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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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Is there any way to sort artist's genres by popularity or get how many songs of each genre has?

I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main problem is that, in most of the cases, there's one genr...

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  • I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main prob...
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Questions about Access to All Tracks and API Rate Limits

PlanPremium My Question or Issue Access to All Tracks: I am wondering if there is a way to access information about all tracks available on Spotify. Is there an endpoint or a method that allows me to retrieve data for all tracks at once or in batches...

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  • Plan Premium   My Question or Issue   Access to All Tracks: I am wondering if there is a way to access information about all tracks available on Spotify. Is there an endpoint or a me...
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Availability of Audio Features and Audio Analysis on Tracks in Spotify API

Hello everyone, I've been working with the Spotify API and I've encountered an issue where I'm consistently receiving `None` for all audio features and audio analysis for tracks. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue? Is the availab...

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  • Hello everyone, I've been working with the Spotify API and I've encountered an issue where I'm consistently receiving `None` for all audio features and audio analysis for tracks. I'm wondering if an...
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Wrong access token return

PlanPremium CountryUSA and India DeviceiPhonePlatformMobile (iOS)Issue : We have a app which uses Spotify service to play songs. I've logged in to my app (eg. as user-1 this is currently logged in to Spotify) and then I close my app then go to Spotif...

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  • Plan Premium   Country USA and India  Device iPhone Platform Mobile (iOS) Issue :  We have a app which uses Spotify service to play songs. I've logged in to my app (eg....
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iOS SDK Disconnect when app goes to background

PlanPremium CountryUSA and India DeviceiPhonePlatformMobile (iOS)Issue : We've built an app which consumes Spotify services. When my app is moved to background the SDK gets disconnected automatically. When I try to reconnect to Spotify again when my ...

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  • Plan Premium   Country USA and India  Device iPhone Platform Mobile (iOS) Issue :  We've built an app which consumes Spotify services. When my app is moved to backgroun...
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Superuser Contribution My app is disabled and blocked, how to appeal?

My app is disabled and blocked and the email address for appealing is not showing up in the cases list when I click the "What does this mean" link. It says "Spotify has disabled your app. You can contact us at this email address if you wish to appeal...

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  • My app is disabled and blocked and the email address for appealing is not showing up in the cases list when I click the "What does this mean" link. It says "Spotify has disabled your app. You can con...
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Album listed on Artist page is not from the artist

The album Curved Backbone listed for the artist The Mahones is not from the artist linked with the album. Maybe there's another band names The Mahones, but this isn't one of their albums.

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  • The album Curved Backbone listed for the artist The Mahones is not from the artist linked with the album.   Maybe there's another band names The Mahones, but this isn't one of their albums.&nb...
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Get Album endpoint returns response with empty list of genres

PlanPremiumCountryPoland My Question or IssueHi all, I'm trying to use the Spotify API to get information about some albums and I've found that the response of Get Album endpoint contains empty list of Genres (`genres` field), so no genres for any al...

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  • Plan Premium Country Poland   My Question or Issue Hi all, I'm trying to use the Spotify API to get information about some albums and I've found that the response of Get Album endpoi...
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Error 429, retry-after missing

So i have been working on an app for the past fiew days. I am now doing some testing for rate limits but the problem is i'm unable to see the retry-after time in the response when i get the error 429. So i can't do anithing about it and no matter how...

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  • So i have been working on an app for the past fiew days. I am now doing some testing for rate limits but the problem is i'm unable to see the retry-after time in the response when i get the error 429...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution We were not able to get your app

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceWeb My Question or IssueI’m trying to create a new app for integration with Home Assistant (following this guide: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/spotify/). I’ve created the app, but when I go into the settings t...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Web   My Question or Issue I’m trying to create a new app for integration with Home Assistant (following this guide: https://www.home-assistant.io/integra...
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Something went wrong, we were not able to get your app. Try again later.

