Question about Synchronization

[Adr182]

Hi all. I have a question about this requirement for API extension approval.

• Synchronization: Spotify content is used in the background of visual media, such as advertising, film, TV programs, livestreams, slideshow videos (etc.)

In my use case my app is not a streaming SDK as I dont use remote playback, the only thing it does is oauth to then display the title, song name and album cover of the song being played in Spotify. 

There is video that is being played in my app but audio from that video is muted once they oAuth. It is not "synchronized" as a user can stop the video at any time, or play (or even dont play) any song from spotify.

Is this considered as Synchronization and what exactly does it mean the background when the spotify music is being played independently from our app. e.g. a user plays spotify and browsers chrome. they then launch our app and the music is still playing. The only thing is that we display the current track details when their in the app and no audio from our video content is played since we can see audio from spotify is playing instead.

Is this really breaching the synchronization requirement?

[Ximzend]

Hi @Adr182 

Thank you for posting in the Spotify Community, and Welcome!

If I understand you correctly, you want to play videos simultaneously with music from Spotify.

I can inform you that this is prohibited. Not only because of that you may not sync content, but also because integrating Spotify with streams or content from another service is prohibited.

I hope this answers your question. If you have other questions, feel free to ask.

[Adr182]

Thanks for the feedback.

I guess the confusion I have is that this is actually already possible without integration, for spotify to play in the background and controlled by the OS/spotify app, while non audio content is presented in another app. That can already be done without integration. The ONLY feature required from integrating is to authenticate and display track artist and song name. Hence why it's a little weird there's such restriction on something that is technically possible without an integration.