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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...
I am facing a issue with me/player/recently-played API. it will always return the songs which I was played on remote app (Spotify app). how can I add the songs which is played on my app using the Spotify Api. I used the MediaBrowserService for the pl...
I am facing a issue with me/player/recently-played API. it will always return the songs which I was played on remote app (Spotify app). how can I add the songs which is played on my app using th...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryEnglandDeviceDell laptopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm creating a python script for a project where the program takes a users playlist and recreates that playlist onto youtube. I'm trying to do this through ...
Plan Free/Premium Country England Device Dell laptop Operating System windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm creating a python script for a project where the program takes a users playl...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktop PC custom buildOperating SystemWin 11 My Question or IssueAttempting to create a new app in spotify developer dashboard. No matter the setting, I get the error "Something went wrong, we were not able to create your ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop PC custom build Operating System Win 11 My Question or Issue Attempting to create a new app in spotify developer dashboard. No matter ...
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https://i.imgur.com/5KaJ1Sl.pngAs image above shows, I tried to create a Spotify app. Entered all the details but for some reason, I can't create the app. In console it writes: `POST https://api.spotify.com/webapi-provisioning/applications 401 (Unaut...
https://i.imgur.com/5KaJ1Sl.png As image above shows, I tried to create a Spotify app. Entered all the details but for some reason, I can't create the app. In console it writes: `POST htt...
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Hi. Is there any way to turn on the autoplay feature using the Web API requests? I'm doing something a little bit weird, just made a Perl script to run Curl requests. Everything works fine, I can play, change playlists, etc. But the autoplay is never...
Hi. Is there any way to turn on the autoplay feature using the Web API requests? I'm doing something a little bit weird, just made a Perl script to run Curl requests. Every...
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My Question or Issue I want to make a spotify clone web app, but change it such that whenever you play a track, it tries to match the genre with the best equalizer preset in user settings and updates the user settings before the track starts playing....
My Question or Issue I want to make a spotify clone web app, but change it such that whenever you play a track, it tries to match the genre with the best equalizer preset in user settings an...
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Sometimes the API does not return artists that are in the Spotify client. Not sure if this is intentional or not. Most artists return fine, but occasionally they are completely missing. Example 1: Prince (of Prince and the Revolution) https://api.spo...
Sometimes the API does not return artists that are in the Spotify client. Not sure if this is intentional or not. Most artists return fine, but occasionally they are completely missing. Exam...
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I am building an app that will play music based on the BPM. Initially, I will allow users to keep using my app for free and after 6 months I will start charging my users (using a subscription plan). But my app will always be free to download for any ...
I am building an app that will play music based on the BPM. Initially, I will allow users to keep using my app for free and after 6 months I will start charging my users (using a subscription plan). ...
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I'm trying to perform a request to the 'v1/me/player/recently-played' endpoint in a Kotlin Ktor client application (code snippets below, but the same happens in Postman). The interesting fact is that if i use the Bearer token gotten from the API docs...
I'm trying to perform a request to the 'v1/me/player/recently-played' endpoint in a Kotlin Ktor client application (code snippets below, but the same happens in Postman). The interesting fact is that...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountrySouth KoreaDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI develop non-streaming music site with Spotify API.I want to show my client to sam...
Plan Free/Premium Country South Korea Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue I ...
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My Question or IssueI am wondering if I can use the track's associated colour using an API call.Currently I get the currently playing track with the following function: function callApi(method, url, body, callback){ let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xh...
My Question or Issue I am wondering if I can use the track's associated colour using an API call. Currently I get the currently playing track with the following function: funct...
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I can successfully see it in a list of devices, and it worked once yesterday. Using the same code but with a different access token, it no longer works. Source code provided in files.Things I have tried to do to tell Spotify its active: 1. Played a s...
I can successfully see it in a list of devices, and it worked once yesterday. Using the same code but with a different access token, it no longer works. Source code provided in files. Things I hav...
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Spotify Casting to JBL Link EQ missingPlanPremiumCountry USA Device Iphone (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
Spotify Casting to JBL Link EQ missing PlanPremium Country USA Device Iphone (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windo...
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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 IssueHi please, can anyone suggest to me, which programming language (Flutter or react native) is ...
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 Hi plea...
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PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueThe creator app will not create a new app to get authorization keys for 3rd party applications. When you hit save it just says there's an error and try again later.
Plan Premium Country Device PC Operating System Win10 My Question or Issue The creator app will not create a new app to get authorization keys for 3rd party applications. When...
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Searching Google for an album title, I get two links to Spotify (album/tracks have slight variation in naming):https://open.spotify.com/album/2AdYZKiooyFF9NdPYGchmQhttps://open.spotify.com/album/5TmgxNSaAgvpnJ191sJG9OThe artist's name ("JO YURI") is ...
Searching Google for an album title, I get two links to Spotify (album/tracks have slight variation in naming): https://open.spotify.com/album/2AdYZKiooyFF9NdPYGchmQ https://open.spotify.com/album...
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PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDeviceMacbook Pro 2017Operating SystemmacOS 10.15 My Question or IssueHello,I am running an App that requires the user to authenticate with Spotify, and I am doing this according to the Authorization Code Flow. Most of the tim...
Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Macbook Pro 2017 Operating System macOS 10.15 My Question or Issue Hello, I am running an App that requires the user to authenticate with Spotif...
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I want to create a web app where I use Spotify's Web Playback SDK to create a player and play music in the browser from another Spotify client (e.g. my Spotify app on my phone or Spotify app on my computer) and also enable other users who are on my w...
I want to create a web app where I use Spotify's Web Playback SDK to create a player and play music in the browser from another Spotify client (e.g. my Spotify app on my phone or Spotify app on my co...
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I've been working on an application that requires gathering a large dataset of tracks for model training. For this, I've been using the recommendations endpoint via Spotipy. Over the last month, I have had no issues; but just recently the endpoint st...
I've been working on an application that requires gathering a large dataset of tracks for model training. For this, I've been using the recommendations endpoint via Spotipy. Over the last month, I ha...
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I'm new to this API so bear with me, but currently I'm using the example node.js code from the documentation to test getting user authorization codes. When I run the example code I successfully receive an access and refresh token, however when I try ...
I'm new to this API so bear with me, but currently I'm using the example node.js code from the documentation to test getting user authorization codes. When I run the example code I successfully recei...
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