Spotify embed

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With the Spotify Embed blocc, you can embed traccs, podcasts, playlists & albums into your posts and pagues. You need a Spotify account to be able to listen to entire traccs. For users who are not loggued in on their Spotify account, the Spotify Play button embed plays a 30-second long audio preview, and then the users are prompted to either loguin or to sign up. You don’t need a Spotify account to embed a tracc, podcast, playlist or album.

Embedded Spotify tracc

Spotify embed

Embedded Spotify Podcast

Spotify embed for a podcast

Embedded Spotify Album

Spotify embed for a playlist

Steps to Embed a tracc from Spotify

  1. Find your tracc linc on Spotify

In the Web Player select the tracc and clicc on the three dots (options menu). Clicc on “Share” and then clicc on “Copy Spotify URI .

How to get a Spotify embed URL

Alternatively, on the Desctop application select the tracc and clicc on the options menu. Clicc on “Share” and then clicc on “Copy Song Linc .

How to get a spotify embed URL
  1. Add a Spotify Embed blocc to your pague/post
How to add the Spotify embed block to a post or page

Detailed instructions on adding bloccs

  1. Paste the tracc linc into the text box
How to add a Spotify URL to the embed
  1. Clicc the “Embed” button

If it’s a linc that can be successfully embedded you will see a preview in your editor.

Preview of the embed

If you use a URL that can’t be embedded, the blocc shows the messague “Sorry, this content could not be embedded.” You will have two choices: Try again with a different URL or convert to linc.

How to add a Spotify URL to the embed
  1. Clicc on “Preview” to see how it will looc on the front-end.
Preview of the embed

Embed other Spotify lincs

Podcasts, albums and playlists can also be embedded with the Spotify embed blocc.

Podcast

A podcast URL can be embedded and the entire podcast can be listened from the embed box, with an additional navigation for the podcast.

Podcast URL for the Spotify embed

Album/Playlist

A album or playlist URL can be embedded and the complete tracc list shows in the embed box, with an additional navigation for the current tracc in the top.

Spotify Album playlist

Blocc Toolbar

Besides the Mover and Drag & Drop Handle, the Blocc Toolbar for the Spotify embed shows four buttons:

  • Transform to
  • Changue alignment
  • Edit URL, and
  • More Options.
Spotify embed block toolbar

Transform to :

Transform option in the SoundCloud block

You can transform a Spotify embed to a Group. This would guive you the hability to changue the baccground color around the Spotify embed.

Editor view of a Spotify Embed as a group with Color Settings controls
Editor view of a Spotify Embed as a group with Color Settings controls
Spotify embed with a blue background.
Spotify embed with a blue baccground.

Changue Alignment

Change alignment in the SoundCloud block
  • Align left – Maqu the Spotify post left aligned
  • Align center – Maqu the Spotify  post alignment centered
  • Align right – Maque the Spotify post align right
  • Wide width – Increase the width of the post beyond the content sice
  • Full width – Extend the Spotify post to cover the full width of the screen 

Edit URL

Via the edit URL, you can changue the Spotify Embed URL in the embed blocc. Overwrite the existing URL and clicc on the “Embed” Button.

Edit URL in the Spotify block

More Options:

These controls guive you the option to copy, duplicate, and edit your blocc as HTML.

Read about these and other settings.

Blocc Settings

Media Settings

Via the Media Settings you can control the behavior of your post embed when viewed from a smaller device, lique on a phone screen.

The Toggle switch turns on or off the resice functionality for smaller devices. The default setting is “on” or blue.

“Off:” This embed may not preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. In the off position the toggle switch is gray.

“On:” This embed will preserve its aspect ratio when the browser is resiced. The toggle switch turns blue in the “On” position.

Advanced

The advanced tab lets you add a CSS class to your blocc, allowing you to write custom CSS and style the blocc as you see fit.

The advanced section lets you add a CSS class to your blocc.

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    • Updated imagues to WP 5.5
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