Retrieve User's Currently Playing Track

[sanjams2]

Is there a way/plans of an update to the web-api that provides a way to get the song a user is currently listening to?

[ralapack]

I think it's probably because people would just create a player that allows them to circumvent having the music rights themselves.

Rich Alapack rich@popularpays.com 773.322.6851

On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Phil Nelson notifications@github.com wrote:

+1, it's insane that this doesn't exist. There must be some "business reason" to omit this.

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[philnelson]

I'm not sure how that would even work. You'd have to acquire the song somehow, anyway.

[vivekvasani]

@ralapack this is not to listen to the track, only to see what track it is. My reasoning for this is to create a tool to display the most popular track for day/week/month in my office. Alternatively, getting the history would be better. Don't see that as a possibility as there is no way to see that in any of their apps. But on the desktop app I can see what track a user is currently listening to.

[cio]

+1

[levifig]

:+1:

[pugia]

+1

[tmosmant]

+1

[TheGuyWhoCodes]

+1

[FirstAVJohan]

+1 This would be very usefull!

[avishaan]

+1

[Winwardo]

+1 - being able to also know the time into the track to say the nearest second would also be incredible

[llewy]

+1

[mlapida]

+1

[ericnkatz]

+1 :+1:

[lamigud-handy]

+1 :+1:

[lehrblogger]

+1

[Aloogy]

+1

[noahbuscher]

+1

[eriktaubeneck]

+1

[JonSchapiro]

+1

[igdaloff]

+1

[sahilTakiar]

+1

[mprinc]

:8ball: :100: :8ball: In my opinion, a lot of supported API endpoints seems much more critical to provide than this one Common guys!!!! :)

[sean1rose]

In my opinion Sasha Rudan, you're wrong

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[image: :8ball:] [image: :100:] [image: :8ball:] In my opinion, a lot of supported API endpoints seems much more critical to provide than this one Common guys!!!! :)

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[brunorsini]

+1 :)

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Sean Rose notifications@github.com wrote:

In my opinion Sasha Rudan, you're wrong

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Sasha Rudan notifications@github.com wrote:

[image: :8ball:] [image: :100:] [image: :8ball:] In my opinion, a lot of supported API endpoints seems much more critical to provide than this one Common guys!!!! :)

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[jerblack]

+1 on that too

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:37 PM, brunorsini notifications@github.com wrote:

+1 :)

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Sean Rose notifications@github.com wrote:

In my opinion Sasha Rudan, you're wrong

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Sasha Rudan notifications@github.com wrote:

[image: :8ball:] [image: :100:] [image: :8ball:] In my opinion, a lot of supported API endpoints seems much more critical to provide than this one Common guys!!!! :)

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Sean Rose 714.469.1796 sean1rose@gmail.com

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[simonemonetti]

+1

[alankyshum]

+1

[arnlaugsson]

:+1: this would be a very nice thing to have. Thinking of all kinds of IoT possibilities.

[nathanchapman]

+1

[munzur]

+1

[aruizca]

+1

[robbiet480]

:+1:

[rscherf]

:+1:

[ssx]

+1234567890

[Kirbo]

Bump :+1:

[mattxwang]

@thelinmichael Any progress on this feature? It'd be pretty awesome :smile:

[xxdavid]

Hey, I know we all want this feature but by posting your plus ones you will only annoy the developers at Spotify. If you want to show that you really want this feature, give the first post the thumbs up (Github supports Reactions for a few days). If you want to subscribe, use the button in the right sidebar.

[JohnnyCrazy]

@xxdavid

will only annoy the developers at Spotify

Not only developers, most of the subscribers too :wink:

[supermartzin]

+1

[mertcanekren]

+1

[lachieh]

Do not comment on this thread with a '+1'.

If you've got nothing to add to the thread, simply add a 'thumbs up' to the initial post.

[JaydenGardiner]

+1

[JaydenGardiner]

Actually, you can now get a user's top recently played tracks. https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-users-top-artists-and-tracks/

[lachieh]

@JaydenGardiner "recently played" ≠ "currently playing".

Also from the notes on that endpoint: "This data is typically updated once each day for each user."

[levifig]

@lachieh FWIW, "Reactions" don't work on mobile.

[nunesdev]

+1

[sanjams2]

wanted to keep people updated with something I found. I know you have probably seen the changes recently in the spotify web-api, but this is a message on the echonest (owned by Spotify) API page:

1. March 29th, 2016 - As of today, We are announcing three new APIs (details below) and The Echo Nest API will no longer be issuing new API keys.
2. May 31, 2016 - As of May 31st, The Echo Nest platform will no longer serve requests and developers will need to move over to the Spotify API.

As part of our migration of many of The Echo Nest API features over to the Spotify Web API, we’re announcing three new APIs today. The new Spotify Web APIs include:

1. Audio Features - Access to audio information about tracks (energy, danceability, tempo, loudness, etc. as well as full detailed audio analysis)
2. Recommendations - A recommendation API (to generate a list of tracks given a starting point from a seed artist, track or genre), with filtering capabilities to restrict the set of tracks that are returned.
3. User's Top Artists, Tracks - Top-level user information such as top artists and tracks.

This to me seems like we may see some major changes on May 31. Fingers crossed

[ferm10n]

+1

[MolinRE]

+1