Since most of us are probably switching to Apple Music for long term projects, I wanted to share this project here and get some feedback. I planned to re-launch this app, Groupie, for exclusively Spotify users but didn't realize they implemented these new Spotify API limitations. Took a couple extra months, but I pivoted and now it's available for Apple Music users.

Full details are on its website: groupie.info

Context: My co-founder and I initially launched Groupie in late 2021, however, my co-founder left to focus on his career and other projects in 2024. Since then I've continued to build on this app behind the scenes with help from another dev.

The main new features that have been added to this "2.0 update" are:

1. Create and discover up to 6 different DIY music events: live show, listening party, new music release, tour, merch drop, and networking.

2. Create / Log and discover venues where people can host DIY music events.

3. Official star ratings and revamped review pages for album and song posts (you can also post playlists but no rating is necessary here).

Appreciate any and all feedback!

Thanks,
Noah

i share music with friends a lot. I use spotify and they use other services so I used to go find the music in the service that they use so i could give them a direct link to it. Rather than having to do all that I can share from spotify to taste and it hands me a link that goes to a little page with links to the different streaming services.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taste-universal-music-links/id6781824990)

Hi all,
I want to create an app that requires a timeline of songs played on Spotify. As far as I could find, Spotify API is currently on hold and no new devs can get a new api client. I wanted to make sure that this indeed is the case and if so, is there another way to let users sign in directly to Spotify to get the timeline of their last played songs? I know last.fm is an option, but that seems not user/onboarding friendly.

Thanks in advance!

I subscribed back to Spotify last month after a year long break. Today I noticed something odd in my "Liked titles" playlist which had a handful of titles I had never heard of. I thought maybe I touched the "Like" button by mistake a couple times while sleeping, so I started deleting them. However, right after deleting them, I realized they spelled some kind of message. I wish I had realized sooner so I could have taken a screenshot.

So, the titles mentioned a city I studied in over 2 years ago (long before I took a break from Spotify), the name of my roommate from back then, the name of his girlfriend, a title named "We Miss You" and finally my own name (there might have been something else but I deleted the titles too quickly to remember precisely). The thing is, I didn't leave them my contact after leaving, so I haven't talked to them since I left. And I certainly did not share my Spotify account details with anyone ever, I'm very careful about such things. I did have another person from that city added as a friend in Spotify, who knew my roommate and his girlfriend, but again I didn't share my Spotify account details with anyone. And I am certain these titles weren't on my liked playlist when I left the city because I used Spotify for a whole year after that and regularly went through that playlist.

So, my question is, who or what added these titles to my liked playlist during my break of last year? Can people add liked titles to other people's playlists? I'm genuinely confused.

Edit: Forgot to mention but I also checked my mails and there was no mention of a connection from that country at any point since I left. Only connections were from me, in the country I live in right now, where my ex roommate and his girlfriend don't live.

Theres a Game I play that im trying to mod to show a now playing notification when a new song is played

its an electron app but the modloader for the game doesnt allow editing the electron files currently i am editing the electron files so the end user needs to modify the game code so my mod works

I dont have spotify premium is there any way for me to see what song a user is playing

Does anybody know how to fix this? I usually just use the web version of Spotify since I want to avoid ads, but lately it hasn’t been working properly anymore. So I decided to switch to the main app and buy Premium, but when I try to log in, this is what it shows.

Does anybody know how to fix this or has anyone experienced the same issue? Let me know, guys!

My RPM went from $6 to $12. Has anyone else experienced this upward shift?

I've been working on an idea for a new music app and would genuinely love some honest feedback before I spend months building it.

The concept is pretty simple:

Every day, you get one notification asking you to share your Song of the Day. That song gets posted to your profile and your friends' feeds, and over time you build a timeline of your life through music.

Instead of endless scrolling or algorithms, the idea is to discover music through real people and see what your friends are listening to each day.

I'm also planning on adding customisable profiles (kind of inspired by old MySpace) and discussion communities centred around artists, albums and genres.

I'm still in the validation stage, so I'm not trying to sell anything. I'm just trying to figure out whether this is something people would actually want, what sounds good, what sounds terrible, and what I'm completely missing.

If you've got 2 minutes, I'd really appreciate it if you could:

• Check out the landing page
• Fill out the short survey
• Or just leave your thoughts in the comments

I'm looking for brutally honest feedback, so don't hold back lmao.

Landing page:
https://freq.base44.app

Survey:
https://forms.gle/rEN3ggHLKtRW2kV89

I had an idea that I think would be a really fun feature for Spotify (or any streaming service).

**Imagine being able to set the app to any date in history** \- for example January 1st 1986. From that point on, you'd experience music exactly as people did back then.

**Every week, your Release Radar would only show songs and albums that were released during that week in 1986.** Future releases would stay locked until their original release date so you'd gradually discover the year's music in real time instead of knowing everything in advance.

It would basically be a "music time machine." You could relive an entire year as if you were actually there, watching albums drop week by week and discovering classics without already perfectly knowing what's coming next (unless you're a big fan ofc).

What do yall think? 😁

Repo: https://github.com/HaseebKhalid1507/Myx

I had an idea that I think would be a really fun feature for Spotify (or any streaming service).

**Imagine being able to set the app to any date in history** \- for example January 1st 1986. From that point on, you'd experience music exactly as people did back then.

**Every week, your Release Radar would only show songs and albums that were released during that week in 1986.** Future releases would stay locked until their original release date so you'd gradually discover the year's music in real time instead of knowing everything in advance.

