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/playlists API Endpoint Issue Fixed

We wanted to provide an update regarding issues identified in the “/playlists” API endpoints. We have investigated the reported concerns of null results appearing in responses and have fixed the behaviour in the “/me/playlists” and “/users/{user_id}/...

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  • Spotify
  • AdrienCompDev
  • Casual Listener
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Constantly getting ~24-hour Rate-Limited during development

Hey!I got a development app setup and am using it's id/secret in my local environment.During local development I am regularly rebuilding my DB which will produce the exact same API Calls - my default development data is static (albeit growing).After ...

  • Regular
  • Hey! I got a development app setup and am using it's id/secret in my local environment. During local development I am regularly rebuilding my DB which will produce the exact same API Calls - my d...
  • kingosticks4
  • Roadie
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  • Question
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Request for Full-Length Access to Spotify API for Chord.cat Nonprofit Project

Hello Spotify Team,I hope you’re all doing well. My name is Josh, and I’ve recently created a nonprofit organization, Chord.cat, which is aimed at providing students and others with easy access to lofi music on our website. The mission behind Chord.c...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello Spotify Team, I hope you’re all doing well. My name is Josh, and I’ve recently created a nonprofit organization, Chord.cat, which is aimed at providing students and others with easy access...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
  • 453 Views
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    Feature Request
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Spotify Keeps switching what I am listening to

The main issue is that 10 to 20 seconds into any song I play I keep getting met with a switch of the content to a podcast made by GUILT. I do nothing after putting my songs of choice on and it getting really frustrating.

  • Visitor
  • The main issue is that 10 to 20 seconds into any song I play I keep getting met with a switch of the content to a podcast made by GUILT. I do nothing after putting my songs of choice on and it gettin...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
  • 201 Views
  • 1 replies
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  • Possible Bug
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Refresh Token API returning CORS errors

Hello,I am a developer consuming the Web API and suddenly today all my requests to Refresh Access Tokens are not working on the browser. Postman works fine, but the browser is throwing CORS errors. No change to code on my end, and if I get an access ...

  • Roadie
  • Hello, I am a developer consuming the Web API and suddenly today all my requests to Refresh Access Tokens are not working on the browser. Postman works fine, but the browser is throwing CORS errors....
  • SaeedDev94
  • Casual Listener
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  • 19 replies
  • 11 likes
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Accessing all of the tracks in a given album

Alright so I want to access, let's just say for the sake of simplicity, the first track of an album.Using react native, when I write {album.name} it gives me the album name (im not providing a lot of lines of code for the sake of simplicity) {album.a...

  • Newbie
  • Alright so I want to access, let's just say for the sake of simplicity, the first track of an album. Using react native, when I write <Text> {album.name} </Text> it gives me the album ...
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Custom playlist length

PlanPremiumCountryUkraineDeviceiPhone 12 miniOperating SystemiOS 18 My Question or IssueI have a custom playlist where I add my favorite albums and listen to them.However, I encountered the limitation of 10000 songs for the playlist.Could that limita...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Premium Country Ukraine Device iPhone 12 mini Operating System iOS 18   My Question or Issue I have a custom playlist where I add my favorite albums and listen to them. However, ...
  • 299 Views
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  • Feature Request
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אפליקציית ספוטיפיי לבעלי מוגבלויות

אני ממליץ מאוד שתהיה אפשרות של אפליקציה ייעודית לבעלי מוגבלויות שלדוגמה יתאפשר שם להשתמש במקשי טלפון רגיל ולא עם מסך מגע, אני יודע שזה פחות נפוץ כיום אבל זה בהחלט קיים.

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  • אני ממליץ מאוד שתהיה אפשרות של אפליקציה ייעודית לבעלי מוגבלויות שלדוגמה יתאפשר שם להשתמש במקשי טלפון רגיל ולא עם מסך מגע, אני יודע שזה פחות נפוץ כיום אבל זה בהחלט קיים.  
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  • נגישות
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Solved!! Design Guideliness

PlanPremiumCountrySpainDeviceMacBookOperating SystemMac OSMy Question or IssueHello I wanted to know if my app would pass design guidelines of Spotify or I should get a new design in mind. I saw crop, rounded cannot be done but in my design I can rem...

