Spotify changes
Spotify changed access to its Web API. For a Development Mode app, the app owner now needs an active Spotify Premium subscription. Spotify describes this mode as suitable for learning and personal, non-commercial projects; Premium alone does not provide production access for a public service.
Spotify also restricted several endpoints and metadata fields for newer Development Mode apps. Availability depends on your app’s access mode and when it was created, so review the current migration guide before relying on a particular endpoint:
- Related artists
- Top tracks by an artist
- Playlists created by specific users
- Editorial playlists
- Popularity metrics (Artist, Track, and Album)
See Spotify’s February 2026 migration guide and quota modes for the current rules.
What’s Included in This Update
To ensure your RKHM platform remains stable and optimized, we have removed all the deprecated Spotify endpoints in this release. To help fill the missing data gaps, we have integrated initial support for the MusicBrainz API, allowing you to fetch the following metadata natively
- Artists: Genres, tags, and similar artists
- Tracks & Albums: Genres and tags
The Roadmap: Building Independence
Our priority over the coming months is to integrate additional third-party metadata APIs, allowing us to partially or fully replace Spotify's data ecosystem within RKHM.
We are also planning to build and host our own dedicated metadata API. By compiling an small proprietary database of over 1 million popular artists, we intend to independently gather the missing data—including popularity metrics, top tracks, and similar artists—and feed it directly into your RKHM installation via our existing API