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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...
PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceMacbook Pro 2019Operating SystemOSX Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76) My Question or IssueI have an applet in my console that automatically adds the current playing track as well as music controls to my tmux-powerline like this: ...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Macbook Pro 2019 Operating System OSX Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76) My Question or Issue I have an applet in my console that automatically adds the curr...
Casual Listener
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My Question or Issue Hello,I would like to know how is the calculation of popularity algorithm from a track. Particularly, I need to know how is the calculation based on the time. In the documentation of tracks, i see that "the popularity is calculat...
My Question or Issue Hello, I would like to know how is the calculation of popularity algorithm from a track. Particularly, I need to know how is the calculation based on the time.&n...
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There have not been any releases to the SDK since February. Issues are piling up and not being replied to. It appears that there are only one or two developers maintaining the repository, dropping in once every few weeks, and they are very picky abou...
There have not been any releases to the SDK since February. Issues are piling up and not being replied to. It appears that there are only one or two developers maintaining the repository, dr...
Gig Goer
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When attempting to connect the iOS SDK SPTAppRemote after authenticating with SPTSessionManager and starting playback, every once in awhile the SPTAppRemote cannot connect no matter how many attempts to retry are made. The only remedy is to ask a use...
When attempting to connect the iOS SDK SPTAppRemote after authenticating with SPTSessionManager and starting playback, every once in awhile the SPTAppRemote cannot connect no matter how m...
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When first initializing the WebPlaybackSDK, we are provided with a getOAuthToken property that returns a callback that accepts the access token as the only argument. Would we use the same callback function to provide a refreshed access_token? Doesn't...
When first initializing the WebPlaybackSDK, we are provided with a getOAuthToken property that returns a callback that accepts the access token as the only argument. Would we use the same ca...
Gig Goer
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When calling the Get an Artist's Related Artists endpoint of the Web API, you get a list of up to 20 artists that are similar to the artist specified in the call. Does the order of this list matter? Are the artists sorted by similarity to the origina...
When calling the Get an Artist's Related Artists endpoint of the Web API, you get a list of up to 20 artists that are similar to the artist specified in the call. Does the order of this list mat...
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Hi,Hope anyone reading this is safe and well.I'm currently developing using angular and embedding the play button in a modal. The modal has text fields and the play button in the iframe resets everytime I type in the fields on the page. So if the pla...
Hi, Hope anyone reading this is safe and well. I'm currently developing using angular and embedding the play button in a modal. The modal has text fields and the play button in the iframe resets ev...
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If you look in the references for the documentation there are discrepancies in the track objects that are returned vs what is outlined with descriptions. The most notable is the difference of there being no "is_local" in the references.
If you look in the references for the documentation there are discrepancies in the track objects that are returned vs what is outlined with descriptions. The most notable is the difference of there b...
Spotify
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I want to listen to music through api. Currently, I can only listen to the review url and listen to it in advance for 30 seconds. Is there another way? (Use account is the default account.)
I want to listen to music through api. Currently, I can only listen to the review url and listen to it in advance for 30 seconds. Is there another way? (Use account is the default account.)
Spotify
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Since 3pm yesterday the Spotify Web API has stopped working on theauthorization endpoints. The only error returned is a 400 error code with noattached error description. Since I’m using Spotify as the onlyauthentication method in my app, it’s crashin...
Since 3pm yesterday the Spotify Web API has stopped working on the authorization endpoints. The only error returned is a 400 error code with no attached error description. Since I’m using Spotify a...
Regular
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Hey Everyone, I am currently creating a website that uses Spotify API to search for trackshttps://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=${track}%20${artist}&type=track is the urlI have been able to do this successfully using code that prompts the user to sign ...
Hey Everyone, I am currently creating a website that uses Spotify API to search for tracks https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=${track}%20${artist}&type=track is the url I have bee...
Regular
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Hi everyone,I'm receiving the 'Socket Hang Up' error when my app is running for almost a day. I'm requesting things to Spotify hourly, and most of the time the app runs smoothly. The error happens when I start requesting after 7-8 hours I turned on m...
Hi everyone, I'm receiving the 'Socket Hang Up' error when my app is running for almost a day. I'm requesting things to Spotify hourly, and most of the time the app runs smoothly. The error happens ...
Music Fan
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Is there any logic as to when one needs to provide the fully qualified version of a URI (e.g. including the "spotify:track:" prefix)? I've been developing Haskell bindings to the Web API, and have just found that, for example, getting a track require...
Is there any logic as to when one needs to provide the fully qualified version of a URI (e.g. including the "spotify:track:" prefix)? I've been developing Haskell bindings to the Web API, an...
Casual Listener
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The type of multiple values in the audio-analysis endpoint changed. Timestamp and num_samples changed from int to string and analysis_sample_rate changed from int to float. Is this a bug or are these changes intended?
The type of multiple values in the audio-analysis endpoint changed. Timestamp and num_samples changed from int to string and analysis_sample_rate changed from int to float. Is this a bug or are ...
Spotify
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Hi,I submitted a request for commercial application approval last week but I didn't get any response of any kind. Just wondering if I could check the status of the request to make sure I submitted it correctly and to have a sense of how much it will ...
Hi, I submitted a request for commercial application approval last week but I didn't get any response of any kind. Just wondering if I could check the status of the request to make sure I submitte...
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Is there a way to use test accounts for validating your app login flow?
Is there a way to use test accounts for validating your app login flow?
Spotify
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUK My Question or IssueCould I build a dual-use web player that can play back tracks stored on my own server and from Spotify servers?
Plan Free/Premium Country UK My Question or Issue Could I build a dual-use web player that can play back tracks stored on my own server and from Spotify servers?
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I wan to build the radio app. Automatically play the songs; if user doesn't like any song, user can skip it. Is it okay if my app keeps the user history what songs are skipped; next time it doesn't play them plus app analyzes those songs and don't pl...
I wan to build the radio app. Automatically play the songs; if user doesn't like any song, user can skip it. Is it okay if my app keeps the user history what songs are skipped; next time it doesn't p...
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PlanPremium Operating SystemWeb Service My Question or IssueI have an application which generates a good amount of traffic to your API servers. There are thousandfold unique users every day (according to your dashboard). From the dashboard I can see ...
Plan Premium Operating System Web Service My Question or Issue I have an application which generates a good amount of traffic to your API servers. There are thousandfold unique u...
Gig Goer
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