AI Spotify Policy in Apps such as PlaylistAI and Playlistable

[RYCBABAC]

Hi all, 

I've been looking for an easy way to create new playlists and better organize my Spotify account when I stumbled upon apps like PlaylistAI (https://www.playlistai.app/) and Playlistable (https://playlistable.io/) and was hoping to develop a similar app on my own for my personal use. 

Then I was wondering, how come these apps are legal? They take data from Spotify accounts and send them to an AI model. Furthermore, I was wondering if they only take data you can take manually (such as song names and artists) is it legal to transfer the data to an AI model?

Thanks in advance 🙂

RYCBABAC

[Ximzend]

Those apps use a large language model like chat-gpt to come up with tracks that fit the description, and only uses the Spotify Web API to find them, and put them in a playlist.

Train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingest Spotify Content into a machine learning or AI model is prohibited.

[RYCBABAC]

Thanks for the quick replay 🙂

That's what I thought at first, but I've seen they have a feature to add songs from your account to the query (for instance, I saw that playlistable can look at the last songs you've listened to and use this information to better build the resulted playlist). I wondered how is it possible to do this legally (of course, for personal use only).  

[Justin0122]

There are endpoints to get that data
v1/me/player/recently-played 

I currently have a recommendations playlist generator in my discord bot (Yes I know, not technically allowed but keeping it as personal project), but that's why I'm currently rebuilding in the form of an API to use in an application instead.

Anyways, you can take a look at the source code here. So technically it's not needed to feed this data into an AI, and I'm not sure how they do it, but I'm using the fetched songs, extracting the audio features using v1/audio-features/{id}  and inserting them all into the v1/recommendations request.

My guess is that they're doing something similar

[Ximzend]

Alternatively, you can use Organize Your Music or Chosic to organise your music.

(To get the URI of a playlist, you have to hold the CTRL or ALT key, click the 3 dots at the playlist, and click the Copy URI option.