topic Application Development Terms in Spotify for Developers

Application Development Terms

saito3815 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:28:54 GMT

Country

Japan

Device

Macbook Pro

Operating System

mac OS

My Question or Issue

I am developing an application that shares songs saved in the Spotify app with friends. When you join the same community within the application, a playlist will be automatically created that combines the saved songs of authenticated Spotify users. The application will automatically update the playlist with the latest stored data for a period of time since the user last requested it within the application. The songs in the playlist store their metadata in a database and will retrieve the latest data from Spotify from time to time. Does this application comply with the following regulations? I would appreciate an answer. Storing Spotify Content Storing and displaying content. 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. You must use reasonable efforts to ensure that any data you display to users is the most up to date data available through the Spotify Platform, and to delete older data. Do not store Spotify Content indefinitely. Spotify Personal Data (as defined in the Data Protection Appendix) must be stored and deleted in accordance with Section V.

Re: Application Development Terms

Ximzend — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:21:16 GMT

Hey saito3815,

That's an interesting question.

You might want to inform the user that their data will be removed if they haven’t used the app, logged in, or been active for one year. If that’s the case, make sure to delete their data accordingly.

Let me know if you have other questions.

Re: Application Development Terms

saito3815 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 22:37:11 GMT

Ximzend, thanks for your reply.

This was very helpful. I'm going to implement a feature to send deletion notices to inactive users.

Also, what about storing the song metadata (specifically the spotify_uri) in a database?

The Developer Terms state:

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.

The core function of the application I created is to obtain metadata from Spotify users' saved songs and use that data to create playlists that combine the saved songs of multiple users.In other words, I believe this falls under the category of "strictly necessary for the operation of the SDA."

Could you please give me your opinion or answer on this as well? Thank you very much.

Re: Application Development Terms

Ximzend — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:14:12 GMT

Hi saito3815,

The key phrase here is "other than as strictly necessary to operate your SDA."

In other words, storing that data in the database is allowed if your app can't function without it.

I hope this answers your question. Let me know if you need more clarification!

Re: Application Development Terms

saito3815 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:48:58 GMT

Thank you Ximzend.

Thanks to you, we can work on development with confidence.

Thank you for your cooperation. Please let me know if you have any further questions.