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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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Gromushka

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S4D
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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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josesmartin

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Solved!! The playlist 'Discover Weekly' is no longer being recognized as a user playlist.

PlanFreeCountryDEDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen I retrieve the current user's playlists via the access point 'me/playlists', 'Discover Weekly' was previously included in the returned list. However, this playlist has been ...

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  Plan Free Country DE Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When I retrieve the current user's playlists via the access point 'me/playlists', 'Discover We...

mci

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Cant delete apps

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADevice(iPhone 17 Pro MaxOperating System(iOS 26 Windows 11 My Question or IssueCant delete disabled blocked apps., Please help me delete them Dashboard | Spotify for Developers

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  Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device (iPhone 17 Pro Max Operating System (iOS 26 Windows 11   My Question or Issue Cant delete disabled blocked apps., Please help me delete the...

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Spotify auto connection with Tesla

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueSpotify automatically connects with Tesla music player , while I am using headphones or liste...

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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 Spotify...

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Clarification on Production Standard Access

Hi everyone,I’m part of a small startup team building a consumer-facing music insights app that uses Spotify OAuth and standard Web API scopes (e.g. top artists, top tracks, recently played).We’re currently in Development mode (25 users) and would li...

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Hi everyone, I’m part of a small startup team building a consumer-facing music insights app that uses Spotify OAuth and standard Web API scopes (e.g. top artists, top tracks, recently played). We’r...

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Solved!! Web Playback SDK not working with Spotify Lite / Premium Mini despite product=premium

PlanPremiumCountry: IndiaI’m trying to integrate Spotify playback in my application using the Spotify Web API and the Web Playback SDK, but I’m running into an issue with certain accounts.What’s happeningI connected a Spotify Lite account to my app a...

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Plan Premium Country: India I’m trying to integrate Spotify playback in my application using the Spotify Web API and the Web Playback SDK, but I’m running into an issue with certain accounts. Wha...

Ximzend

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Canvas API

Is there a way i can have acces to an API or additional endpoint on the existing Spotify API that provides a URL to a tracks given canvas in an mp4 format so i can use it on my app?

Casual Listener

Is there a way i can have acces to an API or additional endpoint on the existing Spotify API that provides a URL to a tracks given canvas in an mp4 format so i can use it on my app?    &n...

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Enhancing the Spotify track tags with my own tags

Hi everyone, I want to build an app which can recommend Spotify tracks based on the user's own library of music (could be a user's collection of .mp3). For this, I want to enhace the default tags for Spotify tracks with my own self-crafted tags (say,...

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Hi everyone,   I want to build an app which can recommend Spotify tracks based on the user's own library of music (could be a user's collection of .mp3). For this, I want to enhace the default...

alexkepekci

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"Download song using API"
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Suggestion for a new feature in spotify

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHey team,I have a feature proposal that you should consider for the user improvement and also...

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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 Hey...

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Feature Request
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Get a spotify URI or track from an ISRC

Hi All, I have a big bunch of ISRC codes and would like to get their associated Spotify tracks. From the docs, it looks like the only way to access a resource from the ISRC is by using it as a search query, and with the number of codes I have I'd hit...

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Hi All,   I have a big bunch of ISRC codes and would like to get their associated Spotify tracks. From the docs, it looks like the only way to access a resource from the ISRC is by using it as...

riteshkhunte

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Hard or impossible to search for dates

Using the API /search endpoint, I'm trying to find playlists with dates in their titles, like "2025-05-09" or "5/2/25". This works badly in general. The search breaks the query string up into individual numbers, and the results end up being dominated...

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Using the API /search endpoint, I'm trying to find playlists with dates in their titles, like "2025-05-09" or "5/2/25". This works badly in general. The search breaks the query string up into individ...

glenn_mcdonald

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Dedicating songs to your loved ones!

Hi Spotify team, I’m building a project called Music4You, a web experience where users can create and share personalized song “stories” (similar in feel to Spotify Wrapped or Instagram stories). The idea is to let a sender pick a song, choose a speci...

