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Spotify Soloist: a new terminal based player for headless and DIY setups

Hey everyone, we've created this thread to share details about Spotify Soloist. Spotify Soloist is a new, lightweight Spotify client for headless setups. It runs as a background service, supports Spotify Connect, and works on Raspberry Pi and other L...

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Web API quota updates for Development Mode

Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...

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Solved!! Spotify Codes - How do they work?

I am trying to understand how Spotify Codes work technically, and I can't find any information on them. My answer to this question on stack overflow shows some of the digging I've done: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62120952/10703868 My question is, ho...

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I am trying to understand how Spotify Codes work technically, and I can't find any information on them. My answer to this question on stack overflow shows some of the digging I've done: https://...

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SDK error on PUT request at "Pause a User's Playback" Endpoint

PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceDell XPSOperating SystemLinux Peppermint My Question or Issue I've successfully been able to play a track via the SDK. However, once the song start playing, I can't seem to get it to pause. A fetch request to the "Pa...

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Plan Premium Country Australia   Device Dell XPS Operating System Linux Peppermint   My Question or Issue   I've successfully been able to play a track via the SDK. However...

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Superuser Contribution I think Getting User's Saved Tracks from a user on a Family Plan fails.

Basically title. I'm not sure if there is an alternate request I should use but I've been using this one. GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracksI can't confirm the family plan is causing the issue but, it works for all other users on my app except ...

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Basically title. I'm not sure if there is an alternate request I should use but I've been using this one.  GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks I can't confirm the family plan is causing t...

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Developer Showcase App Submission

Hello, I developed a web app, and waiting to submit it for months. There are other topics about it with no informative replies. Could someone please enlighten us about estimated duration to solve this problem. Or did you stop the maintain Developer S...

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Hello,   I developed a web app, and waiting to submit it for months. There are other topics about it with no informative replies. Could someone please enlighten us about estimated duration to ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify api works w/ my wix site in preview but not when published

My Question or IssueI'm making fetch post requests from the backend of my wix site to the spotify api. it works perfectly in the editor/preview and the api returns an access token, but when I publish the site and try and use it on the live site I get...

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My Question or Issue I'm making fetch post requests from the backend of my wix site to the spotify api. it works perfectly in the editor/preview and the api returns an access token, but when I ...

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Superuser Contribution spotify in widget

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue 1. I would like to know if it is possible to make a custom size for featuring a track on my ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue   ...

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Superuser Contribution Port Spotify Client to Genode Operating System Framework

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceThinkpad x250Operating SystemGenode Sculpt OS 20.08 My Question or IssueSo, Spotify is able to run on almost every operating system - Windows, MacOS, Linux, *BSD, Android, iOS... but what about microkernel-based o...

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  Plan Premium Country United States Device Thinkpad x250 Operating System Genode Sculpt OS 20.08   My Question or Issue So, Spotify is able to run on almost every operating syst...

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sells of hoodies

PlanFree/PremiumCountrybelgiumDevice Operating System Windows 10 My Question or IssueI would like to ask you a question. we would like to sell hoodies with pictures of songs thatt you have on your app so for example if i search up dior and i see the ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country belgium Device   Operating System  Windows 10   My Question or Issue I would like to ask you a question. we would like to sell hoodies with pictures...

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Authentication iOS

I am developing an iOS / Android application that allows access to remote control of Spotify player with authentication via native SDK.At the first application start call the authorizeAndPlayURI of the SPTAppRemote, the apps switch correctly, and the...

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I am developing an iOS / Android application that allows access to remote control of Spotify player with authentication via native SDK. At the first application start call the authorizeAndPlayURI of...

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Sugerencias de sistema

PlanFree/PremiumCountryChileDeviceiPhone 6sOperating SystemiOS 14 My Question or Issuehola, soy un alguien que usa la aplicación en Latinoamérica, y quería preguntarles por dos cosas, o más bien hacer dos propuestas que me gustaría que fuesen escucha...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Chile Device iPhone 6s Operating System iOS 14   My Question or Issue hola, soy un alguien que usa la aplicación en Latinoamérica, y quería preguntarles p...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How do I add a local track to a playlist through the web api?

CountryNetherlandsDeviceWeb API My Question or IssueI'm using the web api to make a site that enables users to create and fill Spotify playlists through the (pretty awesome) spotify web api. I couldn't find how to add a local track to the playlist th...

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Country Netherlands Device Web API   My Question or Issue I'm using the web api to make a site that enables users to create and fill Spotify playlists through the (pretty awesome) spotify ...

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Featured Playlist For Previous Years

Country: USQuestion: Wondering why featured playlists for past years (i.e. 1990) have most of their songs from 2019-2020? Tried pulling a US featured playlist (@ https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-featured-playlists/) with the following date: ...

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Country: US Question: Wondering why featured playlists for past years (i.e. 1990) have most of their songs from 2019-2020? Tried pulling a US featured playlist (@ https://developer.spotify.co...

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PKCETokenRequest and Spotify Agreement

Operating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHello, I am using the Spotify API to developer a Windows UWP application. I'm using the PKCE Authorization work flow. It works as follows:1. Start application2. User is asked to login to spotify3. After log...

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Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue Hello, I am using the Spotify API to developer a Windows UWP application. I'm using the PKCE Authorization work flow. It works as follows: 1....

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API Rate Limiting Changed?

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueI'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/) where the API is polled every second. We use the response to set the track progress, ...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device PC Operating System Win10   My Question or Issue I'm currently contributing to an open-source Spotify widget (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/) where the...

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Get /playlists/{id}/tracks returns 1 null track when playlist is empty

The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. The API now returns data saying there are tracks present when NO tracks are present. This behavior is inconsist...

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The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. The API now returns data saying there are tracks present whe...

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Get /playlists/{id}/tracks returns 1 null track when playlist is empty

I am not sure how to reproduce this issue. The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app. PlanPremiumUSA DeviceMac OSX, IOS, Web Player (API issue)I have mana...

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I am not sure how to reproduce this issue. The issue arose after using the web API to add and remove tracks several times, as well as sometimes removing them by hand in the IOS app.  Plan Pr...

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Connecting to Spotify's MediaBrowserService

I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted? E/Spotify: [main] onGetRoot: IGNORING request from untrusted pack...

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I tried to connect to the Spotify's MediaBrowserService without success. What types of applications are on the whitelist? And what do I have to change in my application to get trusted?   E/Spo...

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getting [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] error with the Android Remote SDK

I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song:[Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] Please help me out here!!! My app relies heavily on the s...

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I got the latest App update (25th Aug 2020) and this has been happening ever since. I am getting the following error when I seek in a song: [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}]&nbsp...

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Does Web Playback SDK or spotify connect have a timeout feature?

PlanPremium CountrySweden DevicePC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this together with propepr authentication that is refreshed using the refresh token and to test it I wanted t...

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Plan Premium   Country Sweden   Device PC   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I've implemented my own player using the Web Playback SDK, this togethe...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution TrackID miss in playlist

hi all!With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist.So I can sometimes not show which track is currently active from a playlist. Example:Playlist ID: ...

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hi all! With some songs, the TrackID (determined with track_window.current_track.id via iframe player) does not match the IDs in the songs in a playlist. So I can sometimes not show which track is ...

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