization:...
Plan Premium Country Device HP Elitebook 840 (Google Chrome) Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When calling the /v1/me/playlists endpoint with postman usin...
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Hey there. I am trying to find my Spotify popularity ranking through the Spotify Console. Whenever I try to get a token in order to get my artist, it will not bring up my artist profile. It just brings me to a menu. How do I bring up my my artist inf...
Hey there. I am trying to find my Spotify popularity ranking through the Spotify Console. Whenever I try to get a token in order to get my artist, it will not bring up my artist profile. It just brin...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryTurkey Operating System(iOS, Android) My Question or Issue We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and android platforms. Our app will be generating a Playlist by getting user's playlist from Spo...
Plan Free/Premium Country Turkey Operating System (iOS, Android) My Question or Issue We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and androi...
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Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US. Trying to write a Node script to play music on a certain device. But I can't get devices to li...
Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US. Trying to write a Node script to p...
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Hello, We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword.API I used: GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/searchIf you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the song "Elevate" by Drake does not show up in response of API. Can you please...
Hello, We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword. API I used: GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/search If you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the ...
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I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected. I just did a copy/paste (and replaced my Authorization header of course) and I got an err...
I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected. I just did a copy/p...
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Is it possible to obtain a database where song name, artist, number of streams and associated labels/tags are provided?
Is it possible to obtain a database where song name, artist, number of streams and associated labels/tags are provided?
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Hi there, is there a way to use a snapshot_id when adding songs to a playlist? It seems like support for it is missing according to the documentation, but it's weird because the call returns a snapshot_id, so in theory it also should accept one. Is t...
Hi there, is there a way to use a snapshot_id when adding songs to a playlist? It seems like support for it is missing according to the documentation, but it's weird because the call returns...
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