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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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Timeout error playlist cover image update

Hi!It's been 24 hours now we are getting more and more timeout error (even after waiting 20s) or simply process not working on this playlist cover update endpoint:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/upload-custom-playlist-co...

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  • Hi! It's been 24 hours now we are getting more and more timeout error (even after waiting 20s) or simply process not working on this playlist cover update endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/do...
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Can we please have office hours?

I just received feedback on my app and did not receive extended quota. I need more direction. Can you please provide office hour for myself and the community?

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  • I just received feedback on my app and did not receive extended quota. I need more direction. Can you please provide office hour for myself and the community?  
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Where To Find Spotify API Refresh Token

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo I'm a streamer on Twitch, and I like to listen to Spotify while I stream. I recently added this Spotify Playing Now extension to my Twitch channel, and in o...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So I'm a streamer on Twitch, and I like to listen to Spotify while I stream. I rece...
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Get Recommendations returns songs that don't fit the parameters requested.

CountryUSA My Question or IssueMaking a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio_features are as similar to the request as possible. However, yo...

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  • Country USA   My Question or Issue Making a simple request to recommendations (using Spotipy) returns empty or inaccurate songs. My goal is to create a playlist filled with songs whose audio...
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Spotify API only works with my account even after I added Users

My Question or IssueRecently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with any other accounts even after I added them in the Dashboard.The...

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  •   My Question or Issue Recently I have made an app using the Spotify API that displays your top 5 songs and 5 recommendations. The app works great with my account, but it does not work with an...
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Spotify API Get Recently Played Track for Multiple Users

PlanFreeCountry DeviceAll Devices Operating SystemAll OSMy Question or Issue I'm building a web app that will display most popular song for my user base. In Spotify API docs I call Get Recently Played TracksIt works fine for the first users however w...

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  •   Plan Free Country   Device All Devices  Operating System All OS My Question or Issue   I'm building a web app that will display most popular song for my user base. In...
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Get audio url of my own content

Hi! I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the download URLs for the audio content associated with this progra...

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  • Hi!  I am developing a mobile app that is intended access and display audio content from a specific program available on Spotify (our own program). To achieve this, I need to retrieve the dow...
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Solved!! BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint playground does show these parameters.There seems to ...

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  • Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint pl...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify for developers dashboard login not working

I am trying to login to spotify for developers https://developer.spotify.com but after I click on log in in the top right or "log in and run code" and log in either using facebook, google, or a direct account (I tried all 3) the page just reloads and...

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  • I am trying to login to spotify for developers https://developer.spotify.com but after I click on log in in the top right or "log in and run code" and log in either using facebook, google, ...
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Solved!! Issue with the Search API Route

I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, and I've done the same search on the actual API docu...

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  • I'm not sure if there was a recent change that caused this bug, but when I pass in an Artist's name into the search query, a different artist pops up as the first index. This did not happen before, a...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution API paging issue, 'next' page is incorrect

My Question or IssueI'm using the Spotify API to pull back a list of liked tracks. This has been working fine until today, but it got stuck where the `next` page is actually the previous page. For example, I'm calling https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tr...

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  • My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to pull back a list of liked tracks.   This has been working fine until today, but it got stuck where the `next` page is actually the previous p...
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Autoskip mixed tracks

Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end. Itunes (the Steve Jobs era) had this setting under their preferences 1...

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  • Can we please have a Setting under preferences to skip tracks that belong to a mixed album / dj set? It's hard on the ears to listen a 1 minute track that has no beginning or end.   Itunes (th...
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Get Playback State shows timestamp 0 and progress_ms 0

PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyDevice(iPhone 14 Pro) My Question or IssueI'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts.After the Step that Spotify was opend i try to get the Playback State via https://api.spotify.com/v1/...

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  •   Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Device (iPhone 14 Pro)   My Question or Issue I'm building actually a IOS Shortcut which opens Spotify when CarPlay starts. After the Step that...
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Application Disabled and Blocked

Hi, My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal. My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e Thanks in advance

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  • Hi,   My Provider API app has been disabled and blocked, it's not clear who should I contact to make an appeal.  My client id is 98333c95bcc54c70881c36d1958eb38e   Thanks in ...
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Issues with volume

Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don’t have this issue with any other apps and i don’t ...

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  • Ive have premium for years now, im in the us and have an iPhone 12 thats fully updated. When i use spotify my volume randomly gets very quiet even on max volume and then randomly turns back up. I don...
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Cannot get user's queue(403: Forbidden request), can we not get the queue for free accounts?

For some reason, I can't seem to get the queue for this particular user, but my other user seems to work fine. Can we not get queue if the user is a free account? Some checks:I have this account in my Spotify Developer User ListI have the correct sco...

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  • For some reason, I can't seem to get the queue for this particular user, but my other user seems to work fine.   Can we not get queue if the user is a free account?   Some checks: I ha...
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How to get user status without constantly sampling?

I want to achieve a result similar to Discord's Spotify status integration. ie. Be able to detect if a user is currently listening to music or not without having to do a GET request every x seconds. I looked through the docs and there doesn't seem to...

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  • I want to achieve a result similar to Discord's Spotify status integration.   ie. Be able to detect if a user is currently listening to music or not without having to do a GET request every x ...
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Embedded music permissions

Hello everyone! My QuestionI am making a website for the gym that I will be a part of and I was wondering if is it allowed to embed Spotify music playlists on such website? Spotify Widget Terms of Usee. Please note that the Spotify Play Button may no...

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  • Hello everyone!   My Question I am making a website for the gym that I will be a part of and I was wondering if is it allowed to embed Spotify music playlists on such website?    ...
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"This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I have Premium account.

I'm receiving "This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I Premium account. This code was working 1 year ago. I have created my Spotify account just now and cancelled the free trial and got a paid Premium Individual to...

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  • I'm receiving "This functionality is restricted to premium users only" error even though I Premium account. This code was working 1 year ago. I have created my Spotify account just now and cancelled ...
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