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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
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...
Hello guys!I'm developing a webapp(nextjs) using Spotify's API and I've been following the design guidelines but I have no idea how to check if the app is installed to show "GET SPOTIFY FREE" instead of "PLAY ON SPOTIFY". Right now I got something li...
Hello guys! I'm developing a webapp(nextjs) using Spotify's API and I've been following the design guidelines but I have no idea how to check if the app is installed to show "GET SPOTIFY FREE" ins...
Newbie
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I created an app few days ago, to create a recommendation system. The web API is fetching track details. But whenever I am requesting audio features related to a track id, I get a 403 error. There is no problem with authentication. Here's the scope v...
I created an app few days ago, to create a recommendation system. The web API is fetching track details. But whenever I am requesting audio features related to a track id, I get a 403 error. There is...
Spotify Star
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Hi,I'm encountering a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to transfer playback using the Spotify Web API.What I DidI checked available devices using GET /me/player/devices, and my devices are listed as expected:{ "devices": [ { "id": "145d1de2d16f0...
Hi, I'm encountering a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to transfer playback using the Spotify Web API. What I Did I checked available devices using GET /me/player/devices, and my devices ar...
Newbie
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Hey all. I've been using the web api to maintain a playlist for the last several years. Since about a month ago, I've not been able to make any changes to this playlist either through the app (desktop and mobile) nor the API. If I try to remove a tra...
Hey all. I've been using the web api to maintain a playlist for the last several years. Since about a month ago, I've not been able to make any changes to this playlist either through the app (deskto...
Music Fan
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PlanFreeCountryFrance DeviceDesktop (Firefox, Chrome), Mobile (Firefox, Android Browser)Operating SystemWindows 10, Linux (Ubuntu) My Question or IssueI'm embedding my Spotify hosted podcast on a partner website. Everything was fine until last week. ...
Plan Free Country France Device Desktop (Firefox, Chrome), Mobile (Firefox, Android Browser) Operating System Windows 10, Linux (Ubuntu) My Question or Issue I'm embedding my...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumDeviceMacbook AirOperating SystemmacOS 10.15 My Question or IssueAfter the new rollout of Increasing the security requirements for integrating with Spotify, apps with custom URI scheme like this:com.example://callbackcan no longer be authe...
Plan Premium Device Macbook Air Operating System macOS 10.15 My Question or Issue After the new rollout of Increasing the security requirements for integrating with Spotify, ...
Casual Listener
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Plan Premium (duo) Country Germany Device PC - Firefox 136.0 (64-Bit) Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Hello, I can't delete my playlist! I created the playlist via an [external link removed by Mod] node.https://open.spotify.com/playl...
Plan Premium (duo) Country Germany Device PC - Firefox 136.0 (64-Bit) Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Hello, I can't delete my...
Spotify Star
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Hi everyone! I’m currently building a music recommendation system for a final year university project. The goal is to suggest 5 songs based on a user's current emotion (e.g., "happy", "sad", "angry"), using Spotify’s /recommendations endpoint. This i...
Hi everyone! I’m currently building a music recommendation system for a final year university project. The goal is to suggest 5 songs based on a user's current emotion (e.g., "happy", "sad",...
Casual Listener
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As of 2/22/2024, the `https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played` endpoint is no longer returning the latest recently played tracks. This is the full response (screenshot attached too so it's easier to spot):{"items": [{"track": {"album": {...
As of 2/22/2024, the `https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played` endpoint is no longer returning the latest recently played tracks. This is the full response (screenshot at...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktop web browserOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm building a web app to view a user's playlists. Previously I was able to log in to spotify successfully through the app, and view my playlists. ...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop web browser Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm building a web app to view a user's playlists. Previously I was abl...
Visitor
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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 IssueWorking on, pls don’t delete Gona be update within the next 7 days.
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 Working...
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Web API I am returning an album object, and trying to access total_tracks, which is required according to the web documentation. However, the actual response is:albumType: "album"artist: "PARTYNEXTDOOR"id: "6Rl6YoCarF2GHPSQmmFjuR"imageUrl: "https://i...
Web API I am returning an album object, and trying to access total_tracks, which is required according to the web documentation. However, the actual response is: albumType: "album" ar...
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Premium acctAll sorts of devices and OS versions:- Win10 App, iPhone 6,7,X and iPad mini and Pro- iOS 9, 12, 13, 14Problem summary:Multi-zone systems typically have one playing app =" DeviceID", with audio distributed to several speakers (= "remoteNa...
Premium acct All sorts of devices and OS versions: - Win10 App, iPhone 6,7,X and iPad mini and Pro - iOS 9, 12, 13, 14 Problem summary: Multi-zone systems typically have one playing ...
Gig Goer
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevice(Macbook Pro Intel Chip, iPhone 14 Pro)Operating System(MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2, iOS 18.2.1) My Question or IssueHi, I’m building an iOS app using the Authorization Code Flow to authenticate users and access /v1/audi...
Plan Premium Country United States Device (Macbook Pro Intel Chip, iPhone 14 Pro) Operating System (MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2, iOS 18.2.1) My Question or Issue Hi, I’m building an iOS app...
Spotify Star
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CountryMexico Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueHi people, I hope you can help me answering this:I'm creating an app using a Python library (Spotipy) to use the Spotify API and I wanna know if I can monetize the app, or releasing it free...
Country Mexico Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Hi people, I hope you can help me answering this: I'm creating an app using a Python library (Spotipy) to use the...
Casual Listener
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We are building a centralized real-time music control system designed to manage the in-store music experience for multiple retail locations (e.g., Puma, Adidas) from a single web application.System Structure:Web Application (ReactJS):A centralized ad...
We are building a centralized real-time music control system designed to manage the in-store music experience for multiple retail locations (e.g., Puma, Adidas) from a single web application. System...
Spotify Star
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Hi everyone,I'm trying to fetch a random song by genre using the Spotify Web API, but I'm running into some issues. Most of the endpoints I've tried (like recommendations or search) either seem deprecated or they don't consistently return tracks with...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to fetch a random song by genre using the Spotify Web API, but I'm running into some issues. Most of the endpoints I've tried (like recommendations or search) either seem dep...
Spotify
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PlanPremiumCountryIndia DeviceM1 MacBook AirOperating SystemmacOS Sonoma. My Question or IssuePreviously I reported an issue where the currentPosition returned by Spotify's AppleSript api is delayed by the number of seconds the user has set crossfade...
Plan Premium Country India Device M1 MacBook Air Operating System macOS Sonoma. My Question or Issue Previously I reported an issue where the currentPosition returned by Spotif...
Regular
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PlanFreeCountryPoland Operating System( Windows 10) My Question or IssueI found the cause of the error. The issue was in the request body: I passed the `name` field as a number instead of a string.Here’s the problematic payload: curl --location 'http...
Plan Free Country Poland Operating System ( Windows 10) My Question or Issue I found the cause of the error. The issue was in the request body: I passed the `name` field as a n...
Casual Listener
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My Question or IssueI'm trying to embed the latest episode of my podcast to my websiteI want it to show the newest episode, not the specific episode itself.This is so don't have to update it every two weeks manually, is there any way to change the co...
My Question or Issue I'm trying to embed the latest episode of my podcast to my website I want it to show the newest episode, not the specific episode itself. This is so don't have to upda...
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