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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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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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Programatically get blend URL

Is there any way to programmatically create a new blend and get the share URL that you would send to a friend for that blend?

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Is there any way to programmatically create a new blend and get the share URL that you would send to a friend for that blend? 

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personalized Spotify alarm

A personalized Spotify alarm app that lets you wake up to your favorite music in the morning can give people a calmer wake-up and a better start to the day compared to the mediocre sounds offered by phone brands.Planpaid/PremiumCountry Turkey Device(...

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A personalized Spotify alarm app that lets you wake up to your favorite music in the morning can give people a calmer wake-up and a better start to the day compared to the mediocre sounds offered by ...

ribezaz

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Superuser Contribution Bring back audio features!!!

PlanPremiumCountryNZMy Question or IssueBring back the audio features endpoint!If required:- with a vetting process/approval- with limited info available without approval, eg tempo, key, energy. Usages I see:- animating lights/LEDs based on track pla...

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Plan Premium Country NZ My Question or Issue Bring back the audio features endpoint! If required: - with a vetting process/approval - with limited info available without approval, eg tempo, k...

thlucas

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Docs incorrect - 403 response from currently-playing returning TEXT instead of JSON

The docs at get-the-users-currently-playing-track state that a 403 response should return an object containing: status (int), message (str).I am getting: "Check settings on developer.spotify.com/dashboard, the user may not be registered."In plaintext...

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The docs at get-the-users-currently-playing-track state that a 403 response should return an object containing: status (int), message (str). I am getting: "Check settings on developer.sp...

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Spotify’s Unrealistic and Counterproductive Demands from Developers

Hello,I have been requesting a quota increase for my application for the past year, and it has been rejected ten times. The latest rejection reasons are not only irrelevant to my app’s actual functionality but also highlight a deeply flawed approval ...

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Hello, I have been requesting a quota increase for my application for the past year, and it has been rejected ten times. The latest rejection reasons are not only irrelevant to my app’s actual funct...

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iOS & Android Remote SDK loses connection after paused for 30s or more

PlanPremiumCountryNZOperating SystemiOS & Android (all supported models) My Question or IssueWe are developing an app targeting practicing musicians and are attempting to use your remote SDK's for iOS and Android as the method of communication betwee...

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Plan Premium Country NZ Operating System iOS & Android (all supported models)   My Question or Issue We are developing an app targeting practicing musicians and are attempting to use...

ribezaz

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please bring back audio analysis :(

Is there no hope for a return of the audio analysis and audio features endpoints? Even greatly rate limited? I was building something beautiful to share with my friends and now my dream is dead. If it were limited to, say, 50 requests an hour, how co...

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Is there no hope for a return of the audio analysis and audio features endpoints? Even greatly rate limited? I was building something beautiful to share with my friends and now my dream is dead. If i...

arthurab

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Superuser Contribution [Developer] Expose endpoints to create or query folders

There are a couple of questions floating around folder info not being available via the API. As of today there are no endpoints associated to get folder information (link to docs). It'd be nice to have this feature exposed via the api to allow more c...

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There are a couple of questions floating around folder info not being available via the API. As of today there are no endpoints associated to get folder information (link to docs). It'd be nice to ha...

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API Specify Playlist Location in Folder

I've created a Python program that stores my Discover Weekly automatically, but I'd like to specify the location for these newly-created Spotify playlists. I'm not sure if this is possible since it's not explicitly mentioned in the documentation, and...

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I've created a Python program that stores my Discover Weekly automatically, but I'd like to specify the location for these newly-created Spotify playlists. I'm not sure if this is possible since it's...

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403 VOLUME_CONTROL_DISALLOW on Volume Change for Set Playback Volume

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDevicePCOperating SystemWindows11 My Question or IssueI am having an odd case with the Set Playback Volume endpoint for a specific user. They're using the regular Spotify windows app, but we have also tried other devices like ...

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Plan Premium Country Brazil Device PC Operating System Windows11   My Question or Issue I am having an odd case with the Set Playback Volume endpoint for a specific user. They're using...

