It seems that Spotify, in their infinite wisdom, in the last few days has made some modifications to embedded links so that now, even if you're logged into the Spotify web app, only 30 second samples can be played from Spotify embeds from websites.
Spotify seem to change code 'willy nilly' without testing the implications, we recall spending days with their technical support last year over an issue which 'miraculously' rectified itself within a few days.
So, hopefully within a few days it will be back to normal, if not we'll escalate.
A work around, which we know is a pain in the butt, but if you wish to listen to full songs, is to click on the song title on the Spotify embed to take you to the Spotify web player which, if you are logged in, will play the full song.
It may be that they are trying to drive listeners to their web app to listen which, if the case, will have a severe impact on websites that embed links, which in turn will limit traffic to Spotify, so we shall see if sanity prevails!
If it isn't sorted tout suite then we will revert back to embedding from YouTube and that will be Spotify's loss and YouTube's gain.
As a matter of interest, we wonder if artists get any streaming fees for playing only 30 seconds? We very much doubt it, so artists/labels may wish to take this up with Spotify as well.
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