[Bug Report] Newer Accounts More Likely to Fail to Fetch Audio Key

[Civanbudakk10]

Zotify Version

0.17.1

Operating System

Something Else (Include in Bug Description)

Python Version

Python 3.13

Bug-Triggering Command

zotify

Bug Description

Hi everyone, I have a Spotify Premium account. I used zotify --client-id to set it to id.I did it and when I ran zotify -l
~ $ zotify https://open.spotify.com/track/6aC2IXbJQLiLiXldpI0pKc?si=tta3Z0dNSnCe5HWiFa3qkg

    [∙∙∙] Logging in...                           

WARNING: LOGIN FAILED (111)

TRYING AGAIN AFTER SMALL WAIT

    [●∙∙] Logging in...                                   [∙∙∙] Fetching track information...                   [●∙∙] Parsing track information...                    [●∙∙] Preparing Download...                   

ERROR: FAILED TO FETCH AUDIO KEY

MAY BE CAUSED BY RATE LIMITS - CONSIDER INCREASING BULK_WAIT_TIME

GID: cac40c20df964fe19290cf223b2cc1f4 - File_ID: c7fed90f1626b66232d98417b71fd979122ad312

ERROR: SKIPPING TRACK - FAILED TO GET CONTENT STREAM

Track_ID: 6aC2IXbJQLiLiXldpI0pKc

~ $ zotify https://open.spotify.com/track/6aC2IXbJQLiLiXldpI0pKc?si=tta3Z0dNSnCe5HWiFa3qkg

    [∙∙∙] Logging in...                                                                                 ###   WARNING:  LOGIN FAILED (111)   ###              ###   TRYING AGAIN AFTER SMALL WAIT   ###

    [∙∙∙] Logging in...                                   [∙∙∙] Fetching bulk track information...              [●∙∙] Parsing track information...                    [●∙∙] Preparing Download...                   

ERROR: FAILED TO FETCH AUDIO KEY

MAY BE CAUSED BY RATE LIMITS - CONSIDER INCREASING BULK_WAIT_TIME

GID: cac40c20df964fe19290cf223b2cc1f4 - File_ID: c7fed90f1626b66232d98417b71fd979122ad312

ERROR: SKIPPING TRACK - FAILED TO GET CONTENT STREAM

Track_ID: 6aC2IXbJQLiLiXldpI0pKc

This is the configuration file. {
"ROOT_PATH": "/Music/Zotify Music",
"SAVE_CREDENTIALS": "True",
"CREDENTIALS_LOCATION": "",
"OUTPUT": "",
"OUTPUT_SINGLE": "{artist}/{album}/{artist}{song_name}",
"OUTPUT_ALBUM": "{artist}/{album}/{album_num}{artist}{song_name}",
"OUTPUT_PLAYLIST_EXT": "{playlist}/{playlist_num}{artist}{song_name}",
"OUTPUT_LIKED_SONGS": "Liked Songs/{artist}{song_name}",
"ROOT_PODCAST_PATH": "/Music/Zotify Podcasts",
"SPLIT_ALBUM_DISCS": "False",
"MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH": "0",
"OPTIMIZED_DOWNLOADING": "False",
"DOWNLOAD_RATE_LIMITER": "2.0",
"BULK_WAIT_TIME": "3.0",
"TEMP_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "",
"DOWNLOAD_PARENT_ALBUM": "False",
"NO_COMPILATION_ALBUMS": "False",
"NO_VARIOUS_ARTISTS": "False",
"NO_ARTIST_APPEARS_ON": "False",
"DISCOG_BY_ALBUM_ARTIST": "False",
"REGEX_ENABLED": "False",
"REGEX_TRACK_SKIP": "",
"REGEX_EPISODE_SKIP": "",
"REGEX_ALBUM_SKIP": "",
"DOWNLOAD_FORMAT": "copy",
"DOWNLOAD_QUALITY": "auto",
"TRANSCODE_BITRATE": "auto",
"CUSTOM_FFMEPG_ARGS": "",
"SONG_ARCHIVE_LOCATION": "",
"DISABLE_SONG_ARCHIVE": "False",
"DISABLE_DIRECTORY_ARCHIVES": "False",
"SKIP_EXISTING": "True",
"SKIP_PREVIOUSLY_DOWNLOADED": "False",
"EXPORT_M3U8": "False",
"M3U8_LOCATION": "",
"OUTPUT_M3U8": "{name}",
"M3U8_REL_PATHS": "True",
"LIKED_SONGS_ARCHIVE_M3U8": "True",
"LYRICS_TO_METADATA": "True",
"LYRICS_TO_FILE": "True",
"LYRICS_LOCATION": "",
"OUTPUT_LYRICS": "{artist}_{song_name}",
"ALWAYS_CHECK_LYRICS": "False",
"LYRICS_MD_HEADER": "False",
"LANGUAGE": "en",
"MD_DISC_TRACK_TOTALS": "False",
"MD_SAVE_GENRES": "False",
"MD_ALLGENRES": "False",
"MD_GENREDELIMITER": ", ",
"MD_ARTISTDELIMITER": ", ",
"SEARCH_QUERY_SIZE": "10",
"STRICT_LIBRARY_VERIFY": "True",
"ALBUM_ART_JPG_FILE": "False",
"API_CLIENT_ID": "35f777977b9547a2844de946010747f5",
"API_CLIENT_LEGACY": "True",
"RETRY_ATTEMPTS": "10",
"CHUNK_SIZE": "20000",
"REDIRECT_ADDRESS": "127.0.0.1",
"PRINT_SPLASH": "False",
"PRINT_PROGRESS_INFO": "True",
"PRINT_SKIPS": "True",
"PRINT_DOWNLOADS": "True",
"PRINT_DOWNLOAD_PROGRESS": "True",
"PRINT_URL_PROGRESS": "True",
"PRINT_ALBUM_PROGRESS": "True",
"PRINT_ARTIST_PROGRESS": "True",
"PRINT_PLAYLIST_PROGRESS": "True",
"PRINT_WARNINGS": "True",
"PRINT_ERRORS": "True",
"PRINT_API_ERRORS": "True",
"STANDARD_INTERFACE": "False",
"FFMPEG_LOG_LEVEL": "error"
}

