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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...
Last 3 days I can’t play my downloads offline. When I press a downloaded album I get a pop up that says I’m offline go to settings. Only way I can play is to go online. What the **bleep** is the purpose of downloading to an app that won’t play them? ...
Last 3 days I can’t play my downloads offline. When I press a downloaded album I get a pop up that says I’m offline go to settings. Only way I can play is to go online. What the **bleep** is the purp...
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i have been working on this app using the WEB-API and prior to a week ago both tracks and artist fetch requests worked just fine but now the artist fetch request returns an empty array but the tracks works perfectly fine.
i have been working on this app using the WEB-API and prior to a week ago both tracks and artist fetch requests worked just fine but now the artist fetch request returns an empty array but the tracks...
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The band Sevendust's album "Alpha" is having audio issues. Some of the songs are playing the incorrect audio. The song "Driven" for example is playing the song "Alpha" audio. Please fix its driving me insane
The band Sevendust's album "Alpha" is having audio issues. Some of the songs are playing the incorrect audio. The song "Driven" for example is playing the song "Alpha" audio. Please fix its driving m...
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I'm trying to create a new app at: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/createAfter clicking the "Create App" button, a form flashed and automatically shows a red error message containing: "We were not able to load your account information. Please...
I'm trying to create a new app at: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/create After clicking the "Create App" button, a form flashed and automatically shows a red error message containing...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountrySlovakiaOperating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueIt is saying "We were not able to load your account information. Please refresh the page and try again."
Plan Premium Country Slovakia Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue It is saying "We were not able to load your account information. Please refresh the page and tr...
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Recently I have been testing and using my code and randomly the sp.artist(uri) function stopped working. My code when it gets to that line runs indefinitely but my sp.playlist_items() is working just fine. This problem started randomly without changi...
Recently I have been testing and using my code and randomly the sp.artist(uri) function stopped working. My code when it gets to that line runs indefinitely but my sp.playlist_items() is working just...
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My Python script that uses Spotipy stopped working yesterday after working fine for months.The full error message is... HTTP Error for POST to https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists//tracks with Params: {'position': 0} returned 403 due to Insufficient ...
My Python script that uses Spotipy stopped working yesterday after working fine for months. The full error message is... HTTP Error for POST to https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/<PL...
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Hello, I would like to recreate the same experience of podcasts accessible only to subscribers of my website that can be seen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GSnbFz5qzNuKnLmGzQbPc (Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content). On Spotify a...
Hello, I would like to recreate the same experience of podcasts accessible only to subscribers of my website that can be seen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GSnbFz5qzNuKnLmGzQbPc (Making Sense ...
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Hi! I didn't see a place where people are sharing the cool stuff they're able to do with the API? Thought it could be fun to have a place for this?
Hi! I didn't see a place where people are sharing the cool stuff they're able to do with the API? Thought it could be fun to have a place for this?
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Hi! For Black History Month I wanted to generate a list of playlists on Spotify that contain the string "Black History Month" - this search query works great https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=black+history+month&type=playlist&market=US&locale=e...
Hi! For Black History Month I wanted to generate a list of playlists on Spotify that contain the string "Black History Month" - this search query works great https://api.spot...
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Hello everyone! The Spotify Developer Policy section II.4.c states that "You must not offer metadata, cover art, and/or Audio Preview Clips as a standalone service or product". I have a question about what this means in practical terms. Let's say I'm...
Hello everyone! The Spotify Developer Policy section II.4.c states that "You must not offer metadata, cover art, and/or Audio Preview Clips as a standalone service or product". I ha...
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Dear Spotify Support Team,I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out as a developer interested in enhancing the user experience within our application by integrating with Spotify's API. Specifically, we aim to provide users with the abilit...
Dear Spotify Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out as a developer interested in enhancing the user experience within our application by integrating with Spotify's API. ...
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Using the Web API, I'm finding that when you ask for user's top items and specifying tracks, each track has an album_type of either "EP" or "SINGLE" or "ALBUM". This goes against what is documented — and found with other endpoints — of "album", "sing...
Using the Web API, I'm finding that when you ask for user's top items and specifying tracks, each track has an album_type of either "EP" or "SINGLE" or "ALBUM". This goes against what is docum...
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The "add songs" function was my favorite Spotify feature. I don't understand why this has been removed.The "recommended" selection is unfortunately relatively poor compared to the "add songs" function.Do I have a chance of getting it back?Thank you!P...
The "add songs" function was my favorite Spotify feature. I don't understand why this has been removed. The "recommended" selection is unfortunately relatively poor compared to the "add songs" funct...
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Got an issue embedding this? Embed renders but play button does nothing and spins? Other podcasts embedded same way work? Any ideas?
Got an issue embedding this? Embed renders but play button does nothing and spins? Other podcasts embedded same way work? <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spo...
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Initially, I tried to make paginated requests for this endpoint from my application. But I found that even with enough total, I get an empty list of items. as far as I understand, if the offset is less than the total, then everything should work. As ...
Initially, I tried to make paginated requests for this endpoint from my application. But I found that even with enough total, I get an empty list of items. as far as I understand, if the offset is le...
Roadie
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Hi, I have started getting 502 Bad Gateway errors when paginating using the "next" link from the API response body, when "limit" is not initially set to a factor of the total items. I was successfully paginating with a "limit" of 49, which allowed me...
Hi, I have started getting 502 Bad Gateway errors when paginating using the "next" link from the API response body, when "limit" is not initially set to a factor of the total items. &nbs...
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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 IssueI am the author of RSpotify: https://github.com/ramsayleung/rspotify, a popular community-dri...
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 am th...
Roadie
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Our app has Spotify playlist fetching integration for quite some time (since 2020) working without any problems, however starting from about two to three weeks ago, we have been getting 403 errors. We had previously used a different email address but...
Our app has Spotify playlist fetching integration for quite some time (since 2020) working without any problems, however starting from about two to three weeks ago, we have been getting 403 errors. W...
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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 Issue
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
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