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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...
PlanPremiumDeviceiOS My Question or Issue My App Store iOS app has been using the streaming SDK (the official, but now-deprecated, iOS Streaming SDK) since it was released in 2014, to provide users with more advanced equalizer settings than are avail...
Plan Premium Device iOS My Question or Issue My App Store iOS app has been using the streaming SDK (the official, but now-deprecated, iOS Streaming SDK) since it was released in ...
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My question is about Web API, here is the steps Step to re-produce I open desktop appI play a song "A"then I stop and leave it about 30 minutesThen I used postman to call API to get playing track => it returns 204 No ContentExpectation It was suppose...
My question is about Web API, here is the steps Step to re-produce I open desktop app I play a song "A" then I stop and leave it about 30 minutes Then I used postman to call API...
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My Question or IssueHi I am a mobile app developer and trying to integrate Spotify in my mobile app. Is it legal to create a Tik tok like app where users can create videos with songs from Spotify in my app?
My Question or Issue Hi I am a mobile app developer and trying to integrate Spotify in my mobile app. Is it legal to create a Tik tok like app where users can create videos with songs from S...
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Hi, I know the old iOS Streaming SDK has been deprecated and removed from Github. I have an existing app in the app store that uses this and I'm wondering how much time I have to migrate to the new SDK before streaming stops working in my app. I assu...
Hi, I know the old iOS Streaming SDK has been deprecated and removed from Github. I have an existing app in the app store that uses this and I'm wondering how much time I have to migra...
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Hi there fellow Spotify enthusiasts
Hi there fellow Spotify enthusiasts
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PlanPremiumCountryIndia DeviceiPhone 7Operating SystemiOS 13 My Question or IssueHello everyone, I am new here, I am from India and I was trying to create Spotify app in the dashboard since sometime now, i have a premium account, I’m running ios13 bu...
Plan Premium Country India Device iPhone 7 Operating System iOS 13 My Question or Issue Hello everyone, I am new here, I am from India and I was trying to create Spotify...
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We've been working on an app that uses the Spotify API and we created our client ID before there was an official submission for commercial partnerships (about 4 years ago). We've been getting a lot more traffic on our platform during this time and we...
We've been working on an app that uses the Spotify API and we created our client ID before there was an official submission for commercial partnerships (about 4 years ago). We've been gettin...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevice(Pixel 2XL, PC)Operating System(Android Oreo, Windows 10) My Question or IssueI am trying to implement a button that I hit when I like a song. It should get the list of songs from the song radio of the currently playing ...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device (Pixel 2XL, PC) Operating System (Android Oreo, Windows 10) My Question or Issue I am trying to implement a button that I hit when I like a so...
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My Question or IssueHi,We would like to integrate spotify with our app. Currently we are seeing rate limits for various endpoints. We would like to know if the rate limits are different for partners? Also what is the process in becoming a partner so ...
My Question or Issue Hi, We would like to integrate spotify with our app. Currently we are seeing rate limits for various endpoints. We would like to know if the rate limits are different for partn...
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Hi, I'm trying out to figure out whether a user has the permission to play a track, before attempting to send a call to the player endpoint. The field "product" is useless in its current state, as there is no documentations about all the product type...
Hi, I'm trying out to figure out whether a user has the permission to play a track, before attempting to send a call to the player endpoint. The field "product" is useless in its cu...
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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 ...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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?
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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 ...
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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