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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...
Hi, would this be useful to anyone? how can I extend this to be more useful? I wrote a python program that inputs YourLibrary.json to an alphabetical list of artists, albums, and references so I can tell at a glance what I listen to.1. the raw json i...
Hi, would this be useful to anyone? how can I extend this to be more useful? I wrote a python program that inputs YourLibrary.json to an alphabetical list of artists, alb...
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PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe following endpoint does not work as expected:https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/queue The queue variable returns the queued songs and also spams the currently pl...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The following endpoint does not work as expected: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/qu...
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Hello there! I want to create a non-profit application for personal use that utilizes the Spotify API to play music in a web browser and apply effects to the tracks, such as adding reverb. However, I understand that this is not permitted under Spotif...
Hello there! I want to create a non-profit application for personal use that utilizes the Spotify API to play music in a web browser and apply effects to the tracks, such as adding reverb. However, I...
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CountryUS My Question or IssueHi there, I am working on a spotify developer integration and everything works perfectly on my machine. When I start using a production server hosted by Hetzner in the us-east location, the server errors out on all reque...
Country US My Question or Issue Hi there, I am working on a spotify developer integration and everything works perfectly on my machine. When I start using a production server hosted by Het...
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PlanPremiumCountry: US My Question or IssueI've had great success acquiring a token and using GET requests to grab data from my playlists. I'm attempting to use the POST request to add a track to a playlist and I receive the unexpected: { "error": { ...
Plan Premium Country: US My Question or Issue I've had great success acquiring a token and using GET requests to grab data from my playlists. I'm attempting to use the POST reque...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry All DeviceiPhone and AndroidOperating SystemiOS and Android My Question or IssueAfter the update release on Nov 18th, it looks like the clients broke the reporting of the streams and don't include the context anymore. As a con...
Plan Free/Premium Country All Device iPhone and Android Operating System iOS and Android My Question or Issue After the update release on Nov 18th, it looks like the cl...
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Hi. I try to execute request WITH PREMIUM account, and get the same error. Can you check where am i wrong? I send request with Postman and get the same response error like sshuvoo.**bleep**
Hi. I try to execute request WITH PREMIUM account, and get the same error. Can you check where am i wrong? I send request with Postman and get the same response error like sshuvoo.**bleep**
Spotify Star
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issuein Android Remote-connect SDK，I want to play specified song by uri(spotify:track:xxxxxxx)，But...
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 in Andr...
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My Question or IssueI've noticed that certain artist IDs (ex 2uW79XE0HEkPb56HqZJnNx) exhibit a weird behavior when using the Get Artist endpoint. The request succeeds, but the returned artist has a different ID than requested. This is quite difficult...
My Question or Issue I've noticed that certain artist IDs (ex 2uW79XE0HEkPb56HqZJnNx) exhibit a weird behavior when using the Get Artist endpoint. The request succeeds, but the returned artist has...
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I'm creating a tool that integrates with the Spotify Web API and I noticed that active device (being my smartphone) gets disconnected when Spotify is running in the background. Is there a way to ensure that the app is still "active"? Especially if it...
I'm creating a tool that integrates with the Spotify Web API and I noticed that active device (being my smartphone) gets disconnected when Spotify is running in the background. Is there a way to ensu...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryIndiaDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueAn artist regularly checks the "discovered on" section to check organic traction. I'd lik...
Plan Free/Premium Country India Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue An artis...
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So I recently submitted an extension request for my AI-powered app, and it was rejected due to the reason that it "ingests Spotify content into a machine-learning and AI model," which isn't true and is an incorrect assumption the review team made The...
So I recently submitted an extension request for my AI-powered app, and it was rejected due to the reason that it "ingests Spotify content into a machine-learning and AI model," which isn't true and ...
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Hello, I want to use the Spotify API specifically the metadata of tracks and playlists like release date, popularity...) to train a recommender system for my bachelor thesis which is about the impact of human feedback on recommender system in field o...
Hello, I want to use the Spotify API specifically the metadata of tracks and playlists like release date, popularity...) to train a recommender system for my bachelor thesis which is about t...
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PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue. Spotify must contain an Ai that can play songs on voice based command , like example today i...
Plan Premium Country India 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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I'm trying to search the web api for songs by ISRC but I no longer receive any results, only an empty items array. My search query looks like this: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=isrc:USLZJ1613311 I've even tried on the spotify web console b...
I'm trying to search the web api for songs by ISRC but I no longer receive any results, only an empty items array. My search query looks like this: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=isrc:U...
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I'm no security expert, but I received this crash error randomly while using spotify. It wasn't even playing any music. I wanted to share this incase it is important, and spotify support sent me here. Nov 16 17:22:48 dish-washer spotify-launcher[2645...
I'm no security expert, but I received this crash error randomly while using spotify. It wasn't even playing any music. I wanted to share this incase it is important, and spotify support sent me here...
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I have an idea that should be implemented in the Spotify App. I would like to see a feature that ties your GPS position with music that has ties to the location. For example if I am visiting Atlanta for work, I would like to see a playlist that featu...
I have an idea that should be implemented in the Spotify App. I would like to see a feature that ties your GPS position with music that has ties to the location. For example if I am visit...
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PlanFreeCountryRomaniaDeviceWeb APIOperating SystemWindows My Question or Issuehttps://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=track:Chiquitita%20artist:ABBA&type=track It returns me no data. But it only works with such a search:https://api.spotify.com/v1/search...
Plan Free Country Romania Device Web API Operating System Windows My Question or Issue https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=track:Chiquitita%20artist:ABBA&type=track &nbs...
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I signed up to be a Spotify developer a few years ago. I have heard that there are more restrictions on what can be built using to Spotify APIs. Someone told me that Spotify does not want any of the APIs to be used in Games. Is something like this re...
I signed up to be a Spotify developer a few years ago. I have heard that there are more restrictions on what can be built using to Spotify APIs. Someone told me that Spotify does not w...
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I'm a beginner so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm trying to get an access code using the authorization flow in golang. I am quite sure I am getting the User authorization correctly but then when I try and get the access token I get the er...
I'm a beginner so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm trying to get an access code using the authorization flow in golang. I am quite sure I am getting the User authorization correctly but th...
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