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[cottonable]

same issue

[mmccaall]

Same issue here, reinstalled and set up the newer version and everything. I miss when this tool worked🥲

[Civanbudakk10]

Same issue here, reinstalled and set up the newer version and everything. I miss when this tool worked🥲

Yes, I miss it too. Unfortunately, everything went to waste because of this Anna archive.

[Civanbudakk10]

Same issue here, reinstalled and set up the newer version and everything. I miss when this tool worked🥲

Yes, I miss it too. Unfortunately, everything went to waste because of this Anna archive.

@Googolplexed0 Hey friend, can you help me? Why are we getting this error?

[Wolf-23]

Same issue here, reinstalled and set up the newer version and everything. I miss when this tool worked🥲

I have the same issue. Even setting "DOWNLOAD_RATE_LIMITER": "1.0" and "BULK_WAIT_TIME": "10000.0" didn't work

[Civanbudakk10]

Aynı sorun bende de vardı, yeniden yükledim, yeni sürümü kurdum ve her şey düzeldi. Bu aracın çalıştığı zamanları özlüyorum🥲

Ben de aynı sorunu yaşıyorum. "DOWNLOAD_RATE_LIMITER": "1.0" ve "BULK_WAIT_TIME": "10000.0" ayarlarını yapmak bile işe yaramadı.

I still haven't figured it out.

[rkilchmn]

is this a problem with the newer developer accounts that don't have the same authorization levels like older ones?
I have same problem

[Civanbudakk10]

@Googolplexed0 My friend, haven't you found a solution yet?

[FoxyWoxyOwO]

Any Updates on this? I'm running to the same issues!

[Razzgriz438]

I'm also having this same issue.

[prahal]

I'm also having this same issue.

@Razzgriz438, if you have the same issue, please don't duplicate posts. Simply click on the smiley at the bottom of the post you have the same issue with. Each comment spams all of the people that have already posted (also, I don't know if clicking on the smiley adds you to the subscribers to get updates on this issue; maybe you want to click on subscribe in the right pane too)
Obviously, if there are no updates on this thread, that means the issue has not been sorted out yet. No need to post now and then to tell the issue is not fixed. Until the issue is not marked as closed, it is not fixed.

[EsBaTix]

The root cause is probably this issue from an upstream dependency:
kokarare1212/librespot-python#325

Similar issue in the popular librespot project:
librespot-org/librespot#1649

Seems account age is the major factor at play here but no solution has been found yet