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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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something went wrong, try it later

PlanPremiumCountryAustriaDeviceComputer,Iphone 14 proOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or Issuei installed a plugin on my stream deck from BarRaider thats the only spotify plugin i found in the app and online. Than i need to creat a app in the d...

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  • Plan Premium Country Austria Device Computer,Iphone 14 pro Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue i installed a plugin on my stream deck from BarRaider thats the only s...
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Not able to rewind

I am not able to rewind or forward the songs that i am playing. It feels like Spotify has hanged when it comes to forwarding, rewinding or playing the previous song.kindly Help and get this issue clarified at the earliest.

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  • I am not able to rewind or forward the songs that i am playing. It feels like Spotify has hanged when it comes to forwarding, rewinding or playing the previous song.kindly Help and get this issue cla...
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Does quota modes apply to Android SDK API as well?

I am planing to develop an Android app (simple player) which would communicate with Spotify app through Android SDK API (PlayerApi for controlling playback and ContentApi to browse recommendations). I won't use Web API, which apparently has usage lim...

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  • I am planing to develop an Android app (simple player) which would communicate with Spotify app through Android SDK API (PlayerApi for controlling playback and ContentApi to browse recommendations). ...
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Logo use on sticker

My Question or IssueI am planning on promoting my music through the use of stickers, on which I would like to include only the Spotify icon. The sticker is a bit mysterious, I'd add the icon just to clarify it's about music and to entice people to lo...

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  • My Question or Issue I am planning on promoting my music through the use of stickers, on which I would like to include only the Spotify icon. The sticker is a bit mysterious, I'd add the icon just t...
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Programming list to print. A Braille list.

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSA Device Alexa device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHi.An acquaintance is totally blind and has a Spotify subscription but has no...

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  • Plan Free/Premium CountryUSA   Device Alexa device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question...
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Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me' from origin

My Question or Issue: Im a fairly new developer trying to setup spotify integration for a web app I'm building. So far I've been able to get the access_token stored as a cookie, but when the frontend loads, I get the error:"Access to XMLHttpRequest a...

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  • My Question or Issue:   Im a fairly new developer trying to setup spotify integration for a web app I'm building. So far I've been able to get the access_token stored as a cookie, but when the...
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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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