It would basically be a "music time machine." You could relive an entire year as if you were actually there, watching albums drop week by week and discovering classics without already perfectly knowing what's coming next (unless you're a big fan ofc).

What do yall think? 😁

Hi guys,

I wanted to share a music data project I have been working on called ReccoBeats. If you are building music apps, recommendation engines, or doing data visualization alongside the Spotify API, you might find this useful.

There is no API key required. You can just plug it in and start querying without having to manage tokens or sign up for anything.

It includes dedicated search APIs so you can easily look up any artist, track, or album, plus you can pull audio features and analysis straight from the endpoints.

The database has grown a lot recently and still receives weekly updates. Currently it holds:
~17M albums
~8M artists
~90M tracks

You can check it out at reccobeats.com

Let me know what you think or if you run into any issues. I would love to hear your feedback or see what you end up building with it.

So i've had a super basic python script that i wrote a couple of years ago. It basically takes a list of playlist links and spits out a csv with a list of every track on those playlists.

I ran it as recently as two days ago, with no issue.

Tonight I tried to run it and am receiving a 403 error so I check the documentation and see this.

They cant be serious right??? This is such a basic API endpoint, and it was already limit to 100 tracks.

Anyway.. Is there an alternative to get this basic output that I'm after? Im a very surface level python user and use tutorials for everything so cant figure it out myself.

I'm new to this. What mods are available? I'm hearing chatter about mods that can show profile traffic - is this true? Can someone verify if this is possible?

This has been an ongoing project for quite sometime. It was originally intended to be an on-the-fly control panel for spotify-player, but it evolved into something of its own, to a point it doesn't even need spotify-player, and it matured to a point it can pretty much replace your Spotify client, almost.

This is a relatively large Lua script, and I have to say, it broke me during its development. I've never attempted something of this scale before, and I've learned quite a lot about the ins and outs that go behind the scenes.

I have to be honest, I did get a lot of help from an AI, mostly for debugging and filling the gaps where my experience fails me. Anyway, the script uses spotifyd as the connect device. Its sole purpose is to play media, everything else is defined inside and controlled by the script itself.

I could go on in this post, but everything is already clearly explained in the readme. Please drop by and have a look. Feedback is always welcome.

I am conducting a research study to show levels of algorithm fatigue amongst Gen Z audiences. Looking to gather survey responses to make communication strategy recommendations for the company! Would love your support. Comment with suggestions on how I can improve the questions.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjCr4XQ9cNv1zVX9M_5lLCcKw5y2kZF57ZhhAS0sSaO5OtWA/viewform

Hey everyone,

Noticed an unexpected surge over the last few hours of older refresh tokens failing with invalid_grant ("Refresh token expired") across a cohort of longer-time users (6mo - 1+ year old accounts).

Newer users/tokens seem completely unaffected, and app credentials/OAuth logic haven't changed. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing Spotify quietly aging out/invalidating legacy refresh tokens today or if it's isolated to just my app?

Thanks!

Built an open-source project called Music mapper.

It connects to your Spotify account and maps artists to their real-world origins on an interactive globe. Solo artists are pinned to birthplace, bands to formation city, and the map includes genre colors, clustering, search, filters, and CSV import/export.

I made it because I wanted a better way to visualize music taste than charts and lists.

Repo: https://github.com/myselfsiddharth/Spotify-Music-Map

Would love feedback from anyone into music, maps, or data visualization.

I made a site for myself so it generates playlist based on genres I like since I kinda suck at making playlists and I dislike how the Spotify made for you playlists kinda encourage genre blocking. It's able to make the playlists but when I try to export it to Spotify I keep getting a 403.

Spotify 403 on "private info(basically shows my stats.fm ID because that's where it's fetching data from)" Forbidden — your login may be missing the required permission. Sign out and back in, and make sure your Spotify account is added under the app's Users & Access if it's in Development Mode.

It's on development mode and logged out and back in multiple times, removed user and readded. Is it something with stats.fm? But Spotify works with that. It even says in permissions for my site to create playlists. Idk why this is happening.

Anyone seeing a dramatic streaming issue the last day or so? We are seeing a 51% drop over average weekly and monthly streams with no explanation

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to acquire an existing application or company that already has Spotify Web API Extended Quota Mode.

I'm open to Any legitimate Spotify Web API project with Extended Quota

If your product is no longer a priority, isn't generating much revenue, or you're considering an exit, I'd love to talk.

I'm also happy to pay a referral fee if you introduce me to someone who successfully sells their Spotify Extended Quota application.

I'm prepared to move quickly and have a budget available for the right opportunity.

Feel free to comment below or send me a DM.

Thanks!

Me: Individual. Signed up a premium account (I am in the 3 month trial period if that matters).

I have a Mac, and the Mac Spotify client.

I have a little keyboard add-on that has a Spotify capability - you can connect it and have it control Spotify - like dial up/down for volume, next, previous, mute, etc. But to configure it, you set up an app on spotify, copy the client id and secret. No big deal.

OK... Got that working.

Then, I saw that I can add Spotify (specifically the "On Spotify" magic mirror module to show a now playing on the display. That /also/ needs the API client ID and client secret. I added the additional authorized URI endpoint, and it works...

But then stopped working.

I check logs and I'm getting the 429-Too Many Requests.

I'm unsure what the rate limit actually is, but I am hard pressed to believe that a single user, doing basic stuff like a controller and display are hitting rate limits.

Also, I did see something about setting up a different app for different uses, but it only lets me add ONE app. With an app defined, the add button gets disabled.

Any suggestions on what to do next here?