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Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...
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Plan Premium Country Finland My Question or Issue Is it possible to get the future release dates for podcast episodes? I would like to create a solution that would show when the n...
Ximzend
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PlanFreeCountry My Question or IssueI am developing a first app on Spotify using Authorization if there is no token. The app generates a random song, and tries again if it's not able to load it.It works for my Spotufy account which is free, but with ...
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Plan Free Country My Question or Issue I am developing a first app on Spotify using Authorization if there is no token. The app generates a random song, and tries again if it's not able t...
Ximzend
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My question is similar to this one: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Unity-AudioSource-Playback-Commercial-Integration/m-p/4969587I am building a unity game, and would like users to be able to sign into spotify from our game an...
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My question is similar to this one: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Unity-AudioSource-Playback-Commercial-Integration/m-p/4969587 I am building a unity game, and would...
Ximzend
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I would like to search for a playlist that contains a specific song.Can I reverse lookup from a song to get a list of playlists that contain that song?
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I would like to search for a playlist that contains a specific song. Can I reverse lookup from a song to get a list of playlists that contain that song?
Ximzend
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Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to use the Spotify api to search for specific songs that are mixed into longer sets/recordings? Hope you can help with this. Kind regards, Olaf
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Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to use the Spotify api to search for specific songs that are mixed into longer sets/recordings? Hope you can help with this. Kind...
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PlanPremiumCountryJapan Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi, I wanna change cover image of playlist by API of URL below.https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/upload-custom-playlist-cover But this doc...
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Plan Premium Country Japan Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi, I wanna change cover image of playlist by API of URL below. https://developer.spotify.c...
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My Question or IssueCurrently I am using the Web-API refrence Docs to help understand waht requests need to be made for what data. My issues is that it appears as thoguh some sections of the docs are not up to date and/or not completed. For example u...
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My Question or Issue Currently I am using the Web-API refrence Docs to help understand waht requests need to be made for what data. My issues is that it appears as thoguh some sections of the d...
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PlanPremiumCountryBrazil Device(Macbook Air)Operating System(iOS 12) My Question or IssueHey guys, I'm Victor.I'm doing an MBA in Data Science and I have a project to design a music recommendation model. I was going to use your API to create a big da...
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Plan Premium Country Brazil Device (Macbook Air) Operating System (iOS 12) My Question or Issue Hey guys, I'm Victor. I'm doing an MBA in Data Science and I have a project...
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My Question or IssueHi! I'm having trouble with uploading custom image to playlist cover. Here's my code: def add_playlist_cover(playlist_id, token): with open('cover.jpg', 'rb') as f: data = base64.b64encode(f.read()) auth_header = {"Authorization":...
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My Question or Issue Hi! I'm having trouble with uploading custom image to playlist cover. Here's my code: def add_playlist_cover(playlist_id, token): with open('cover.jpg', 'rb'...
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I noted that the PHP SDK for the Spotify API uses include_groups to list what album types should be included (all if omitted). https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-multiple-albums doesn't mention it (there's ...
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I noted that the PHP SDK for the Spotify API uses include_groups to list what album types should be included (all if omitted). https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#...
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Currently developing an application integrating with spotify API, wanting to synch all data etc and it relates to use in commercial spaces. Just wondering if anyone knows of any issues when using spotify's data in this manner. Not sure to what extent...
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Currently developing an application integrating with spotify API, wanting to synch all data etc and it relates to use in commercial spaces. Just wondering if anyone knows of any issues when using spo...
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Is there a way to download the json file for my streaming history instantaneously with the API and Python rather than waiting for Spotify to prepare it and email me that it is ready? Thanks!!
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Is there a way to download the json file for my streaming history instantaneously with the API and Python rather than waiting for Spotify to prepare it and email me that it is ready? Thanks!...
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