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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
Hello, I'm currently toying around with the Spotify api to create a mobile app that "matches" people based on their top artists, tracks, and genres.For this, I need to save the user data (top 50 tracks and artists, from the Personalization API) and f...
Hello, I'm currently toying around with the Spotify api to create a mobile app that "matches" people based on their top artists, tracks, and genres. For this, I need to save the use...
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Hey guys, I'm trying to build an iOS application which makes use of the Spotify WEB API for a school project. Basically I want to be able to authenticate through Spotify in the app and then be able to search and play songs on a phone with Spotify ins...
Hey guys, I'm trying to build an iOS application which makes use of the Spotify WEB API for a school project. Basically I want to be able to authenticate through Spotify in the app and then be ...
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how and where do i make a request to get permission to use the Spotify web api? Thank you very much
how and where do i make a request to get permission to use the Spotify web api? Thank you very much
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As the Developer Terms of Service state, an app utilizing Spotify Services / Content may not synchronize music to "visual media", such as videos and slideshows. So obviously, things like adding a soundtrack to a movie are out of the question. What I ...
As the Developer Terms of Service state, an app utilizing Spotify Services / Content may not synchronize music to "visual media", such as videos and slideshows. So obviously, things like adding a sou...
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Spotify: please expose more of a track's waveform than the first 30 sec. There is a research community that wants to develop more powerful song-waveofmr analytics than exists today. For example, see Bill Protzmann'spost 3 weeks ago on Emotion Data. T...
Spotify: please expose more of a track's waveform than the first 30 sec. There is a research community that wants to develop more powerful song-waveofmr analytics than exists today. Fo...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermany Devicelibrespot, WebPlayerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCurrently I am working with this https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot-java software. I created a setup and it works fine.I can start the playback...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device librespot, WebPlayer Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Currently I am working with this https://github.com/librespot-org/li...
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PlanPremiumCountryIndia DeviceDellOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI started using the audio analysis API to find the chorus in track. However, the number of short-time Fourier analysis windows are very high to be processed in my progra...
Plan Premium Country India Device Dell Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I started using the audio analysis API to find the chorus in track. However, the numbe...
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I need to "authorize" the bearer token to delete some tracks from a list (from my personal Spotify account) I'm following this flow I first make a POST request to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token using `"Authorization: Basic ZjM4ZjAw...WY0MzE="...
I need to "authorize" the bearer token to delete some tracks from a list (from my personal Spotify account) I'm following this flow I first make a POST request to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/tok...
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I want to verify user input before executing the request and receiving a Bad Request Error. I know it has to be base-62, so [a-zA-Z0-9], but what other restrictions are there? I've noticed that it seems to expect the ID to be 22 characters long. Woul...
I want to verify user input before executing the request and receiving a Bad Request Error. I know it has to be base-62, so [a-zA-Z0-9], but what other restrictions are there? I've noticed that it se...
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Hi there, Is it possible to access the audio tracks independently from an iFrame? We would like to stream Spotify music with WebRTC, which is not possible using iFrames. Many thanks!
Hi there, Is it possible to access the audio tracks independently from an iFrame? We would like to stream Spotify music with WebRTC, which is not possible using iFrames. Many thanks!
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I am new to this, but assume it would be feasible to support all (or most?) of the following features on an app (iOS & Android) for Spotify users on free accounts. Please provide some true and false feedback for each assumption. An app can:Select a p...
I am new to this, but assume it would be feasible to support all (or most?) of the following features on an app (iOS & Android) for Spotify users on free accounts. Please provide some true and fa...
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I'm using the ios-sdk. I'm connected and can control the player API, but I'd like to retrieve some data from the REST API. How do I get the current user's spotify id for the queries? TIA
I'm using the ios-sdk. I'm connected and can control the player API, but I'd like to retrieve some data from the REST API. How do I get the current user's spotify id for the queries? TIA &n...
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PlanFreeCountryCosta Rica but it is affecting worldwideDeviceAllOperating SystemWindows, Android to the extent I could check My Question or IssueTrying to embed my playlist in a widget on wordpresshttps://open.spotify.com/user/nb9zbd3num3x193bey7azzi...
Plan Free Country Costa Rica but it is affecting worldwide Device All Operating System Windows, Android to the extent I could check My Question or Issue Trying to embed my playl...
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Hi, I'm currently developing an app which in home it displays all the artist that I follow and for each of them I display their latest track. The problem is that to do this I need to invoke http://api.spotify.com/v1/me/following?type=artist until I r...
Hi, I'm currently developing an app which in home it displays all the artist that I follow and for each of them I display their latest track. The problem is that to do this I need to invoke&nb...
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PlanPremiumCountryFRDeviceAPI from computer My Question or IssueAPI was working fine for searching songs but since a couple of hours, this gives an Error 500 Server Error. Note that when parameter 'artist' is given, it works. But when looking for 'tr...
Plan Premium Country FR Device API from computer My Question or Issue API was working fine for searching songs but since a couple of hours, this gives an Error 500 Server Error. ...
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My Question or Issue It should be possible to change/restore the url from your playlist. Not to put the url you want, but restore it to another random one. Thanks.
My Question or Issue It should be possible to change/restore the url from your playlist. Not to put the url you want, but restore it to another random one. Thanks.
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Hello there !I'm a JS developer and I just get familiar with the spotify API.My application is working fine, I made a nodeJs server for authentication and a little Svelte App to display some data !I was expecting the spotify dashboard page to display...
Hello there ! I'm a JS developer and I just get familiar with the spotify API. My application is working fine, I made a nodeJs server for authentication and a little Svelte App to display some data...
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I've just started working with the API, and I noticed playlists have the following "primary_color" field. While I haven't launched a full investigation, cursory searches of this community, the API docs, and the internet at large and haven't found any...
I've just started working with the API, and I noticed playlists have the following "primary_color" field. While I haven't launched a full investigation, cursory searches of this community, the API do...
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Hello, How do we get approval to add content on a personal site from spotify.com using your API? I have this site eabreath.com and need to add musics content from spotify.co web site. Please advise. Thank you for your assistance, Regards.
Hello, How do we get approval to add content on a personal site from spotify.com using your API? I have this site eabreath.com and need to add musics content from spotify.co web ...
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Hi all. I have a question related to extending the recently-played endpoint in the spotify api. When creating experiences online for specific acts, it would be useful to specify artists in the api, so rather than return the last 50 tracks it would re...
Hi all. I have a question related to extending the recently-played endpoint in the spotify api. When creating experiences online for specific acts, it would be useful to specify artists in the api, s...
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