Questions about research use of the Spotify API

[nsknaka]

Although the committee was told that it was acceptable to conduct analytical studies using machine learning as long as it complied with the terms and guidelines, Section IV, 2-a-I makes it seem as if the use of machine learning is prohibited.

I am a university student. I have a question for my graduation research.

In my research, I would like to create a model to predict related songs and artists based on listeners' music preferences by obtaining song similarity and other information from metadata obtained from the Spotify API.

In doing so, I would like to use machine learning to analyze the similarity and build the model.

Would this research be a violation of the terms of the agreement?

[khorassa]

I have the same question. It looks like it's not permitted (even for personal use), which is a shame.

[SpotifyTom]

Spotify offers a number of datasets available for research, you can see them at https://research.atspotify.com/datasets/.  Maybe the dataset made available as part of the https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/spotify-million-playlist-dataset-challenge is what you're after?