Comment on Backing up Spotify
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 day agoIf I ran mb, I would be cautious importing the data directly. I’m sure Spotify would consider it trade information and go after anyone directly using it. However if a few million people added the tracks with individual edits then it probably won’t take too long.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought metadata couldn’t be copyrighted though?
zarkony@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It can’t, but I’m sure that wouldn’t stop Spotify from raising a stink if they see it being bulk imported. I’d imagine this would be similar to OpenStreetMaps and Google Maps; they probably could scrape and bulk import missing info, but they restrict it to licensed sources and user edits to limit liability and enforce quality.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In cartography the expression of the uncopyrightable data is itself copyrighted (e.g. colors used, thickness of ligns) so maybe certain data fields are owned by Spotify (e.g. genre, description, history, song notes)
noodlejetski@piefed.social 1 day ago
that’s a fascinating typo.