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Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...
With the Android SDK, there is no method to get the player context. There is, however, a subscribeToPlayerContext method for receiving changes to it with an event handler. This returns a PlayerContext object containing the title, subtitle, type, and ...
With the Android SDK, there is no method to get the player context. There is, however, a subscribeToPlayerContext method for receiving changes to it with an event handler. This returns a PlayerContex...
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Hi, My problem is: I am opening the Spotify desktop app but when I call this API https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-available-devices/it returns empty.
Hi, My problem is: I am opening the Spotify desktop app but when I call this API https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-available-devices/ it returns empty.
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Manually removing duplicates hand-by-hand may take me months to years for me to successfully cleared out. Is there any script to automate this through the API?
Manually removing duplicates hand-by-hand may take me months to years for me to successfully cleared out. Is there any script to automate this through the API?
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on https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#category-follow the scope for "Get User's Followed Artists" that is called for is "user-follow-modify".that is strange as "get followed artists" should only require read privileges.and...
on https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#category-follow the scope for "Get User's Followed Artists" that is called for is "user-follow-modify". that is st...
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Hello, in the API documentation it is written that there is the possibility to do the search using field filters. However, it is not exactly described what these filters are, just a few examples. And for podcasts and episodes searches, apparently, th...
Hello, in the API documentation it is written that there is the possibility to do the search using field filters. However, it is not exactly described what these filters are, just a few examples. And...
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Hello, I can't access the Spotify maps "Musical Cities", the Github link leads to a blank page: https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/Spotify_Developer Is there a workaround to this issue? Thanks and have a nice day, Rémi
Hello, I can't access the Spotify maps "Musical Cities", the Github link leads to a blank page: https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/Spotify_Developer Is there a workaro...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I'm using Spotify's API to get recommendations (I'm using endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations), it appears that the outputs are highly based on my own ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When I'm using Spotify's API to get recommendations (I'm using endpoint: https...
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Set the feature to adjust the sound and watch the video as per your choice. Please I requested you earlier too, add now, link check https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1-1Jb1IrxpaJtRhaNYPnuvzS0Vli2d7tX
Set the feature to adjust the sound and watch the video as per your choice. Please I requested you earlier too, add now, link check https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1-1Jb1IrxpaJtRhaNYPnuvzS0Vli...
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PlanPremiumCountryVietnam DeviceMacbook Pro Mid 2018Operating SystemMacOS Big Sur My Question or IssueUnable to play any track using Webplayback SDK, it shows error: {"error" : {"status" : 500,"message" : "Server error."}}I attached an image of the c...
Plan Premium Country Vietnam Device Macbook Pro Mid 2018 Operating System MacOS Big Sur My Question or Issue Unable to play any track using Webplayback SDK, it shows error:&n...
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I am writing a fitness app and I am trying to use the ios-sdk to control Spotify. I would like to be able to:* See the album art* See title/artist* See song duration* Play/Pause/Skip/Scrub Currently, I am using SPTSessionManager to get a session. We ...
I am writing a fitness app and I am trying to use the ios-sdk to control Spotify. I would like to be able to: * See the album art * See title/artist * See song duration * Play/Pause/Skip/Scrub &...
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PlanPremiumCountry DeviceGalaxy A71Operating SystemAndroid 10 My Question or Issue I'm trying to get the volume value of the Spotify Music Stream.I am able to get it throw STREAM_MUSIC when Spotify is playing music from the Android device or while th...
Plan Premium Country Device Galaxy A71 Operating System Android 10 My Question or Issue I'm trying to get the volume value of the Spotify Music Stream. I am able to g...
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PlanMusic Distributor : BelieveCountryFrance My Question or IssueAs a music Distributor, Believe Society, we try to monitor our ingestion process. Therefore we would like to know the status of our release by Spotify system : in progress, in error, in...
Plan Music Distributor : Believe Country France My Question or Issue As a music Distributor, Believe Society, we try to monitor our ingestion process. Therefore we would like to know the...
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Hello, i'm trying to build an app that will work like a webplayer but to be "polyvalent" I'm also trying to use the player api from Spotify's WebApi.My app would need to access current user's queue :- read it- add many items to it- clear it- update i...
Hello, i'm trying to build an app that will work like a webplayer but to be "polyvalent" I'm also trying to use the player api from Spotify's WebApi. My app would need to access current user's queue...
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Hi - I'm having issues accessing the top endpoint (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/[type]). Returning 403 Forbidden error. i've checked that I've included user-top-read in my scopes and I'm able to access other endpoints like me/player/recently-pla...
Hi - I'm having issues accessing the top endpoint (https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/[type]). Returning 403 Forbidden error. i've checked that I've included user-top-read in my scopes a...
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Plan - PremiumCountry - USADevice - Lenovo (2012)Operating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue I'm using spotipy to grab album data, but I've now grabbed over 10k albums, and none of them have returned genre data. This seems unusual. Most of the ...
Plan - Premium Country - USA Device - Lenovo (2012) Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm using spotipy to grab album data, but I've now grabbed over 10k albums, and non...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung Galaxy S9Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueI'm totally unable to use the web API to remove a song from a playlist. Pretty sure I have the request set up correctly, I've checked everything multiple times. I...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Samsung Galaxy S9 Operating System Android My Question or Issue I'm totally unable to use the web API to remove a song from a playlist. Pretty s...
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Plan - PremiumCountry - GBDevice - DesktopOperating System - Windows 10My Question or Issue:Hey!Whilst developing some personal automation to sort a playlist, I've found several empty tracks in one of them. To replicate perform the following equivale...
Plan - Premium Country - GB Device - Desktop Operating System - Windows 10 My Question or Issue: Hey! Whilst developing some personal automation to sort a playlist, I've found several...
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Hi,I want to integrate Spotify in my infotainment application.If I make the code available in the below link , will I be able to use Spotify in my application.https://github.com/smaltby/spotify-api-plusplusPlease help. Is there any Subscription requi...
Hi, I want to integrate Spotify in my infotainment application. If I make the code available in the below link , will I be able to use Spotify in my application. https://github.com/smaltby/spotify...
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Hi folks, It is now possible for a lot of browsers to load iframes lazy (https://web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/).I tried this with the spotify embed iframe which kinda breaks it. It is still shown but there is no interaction possible. Getting this erro...
Hi folks, It is now possible for a lot of browsers to load iframes lazy (https://web.dev/iframe-lazy-loading/). I tried this with the spotify embed iframe which kinda breaks it. It is still...
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The get recently played end-point only includes songs that are played to completion.Songs don't need to be 'played for more than 30 seconds', if you only listen to the final 5 seconds of the song until it finishes it will get added to recently played...
The get recently played end-point only includes songs that are played to completion. Songs don't need to be 'played for more than 30 seconds', if you only listen to the final 5 seconds of the song u...
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