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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...

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Get Current User's Playlists returns incorrect data when DJ is present

I'm building an app that gets the current users playlist, I noticed that 'total' seems to differ from the actual amount of playlists returned. Investigating further I noticed that the API returns duplicate playlist entries when the playlist is next t...

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  • I'm building an app that gets the current users playlist, I noticed that 'total' seems to differ from the actual amount of playlists returned. Investigating further I noticed that the API returns dup...
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Singular duplicate in paginated current user playlists

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDELL G5 5500Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows 11 Home My Question or IssueI'm using the TypeScript SDK (@spotify/**bleep**) to write a simple application. I wrote a function to get all of the current user's playli...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device DELL G5 5500 Operating System Microsoft Windows 11 Home   My Question or Issue I'm using the TypeScript SDK (@spotify/**bleep**) to write a si...
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Clarification on using Spotify data with AI/ML models

Clause 14 of the Spotify Developer Policy states:"Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI model."[1] I am looking to build an app...

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  • Clause 14 of the Spotify Developer Policy states: "Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine l...
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Invite collaborators

I’m trying to invite and share a playlist with others and the link doesn’t work. People are able to see but not add to the playlist. Our group is larger than 10 so starting a blended playlist is not an option. I’ve tried to generate the link in vario...

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  • I’m trying to invite and share a playlist with others and the link doesn’t work. People are able to see but not add to the playlist. Our group is larger than 10 so starting a blended playlist is not ...
  • Mitre226644
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Clause 14 - Developer policy

Hi Spotify Developer Relations Team, Clause 14 of the Spotify Developer Policy states:"Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI mo...

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  • Hi Spotify Developer Relations Team,   Clause 14 of the Spotify Developer Policy states: "Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or ot...
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Computer Science II group project

I am a student at Rockland Community College. My group in my Computer Science II class is creating a Sound media player, using Java. I am not a professional. I am still learning. So if anyone can help point me in the right direction, I need to learn ...

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  • I am a student at Rockland Community College. My group in my Computer Science II class is creating a Sound media player, using Java. I am not a professional. I am still learning. So if anyone can hel...
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Can we block skipnext button of the player ?

Hi,I'm a French software engineer, and I'm working on an application using the Spotify SDK, and Spotify API. For some functionality of my application, I would like to be able to block previous and next button of player on an Android mobile. I know Sp...

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  • Hi, I'm a French software engineer, and I'm working on an application using the Spotify SDK, and Spotify API. For some functionality of my application, I would like to be able to block  previou...
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Websites/Apps using stats from API are inaccurate

PlanStudentCountryUSDeviceiPhone 12Operating SystemiOS My Question or IssueThis is something I’ve been noticing within the past couple of days from the user end, along with all of the dozen other spotify and third-party website users that I’ve asked....

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  • Plan Student Country US Device iPhone 12 Operating System iOS   My Question or Issue This is something I’ve been noticing within the past couple of days from the user end, along with a...
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auth fails with my internal test.

hey guys, currently im developing an application and i have problems with spotify auth. In debugging mode, everything runs perfectly but during my test the response error is AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE. its my first app. I hope you can help me...

  • Casual Listener
  • hey guys, currently im developing an application and i have problems with spotify auth. In debugging mode, everything runs perfectly but during my test the response error is AUTHENTICATION_SERVIC...
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Reccomendations API returning limited number of songs

Hi, I am trying to use Spotify API to get recommendations based on given feature ranges. I am setting the parameters (attached in the screenshot) when making a request, and it only returns 5 songs (the limit is set to 100), while I know that there ar...

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  • Hi, I am trying to use Spotify API to get recommendations based on given feature ranges. I am setting the parameters (attached in the screenshot) when making a request, and it only returns 5 songs (t...
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Request to Unblock IP Range of my server

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request assistance with an issue affecting our IP range XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, which has recently been blocked from accessing Spotify services. We have noticed that our customers are unable to connect to ...

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  • I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request assistance with an issue affecting our IP range XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, which has recently been blocked from accessing Spotify services. We have n...
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set_volume in node red

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI use a node red dashboard for controlling my spotify mucic. Everything works fine except the...

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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 I use a...
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question about the popularity score of an artist

My Question or Issue i want to create a list of the most interesting artists in germany, and i thought i could use the popularity score to do that. i cant figure out if the popularity score is global or could also be retrieved for a local market? add...

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  • My Question or Issue   i want to create a list of the most interesting artists in germany, and i thought i could use the popularity score to do that. i cant figure out if the popularity score ...
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Spotify should add a function in which you could listen a certain part of a song.

Some of us have a favorite song which have a part we want to listen on loop. Spotify should add a function for that, to select the part we want to listen.-drkpCountryUnited States / World

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  • Some of us have a favorite song which have a part we want to listen on loop. Spotify should add a function for that, to select the part we want to listen. -drkp Country United States / World &nbs...
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Is this allowed? Small Forum Synchronizing Music To Videos

I want to create a small website for a community of dance artists, we all enjoy creating dance video and the best platform for videos is youtube, but the biggest problem is the music we want to use in our video is copyrighted.I want to create a websi...

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  • I want to create a small website for a community of dance artists, we all enjoy creating dance video and the best platform for videos is youtube, but the biggest problem is the music we want to use i...
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Creating an app allowing to easily add songs as a party guest

Hi! tl;dr: Imagine a party. Typically, the host of the party is creating a playlist beforehand or a party guest can add their song wishes by using the party hosts device, where the Spotify app is installed on (e.g. laptop, smartphone). It would be mu...

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  • Hi!   tl;dr:   Imagine a party. Typically, the host of the party is creating a playlist beforehand or a party guest can add their song wishes by using the party hosts device, where the ...
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API Large sample of artists by genre

I'm using the API to generate popularity scores for artists. I was wondering if I would be able to generate a large sample of artists in a specific genre for a range of a popularity score. Ex. mainstream rock artists with popularity scores 60-70.

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  • I'm using the API to generate popularity scores for artists. I was wondering if I would be able to generate a large sample of artists in a specific genre for a range of a popularity score. Ex. mainst...
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Get artist image URL

When using the api I search for artists using their id and store the artists cover image that way but, what I noticed is that all of the URLs share a similar format: "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5eb" followed by 24 more characters. So I was ...

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  • When using the api I search for artists using their id and store the artists cover image that way but, what I noticed is that all of the URLs share a similar format: "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab676161...
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How to find spotify token

Hi, I'm currently developing code with the spotify api and I'm wondering how to get the authorization token for spotify, I didn't find anything on spotify dev only client id and secret.

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  • Hi, I'm currently developing code with the spotify api and I'm wondering how to get the authorization token for spotify, I didn't find anything on spotify dev only client id and secret.
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Album covers look weird

Round corners looks disgusting please revert to pointy album covers this is the most absurd change everPlanPremium

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  • Round corners looks disgusting please revert to pointy album covers this is the most absurd change ever Plan Premium      
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