topic Re: Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm in Spotify for Developers

Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm

Persona1 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:22:06 GMT

Plan

Free

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I want to study Spotify's recommendation algorithm using its API. I've set up a Spotify profile and defined a process where I play one track from a diverse music playlist daily, at a set time, for 28 days.
I aim to automate this process to gather the recommended tracks.
Is this possible? Can this be scheduled through the API?

Thank you!

Re: Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm

Ximzend — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:27:52 GMT

I don't know what you want to do with that data, but point 14 of the III. Some prohibited applications states "Do not use the Spotify Platform or any Spotify Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI model".

Also point 3.a.i. of the Developer Terms states "Except as otherwise set out in these Developer Terms, you may not store, aggregate or create compilations or databases of Spotify Content, other than as strictly necessary to operate your SDA.(…) Do not store Spotify Content indefinitely."

Re: Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm

Persona1 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:17:40 GMT

Thank you for your answer!
I don't intend to use the data to train a machine learning model, I just want to study the type of recommended music depending on the user listenings.
Is this forbidden ?

Re: Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm

Ximzend — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:30:00 GMT

I think it is prohibited. And I have seen multiple posts about error 429, so I think analyzing a large dataset would get rate limited quickly.

Re: Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm

Persona1 — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 08:15:12 GMT

Thank you for your answer! I will take this into account.

What about the music scheduling? Is it possible to specify the time and day on which I want a music to be played?

Re: Music scheduling and recommendation algorithm

Ximzend — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:12:19 GMT

Spotify doesn't have scheduling or webhook functionalities, so you must program everything yourself. And you can avoid rate limiting when you request audio features every 100 played tracks (100 ids at once).