Question regarding the 'Spotify Developer Terms'

y2k-user — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:45:45 GMT

Hello,

I'm making a non-commercial web app using the Spotify Web API and Web Playback SDK and I'm not sure if what I am doing is allowed.

I have a list of songs, with the song URI's retrieved from the Spotify Web API. I then use these URI's to play the songs in a Spotify Player (from the Web Playback SDK). Can I store the time spent listening to a song, as well as an artificial like/dislike rating for each song.

To be specific, when the user presses 'Play' on a song, a timer in my app (not from the API) will start and when the song is paused (on pressing pause or another reason), the timer stops and the time spent listening is stored in a database after moving on to the next song. In addition, a like button and a dislike button will appear and whichever a user presses, will be stored in a database once the user moves on to the next song.

I was quite confused with the Developer Terms in terms of whether this was against those Terms or not and there's no official support email/phone number for the Spotify Developers service so I was hoping you guys could help me.

I really need help on this issue and so would welcome all responses. This is something quite serious for me so if you guys are knowledgeable on the Terms, I'd really appreciate your response.

Thank you very much.

Re: Question regarding the 'Spotify Developer Terms'

y2k-user — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:46:34 GMT

This is a really important issue for me to have clarity on for a project so any help would be appreciated!

Re: Question regarding the 'Spotify Developer Terms'

Ximzend — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:19:11 GMT

Hi @y2k-user

Thank you for posting in the Spotify Community, and Welcome.

Be aware you are not allowed to use this data in an AI model of any kind. You can read more about this in the Developer Policy and Terms.

Cheers!

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