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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 am developing an app which will allow users to publish their playlists to a feed. However in order to visit the feed, published playlists will have to be fetched one by one (as the current spotify api does not have an endpoint to fetch multiple pla...
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I am developing an app which will allow users to publish their playlists to a feed. However in order to visit the feed, published playlists will have to be fetched one by one (as the current spotify ...
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In the Web API is it at all possible to get accurate current playback timing? Progress_ms is always randomly delayed by 0.5-1.5s and timestamp in that response is not working. Assuming both my app and a player are on the same local machine. This was ...
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In the Web API is it at all possible to get accurate current playback timing? Progress_ms is always randomly delayed by 0.5-1.5s and timestamp in that response is not working. Assuming both my app a...
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My Question or IssueI'm interested in developing an app that creates a new playlist from a user's entire Spotify queue. It seems that this is the endpoint I need to hit to get the queue:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/ge...
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...eveloper.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-queue However, this endpoint only returns 20 elements, despite not having a limit documented. Is it possible to achieve my goal?
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PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDevicePC, Windows 10, firefox or chrome I'm trying to use the access token which returns after I log in to my premium account, it does work then i get the access token and try to use it to connect the sdk player. Here is my...
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...t;; let currentTrackIndex = -1; // To keep track of the current playing track let player; // Initialize the Spotify Web Playback SDK window.onSpotifyWebPlaybackSDKReady = () => { // Try to get t...
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Hola, soy de ArgentinaAdministro varios sitios webs, que se administran con wordpress, con la plantilla de Divi.El problema es que al intentar insertar una canción, o playlist se reproduce solo una muestra del audio.Como soluciono esto? Hay que agreg...
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Hola, soy de Argentina Administro varios sitios webs, que se administran con wordpress, con la plantilla de Divi. El problema es que al intentar insertar una canción, o playlist se reproduce solo u...
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CountryItalyDeviceWeb APIOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am using the Web-API for a project. I found multiple tracks, where the field "preview_url" is null in the response (nearly half of those I tested). Tried with client credential...
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Country Italy Device Web API Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I am using the Web-API for a project. I found multiple tracks, where the field "preview_url" is null in t...
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Hi, i'm developing and integration from and web app with spotify, so to music does not stop when page reloading or changing to another page, i wanna connect my web app with windows desktop app. So you can see with song is playing now on my web app, a...
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Hi, i'm developing and integration from and web app with spotify, so to music does not stop when page reloading or changing to another page, i wanna connect my web app with windows desktop app. &n...
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PlanPremium CountryDE DeviceAPI My Question or IssueI want to use the Web API to start a playback of my saved songs with an offset. Playing the saved songs works using the context URI of a user with :collection appended. But I cannot set an offset fo...
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Plan Premium Country DE Device API My Question or Issue I want to use the Web API to start a playback of my saved songs with an offset. Playing the saved songs works u...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(Macbook Pro late 2020) My Question or IssueHi, seems that the guides portal of Web API Docs is not working. It is an empty page for my side. Anyone encountered similar issue?
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Plan Free/Premium Country Device (Macbook Pro late 2020) My Question or Issue Hi, seems that the guides portal of Web API Docs is not working. It is an empty page for my side. A...
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDeviceRedmi Note 8 ProOperating System(Android) My Question or Issue I have web grand auth but i want to when user click button redirect to spotify app for auth permission request because in web user needs to write email, pass...
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Plan Premium Country Turkey Device Redmi Note 8 Pro Operating System (Android) My Question or Issue I have web grand auth but i want to when user click button redirect to s...
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Hi All, I'v been lurking on the forums for a while and saw that many people had issues setting their up their player (event hooks etc). To help speed up developing for inexperienced (experienced as well) users, I built an wrapper that does authentica...
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...ines code for the user: <script> import { WebPlayback } from 'svelte-spotify-web-playback'; const client_id = 'your_client_id'; </script> <WebPlayback {client_id} /&g...
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I just wrote a detailed and outlined 'article' detailing the problem. But an 'unexpected error occurred'. The fact of the matter is, as stated in the title. I cannot find a way to search for multiple tracks or artists with one request. Please tell me...
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I just wrote a detailed and outlined 'article' detailing the problem. But an 'unexpected error occurred'. The fact of the matter is, as stated in the title. I cannot find a way to search for m...
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CountryUSOperating SystemWindows / ChromeMy Question or Issue Hello, I'm trying to display an iFrame with a song and when I try to play the song I get the message "This track is not available in your country". I can definitely play the track from my ...
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Country US Operating System Windows / Chrome My Question or Issue Hello, I'm trying to display an iFrame with a song and when I try to play the song I get the message "This trac...
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Hello all,I am branching out into trying to setup a Web Application for the first time, and I'm trying to make something with Spotify since I use it very often. I have a URL setup with my registered app on Heroku and I've got some barebones Python wr...
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Hello all, I am branching out into trying to setup a Web Application for the first time, and I'm trying to make something with Spotify since I use it very often. I have a URL setup with my r...
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