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 on Wednesday. The company appears to be limiting third-party developers from building AI apps using data from Spotify listeners. 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's 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. Beyond Spotify's song and artist recommendations, developers are losing access to Spotify's Audio Analysis, which describes a track's structure and...
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