Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning

Is it possible to get my own listing history natively from Spotify?

I'm not interesting in scrobbling to another service, etc. Seems like this should be a well documented and used service from the Spotify API, but as far as I know, it does not exist.

This would be awesome. The one problem I've had with Spotify's radio service is only being able to pick up on genres and such. Many times I might like only 1 or 2 bands from a more obscure genre, but spotify radio does not understand this no matter how many songs I downvote.

In fact, my "starred" playlist radio is currently stuck on some kind of 80s metal thing. I have no idea how it got that way, but it refuses to play anything but metal, when that's not really what I like. If I make a copy of my starred playlist and make a radio from the new playlist, it reflects the actual songs at hand..

There's also the matter of unique bands that while fitting into a very wide genre, don't really fit into any widely known sub-genre. Meaning radio for the band is almost useless in many cases. There is the "related bands" bit which helps it a bit, but this only works with popular bands and still is very mismatched often times

This is all great stuff. But until Spotify fixes some very low hanging fruit problems, such as not playing a song ever again if I click "don't like", I find it hard to believe they will use anything remotely complex as this.

I can't really answer this question in general, but I can speak for myself: while it's not something a lot of PhD students do in Belgium (it seems to be more common in the US actually), I felt like it would be a great opportunity to experience what working in industry is like. When I finish my PhD, I'll have to decide whether I want to stay in academia or move to industry, and this internship is hopefully going to help me make that decision.

You can get research internships at large companies. If your PhD grant doesn't cover summer at full-time rates, SV companies pay on the order of $5k-$8k per MONTH for interns. Actually, even if your PhD grant covers your summer expenses, it probably won't match the internship salary.