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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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  • SkillBoxSB
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Sign up artist

My app allows spotify artist to sign up and we use spotify to verify their identity, is there a way to know that an account belongs to a spotify artist and get the spotify artist id ?

  • Visitor
  • My app allows spotify artist to sign up and we use spotify to verify their identity, is there a way to know that an account belongs to a spotify artist and get the spotify artist id ?
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500 errors from me/tracks

My API app has been basically unable to get Liked Tracks for the last day or two. The console is full of 500 errors, and the same call to me/tracks will often fail 2-4 times but then succeed, and then the same thing with the next page. This was worki...

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  • My API app has been basically unable to get Liked Tracks for the last day or two. The console is full of 500 errors, and the same call to me/tracks will often fail 2-4 times but then succeed, and the...
  • _brown
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Create pre-save on website

My Question or IssueHi! I'm creating this post because I am wondering if anyone has ever created a pre-save on an artists website (or a website at all actually). I work with digital marketing and it's very important that I am able to track everything...

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  • My Question or Issue Hi!   I'm creating this post because I am wondering if anyone has ever created a pre-save on an artists website (or a website at all actually).     I work wi...
  • walzejon
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Lyrics on tv are not in sync , can you help fix this?

Lyrics are in sync on my phone, but when I watch it via Spotify app on tv it’s suddenly not in syncs anymore.

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  • Lyrics are in sync on my phone, but when I watch it via Spotify app on tv it’s suddenly not in syncs anymore.
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Integration of API with my DB

Is it possible to use Spotify's search engine and display my internal pages? In other words, is there a way to link, for example, between a specific artist on Spotify and my internal page for that artist? There is a challenge in linking them because ...

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  • Is it possible to use Spotify's search engine and display my internal pages? In other words, is there a way to link, for example, between a specific artist on Spotify and my internal page for that ar...
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Solved!! create playlist track api give error

I'm having trouble with playlist add track api on spotipy, i'm trying to add playlist_id which provide by the create playlist api of playlist id i found the error "Invalid base62 id"

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  • I'm having trouble with playlist add track api on spotipy, i'm trying to add playlist_id which provide by the create playlist api of playlist id  i found the error  "Invalid base62 id"
  • Bhumika12
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Superuser Contribution streams by country and artist

Does anyone know if the web api retrieve information about streams, peaks etc, by country and artist? or there is another third party API that can handle it?

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  • Does anyone know if the web api retrieve information about streams, peaks etc, by country and artist? or there is another third party API that can handle it?  
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Solved!! Add Custom Playlist Cover Image

The response from my actionstatus: 413,ok: false,status Text: 'Request Entity Too Large',But I make sure that the image size is <= 256 KBAnd it was converted to base64

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  • The response from my action status: 413, ok: false, status Text: 'Request Entity Too Large', But I make sure that the image size is <= 256 KB And it was converted to base64
  • Ximzend
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Spotify returning some tracks as null

I've been using the Spotify API for some time and since a little while, some of the tracks that it returns when asking for a playlist items are null. If I manually get that track ID and make the request for /tracks/{id}, it makes it correctly.I assum...

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  • I've been using the Spotify API for some time and since a little while, some of the tracks that it returns when asking for a playlist items are null. If I manually get that track ID and make the requ...
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INVALID_CLIENT: invalid client

I'm trying to develop a test app using Python and spotipy.Everything worked fine yesterday. But today when the app tries to obtain a token, I'm getting a browser window opened saying "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client".The actual code looks like this: i...

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  • ...NVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". The actual code looks like this:   import spotipy [...] scope="playlist-read-collaborative playlist-modify-public playlist-read-private playlist-modify-private user-r...
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Building a commercial playlist organizer app

I'm new to the Spotify developer community and interested in building a mobile app that allows users to organize their playlists into folders, with the ability to play a song or start a playlist directly from the app. Is this functionality permitted ...

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  • I'm new to the Spotify developer community and interested in building a mobile app that allows users to organize their playlists into folders, with the ability to play a song or start a playlist dire...
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    terms and services
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Spotify backup app, allowed under TOS?

I've been thinking of creating a web app to allow users to backup their music library. I read in the TOS that selling metadata is not allowed. I wondered if this applies to my idea. I would likely charge for a backup. Thanks!

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  • I've been thinking of creating a web app to allow users to backup their music library.   I read in the TOS that selling metadata is not allowed.   I wondered if this applies to my idea....
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Solved!! Using tracks' audio analysis

PlanFree/PremiumCountryEgypt Operating System(Linux,Windows 11) My Question or Issuebasically i'm trying to build an ai music recomendation pipeline (personal usage) so i need to use these data not for specifically trainiong a model but rather for ot...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Egypt   Operating System (Linux,Windows 11)   My Question or Issue basically i'm trying to build an ai music recomendation pipeline (personal usage) so i ...
  • Ximzend
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Building an app to add/play spotify songs with other platforms in a single playlist

So I have this idea for an app that I think would be really interesting! A lot of people have music that they like to listen to but aren't available on their main platform (ex: song is on soundcloud but not spotify). My idea is to create an app that ...

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  • So I have this idea for an app that I think would be really interesting! A lot of people have music that they like to listen to but aren't available on their main platform (ex: song is on soundcloud ...
  • Born2Die007
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    Developer Terms of Service
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"Getting started with Android SDK" tutorial not compatible with Android Studio Iguana

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePexel 8 Pro API 34Operating SystemAndroid 14.0 "UpsideDownCake" My Question or IssueI'm trying to install the Android SDK on Android Studio Iguana, but the tutorial given seems to be outdated, and the instructions are no lo...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Pexel 8 Pro API 34 Operating System Android 14.0 "UpsideDownCake"   My Question or Issue I'm trying to install the Android SDK on Android Studio Iguana,...
  • Jett_
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Get all recently played tracks for a given period

Plan: PremiumCountry: USDevice: Macbook Air 2015Operating System: MacOS My Question or IssueI'm using the get recently played endpoint to get my recently played tracks, I want to get tracks from December 31, 2022(not inclusive) up to today(February 2...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: US Device: Macbook Air 2015 Operating System: MacOS   My Question or Issue I'm using the get recently played endpoint to get my recently played tracks, I w...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Public flag broken in user/playlists endpoint

I've got a web app that queries playlist data from the user endpoint, e.g. `"https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/" + user.id + "/playlists?limit=50&offset=" + offset`. In the response I get a ton of useful playlist data like playlist names, IDs, images,...

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  • ...f useful playlist data like playlist names, IDs, images, etc. Among this info is the `.public` flag, which connotes whether the playlist is public. I'm finding it's ALWAYS SET TO TRUE at this endpoint....
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The spotify web playback sdk needs new documentation for objects

The actual object that the SDK returns has more fields than the doc says, so it would be welcomed if they updated the docs. I'm still really happy with the SDK and hope they continue to support it.

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  • The actual object that the SDK returns has more fields than the doc says, so it would be welcomed if they updated the docs. I'm still really happy with the SDK and hope they continue to support it.
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I want to deauthorize SongShift, how do I do it?

I downloaded SongShift to try it out. I don't think I'm going to use it. I did gave it permission to access my music. Now I want to revoke its permissions to access my Spotify account. How do I do this? I'm using macOS Sonoma 14.6.

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  • I downloaded SongShift to try it out. I don't think I'm going to use it. I did gave it permission to access my music. Now I want to revoke its permissions to access my Spotify account. How do I do th...
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    Permission
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