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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...
I'm a solo developer from Israel. I built PsychoLyrics — a companion app that helps Israeli students prepare for the Psychometric Entrance Test (Israel's university entrance exam) by learning English vocabulary through music they already listen to on...
I'm a solo developer from Israel. I built PsychoLyrics — a companion app that helps Israeli students prepare for the Psychometric Entrance Test (Israel's university entrance exam) by learning En...
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Hello, I see the update to the Playlist API as stating:"The items of the playlist. Note: This field is only available for playlists owned by the current user or playlists the user is a collaborator of." This is a bit prohibitive, especially for publi...
Hello, I see the update to the Playlist API as stating: "The items of the playlist. Note: This field is only available for playlists owned by the current user or playlists the us...
Spotify Star
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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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Original note: I feel like /artists/{id}/albums was (and should be) returning releases in popularity order, to match the Popular Releases section of the artist page in the app. This seems to have broken recently, and the releases are currently coming...
Original note: I feel like /artists/{id}/albums was (and should be) returning releases in popularity order, to match the Popular Releases section of the artist page in the app. This seems to have bro...
Casual Listener
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PlanFree/Premium My Question or Issue Trying to figure out how to call the API to create a playlist that is a Mix style playlist initially. The new feature which sorts songs into BPM to blend in one another when transitioning. Is it added as a featur...
Plan Free/Premium My Question or Issue Trying to figure out how to call the API to create a playlist that is a Mix style playlist initially. The new feature which sorts son...
Visitor
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Hello Spotify Developer Team,I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently working on my Dissertation Thesis, which involves building a non‑commercial application focused on music theory analysis. As part of my research, I need access to two deprecated Spo...
Hello Spotify Developer Team, I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently working on my Dissertation Thesis, which involves building a non‑commercial application focused on music theory analysis. As par...
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It would be really helpful to include a new API endpoint to get song credits. Currently you can only retrieve the listed performers, but this doesn't include writers/producers/engineers.
It would be really helpful to include a new API endpoint to get song credits. Currently you can only retrieve the listed performers, but this doesn't include writers/producers/engineers.
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I'm building ShortSync, a tool that lets creators distribute short-form vertical videos across multiple platforms from a single upload. A few of our podcaster users have asked about adding Spotify Clips support. I've looked through the Web API docs a...
I'm building ShortSync, a tool that lets creators distribute short-form vertical videos across multiple platforms from a single upload. A few of our podcaster users have asked about adding S...
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Hi everyone,My name’s Daniel, and I wanted to share a passion project I built this summer: SpotiSnake. It’s a mashup of the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and each apple reveals a piece of the album artwork. Every f...
Hi everyone, My name’s Daniel, and I wanted to share a passion project I built this summer: SpotiSnake. It’s a mashup of the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and eac...
Gig Goer
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Hi everyone,My Web API app was recently downgraded after producing an abnormal volume of requests. I've identified and fixed the root cause, and I'm sharing here in case it helps others — and to ask if anyone has gone through the reinstatement proces...
Hi everyone, My Web API app was recently downgraded after producing an abnormal volume of requests. I've identified and fixed the root cause, and I'm sharing here in case it helps others — a...
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Petition Description https://c.org/fcrvHwKdCtSpotify, please create a fair and transparent access path for indie developers, students, and small teams.The recent Web API quota policy changes have effectively shut out individual developers and small p...
📝Petition Description https://c.org/fcrvHwKdCt Spotify, please create a fair and transparent access path for indie developers, students, and small teams. The recent Web API quota polic...
Newbie
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Todos os desenvolvedores estão indignados, vamos excluir nossas contas para que o Spotify reconsidere o caso após bloquear nossos segredos e aplicativos essenciais. Precisamos nos unir e excluir nossas contas para que a equipe de investidores pare de...
Todos os desenvolvedores estão indignados, vamos excluir nossas contas para que o Spotify reconsidere o caso após bloquear nossos segredos e aplicativos essenciais. Precisamos nos unir e excluir noss...
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When using the oEmbed API it returns the title and thumbnail of the item you are requesting, but it doesn't return artist name. On the website that I am working on we created a poster in front of the Spotify embed so we can load the player before the...
When using the oEmbed API it returns the title and thumbnail of the item you are requesting, but it doesn't return artist name. On the website that I am working on we created a poster in front of the...
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Request to extend Spotify’s playback APIs to support fine-grained transition (“Mix”) control between tracks in a user’s playlist. Proposed CapabilitiesAdd a transition configuration object that can be applied between consecutive tracks in a playlist ...
Request to extend Spotify’s playback APIs to support fine-grained transition (“Mix”) control between tracks in a user’s playlist. Proposed Capabilities Add a transition configuration object...
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Not a help request, just a query Please delete if needed. The query was relating to interest in a feature. Wondering if a public like button could be a pathway to greater collaborative engagement? A public like function whereby the user simply taps a...
Not a help request, just a query Please delete if needed. The query was relating to interest in a feature. Wondering if a public like button could be a pathway to greater collabo...
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Our league requires artists to use Spotify/Apple Music-listed songs. Is there a way to have it so that songs that are used are not the preview version? I would like the songs to be able to be played in their entirety.
Our league requires artists to use Spotify/Apple Music-listed songs. Is there a way to have it so that songs that are used are not the preview version? I would like the songs to be able to be played ...
Casual Listener
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Hi Spotify Web API team, I am developing an application that utilizes the "Add Items to Playlist" endpoint:POST /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/itemsOne recurring problem is that the endpoint provides no way to prevent duplicate tracks from being inserte...
Hi Spotify Web API team, I am developing an application that utilizes the "Add Items to Playlist" endpoint: POST /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/items One recurring problem is that the endpoin...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountryUSAAppVibe SwipeMy Question or IssueI am building a spotify / tinder type app for adding songs to playlists by listening to a certain vibe and swiping left and right. I am not able to add the songs to any playlist because spotify is...
Plan Premium Country USA App Vibe Swipe My Question or Issue I am building a spotify / tinder type app for adding songs to playlists by listening to a certain vibe and swiping left and right. ...
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Hi everyone,I’m working on a Spotify Web API app that uses the Client Credentials Flow to read public playlist metadata.Everything works fine with my own playlists, but for any other public playlist I get this error:{ "error": "Could not fetch playli...
Hi everyone, I’m working on a Spotify Web API app that uses the Client Credentials Flow to read public playlist metadata. Everything works fine with my own playlists, but for any other public playl...
Newbie
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My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to search tracks by name and artist, I have reach a special case where the name as the song is know is not strictly equals to the song name on Spotify: Song Name: Act I: Scene Two: I. Overture 1928Song N...
My Question or Issue I'm using the Spotify API to search tracks by name and artist, I have reach a special case where the name as the song is know is not strictly equals to the song name on ...
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