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May I publish an open source dataset that contains Spotify Audio Features?

May I publish an open source dataset that contains Spotify Audio Features?

I am a PhD student working on machine learning and music information retrieval. In one of my experiments I have gathered audio features from the Spotify API, for a few thousand tracks. No personal data or anything like that. Just track-specific values for acousticness, danceability, valence, and energy.

I'd like to eventually publish my research and make the results reproducible by releasing the dataset under an open source license (with Spotify attribution, of course). I've reviewed the Developer terms (https://developer.spotify.com/terms) but it's not clear to me whether I am allowed to do this.
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BTW, I have found other publicly available data sets, such as

 

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/tomigelo/spotify-audio-features

I think it's prohibited, because the Spotify Developer Policy says "You must not offer metadata, cover art, and/or Audio Preview Clips as a standalone service or produc...."

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