Spotify Squarespace Options

Roster Radio

1. The Squarespace Embed Option

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This is what that looks like:


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The embed option only works for Spotify Playlists, and the Roster Radio is configured as a Podcast in Spotify.

Here is an embed block with a Roster Radio Playlist I made to test:


2. Album Page

“The Album Page works best for displaying a whole album or collection of tracks that you upload to Squarespace.”

On the album page documentation page there now is a note explaining that this kind of page won’t work for Podcasts.

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543077

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3. Podcasting with Squarespace

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205814338

“You can use Squarespace to create and manage podcasts.

Podcasting with Squarespace involves setting up the podcast from Squarespace, and managing it through Squarespace going forward, both are things I would not advise as the Squarespace interface is laborious and I imagine you like managing the podcast from iTunes.

There is currently no way to connect to and display an existing podcast from Itunes using Squarespace tools.

4. Other Things I’ve Tried with the Embed Block

Using the URI from the Roster Radio Podcast in the Embed block :

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The result looks like this:

Using the Embed code from the Roster Radio Podcast on Spotify in the embed block:

The result looks like this:

I believe this is as close to what you are looking for as Squarespace provides, however, this is option you can see is limited in that it will only play 30 seconds of each track.

This is the same situation that exists on your website: https://www.djkaossd.com/

I copied the code from your site and implemented below with a few size options, however the same track length limitation exists:

My opinion is that these players will always be limited because Spotify wants people to use their application instead so that they can display ads and make money, which they can’t do if people embedded in their own websites and made that ad revenue. This is the same reason the Spotify player on your website will only play 30 seconds of each track. 


Also here is the ad that appears after you play one track on the 30 second player:

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