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Feature to get a artist's cover image

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 Currently https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}The endpoint doesn't return us the cover image of the artist. Which desktop app/Spotify's website is able to. Example of a cover image Link

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10   Currently  https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id} The endpoint doesn't return us the cover image of the artist. Which desktop app/Spotify'...

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There's any database with the playlists historical saves growth?

I'm building a tool that shows the playlist saves growth by adding the playlist URL. I can't find tho in the Spotify API any data about that, so how other websites can makes it? They build internally their own database checking the playlists everyday...

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I'm building a tool that shows the playlist saves growth by adding the playlist URL.  I can't find tho in the Spotify API any data about that, so how other websites can makes it? They build i...

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Spotify USER ID string lengths are not all the same - be aware developers

This situation came up with my own app so just warning others - I was storing USER ID, USER NAME, and ACCESS TOKEN in a mysql database but noticed that some users were not able to use my app and others were. Turns out I traced it back to a situation ...

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This situation came up with my own app so just warning others - I was storing USER ID, USER NAME, and ACCESS TOKEN in a mysql database but noticed that some users were not able to use my app and othe...

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Search API ignoring market parameter

Hello,I recently noticed that the search API endpoint is not taking the passed market parameter into account when making a query.For example, I have the following ISRC "JPF702500331" which has two different links, one for Japan, and one for the rest ...

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Hello, I recently noticed that the search API endpoint is not taking the passed market parameter into account when making a query. For example, I have the following ISRC "JPF702500331" which ha...

ATLAST

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Query Regarding Spotify Integration, Licensing, and Pricing

Hello Spotify Team,We are exploring the possibility of integrating Spotify into our platform and would like some clarification on the following points:Pricing – What are the costs associated with integrating Spotify’s API and player into a third-part...

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Hello Spotify Team, We are exploring the possibility of integrating Spotify into our platform and would like some clarification on the following points: Pricing – What are the costs associated wi...

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Spotify Integration on Samsung Tizen TV App

Hello Team, So, I'm developing Samsung Tizen TV App using ThreeJS and I want to know if I can integrate Spotify into my app. I'm thinking to have specific area for Spotify inside my app. The purpose is so that user can change my app background music ...

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Hello Team,   So, I'm developing Samsung Tizen TV App using ThreeJS and I want to know if I can integrate Spotify into my app. I'm thinking to have specific area for Spotify inside my app. The...

agungsus

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Please help - OAuth in React-Native not working

Hi there, I'm currently a student working on a side project utilizing Spotify's api through spotify-api-web-node. I've pretty much been following this tutorial exactly (https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/react-native-full-authentication-f...

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Hi there, I'm currently a student working on a side project utilizing Spotify's api through spotify-api-web-node. I've pretty much been following this tutorial exactly (https://medium.com/javascript-...

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Allow local IP Address Range as Redirect URI

The new policy for redirect URIs only allows using the local host IP 127.0.0.1. with an unencrypted http call.This is nice and sufficient for many use cases. Unfortunately this isn't a solution for devices like ESP32 or ESP8266 because they don't sup...

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The new policy for redirect URIs only allows using the local host IP 127.0.0.1. with an unencrypted http call. This is nice and sufficient for many use cases.   Unfortunately this isn't a sol...

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Analytics/Insights API

Does Spotify provide any analytics API's that enable the content distributor to gather insights about the releases he delivered to Spotify?artist's streams/viewsalbum streams/viewstrack streams/view...etc

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Does Spotify provide any analytics API's that enable the content distributor to gather insights about the releases he delivered to Spotify? artist's streams/views album streams/views track strea...

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Audiences API error

When using the following request body, I get an error.{"audience_type": "CUSTOM","name": "Audience","description": "Audience desc","dataset_ids": ["REDACTED"],"included_events": ["ADDTOCART"],"excluded_events": ["PURCHASE"],"lookback_days": 30} and t...

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When using the following request body, I get an error. { "audience_type": "CUSTOM", "name": "Audience", "description": "Audience desc", "dataset_ids": [ "REDACTED" ], "included_events": [ "...

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