PlanFreeCountry:India Device Macbook ProOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI am trying to use developer.spotify.com and seeing the below issue while creating an app :Something went wrong, we were not able to g...

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  •   Plan Free Country: India   Device  Macbook Pro Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue I am trying to use developer.spot...
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Is it okay to deploy my app without an extension request (so friends can test it)?

PlanPremium My Question or IssueI have a small toy project that's essentially this (https://pudding.cool/2021/10/judge-my-music/) but with ChatGPT. I don't intend on getting an extension request (until the site is polished, if ever), but I'd like to ...

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  • Plan Premium   My Question or Issue I have a small toy project that's essentially this (https://pudding.cool/2021/10/judge-my-music/) but with ChatGPT. I don't intend on getting an extension...
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Can't edit the settings of a Spotify app

PlanFree/PremiumCountryCanada I can't edit the settings of my Spotify app after selecting it from the Dashboard. I can see the dashboard for the app with the DAU, MAU, and requests by endpoint, but I can't access the settings. I'm getting an error me...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Canada   I can't edit the settings of my Spotify app after selecting it from the Dashboard. I can see the dashboard for the app with the DAU, MAU, and requests by ...
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Can't create an app

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceHome PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI cannot create an app. I get an error message "Something went wrong, we were not able to create your app. Please try again later." I've tried multiple times over the co...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Home PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I cannot create an app. I get an error message "Something went wrong, we were not able to cre...
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Developing a game around Spotify?

Hi all, I was under the impression that using Spotify music content in games was prohibited as per the Spotify Dev policy III.2 'Do not create a game, including trivia quizzes.'Any idea how this game might have gotten around the rules? https://songtr...

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  • Hi all, I was under the impression that using Spotify music content in games was prohibited as per the Spotify Dev policy III.2 'Do not create a game, including trivia quizzes.' Any idea how this ...
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How can I play tracks while phone is locked without queuing?

i am trying to make a ‘skin’ atop Spotify, where users can play a song through my app, and itll play through Spotify. Due to how Spotify handles activity, I can’t keep my phone locked to play tracks in the background, and the queuing system doesn’t w...

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  • i am trying to make a ‘skin’ atop Spotify, where users can play a song through my app, and itll play through Spotify.   Due to how Spotify handles activity, I can’t keep my phone locked to pla...
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Commercial use for some of Spotify's API

Greetings,We are a couple of software developers, willing to create software for both hobby and commercial use. The software includes gathering track data with a given ID and using the recommendation API. We cannot be sure if it is legal to use these...

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  • Greetings, We are a couple of software developers, willing to create software for both hobby and commercial use. The software includes gathering track data with a given ID and using t...
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Recommendations endpoint doesn't respond

Hello, I've been working on this webapp for months now with these lines without issue : $recommendationsOptions = [ 'limit' => 20, 'seed_artists' => $seedArtists, 'seed_tracks' => $seedTracks, 'seed_genres' => $seedGenres, 'market' => $api->me()->cou...

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  • Hello,  I've been working on this webapp for months now with these lines without issue :        $recommendationsOptions = [ 'limit' => 20, ...
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My daughter's information on the API is wrong and does not match what is on her Spotify for artsits

My daughter is an indie rock/indir pop/indie folk artist. We recently learned that a 3rd party site that generates its data from Spotify's API had her listed as rap/hip hop and the top countries did not match what we know to be true and what is on he...

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  • My daughter is an indie rock/indir pop/indie folk artist. We recently learned that a 3rd party site that generates its data from Spotify's API had her listed as rap/hip hop and the top countries did ...
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Play a track without clearing queue?

PlanPremiumCountrySEOperating SystemiOS 17.2, Windows 11, MacOS Sonoma 14.2 My Question or IssueI am working on a website and it is incredibly frustrating that the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play endpoint clears the users autoplay/currently...

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  • Plan Premium Country SE Operating System iOS 17.2, Windows 11, MacOS Sonoma 14.2   My Question or Issue I am working on a website and it is incredibly frustrating that the https://a...
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