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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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Lyrics are not showing up on certain songs.

PlanFreeCountryUk (United Kingdom)DeviceiPad (9th Generation) and IPhone 11 Pro Max.Operating SystemiPadOS 16.6.1 and iOS 17.1 My Question or IssueThis was a month or 2 ago when I started realising that the songs that I know had lyrics on just went m...

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  • Plan Free Country Uk (United Kingdom) Device iPad (9th Generation) and IPhone 11 Pro Max. Operating System iPadOS 16.6.1 and iOS 17.1   My Question or Issue This was a month or 2 ago w...
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Spotify Listen Tracker

How do certain sites like last.fm or stats.fm track my listening history? Afaik there is no event api or anything similar, do they just end up polling the history endpoint?

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  • How do certain sites like last.fm or stats.fm track my listening history? Afaik there is no event api or anything similar, do they just end up polling the history endpoint?
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Application Quota Extension Request Rejection Email Missing

Hello, The quota extension request for my application was rejected a few weeks ago, but I haven't received any emails explaining the reason for rejection. We would like to start working on the improvements to get our application approved, but it beco...

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  • Hello,   The quota extension request for my application was rejected a few weeks ago, but I haven't received any emails explaining the reason for rejection. We would like to start working on t...
  • Ximzend
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Spotify webhook support

Is Spotify going to introduce webhooks for actions like song liked, playlist created or a song added to playlist etc anytime soon?

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  • Is Spotify going to introduce webhooks for actions like song liked, playlist created or a song added to playlist etc anytime soon?
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Solved!! Guess song app

Hi. If I want to build guess song app, where the app will play different songs at certain duration and users will guess the title, is it possible using the Spotify API?

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi. If I want to build guess song app, where the app will play different songs at certain duration and users will guess the title, is it possible using the Spotify API?
  • Ximzend
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Share what I playing in my website

Hi, I want to add a widget in my website to share what I am listening currently, but I don't find any api for that doesn't require to make login. Is it posible? If not I think it would be very interesting to expose that data if the user want in a pub...

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  • ...ould be very interesting to expose that data if the user want in a public API.   Thanks
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How users can listen my tracks in my website without authorization?

Hello everyone, I'm new to Spotify Web API and Web Playback SDK. I'm developing a site using Webflow where users will be able to play my client's tracks. My client wants anyone to be able to go to his site and listen to only his tracks. However, the ...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...he track image and its link using zapier. Question: How to enable unauthorized listening of tracks on the site on the player I developed? Thanks in advance for your answer and help
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Solved!! Using Spotify logo everywhere, or one time?

Hi! Our team made an application that analyzes user's music taste. Recently we got our quota extension request rejected, and one of the reasons was "Metadata, cover art audio content must be accompanied by a Spotify logo and a link back to the applic...

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  • Hi! Our team made an application that analyzes user's music taste. Recently we got our quota extension request rejected, and one of the reasons was "Metadata, cover art audio content must be accompan...
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How to add a podcast on Spotify?

Hello, myself Emmanuel Katto, African Minerals and Mining Engineer expert from Uganda. I have extensive experience in this field and I am committed to providing valuable advice and guidance in my podcast, can anyone tell me how to add a podcast?

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  • Hello, myself Emmanuel Katto, African Minerals and Mining Engineer expert from Uganda. I have extensive experience in this field and I am committed to providing valuable advice and guidance in my pod...
  • TanyaS
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Does Spotify respond to posts here?

Just out of curiosity, I see a ton of forum posts, most of which are asking Spotify for clarification / support, and there are no official responses. Is this supposed to be a channel with official participation?

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  • Just out of curiosity, I see a ton of forum posts, most of which are asking Spotify for clarification / support, and there are no official responses. Is this supposed to be a channel with official pa...
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Solved!! Is artist's avatar considered as artwork in design guidelines?

Hi! We developed a website, where user's taste is analyzed, and in top artists section the artist avatars' corners are cropped to be rounder. Spotify design guidelines article says we shouldn't crop the artwork in any way. But is artist's avatar cons...

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  • Hi! We developed a website, where user's taste is analyzed, and in top artists section the artist avatars' corners are cropped to be rounder. Spotify design guidelines article says we shouldn't crop ...
  • Ximzend
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Monetization Approval Process

Hello, I'm a developer building a web application using Spotify's API. We're at the stage of integrating monetization and I'm hoping to find the appropriate team to reach out to or process to follow in order to ensure we're compliant with the develop...

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  • Hello, I'm a developer building a web application using Spotify's API. We're at the stage of integrating monetization and I'm hoping to find the appropriate team to reach out to or process to follow ...
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Web API Update Notifications

Hello Spotify Team,I was wondering if there is an option to subscribe to Web API updates? Thank you.

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  • Hello Spotify Team, I was wondering if there is an option to subscribe to Web API updates?   Thank you.
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https://developer.spotify.com/ CONSOLE sección no longer visible

PlanPremiumCountryMéxicoDeviceDellOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueCannot reach console from Spotify for Developers. Not able to see "Console" option

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  • Plan Premium Country México Device Dell Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Cannot reach console from Spotify for Developers. Not able to see "Console" option
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Spotify Lossless

PlanPremiumCountryNederlandSamsung Galaxy 9Operating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueUse Tidal via Roon for music, and Spotify for walking and in the car. Would like to see Spotify start offering Lossless music, I think Spotify's app is the best ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Nederland Samsung Galaxy 9 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Use Tidal via Roon for music, and Spotify for walking and in the car. Would like to see S...
  • geopapa
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Permanent Authorization Token for Periodically Api Calls

My Question or Issue: Hello, I'm building a simple website with Flask and Spotipy. Everything is ok for now with the app, but I'm having some problems with the OAuth 2 authorization code flow. My idea was to implement a api function that if the user ...

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  • My Question or Issue:   Hello, I'm building a simple website with Flask and Spotipy. Everything is ok for now with the app, but I'm having some problems with the OAuth 2 authorization code f...
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Error 429, retry-after missing

So i have been working on an app for the past fiew days. I am now doing some testing for rate limits but the problem is i'm unable to see the retry-after time in the response when i get the error 429. So i can't do anithing about it and no matter how...

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  • So i have been working on an app for the past fiew days. I am now doing some testing for rate limits but the problem is i'm unable to see the retry-after time in the response when i get the error 429...
  • Thajobe
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spotify-social-listening making crash a java app

PlanFree/PremiumCountryFranceDeviceDell ServerOperating SystemRHEL My Question or Issuewhen my customer's use spotify on their phone using the Wifi network of their office our software crashes and the error message is about spotify-social-link.We ref...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country France Device Dell Server Operating System RHEL   My Question or Issue when my customer's use spotify on their phone using the Wifi network of their office o...
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Needed clarity on song metrics

I have been using the tool Exportify in order to retrieve data on Spotify playlists with the intent to make a network analysis. However I have been met with various metrics and descriptions of the songs that appear on a given playlist, such as "Popul...

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  • I have been using the tool Exportify in order to retrieve data on Spotify playlists with the intent to make a network analysis. However I have been met with various metrics and descriptions of the so...
  • Ximzend
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UTF8 characters in Spotify user id

Some API endpoints require the Spotify user id, one example being the "Create a playlist". I have noticed that some users have special (UTF-8) characters in their ID. Example:`débug` When I make an API call with that Spotify user ID, I get an error s...

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  • Some API endpoints require the Spotify user id, one example being the "Create a playlist".   I have noticed that some users have special (UTF-8) characters in their ID. Example: `débug` &nbs...
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