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Written by benschwarz on 2024-12-18 at 03:28

Spotify decided to cut access to APIs that could be used to create recommendations, generative playlists and audio analysis.

A lot of that data originally came from the echo nest, a company Spotify bought in 2014.

Now that data is locked in Spotify forever

https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2024-11-27-changes-to-the-web-api

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Written by Matt on 2024-12-18 at 05:08

@benschwarz Spotify’s acquisition and killing of echonest was such a loss to indie music-tech projects.

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