On December 28th Spotify quietly disabled the ability to create new apps. The only way to get an API key or use the Spotify API is to first create a Spotify App. No announcement or official statement was released when this functionality was pulled. Spotify disabled generating new apps from the developer dashboard. Users started posting in the Spotify Developer community, and no response or communication was given until 2 weeks later.

"We'd like to say that the teams are currently investigating this and new integrations are currently on hold while we make updates to improve reliability and performance. As soon as we've got any other news to share, we'll let you know."

It has now been over a month since app creation has been completely disabled. Because of previous Spotify API changes requiring 250k MAU to publish an app, there are 100s of Spotify integrations that rely on users providing their own API key. I first came across this when trying to integrate my new Stream Deck into Spotify.

With Spotify's continued pattern of degrading their API, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the final nail in the coffin.