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Hi Spotify team,   I’m building a project called Music4You, a web experience where users can create and share personalized song “stories” (similar in feel to Spotify Wrapped or Instagram ...

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How to reliably reproduce Spotify API "Invalid base62 id" when calling createPlaylist()

Hello devs, on my production logs I keep seeing this error message invalid base 62.And I really tried locally to reproduce the error to fix the problem, could anyone help me understand what's going on and why I never get this error and how I can repr...

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Hello devs,   on my production logs I keep seeing this error message invalid base 62. And I really tried locally to reproduce the error to fix the problem, could anyone help me understand w...

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link.chtbl.com doesn't resolve

link.chtbl.com doesn't resolve to an IP. It's used as the fully qualified domain name for podcast links. Looking at the whois history it appears that the nameserver was changed from cloudflare to nsone.net on December 9th. Which may be the source of ...

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link.chtbl.com doesn't resolve to an IP. It's used as the fully qualified domain name for podcast links.   Looking at the whois history it appears that the nameserver was changed from cloudfla...

LikeWoody

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Quota Extension review pending for over 3 months (since early Sept)

I am writing to express my concern regarding the significant delay in the Quota Extension review process. I submitted a request in early September, and the status remains "Under Review" as of today (December 8th).It has been over 13 weeks, which far ...

Casual Listener

I am writing to express my concern regarding the significant delay in the Quota Extension review process. I submitted a request in early September, and the status remains "Under Review" as of today (...

michaelrawi

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Genres from artists have been removed

It seems that many artists have had their genres reworked or removed completely. That means that the /artists={artistIds} endpoint returns very different results than yesterday E.g. Tove Lo, London Grammar and Corinne Bailey Rae return no genres as a...

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It seems that many artists have had their genres reworked or removed completely.   That means that the /artists={artistIds} endpoint returns very different results than yesterday   ...

pvlkmrv

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Album genres are empty at albums endpoint

I've discovered that although the documentation says albums should have genre info https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-multiple-albums#genres, it is always returned as an empty list. Looks like others have had a similar ...

Music Fan

I've discovered that although the documentation says albums should have genre info https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-multiple-albums#genres, it is always returned as a...

pvlkmrv

Music Fan

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Web API
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Get Artist API is not returning any or all Genres

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceMacbookOperating SystemMacOS sequoia (Postman Web API) My Question or IssueHas anyone noticed any issue with the Get Artist API not returning any genres for an artist, or returning significantly less genres than previously? ...

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Plan Premium Country US Device Macbook Operating System MacOS sequoia (Postman Web API)   My Question or Issue Has anyone noticed any issue with the Get Artist API not returning any ge...

pvlkmrv

Music Fan

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Solved!! Error when trying to edit an App: Something went wrong while editing your app.

Hello devs, anyone else having this issue ? I have an app where I have some redirect URLS. I wanted to edit them because Spotify changed its policy to have 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. See: https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2025-02-12-increasing-...

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Hello devs,   anyone else having this issue ? I have an app where I have some redirect URLS. I wanted to edit them because Spotify changed its policy to have 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. &...

pvlkmrv

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Superuser Contribution How to Transition from Development to Production for Commercial Use – Extended Quota Option Missing?

There seems to be no option anymore to request extended quota mode. If you have an app in development mode and controlling 25 users that can use it, how are you meant to deploy for commercial use and reach 250K MAUs and then be eligible for an extend...

Newbie

There seems to be no option anymore to request extended quota mode. If you have an app in development mode and controlling 25 users that can use it, how are you meant to deploy for commercial use and...

Soos2

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Solved!! INVALID_CLIENT: Insecure redirect URI, using custom URI

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceSamsung S20 FEOperating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueHello everyone, I am new to the spotify API and I am trying to complete the Oauth authorization flow for my android application. After my app redirects me to the spot...

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Plan Premium Country US Device Samsung S20 FE Operating System Android   My Question or Issue Hello everyone,   I am new to the spotify API and I am trying to complete the O...

upgrader-dev

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