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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...
OK this might be an incredibly stupid question.I am making a video game for a well know musician. In the game we want to stream some of the musicians latest songs. We want to stream this from spotify and we want the streams to count towards riaa cert...
OK this might be an incredibly stupid question. I am making a video game for a well know musician. In the game we want to stream some of the musicians latest songs. We want to stream this from spo...
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Hey everyone, I want to build a new distribution service but I could not find anything in the API documentation on that topic. Can someone point me to where I can find out more about conditions, requirements, and technical details?
Hey everyone, I want to build a new distribution service but I could not find anything in the API documentation on that topic. Can someone point me to where I can find out more about conditions, requ...
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Hi, I got the chance to participate in the Ramp-up 2020 and I have a question.I'm thinking of using Spotify's API with Snapchats, is that possible?I can't find anything online, it would have been a great help if you could help me. Thinking of mixing ...
Hi, I got the chance to participate in the Ramp-up 2020 and I have a question. I'm thinking of using Spotify's API with Snapchats, is that possible? I can't find anything online, it would ...
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The web API supports getting information about the user's current playback state. The docs for this endpoint detail the "progress_ms". This property contains the "Progress into the currently playing track" and is specified to be an integer. However, ...
The web API supports getting information about the user's current playback state. The docs for this endpoint detail the "progress_ms". This property contains the "Progress into the currently pl...
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Hi everyone, hope everyone have great day.I am about to start a new task for my app which requires getting basic tracks/album/artist info by id but in the same time importing spotify playlist and getting a list of isrc of songs from playlist. I imagi...
Hi everyone, hope everyone have great day. I am about to start a new task for my app which requires getting basic tracks/album/artist info by id but in the same time importing spotify playlist and g...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryBelgiumDeviceBrowserOperating SystemAny My Question or IssueI am having some issues using the spotify sdk in an angular project. I've managed to set-up a working player, but this player does not work if other components try to ...
Plan Free/Premium Country Belgium Device Browser Operating System Any My Question or Issue I am having some issues using the spotify sdk in an angular project. I've managed to set-up...
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PlanPremiumCountryIT My Question or IssueI am developing a non-commercial night-clock-like website that plays some music in the background, with white text on a dark background that turns slightly opaque [the white accent] after a little while.Can I ...
Plan Premium Country IT My Question or Issue I am developing a non-commercial night-clock-like website that plays some music in the background, with white text on a dark background that ...
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I have used a plugin for a while that makes copies of weekly recommendations, however i now have so many playlists that i would like to be able to delete playlist, i coulldnt find it in the api, yet using the browser on open.spotify.com it can be don...
I have used a plugin for a while that makes copies of weekly recommendations, however i now have so many playlists that i would like to be able to delete playlist, i coulldnt find it in the api, yet ...
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Hi everyone,I've made a couple of requests to the api that resulted in various album and simplified album objects. I've noticed that all of the responses included a total_tracks property that is strangely not documented in the api reference, neither ...
Hi everyone, I've made a couple of requests to the api that resulted in various album and simplified album objects. I've noticed that all of the responses included a total_tracks property that is st...
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Hi there! For the past several months, I've been developing an app using Spotify Web API and Node. As it's nearing completion, I'm wondering how to host my app on a domain for others to use. So far, I've been running my authentication server on local...
Hi there! For the past several months, I've been developing an app using Spotify Web API and Node. As it's nearing completion, I'm wondering how to host my app on a domain for others to use....
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Hi, this is my first mail here. O troef pooling for an answer, as it seems rather basic to m...
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According to Spotify Object Model, Episode objects contain a languages property that is a list of ISO 639 language codes. This is a lie. In reality they can contain country codes too, such as en-US or en-GB. However, there is no documentation or expl...
According to Spotify Object Model, Episode objects contain a languages property that is a list of ISO 639 language codes. This is a lie. In reality they can contain country codes too, such ...
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My Question or IssueFor some reason, making a query to "Get a track" method using track id 7swIKcU4tFRk4iFJpi12Fg returns a track object with empty "available_markets". My question is what does that mean? Is the track available in every country or is...
My Question or Issue For some reason, making a query to "Get a track" method using track id 7swIKcU4tFRk4iFJpi12Fg returns a track object with empty "available_markets". My question is what does tha...
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Hi,Since the launch of Spotify in Russia, we are getting most of the time the 429 Rate limit with the Spotify API. Even now by stopping our service and decreasing the volume of requests... What can we do ? We never got such issue before and now on al...
Hi, Since the launch of Spotify in Russia, we are getting most of the time the 429 Rate limit with the Spotify API. Even now by stopping our service and decreasing the volume of requests... What can...
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My Question or IssueHi there, is a comprehensive list of genre Category IDs available for reference? "pop" and "hiphop" both seem to work but I'd rather not have to keep guessing for all the genres I will need to look up as part of my project. Releva...
My Question or Issue Hi there, is a comprehensive list of genre Category IDs available for reference? "pop" and "hiphop" both seem to work but I'd rather not have to keep guessing for all the genres...
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I'm implementing a simple application to generate some playlist for a user based on some provided data. However, I can't seem to get authorized, even though I've followed to procedures as far as I can tell.This is the request URL I'm generating:"http...
I'm implementing a simple application to generate some playlist for a user based on some provided data. However, I can't seem to get authorized, even though I've followed to procedures as far as I ca...
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Hi! I have to try to find the commercial app integration form however when I attempt to go to the link provided on the support page it brings me back to the dashboard. I already have a Client ID. Thanks,Briana
Hi! I have to try to find the commercial app integration form however when I attempt to go to the link provided on the support page it brings me back to the dashboard. I already have a Client ID.&nbs...
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Console error is: Uncaught (in promise) Error: Missing `instance`. Have you called `setEventSenderInstance` yet?
Console error is: Uncaught (in promise) Error: Missing `instance`. Have you called `setEventSenderInstance` yet?
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Hi everyone, As part of a personal project, I've created a small NodeJS program that automatically creates Spotify playlists from the latest setlists of my favourite bands. I've spotted a few small problems with searching for certain songs from the S...
Hi everyone, As part of a personal project, I've created a small NodeJS program that automatically creates Spotify playlists from the latest setlists of my favourite bands. I've spotted...
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Issue found on July 14th 2020 Endpoint(s):GET /v1/audio-analysis/{track_id} Scope(s):None Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-audio-analysis-track/ 2. After getting a token and setting an id for a Spotify track, cli...
Issue found on July 14th 2020 Endpoint(s): GET /v1/audio-analysis/{track_id} Scope(s): None Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to https://developer.spotify.com/console/get...
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