Spotify Tutorial App not found

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I know very similar questions have been asked before. Like here: Spotify apps / home directory location (Windows local development)?

But the solutions suggested in that thread have not worked for me. Here's what I've done:

1) Enabled developer account 2) Followed these steps https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/apps/tutorial/ 3) Including creating a directory called "tutorial" under /user/Documents/Spotify/

I have deinstalled, reinstalled, etc the client. And I still get "Sorry, I could not find this app." and "MetaDataFailed" etc.

I run Win 7 64 bit and Spotify version 0.8.3.222.g317ab.79d

I'm sure the solution to this is real simple, but I just can't seem to figure it out.

possible duplicate of [Spotify apps dead after update?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10416228/spotify-apps-dead-after-update) — iKenndac, May 14 '12 at 09:05

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '12 at 18:30

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I got the same error as well, but after adding the required keys (More here: Application Manifest) I got it working.

Another thing I noticed was that when adding the BundleIdentifier key in manifest.json I only could get it to work with a lowercase name. E.g. spotify:app:myapp instead of spotify:app:MyApp.

This could of course be something specific on my end, but it is worth checking out.

answered May 14 '12 at 18:30

tforssander

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Thanks, this did it for me as well. Funny how Spotify don't bother to make their own sample app work. – Christian May 14 '12 at 20:25
I'm developing an app, bouncing between windows and ubuntu. In Windows, I was unsuccessful loading the app until I made my $BUNDLE-IDENTIFIER and folder containing the project all lowercase as @tforssander mentioned above. In ubuntu oddly the directory casing didn't seem to be an issue. – Dec 06 '12 at 03:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Your app name MUST match the identifier you specify for BundleIdentifier in your manifest.json file.

open app: spotify:app:my-identifier

manifest.json: "BundleIdentifier": "my-identifier"

see https://stackoverflow.com/a/10421944 for moar

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Feb 01 '13 at 05:38

JPowell

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '12 at 12:05

Just a clarification you are using c:\users[user name]\Documents\Spotify[app name]\ as the folder? Your post looked like /user was the root.

Also, in your manifest.json file if your BundleVersion is a number equal to or less than the number in production your local app will be ignored. Spotify will only load a local app with a BundleVersion number higher than production.

Spotify Tutorial App not found

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