Custom Web Player for Spotify

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Eugenio picture Eugenio · Aug 14, 2014 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

As far as I know, it is not possible to develop a Web app (outside spotify.com) providing a custom Web player which plays Spotify songs, am I right? The only option still seems to be the spotify play button, which is very limited though.

I have just seen, however, this example

1) http://static.echonest.com/enspex/web/ChillRadio/

this one

2) http://lab.possan.se/thirtify/

and this one

3) https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/code-examples/ (see "Play something" snippet)

that seems to use a custom player (2) and 3) are not working for me, though). Is there any non-documented feature?

Thanks

Answer

iKenndac picture iKenndac · Aug 14, 2014

The Spotify Web API provides URLs to 30 second MP3 previews of tracks, which is what these examples are using. This is documented here (the preview_url property).

It is not possible to do full-length track streaming on the web with Spotify's APIs.

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