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Receiving playback updates without being the actively playing device #30

Open hbogaeus opened 6 years ago

hbogaeus commented 6 years ago

Hey there! I was wondering if it's possible to follow playback updates such as the currently playing song and song progress with the Web SDK without being the actively playing device, the way regular Connect devices do? The docs seem to indicate that this might not be the way the Web SDK works (https://beta.developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/reference/#api-spotify-player-getcurrentstate) but maybe I'm missing something.

Maybe my best bet to achieve this is by regularly polling the Web API endpoint instead? https://beta.developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/get-information-about-the-users-current-playback/

Cheers!

hughrawlinson commented 6 years ago

Hi! There isn't a way to do that now, but we're aware of the need, and will update in this issue when we have any news :)