  • Regular
  • Plan Premium Country Spain Device MacBook Operating System Mac OS My Question or Issue Hello I wanted to know if my app would pass design guidelines of Spotify or I should get a new design i...
  • Isaoba
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Superuser Contribution Playlist is not updated on mobile or linux app after adding tracks to playlist through web API

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceFairphone 5, Dell XPS 9500Operating SystemAndroid 13, Ubuntu 22.04 My Question or IssueI have successfully added tracks to one of my private playlists through the web-API. I get a 201 and a snapshot ID in response and if...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Fairphone 5, Dell XPS 9500 Operating System Android 13, Ubuntu 22.04   My Question or Issue I have successfully added tracks to one of my private pla...
  • a_fullrandom_guy
  • Casual Listener
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  • 22 replies
  • 4 likes
  • Possible Bug
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Solved!! Login Spotify API on esp32

PlanPremiumCountryItalyDeviceESP32Programming Languege:Python My Question or IssueI'm working at a project where I need to login on a ESP32 with my Spotify account. Now I'm using "autorizzazione code flow" as show in the Spotify documentation: https:...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Italy Device ESP32 Programming Languege: Python   My Question or Issue I'm working at a project where I need to login on a ESP32 with my Spotify account. Now I'm u...
  • simo_petre04
  • Casual Listener
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  • Question
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msPlayed is londer than track.duration_ms

I'm working with Spotify streaming data and noticed that for multiple songs the amount of time spent streaming the song is longer than its actual duration, which shouldn't be possible. In most cases, the two numbers are only off by a few milliseconds...

  • Newbie
  • I'm working with Spotify streaming data and noticed that for multiple songs the amount of time spent streaming the song is longer than its actual duration, which shouldn't be possible. In most cases,...
  • Jatin_21
  • Newbie
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  • streaming
    Streaming Issue
    timer error
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Quota Limit?

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHello I would like to know if my app would pass the Design and guideleness to ask for more qu...

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  • 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 Hello I...
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Allowing users to customise audio playback

Hello, I would like to know whether my idea would be in compliance with the Spotify SDA Terms.My website would allow users to stream audio using the spotify web player. This would only be available to premium users (Spotify premium users, not premium...

  • Newbie
  • Hello,  I would like to know whether my idea would be in compliance with the Spotify SDA Terms. My website would allow users to stream audio using the spotify web player. This would only be av...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
  • 303 Views
  • 1 replies
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  • Question
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spotify search function not working

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlands Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issuei use the spotipy library to use python to get metadata about albums. i use the searhc function to find the albums but now everytime my script gets at the search it does not...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Netherlands   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue i use the spotipy library to use python to get metadata about albums. i use the searhc functio...
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  • Visitor
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Question about commercial SDA and synchronisation

PlanFree/PremiumMy Question or IssueHi, I have a few questions on integrating Spotify SDK to our app as it's quite unclear whether we can integrate. 1 - Our app plays videos but if we implement a Spotify integration, we would mute all audio, and play...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Free/Premium My Question or Issue Hi, I have a few questions on integrating Spotify SDK to our app as it's quite unclear whether we can integrate.   1 - Our app plays videos but if w...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
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Superuser Contribution Animated 30-Second Ad for Spotify

Hi! My name is Maddie Hansen, and I created a 30-second animated ad for Spotify.I would love to get contact info for someone on the Spotify design team so they can take a look at it and see if they'd be interested in using it. Here is a link to the i...

  • Visitor
  • Hi! My name is Maddie Hansen, and I created a 30-second animated ad for Spotify. I would love to get contact info for someone on the Spotify design team so they can take a look at it and see if they...
  • Joan
  • Moderator
  • 516 Views
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  • Feature Request
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Support for restricted devices, specifically sonos speakers

PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceAPIOperating SystemAPI My Question or IssuePlease allow the ability to action restricted devices via the API. If you want to keep it restricted then maybe an additional flow is required or a setting somewhere in the app...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada   Device API Operating System API   My Question or Issue Please allow the ability to action restricted devices via the API. If you want to keep it res...
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Need help figuring how to not run into a Server to Server Rate Limit

I am building a Web-App that includes a Spotify Integration.Essentially, I am grabbing a User's Followed Artists and building a cache to later display them and do stuff like automatic (complex) playlist generation, notifications, ect.For this I've se...

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  • I am building a Web-App that includes a Spotify Integration. Essentially, I am grabbing a User's Followed Artists and building a cache to later display them and do stuff like automatic (complex) p...
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remove device

Spotify got connected to an unknown device when I did not choose to switch devices. How to delete/remove devices that are definitely not mine to prevent this from happening again

  • Visitor
  • Spotify got connected to an unknown device when I did not choose to switch devices. How to delete/remove devices that are definitely not mine to prevent this from happening again
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v1/search offset paremeter changes total results

CountryUnited StatesOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen using the '/v1/search' API endpoint, it returns a total amount of search results relating to the query. However, when attempting to change the offset, this total amount of result...

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  •   Country United States Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When using the '/v1/search' API endpoint, it returns a total amount of search results relating to the query...
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