{"id":19320,"date":"2024-11-27T21:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19320"},"modified":"2024-11-27T21:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:34:28","slug":"spotify-cuts-developer-access-to-several-of-its-recommendation-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19320","title":{"rendered":"Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company announced in a developer blog post<\/a> on Wednesday. The company appears to be limiting third-party developers from building AI apps using data from Spotify listeners.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of our ongoing work to address the security challenges that many companies navigate today, we\u2019re making changes to our public APIs,\u201d said a Spotify spokesperson in an email to TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

The changes are designed to limit certain developers who it believes have been misusing its API, including by scraping data from its platform. The features Spotify is revoking access to could reveal information about the Spotify userbase\u2019s listening habits, including the artists and songs that are often listened to by different listener groups. These could be used to create competitive AI music recommendation models, which Spotify itself has been developing in recent years.<\/p>\n

Beyond Spotify\u2019s song and artist recommendations, developers are losing access to Spotify\u2019s Audio Analysis<\/a>, which describes a track\u2019s structure and rhythm. Developers also lost access to Audio Features<\/a>, which reference the different characteristics of a song, including its \u201cdanceability,\u201d energy, and whether it\u2019s acoustic. Spotify cut access for developers to use its algorithmically-created playlists, as well.<\/p>\n

In Spotify\u2019s community forum<\/a>, several people expressed outrage about the music platform revoking access to these features. While some developers were using these features to create AI music recommendation services, others were building apps that have nothing to do with AI recommendations, but will now be losing access all the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the advent of transformer models there\u2019s probably a risk of people training new models to emulate Spotify\u2019s model(s),\u201d said one developer in the forum<\/a>. \u201cI really hope that\u2019s not the reason they\u2019re taking it down but if it is I\u2019m just disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be real here, this isn\u2019t about security or user privacy, this is about data being used for training AI models,\u201d said another developer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Spotify has been building AI music models in recent years, and its CEO, Daniel Ek, has previously said he thinks AI will be \u201chuge for creativity\u201d in music<\/a>. Spotify has released a few AI products based on these models in recent years, including an AI DJ last year<\/a>. The company also rolled out its AI playlists to more users<\/a> in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand in recent months.<\/p>\n

These changes will only affect developers who have more limited API access than official Spotify partners. Developers who have previously applied for an extension will still be able to use these API endpoints, however, it does not appear that Spotify warned developers these changes were coming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> techcrunch.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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