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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...
Hey guys, was wondering if the Android SDK can allow this like the Web API already does. It would be great to allow playing a track from a starting position.This feature would improve experience in the following use case:The current hack involves cal...
Hey guys, was wondering if the Android SDK can allow this like the Web API already does. It would be great to allow playing a track from a starting position. This feature would improve experience in...
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Since Android uses remote sdk, it is used by connecting to Spotify app. Is there any way to use it like web playback sdk?
Since Android uses remote sdk, it is used by connecting to Spotify app. Is there any way to use it like web playback sdk?
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It is possible to access the top tracks/artists of another user? I know authorization is required but how would that work for a separate user? For example, if I wanted to create a web app that compared my top tracks to my friends top tracks, is there...
It is possible to access the top tracks/artists of another user? I know authorization is required but how would that work for a separate user? For example, if I wanted to create a web app that compar...
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There is currently spotifycharts.com to show top music for each country.Is there similar API/CSV download for podcasts? I cannot find any API endpoint for this.
There is currently spotifycharts.com to show top music for each country. Is there similar API/CSV download for podcasts? I cannot find any API endpoint for this.
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I'm trying to delete a track from a playlist with python. But it gives an error by the authentication. First I thought it was the scopes but it is added to my apps if i look at my apps. So now i don't now what the problem is. This is my code:access_t...
I'm trying to delete a track from a playlist with python. But it gives an error by the authentication. First I thought it was the scopes but it is added to my apps if i look at my apps. So now i don'...
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Hello everyone, I am working on this endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played. I was wondering how much delay there is between the actual track listening (via UI) and the presence of the data in the API response. To check this i...
Hello everyone, I am working on this endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played. I was wondering how much delay there is between the actual track listening (via UI) ...
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I want to use the play button widget inside of a webview in a react native app. This app is going to be free but it will have advertisements. These are two of your restrictions: 1) Please note that the Spotify Play Button may not be used for commerci...
I want to use the play button widget inside of a webview in a react native app. This app is going to be free but it will have advertisements. These are two of your restrictions: 1) ...
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I am using the Spotify API to make some music reactive LED's. At the moment i am making them blink on the bpm of the curently playing track and I noticed that they are a bit boring to look at and the beat is not allways what you want the LED's to rea...
I am using the Spotify API to make some music reactive LED's. At the moment i am making them blink on the bpm of the curently playing track and I noticed that they are a bit boring to look at and the...
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The winget team from Microsoft has an issue where, when a new binary is uploaded to your servers, the SHA256 is invalidated.The original issue can be seen here:https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/1293The URL to the installer can be found ...
The winget team from Microsoft has an issue where, when a new binary is uploaded to your servers, the SHA256 is invalidated. The original issue can be seen here: https://github.com/microsoft/wing...
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Hello, Is there a way to stream songs on Spotify directly to Unity's AudioSource? It is for a commercial application.I'm making a visualiser application and to get the spectrum data from the song, it has to be playing on the AudioSource. It would be ...
Hello, Is there a way to stream songs on Spotify directly to Unity's AudioSource? It is for a commercial application. I'm making a visualiser application and to get the spectrum data from t...
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Hi,I've sent a commercial app request a month ago from this account in order to integrate the BBC Music Memories app with the Spotify API. I've searched the forum and I've found out that it's not possible to check the status of the application on the...
Hi, I've sent a commercial app request a month ago from this account in order to integrate the BBC Music Memories app with the Spotify API. I've searched the forum and I've found out that it's n...
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Hey Spotify, I'm using your authentication api to register all my users and everything worked fine since yesterday. I just launced a big ad campaign and suddenly no new users or current ones can sign in and all the api returns are: 400 - 'invalid_req...
Hey Spotify, I'm using your authentication api to register all my users and everything worked fine since yesterday. I just launced a big ad campaign and suddenly no new users or current ones...
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hi all, is this possible yet? or in the making? https://artists.spotify.com/blog/introducing-artist-fundraising-pick Thanks
hi all, is this possible yet? or in the making? https://artists.spotify.com/blog/introducing-artist-fundraising-pick Thanks
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None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help.PlanPremiumCountryFranceDevice(Raspberry Pi)os debian My Question or IssueI’m trying to use the API in order to call Spotify from a ...
None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help. Plan Premium Country France Device (Raspberry Pi) os debian My...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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